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A citizenship law spread across india 6 people are killed on friday as crowds defy a police bad. So the eye is average we are used. And done deal versions to parliament votes all the while many to pass bars johnsons breaks that go. Thousands of civilians are fleeing syrias etna province to the Turkish Border after a dramatic increase in bombings by their government and russia u. N. Observers say 18000 people have been displaced in just 24 hours 7 people were killed on friday morning after at least 19 civilians were killed on thursday mohammad though has more. Russian backed the Government Forces of intensified the Bombing Campaign which includes al strikes dropped the bottle bombs and shelling the town of man in south london and syrians living there say the talks at the school with hospitals market some homes targeted here rescue workers are struggling to save a young girl stuck under the rubble of all in moderate to norman. That tal in northwest syria is seeing some of the heaviest of talks in the almost 9. Public and go against the offensive spilled onto the streets on friday hundreds in protest at what they call the neglect of their plight by the International Community they also called for swift hole to the bomb but. We are the people of south of the countryside where out in a protest an ellipse city condemning the bombardment and the targeting of the evacuees as they try to flee the house. On the protesters wont the march of the friday prayers in the small town of soma just a few kilometers from the border with turkey the town is a hub for aid going into city fighters from the opposition hired to his shop said the body has to stop the protesters from walking towards the border but they fail Turkish Security forces say they were forced to send reinforcements to ensure the protesters didnt cross the border with intensified Bombing Campaign forcing thousands to flee their homes in the many face a cold and hungry wind. Official comes on the syria turkey board of food forcing many of the displaced to live in flooded makeshift camps where the 8 live it is a few and far between one and a marina where woman abusing these pieces of cloth this family consists of 16 people nobody helped us we use all kinds of materials including shoes in the stove to warm up at children. Fuel prices have more than doubled in the past 2 months and charities are all but theyll say theyre struggling to respond to the crisis. How about the well just stumble. Well meanwhile russia and china have vetoed a United Nations resolution that would allow cross border aid deliveries from turkey and iraq to millions of syrian civilians for another year mike hanna has more from the u. N. The establishment of the 4 crossing points has been renewed each year the 1st time that russia backed by china has cast a veto the drafters of the resolution had initially wanted 5 crossing points to be established but then they reduce this to 3 in the bill to avoid the russian and chinese veto but even this watered down resolution failed to pass raising once again the question of the credibility of the Security Council just as i was sitting in the seat in a state of shock i am continuing to stand here in a state of shock and as many of you know when i started the presidency in the month of december i talked about credibility in the council and today we took a huge step backwards in credibility where it really matters russia in turn introduced its own resolution suggesting to crossing points be open for a period of 6 months both on the Turkish Border this was rejected by 6 members of the council who labeled it as a cynical political move the United Kingdom voted against the russian text because we will not negotiate with a gun held to our heads over a cynical offer that would say fewer lives than we know is needed and that the u. N. Very clearly set out was necessary. The one year term for the fall crossing points expires on the 10th of january and unless the Security Council can come up with a compromise resolution by that date it will be millions of syrians with no humanitarian aid. Well lets get more on this now were joined by Joshua Landis hes the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma and hes joining us live from there mr landis always good to have you with us on aljazeera before we get to know why the u. N. Why we a seeing these resolutions vetoed at the u. N. Why are we seeing an escalation in activity by both the Syrian Government and russia and well i think theyre theyre ready to go on the offensive they want to take this province back. And syria has for a long time insisted that they have the highway open between damascus and aleppo the main highway thats now near. Days to cities that syria is is bombing most heavily right now and moving towards and so it seems inevitable that syria will eventually take back these provinces the latest fed up with the syrian situation they moved their gaze elsewhere i could tell you in the United States the syrian story is not down the front page for a long time its all about impeachment elections and ever since President Trump withdrew from syria with her u. S. Troops theres really been very little syrian news here but what will be the cost of the Syrian Government you know retaking the region is home to 3000000 people including 1000000 children 40 percent of the people there come from the previously opposition how areas so whats going to happen to these people. Well its if as you you know weve stated over and over again this is a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen there are many militants in this region syria is using that as a pretext or as an excuse to destroy them and we know that the United States just you know a little while ago bombed it live province itself in order to kill kill of baghdad he who had taken refuge there with some of his men many isis people had fled into the region so the World Opinion may be less. Maybe divided over this region and this you know the world is really not looking turkey has closed the border and even though it is waving its arms at this in asking to International Community to do something about it right its very unlikely that there will be anything done some do you see anything happening then at the United Nations between before that january 10th deadline where the cross border deliveries at the moment the mandate is only until then. Well it will depend on whether there is some sort of some sort of compromise between russia and turkey and the International Community on this about what to do about Eastern Syria which of course the United States has continued to move their troops into Eastern Syria to protect syrian oil and turkey of course is pushing into that region as well its quite clear that russia is using this as leverage to get its way and to get syrian way further in the eastern provinces the United States just put much more intense sanctions on syria and in the 2 days ago with the caesar sanctions and those who are implicate russia and iran if they try to rebuild or invest any money in syria theres going to be stricter sanctions on any private company or Government Company that tries to do business with the Syrian Government so i think the Foreign Community has ratcheted up the pressure but that may not be enough mr landis thank you as always for the time that is that Joshua Landis live in Norman Oklahoma thank you pleasure. Lets move on to other news now the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal court says she wants to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in palestinian territory once its just the jurisdiction as a step both israelis and palestinians face the possibility of having charges filed against them palestinians have welcomed the decision but israels Prime Minister says that i think he doesnt have jurisdiction to investigate me that abraham reports from ramallah. Its one of the alleged war crimes the International Criminal court to me investigate the targeted killing of unarmed protesters along gazas border fence with israel chief prosecutor fatah been sued the says shes satisfied war crimes have been or are being committed in the gaza strip and the west Bank Including occupied East Jerusalem she says because of the complexity of the situation she will ask the i. C. C. To rule on the territories on which it has jurisdiction palestinians welcome what they call a long overdue investigation will hoping that the i. C. C. Will hold those who are committing crimes against our people against our land. And the crimes that are climbing that you countable crimes and no more crimes are being committed on the Palestinian Land which will basically set the stage for ending the occupation and thus opening the oracle of the scope but israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the court has no jurisdiction to investigate in the palestinian territories this is a dark day for truth and justice the i. C. C. Prosecutor has apparently decided not to dismiss outright the palestinian claim against the state of israel this is a baseless and ridges decision the court has no jurisdiction in this case the i. C. C. Only has jurisdiction over petitions submitted by sovereign states but theres never been a pounds to. The court based in the netherlands will only investigate alleged crimes committed after june 2014 when palestine became part of the i. C. C. Has jurisdiction. In the past 5 years thousands of new illegal settlement units were developed along with the confiscation of Palestinian Lands and demolition of their homes israels response isnt unexpected it says the i. C. C. Lacks validity over the Israeli Palestinian conflict since israel is not a member of the court and palestine is not a state even though the United Nation granted palestine the status of nonmember state 7 years ago palestinian leaders say any crimes committed on palestinian territory must fall into the courts jurisdiction. Al jazeera. Now large crowds in india have again defied a ban on public gatherings to continue their protests against a controversial new citizenship your values will howard new delhi and elsewhere where the protesters saying the law is anti Muslim Sabina stressed to reports from new delhi. From friday prayers to street protests indians in the capital new delhi were in no rush to obey the governments ban on large gatherings. Demonstrators chanted for freedom they want the scrapping of the citizenship law passed earlier this month it paves the way for migrants from 3 neighboring countries afghanistan bangladesh and pakistan to become indian citizens but not if they are muslim tens of thousands of protesters in various parts of the capital joined the outcry against what they say is divisive and discriminator a legislation by the ruling b j p hindu nationalist party. In delhi is gemma gender shaker. A leader from the delhi party a socalled untouchable caste waved a copy of the Indian Constitution later he even read sections from it Security Forces arrived as barricades were build government leaders havent officially responded to fridays protests protesters called for peace harmony and nonviolence. I pay my gratitude to hindu christian sikh and valid brothers who are fighting this Battle Alongside us i also want to tell it to the people here who make this rally it success by protesting peacefully and being united. In the Northern City of luck now the capital of with that with the police for protesters 24 hours after one person was killed. 2 others were killed in Karnataka State a ban on large gatherings has been imposed in both states. The port city of mangalore in karnataka remains under curfew till sunday more protesters waited until late evening to join in demonstrations john violent in delhi as Police Use Water Cannons against the protesters people we talked to earlier today said that they had come to the streets to protest not only against the citizenship law but also to stand up for in the secular constitution more protests are planned in the coming days. Aljazeera. But plenty more ahead on the news hour including we speak exclusively today r c Opposition Leader maurice could turn be on his plans to stand in the next president ial election plus. Tension a portrait of. Boeing suffers another setback as this new star and a capsule fails to make it to the International Space station and the european and south american champions square off and or how peter looks ahead to the fee for Club World Cup final. Thousands of people have been rallying in beirut against the nomination of lebanons next Prime Minister. The lebanese troops fired tear gas at demonstrators who retaliated by throwing fireworks and rocks protesters have blocked the main highway linking beirut with southern lebanon Prime Minister designate house and they are promising to form a technocratic government of experts within 6 weeks to solve the countrys economic crisis tony burke live reports from beirut. Less than 24 hours after lebanons do Prime Minister designate was announced this was the reaction from people in one beirut suburbs. They launched angry street protests are confronted lebanese soldiers and riot police rocks were thrown with casualties on both sides. This is a sunny harry of beirut and these people are supporters of the outgoing Prime Minister hes calling for people to remain calm he wants them through reduce the tension and he wants them to work with the new Prime Minister to help solve the problems were obviously that message is not being heard by these people. Even though the Prime Minister designate has is a sunni muslim he was nominated by the predominately Shia Alliance of hizbollah and the mouth. And its christian allies many in the Sunny Community expected hariri to be nominated and said i thought ben there is anger on the street because sunnis feel like we are being excluded no one will accept this people are hungry they dont have jobs and now they want to silence others. But as your measurements i thought i was not going we need a person like hariri i can save the country from sectarian strife and a man who knows about the country and who can save the economy and the days that how do you get the latest protests following weeks of anger demanding political reforms were confined to largely sunny Populated Areas in beirut and tripoli lebanons 2nd largest city. D. M. Says he understands the problems but has asked the people to give him a chance he says he will begin talking to all political groups on saturday and says he hopes to form a government within 6 weeks. As an independent technocrat im looking for a technocrat government that consists of independent ministers in order to serve our country in sort out our problems that we all know about diablos a University Professor and former Education Minister that many especially within the civil protest groups associate him with the corruption and nepotism there is played lebanese politics for decades i convincing all sides of the sectarian divide that he can solve the countrys deepening crisis is not going to be easy. If the you would challenge the mountain of time of the year with. And but it troubled about all of this that you have to go against the interests of the established parties. Morning creasing number of lebanese the time for protest is over shops and businesses are closing the economy is on the verge of collapse youth unemployment is at an all time high inflation is soaring and many people are desperate for a solution. We are tired of this situation even the politicians are tired and we need a solution up. As we will have to emigrate and leave the country to the politicians. Has a limited time to overcome political divisions and form a government to solve the crisis and quell the anger if he fails further chaos and instability seem certain to 0 beirut. Iraqs top share leader has called for early elections to be held as soon as possible and i had thought that the funny says forming a new government is the only way out of the countrys crisis protests have resumed as iraqs political leaders failed to reach their deadline for nominating a new Prime Minister antigovernment demonstrations began in october of a corruption unemployment and poor public services. Has more from baghdad the highest religious shiite authority the grand ayatollah ali sistani self issued a statement saying that the country must go to early elections in order to avoid chaos and uncertainty that is looming here this is all because the president has not been able to come up with a nominee for a replacement for the Prime Ministers post since he resigned on december the 1st thats because the constitution is not very clear about what needs to happen for the replacement to be nominated there is a constitutional crisis going on right now in this country and thats because the parliament has not been able to come up with a nominee for the position of the Prime Minister any names that have been floated around over the past 1516 days have all been rejected by the protesters on the streets they say that they want a change to the whole entire electoral system and of course thats not something that is likely to happen overnight and this call by the grand ayatollah only adds an urgency to the matters saying that there really must be a broader solution to try and end this deadlock because as long as this deadlock continues this uncertainty continues so will the insecurity that is looming in iraq at the security situation is just getting worse by day day by day and they said the authorities believe that in order to bring the country together early elections could be a possible way out. The u. K. Parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of promise to pass johnsons brechts that day and paving the way for the u. K. To leave the e. U. By the end of january or fresh from a resounding electoral victory johnson took out all the compromises that were in the 1st version of the bill a section on protecting workers rights has been removed and parliaments ability to scrutinise the next stage of talks has also been undermined paul brennan reports from london minister to move 2nd leading Prime Minister to move 2nd reading. There is a new mood in the u. K. House of commons the knife edge bricks and votes of the autumn are now ancient history the tension replaced by political inevitability and in front of the newly expanded ranks of conservative m. P. S Boris Johnson was enjoying the moment hills free will record the 1st act of this new parliament in its earliest days was to break the ice floes and find a new way through a new passage through the unsuspected oceans of opportunity his parliamentary majority means that Prime Minister Boris Johnson can now press ahead with his vision of bracks it the new law will prohibit any trade talks extension beyond december of 2020 and it weakens parliamentary scrutiny of the executive clause on protecting workers rights has been removed and a previous commitment to receive unaccompanied child refugees has also been watered down. Critics and opponents say the changes showed the Prime Minister cant be trusted for all of promises over the past few weeks that they are the party to protect rights that work at the very 1st opportunity they removed the basic provisions they said would be part of this bill that does not bode well for freshman emphatic election victory the Prime Minister has little need to contemplate the critics or placate his opponents but he will have to consider the voters especially those who switched from labor and in his words lent the conservatives their support in the election the simple fact though is that johnson has the numbers with him the eyes of the right 358 the nose the land at 234. 00. Bill his bill will become law in january paul brennan. Westminster. Russian investigators have named the man who opened fire on the headquarters of the countrys Security Service as you have gagne manual of was shot dead on thursday after he attacked the f. S. B. Main building in moscow killing a Russian Secret Service agent another f. S. B. Employee died of his injuries and Hospital Police have been searching minute robbs harm. Polands parliament has defied a warning from the European Union and passed a law that would see judges punished if theyre critical of courtroom forms the judicial changes have sparked protests in poland with allegations they aimed at shutting down criticism of the government the European Commission has written to polish leaders reminding them to stay within the e. U. Laws when early on my colleague Maryam Namazie spoke to iran parrish is a professor of european law at Middlesex University and he says poland is moving further away from the e. U. North and the bloc itself this is not the 1st time the warnings from brussels have been ignored by pushed or it is a fact. British authorities have been under supervision or under monitoring from the u. S. Since generates doesnt 16 so this is just the latest escalation of the role of the crisis is by far the most violation of the principles of should show independence we have seen since the crisis began 4 years ago some people including myself are now speaking of a defacto pullups it within the next few weeks so if you have enjoyed talking about drugs it in fact. I think 2020 were going to talk more and more about the defect of politics that the de facto because essentially poland is going to remain a full member of the u. S not going to trigger the in famous article 50 by century as far as the Judicial Branch of poland what were looking at is the dismantlement of Judicial Independence in poland and this is simply not compatible remember ship of the e. U. So what does brussels to so the brussels has sued poland already twice has won twice so there is a 3rd case pending and there are plenty of new cases also originating from puerto scott so we have a total i think of the 15 pending cases before the European Court of justice so its going to get worse im afraid. Now protesters have returned to the streets of chinas capital angry over delays in negotiating a new constitution it is the latest in a month long demonstrations of a social inequality on thursday Todays Congress approved a referendum on changing the constitution which dates back to the countrys military dictatorship lets bring in our National America editor Lucien Neumann she is joining us live from the capital santiago and it sounds like theres been quite a lot of activity there lucy. Yes there certainly has been there are hundreds of riot police on motorcycles. Charging tear gas pellets lots and lots of water cannon behind me you can probably see some of that tear gas being spread and protests just keeping keep coming back and back thats Rolling Stones at the riot police theyve been unable to reach the protesters that is the Central Plaza which has been. The main gathering point for the demonstrations which have now been going on for the last 2 months and today is the day that people are particularly angry as you say because the attempts to bring about the conditions for a new Constitutional Assembly to completely revamp the current constitution written under the pinochet dictatorship have not included for example parity and for women a quota for indigenous groups and for independent groups there was an agreement approved by the senate overnight and now they have a new agreement supposedly that will allow that that happened in fact the most conservative party within the ruling conservative coalition has just suspended participation saying that they dont agree with allowing women to be 5050 rep represented equally rather in a constituent assembly but most people who dont even believe it and theyre very unhappy about some of the look form what they see anyway as lukewarm reforms that the president has enacted since these calls for substantial changes to the social and Economic System of chile take place so there are as you can see a lot of people still here protesting and this has been going on now for hours as they play cat and mouse with riot police and the protests themselves have been going on for 2 months you see and its been a busy. Week or 10 days for the chain parliament because one of the approving this referendum on the constitution to take place next train the protest is on tap into what that might look like and president who you mentioned survived. An impeachment war if you can call it that in the last week to. Yes he has because it was fairly obvious that he would especially since the senate would have had to actually conduct the trial very much as in the United States and the and the opposition just simply does not have the numbers and there are a lot of people who question who would be going to replace the president but people here on the streets people are saying that they want the president to resign that they want the cabinet to resign that they want to hold a new system now a lot of unhappiness and a lot of divisions in society and no clear way out of this one as of this quagmire. Thank you very much for that for now that some latin america editor lucianne human. Among those protesters. Thank you. Still ahead on the news hour donald trump attacks a magazine that caters to one of his biggest support blogs as christianity today calls for his removal from office. Already in the grip of record hate and devastating bushfires a strain is warned the worst could be yet to come and. Bring in our tears to turn around their fortunes have more. Hello the moment the weather in the u. S. And count is relatively quiet its cold theres an invasion of cloud came across the plains states which might just stay as cloud coming down the Pacific Coast from washington into california will be rain which will turn to snow in the rockies in the cascades but developing here in the gulf of mexico surprising little area of low pressure that might develop and then move inland will be east was so all the southeastern states deep south could be pretty wet come the end of the weekend everywhere else is just really fine not as cold as it was quite nice to be honest unless youre in San Francisco where wet seems a better word there in Central America and typically in honduras its been wet recently i think that rain will carry on its also concentrated on the coast of costa rica or panama receives a bigger showers in colombia and more recently in peru which of course flash flooding and some damage to roads. That could be a repeat performance anytime the next couple of days significant showers and throughout the heart of brazil has been French Guiana currency in some pretty heavy downpours as well but this is the concentration now through paraguayan brazil which will produce steady heavy possibly useful rain particular area. After years of over grazing the damage caused to the precious grasslands of chile is being reversed with one of the worlds biggest ever conservation projects. Theyre pretty emblematic of the paddock area there if theyre plentiful and theyre calm like this and theres then you know that the system is going back and that they feel no threat. And that fire are rewarding patagonia on aljazeera. A bombarded city. Can be rebuilt. Its buildings restored. But can shattered lives be mended. Scars run deep and traumas shaped minds children and survivors of mosul share their stories. I still tomorrow i witnessed documentary on aljazeera. You know again i want is a problem and die hard these are the top stories this hour thousands of civilians are fleeing syria as a glib province to the Turkish Border after a dramatic increase in bombings by their government and russia un observers say 18000 people have been displaced in just 24 hours the International Criminal court wants to open an investigation into alleged war crimes in palestinian territory palestinians have welcomed the decision but israels Prime Minister says the i. C. C. Has no jurisdiction to investigate and launch crowds in india have again defied a ban on public gatherings to continue their protests against a controversial new citizenship law rallies were held in new delhi and elsewhere with protesters saying the law was anti muslim. The us president has had counted a christian magazine which called for his removal from office a christianity today opinion piece called donald trump very lost and confused and said he isnt morally fit to be president exit polls found that 80 percent of evangelical christians voted for trump and 2016 the president responded in a series of tweets accusing the magazine of being very far left well i White House Correspondent can be helped that explains why the seems to have rattled the president. I think what you have to take away from all of this is what donald trump believes and is counting on to help win reelection and that is a very conservative base of supporters that is often white and often identifies as evangelical it helped him win in 2016 and he feels like he kept his promises to that community that essentially he did put on very conservative Supreme Court picks and he feels somewhat betrayed by the fact that even job polls in the United States have a bit of a schism just like the American Voter as a whole but peculiarly when it comes to the generational shift in terms of evangelicals a lot of the sort of younger evangelicals tend to have a liberal education and tend to see on many of the controversy the issues that their parents would perhaps vote for example bt or even the issue of race tend to lean further left than their parents so the president is seeing perhaps a little bit of a product of that in terms of whether its a road of his core support and i dont think so it doesnt seem likely but certainly it is a reflection once again as weve been talking with regard to this impeachment story all week here on aljazeera just how divided americans are when it comes to donald trump hes a polarizing figure chinas president has warned that beijing will never allow Foreign Forces to end to fear in its special territories she made the comments as he swore in a new pro beijing government in macau now protesters in hong kong have been furious about what they see as beijing infringing on their freedoms but the gambling hub of mccown has seen little dissent the vehicle pollen reports from macau. It was a Major Movement for the chinese city austin in the shadows of hong kong high praise from the president of china as he wrapped up his 3 day state visit its longest to macau. Grand isle meant the mckale people are patriotic they feel strongly towards the nation have a strong sense of belonging and are proud of their nationality this is the most important reason for the success of one country 2 systems in macau hung kong and macau on opposite sides of the pearl river delta are the only 2 cities in china administered under the one country 2 systems framework they enjoy freedoms and rights denied anywhere else in china. For the past 6 months hong kong has been racked by antigovernment protests and prodemocracy demonstrations trying to resist the tightening grip from chinas leaders in beijing in macau along with celebrations on the 20th anniversary of the handover to chinese rule she jumping inaugurated its new chief executive. And chinas leaders used the occasion to showcase macalso b. D. s and compliance and called on hong kong to learn from its neighbor is different from hong kong in terms of its political culture where cars will go culture is far more conservative far more probate macau is chinas gambling capital the massive revenues generated by the Casino Industry are another factor for political apathy according to sulu sukar whole the 28 year old is macos youngest ever legislator hes one of the few elected by popular vote and this prodemocracy Gambling Market helped the girl form a man in a loft monday then the government always used of a huge finance always sources to increase the soso import of the cocoa control the International Monetary fund says macau is poised to become the worlds richest city in terms of per capita revenue by next year thanks to gaming industry largely fueled by visitors from Mainland China consumables you know who are you know me you know want to everything is coming full time yeah so i dont see that we can survive the downturn its a point that beijing wants to make sure the people of macau in hong kong dont forget macalso reliance on china was highlighted by the newly installed chief executive who said the city would be an example of the unification with china but its a sentiment that many people in hong kong have been fighting against making it less likely that the chinese president will see hong kong emulate what he calls macau success if you go pollen algis there about how. A Belgian Court has sentenced a former rwandan official to 25 years in prison for genocide 71 year old far beyond the rest was also found guilty of war crimes for ordering the murder of 11 people more than 800000 people mainly ethnic tootsie were killed during the massacres in 1904 it is the 1st time the belgian has convicted anyone for genocide in its former colony. Now the former governor of democratic republic of congos a katanga province is katoomba he has formed his own Political Party and plans to stand in next in the next president ial election once an ally of former president Joseph Kabila khatami was forced into exile after defecting from the den ruling party in 2015 the following year he was convicted of property fought and barred from returning and running in the 2018 president ial vote but that ruling was overturned in april allowing him to return home while speaking to out as they are to be defended the un mission in eastern d r c and he blamed rampant impunity and mismanagement for the instability in the region. What is creating the today insecurity ones is poverty because congo is very rich and the people are very poor and secondly there. Is a new government edited the previous government because they didnt really put money in the infrastructure the road what it and what their road can bring also and security he usually shows group there is no factory of the gun in the congo was giving them guns because of impunity can what is people continue. Up to now. Having almost 5000000 in 10 or this the this place and they killed over 3000 people in this of congress lot of people in the east of congo the biggest problem is. The former government they didnt allow one is called to do what hes supposed to do what is important today i hope with the new the new president theyre going to really to get in partnership you know if youre not in partnership with moneys go we cant do anything on security they have to be together for at least it to have peace in our. In the in the sea in beni and in the temple to australia now where promises scott mawson has cut short his holiday in hawaii and publicly apologize as firefighters battle unprecedented bushfires back home it comes after 2 volunteer firefighters were killed bringing the number of deaths from the fires to 8 when the fires now burned an area of 30000 square kilometers jessica washington reports from said. This is the personal cost of a strongly is bushfire crisis 2 firefighters killed when their truck overturned after tree fell onto the road like most of the thousands of men and women battling blazes across australia they were volunteers who put their lives at risk to keep others safe we do need all of these men and record know was that there is there is not for a person of allah more of you than someone. That is willing to put themselves on the law and for the want of nothing in return no remuneration no nothing but other than to simply mike a positive difference in the local Community Across their home city in sydney flags flew at half mast we cant express enough our deepest deepest sympathy and condolences to the loved ones obviously still in shock as to whats occurred and these 2 brave young men who lost their lives represent for us the thousands and thousands of volunteers on the ground bushfires have been burning across australia for months but this week the combination of heat waves and strong winds is making the situation even more volatile. More than 100 fires are burning in a Straight Line as most populous state of New South Wales with dozens of homes have been destroyed. As an Environmental Crisis unfolds the Prime Minister found himself facing hate over his decision to take a holiday to hawaii this week many questioned the appropriateness of the leader going on vacation when large parts of the country are on fire he told a sydney Radio Station the holiday was planned before the fires began because theres been such horrendous events that that is understandably caused a lot of anxiety. That. Hes been forced to return home as the situation gets even worse authorities are warning the fire danger is reaching catastrophic levels just the washington aljazeera sydney. Dacha activists have won a legal battle forcing government leaders to take faster action on Climate Change and climate activists have been celebrating the verdict which forces the government to reduce emissions to at least 25 percent below 1990 levels by the end of next year the court said the government had a duty to protect its citizens from the effects of Climate Change the netherlands is one of the biggest polluters in europe where denis van because a lawyer at the again the foundation which brought the case against the dutch government and he says that its clear the country must take action on Climate Change well obviously they have a responsibility but the difference with governments is that since 1902 they have acknowledged that they have a response they have the responsibility over this problem that they have a responsibility for all the emissions in there ever since the climate treaty in 1902 they have adopted that responsibility in paris again in 2015 they said we are responsible for this problem we need to make sure that these emissions are going to not lead us to i warming about 1. 5 degrees and we have human rights which are the basis of this case that obligate the states to do to take these actions. Now a 60000000000. 00 plan to tackle Climate Change has cleared its final hurdle in germanys parliament after months of negotiations and its a relief for chancellor Angela Merkel who has been facing growing pressure to take action the plan includes increasing taxes on a flyover and reducing the price of train tickets germany has pledged to cut Carbon Emissions by have 55 percent from 1900 members over the next decade but opposition parties and Scientists Say the changes time by far enough by correspondent dominic cain as envy len and he explains how the plan will impact germans. The train arriving on this platform could soon be a little bit cheaper to travel and thats one of the main effects of the Climate Change package here in germany thats just been agreed upon by both houses of parliament so what does it mean it means that passengers on it as it expresses will theyll soon be paying a little bit less but the payoff is that people flying air passengers might soon find that it gets slightly more expensive and over all this is part of the german governments attempt to as it were to reduce its Carbon Emissions to 55 percent of the 1990 levels its going to cost almost 60000000000. 00 for germany to bring this through the government had hoped it would go through sooner but there had been a bit of a problem because the green party the environmentally Friendly Party had opposed some of the proposals the government had agreed upon but they decided they did not want to be seen to be getting in the way of a policy which is meant to speed up slowing down Climate Change and so thats why train journeys such as these will soon get to be a little bit cheaper the other thing here though is that the cost of this well it may well be borne by big business because polluting Business Enterprises which contribute c o 2 to the atmosphere will find themselves being fined and the green party was. That the fines imposed on businesses to be higher they appear to be getting their way the question will be for the government for the greens for everyone in germany do they accept the sort of package that this is does it go far enough that is for later on for now at least it means passengers on trains such as these well their journeys will soon be a little bit cheaper. Boeing has suffered another setback and this time and space at star one a cap suit is designed to carry astronauts to the International Space station but a problem with the internal timing system meant it failed to reach the required altitude needed to dog the torah gate and be has more to one and lift off the rise of starlight the atlas rocket carrying the on man stalin a capsule survived one of its Biggest Challenges only to run into problems minutes after liftoff it appears as though the Mission Elapsed Time in system had an error in it and that anomaly resulted in the vehicle believing that the time was different than it actually was nasa would it contracts to both boeing and space x. The Company Owned by billionaire mosque to develop cheap reusable methods of going to space nasa astronauts have been riding russian soyuz rockets since retiring the Space Shuttle fleet 8 years ago space x. Successfully launched its on man dragon capsule into space for the 1st time 3 months ago and boeing is hoping to send astronauts into orbit next year for bettering it slightly as a result of this to slip at least a month or 2 like parents think it will be. A huge huge delay these things happen in space flight if you get delays all the time but it does it raises the probability that america will have to go to the russians cutting the hand and buy some more seats on the russian soyuz this latest hitch is more bad news for boeing its already paid a high price this year for 2737 max crashes within 5 months killing 346. 00 passengers and crew in indonesia and ethiopia. That caused the grounding of the max fleet worldwide to the removal of boeings chief executive and multibillion dollar losses to boeing share price and income. And production of the latest version of the worlds best selling alanah was stopped earlier this week. The difficulties of the American Aerospace industry giant are a reminder that theres plenty of training and learning ahead for boeing before nasa succeeds in the new space race getting private companies to launch astronauts into orbit in a new type of space taxi Victoria Gate and be al jazeera the former head of a french a Telecommunications Company has been found guilty of mall harassment following a series of suicides by workers. Was sentenced to 2 years in prison although under french court rules he was spend any time behind bars the charges relate to a restructuring at Telecom Giant orange in the late to thousands. More minnie arkell its been 10 years since we started this fight in court to come to the sentencing for institutional moral harassment of all the executives of the time of their accomplices the company were there for extremely satisfied that the sentencing. Its the emotion of the sentencing wont bring our colleagues back. And tonight john to google 166000000. 00 after accusing it of abusing its dominance an Online Advertisement google lets advertisers bid for keywords that will bring up the clickable content the french competition authorities have the rules concerning the bidding of aig and not applied equally and its ordered the company to be more transparent google says it will appeal. To the luxury cruise ships have collided in mexico. The glory ship was trying to dock in the caribbean resort of cozumel but it scrapped the carnival legend and video shot by startled passengers share the noisy slow moving accident which left part of the glory with damage to the stern 6 people suffered minor injuries. Now sport. Of the Club World Cup. For the very 1st. And its time for sports yes peter thank you very much liverpool and flamingo are getting set for the final of the Club World Cup the tournament is being hosted by cutter a country said to be a focal point for Global Football for the mixed 3 years at least and the richardson reports in cats are to watch the Club World Cup final fee for president jonny and fancy no could be forgiven the casting his gaze further forward the country won the bid to host the 2022 world cup long before in fancy no took on footballs top job but hes taking full ownership of the project he inherited lets use the world cup here in the middle east to do something positive to change maybe the way in which we in the western part of the world look at the top part of the world maybe if we can do that even just a little bit by opening ourselves up well then we have already achieved something. The 17 Club World Cup a 1st chance for many visiting fans to get a taste of whats to come in qatar at the main world cup in just 3 years time for in fancy new and path so this events king valley will be the logistical lessons learnt ahead of 2022 but for liverpool and for mango for this Club World Cup is of enormous importance in itself both clubs have rich and successful histories but neither have ever won this title. At a time when so much Global Talent heads to europes more lucrative leagues the competition holds a special place in south american hearts brazils 4 mango team with a shot at proving themselves on a global stage liverpools brazilian keeper allison all too aware of whats at stake you can feel from from me will save the supporters are here already. Supporting the team i think were in the last game was more than 10028000 supporters from for me will say. But this does not just big for them is big photos also the local fans have been enjoying this rare opportunity to see some of the games top stars in action some providing photos for an exhibition which aims to illustrate just how much football means to them that it definitely. Can take pride in the fact that it will be the 1st country in the region to was the world cup so when the eyes 5 of the world turned up that in 322 i hope. We can offer a different perspective one on football in the region the culture of the entire region the Club World Cup returns to cats on next year as the country steps up its efforts to get ready for 2022 and convince the doubters it is a deserving host and the richardson aljazeera doha liverpool manager youre going top as highlighted the different approaches to the tournament between the european and south american sides as my european sides dominating the competition in recent years he believes there is still a lack of enthusiasm for being involved. God sent here from the continent on a country with a clear order. To win it and to come back as heroes. We got told to stay at home and play the car of all car so thats a massive different i think if you want to do it in europe its completely different to the view and rest of the world but i like very much to change that view a little bit in the moment of change for me since you know you build a change of view of the people in europe probably not because a lot of this is its a dream to return to in the premier league side austin all as the new head coach the spaniard spent 5 years at the club in his playing career hes been number 2 to pay mentions the city for the last 3 seasons ive been preparing for a few years for the challenge to come i know this book stations i know the level and i know the state of this club and what it is serves so im ready for the challenge i can wait to start working with the players and everybody here and the club the 2nd test between pakistan and sri lanka is delicately poised after the 2nd days play in karachi finished chandimal top scored 74. 00 in the tourists total of 271. 00 thats a 1st innings lead of 18 with Shahid Afridi taking 5 wickets to stand close on 57. 00 with our last training by 23. 00 runs as they look to win their 1st test series on home soil in a decade greek tennis star stephanus 30 past continues to end each year on a high after winning the a. T. P. Finals last month he came from a sit down to 16 time grand slam champion Novak Djokovic in the series of the world tennis championship in abu dhabi. I hell face world number one or a foul nadal in the final he proved too good for russias cut and cut off in the 2nd semi and el dropping just 4 games always way to a straight sets victory. And thats all the sports news we have for you for now well see you again a little later for more. Thank you peter and that does it for the news hour the do stay with us we are back in just a couple of minutes with another form that news bulletin thank you very much for watching. Cultura downs thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to brace and maintain their Cultural Heritage its a reminder of who they are or whether. 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Aljazeera where ever you. Bombing intensifies unserious last rebel held province as a u. N. Bed to get aid in is blocked by russia and china. And all of the problem in the us is al jazeera live from doha also coming up violence in chile as capital as protesters reject what they say are down reforms to the constitution. Protests against a citizenship lost by the cross n. D. S. 6 people were killed on friday