Mass detentions as indias most populous state cracks down on protesters opposing a new citizenship law and the daughter of angolas former leader says corruption ickes ations are politically motivated after her Bank Accounts were frozen. For the sport the rockets star is back from injury and back in business james harden schools 35 points east and down the nuggets and the f. B. I. So supporters of iranian backed groups have just left the fortified green zone of the iraqi capital where there had been laying siege to the u. S. Embassy it was off their own leaders ordered them to leave early on wednesday the crowds were still throwing rocks theyd set fires outside the compound angry over sundays airstrikes by the United States on the hezbollah brigades camps these killed. Least for the 7 scientists irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khomeini has also condemned the u. S. Strikes and warns teheran will defend itself if threatened. If you ron decides to confront a country it will do it without hesitation we are strongly committed to the interests dignity and progress of our nation anyone who threatens that will be confronted we wont push any country towards war but if others want to impose something on us then we will powerfully stand against them. Meanwhile the u. S. Is deploying 750. 00 additional marines to iraq in response to the violence President Donald Trump is blaming iran and has warned ran quote will pay a very big price so manifolds in the iraqi capital and says some of the protesters have been have been refusing to leave the Embassy Compound the leadership of the Popular Mobilization forces have given orders for the crowds here in front of the u. S. Embassy to withdraw some of the groups under the b. M. R. Which are known as 1st lawmakers this month have refused to leave and we can see some groups over here who are basically dug in their heels theyre still chanting antiamerican slogans theyre still bearing flags and so far theyre refusing to leave but if you have seen the other parts of the crowd here ive been seeing some of the hands being put down and just up look at this crowd were seeing one or 250. 00 towards the u. S. Embassy who was in front of the destruction thats a close as a result of yesterdays wednesdays attack and the forces that you can see here deployed many of them are part of the u. S. Trained counter curves and forces they are on but they have not received any orders to remove the supporters and members of the by force so what appears to be happening now is that as the pm withdraws the u. S. Strains to u. S. Forces are slowly taking the ground to secure the embassy and the compound. And we hope to get an update from simona later on in this news our main while dorsetshire bari with more on the iranian reaction in rome. Well according to our company these attacks that were carried out by the United States was in retaliation to the fact that they had the shabby forces who had defeated eisold the americans are taking revenge that is how the leadership year sees the events that unfolded and for the very 1st time the Supreme Leader directly responded to the are accusations made against this country by the u. S. President donald trump he said that that guy that has tweeted that iran is behind the events that took place in baghdad is completely not true he said 1st that theres nothing the americans can do about it in to that they have to look at their own foreign policies in countries like iraq and afghanistan to understand that the people in those countries are now hating the presence of u. S. Forces that are there at the moment back to baghdad here is Simona Fulton so we saw you report from a little bit similar to when you were saying people were not wanting to now they have actually left. Yes it seems that the crowds have now fully withdrawn from the u. S. Embassy what we saw there early in the port report those were basically the most defiant groups of people who were reluctant to leave and they basically made a last show in front of the embassy of burning tires burning flags chanting antiamerican slogans before they too made their way out of the green zone back across the Hanging Bridge to the other side of the river tigris now my understanding is that these groups are now setting up camp on the other side of the river across from the u. S. Embassy where they will continue their sit in in the meantime u. S. Trade the u. S. Trained Iraqi Counterterrorism forces have taken over the security at the embassy we could see them basically having surrounded the u. S. Embassy and as the crowds were withdrawing they were taking over ground but they were not using any force to force the withdraw it seems that the crowd simply heeded the call of the leaders of the popular is ation forces to withdraw so it was a different sort of atmosphere compared to yesterday because i mean 24 hours ago some of you were telling me how you and the team have had to actually fall back because it was getting so dangerous. Indeed and of course yesterday to the iraqi Prime Minister called on these crowds to pull back but they basically ignored his orders and they were very defiant you know yesterday the situation was definitely more tense but also just morning we still saw some burning of the outer gates of the u. S. Embassy but as the afternoon went on and came in that the leaders apparently having reached some kind of agreement between the Iraqi Government and the popular Popular Mobilization forces those groups then agreed to withdraw that there are some subgroups of the Popular Mobilization forces who refer to themselves as the Islamic Resistance and this includes the hezbollah brigades they have basically said that they will not stand down until they see a complete withdrawal of u. S. Troops from iraq so for them this is so to say just the 1st step yes they have perhaps now agreed to withdraw to the other side of the river but they are very determined to keep up of what they call a military resistance but they also want to take certain steps to initiate a political process to see the formal removal of foreign troops including u. S. Troops from iraq some Wonderful Team in baghdad thank you to mike hanna in washington d. C. Mark simone are talking about the protestors not falling back until all u. S. Troops are gone when in fact weve got the opposite happening. Indeed yes you do have more u. S. Troops coming into baghdad some 100 soldiers were moved to last night shortly after the demonstrations began theyd been based in neighboring kuwait they were part of a Crisis Response group they are already on the ground in that embassy in baghdad but the secretary of defense has announced too that further u. S. Soldiers will be sent to baghdad these being deployed from the u. S. Itself he says the initial number will be some 750 soldiers from the 82nd airborne they will be on their way or on their way to reinforce those troops in baghdad at present and u. S. Reaction and least political official reaction might i mean its been plenty from the president and the secretary of state but i noticed donald trump was getting into the territory of actually saying this isnt a warning this is a threat indeed yes that was a 20 tweet from President Trump in between his new year festivities at his club in florida where hes been spending the cation for the last week or so he issued that tweet saying rather confusedly this is not a warning its a threat but saying too that iran will pay a big price should there be any injury to u. S. Personnel indeed property once again just making very clear here as all members of the trumpet ministration have done that this is seen very much as part of the u. S. Iran conflict iraq being essentially a playground for these this proxy war that is being waged within the wider scheme of things so although it is happening in baghdad although the demonstrators are in baghdad the trumpet ministration the president himself making very clear that they hold iran responsible thats mike hanna in washington thank you much. Or moving on to other news and protests that is in hong kong say more than a 1000000 people have turned out to rally against the government for the new years eve march started peacefully but there was violence towards the end Police Arrested dozens of people demonstrated still demanding greater autonomy from china and inquiry into allegations of police brutality. Explaining why this annual march has taken on a new meaning of this year. This is an annual prodemocracy rally but this year the january 1st protests hold so much more gravity as it caps off an unprecedented 7 months of protests many of the protesters here are marching holding up their 5 fingers symbolizing the 5 demands which include greater freedoms for hong kong safeguarding its autonomy calling for elections so that hong kong can choose its own leader and also calling for an investigation into what seen as Excessive Force used by police now these chants had been the mantra over the past few months of protests but the question now is will there be any resolution in 2020 or if it will go up i really will have to keep growing up so yeah i can only keep marching forward and hope that heaven protects the Younger Generation and that they stay on the right path. People from all walks of life are taking part in this rally were seeing the young the older people and even families joined this march many people who dont necessarily take part in the spontaneous demonstrations and protests we have seen over the past few months they say they want their voices heard and they want the government to know that there is wider support for these protests but were also seeing and you are meant to these protests are trade unions they say that they want industries to protect the people who have been joining the protests whats been happening is that individuals have been punished by their companies and workplaces for expressing any support for these protests or dissent against the government and they say they want to prevent that from happening up to work if we have over will i think is our freedom to express so in case that we have some white terror or we have some threatening formal employers saying you cannot do that were voice we called it employer and help our members this is the end point of the march and police have tried to disperse the crowds using tear gas and pepper spray along the route the called on the organizers to tell people to go home and thats what organizers are doing but were left with the many of the younger more radical hardcore protesters who are in their customary black masks and caps saying theyre here for the long haul setting up barricades ready for confrontations and im going to start to hong kong spending 20. Bush fires across 2 australian states growing along with the devastating toll on both lives and homes well than 200 fires an albertan and at least 8 people have been killed in the last 2 days at that opens all the young reports. Entire neighborhoods have burned to the ground destroying more than property. Jan gilbert is among the thousands of australians who have begun to go back home to nothing. Rubble and debris now cover whats left of her belongings all of my decisions have been totally in writing everything there busy is just simply nothing. Nothing except that. In other areas the bushfires are far from over. There are thousands of firefighters are struggling in the states of the tory i New South Wales an area thats home to more than 13000000 people and the conditions are expected to get worse over the next few days the winds are expected to be very strong back to 45 degrees temperatures weve got a lot for in the last guy that we look at times. In the town of all adult people wait outside supermarkets and stock up on food and water power and mobile phone outages are also a concern you have a challenge with getting people liable to even access the basics like petrol and atrocity and thats causing enormous stress for communities we understand that the Australian Military is using planes and helicopters sit downs of flames while preparing for possible evacuations. Emergency crews are stretched thin and slight changes in temperatures and the wind could spark even more fires there wasnt much i could do it time it quick and i just couldnt do anything it was just the ring the wind just blew and wind just blew and if you look at everything on monk its just grass its just Everything Everywhere you go. No one knows yet the precise cost of the damage but its clear the widespread devastation is immense katia locus of a yawn aljazeera. The thoughts now of will steffen as a Climate Change specialist with the Australian National university in canberra and he says there is little doubt as to why australias fine season is so bad this year i think the evidence is very very strong that Climate Change has made these fires much much worse than far as we would have at 30 or 40 years ago they still are not in a couple of ways one is the extreme temperatures weve already had summer like temperatures for the last couple of months and the upper thirtys and fortys and as one of the people who was affected by the fire said its been dry up there the normal winter time cool season rain that we expect in southeastern australia has failed 3 years in a row and it set up the forests the bush in really really dry conditions well theres not much we can do we obviously have to focus on protecting lives and protecting our property well i think were extremely stretched given the number of fires that this screwed over a number of states and then and thats really stretching us i dont think we have the resources to specifically protect natural areas unfortunately theyre going to have to pay the price as weve heard has been a massive amount of deaths of wild creatures a long history in east coast and unfortunately thats thats set to continue for a while. Lets have a look at whats coming up for you on this news hour a nation divided how years of fighting in libya has crippled one of africas oil rich its also well tell you what the pope had to say. This. Little hope but instead its make and tempers flare as the knights put the ducks to the sword in the n. H. L. Board well have this for a little later. Right now though the former Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau and ex army general. Has won a president ial runoff he got 54 percent of the votes and takes over from president joseph mario. Who was eliminated in the 1st round losing the victim injustice the most bitter says the vote was rigged and he will contest the results of the Supreme Court there has been political instability but the outgoing lead advance naming as many as 7 prime seats in the last 5 minutes. Libyas foreign minister is asking the u. N. Security council for the warlord Khalifa Haftar to be tried for war crimes hundreds of civilians have been killed or injured since launched his campaign to seize tripoli back and i probed more from christian salumi at un headquarters the International Criminal court already has an ongoing active investigation into libya with outstanding warrants for 3 people accused of war crimes that include murder and torture and one of those accused is actually an officer in general hostiles army a man by the name of mahmoud all were folly the chief prosecutor for the i. C. C. Fact to bensouda has warned general have tar that shes watching his assault on tripoli and that she will not hesitate to issue further warrants in her investigation but she also noted in her remarks to the Security Council here last month that. Huffed are has promoted this man to a higher rank twice since the i. C. C. 1st began calling on him to hand him over so clearly does not take too seriously what the i. C. C. Is doing in realistically if she were to issue a warrant for his arrest. Would need the support of Member States to execute it here at the Security Council officially the Security Council does recognize libyas government of National Accord as the legitimate authority there but realistically all of the states involved here have some stake in whats happening in libya privately western diplomats have expressed concern that russian militias have been showing up in territory. And given that the primary objective of the Security Council right now is to bring all of the parties back to the negotiating table to find a political solution given recent talks in berlin more or less fell apart its possible that an arrest warrant might be seen as a stick to motivate but its also very likely that any. Action against him would take a backseat to political concerns. For libya has been scarred by violence and divided by conflict ever since the death of Moammar Gadhafi 9 years ago. A look back now at how the Oil Rich Nation got to where it is now. 2011 rebel forces sweep into the capital tripoli creating euphoria. The 4 decades of presses and dictatorial rule by the way. But in a country divided along tribal and regional lines the celebrations was short lived. In National Transitional council was established to govern. A year later in 2012 libyans elected a new the just to see. Called the General National Congress the d. N. C. Was given 18 months to oversee the transition to a permanent democracy not. The deadline passed and divisions crn remain. New elections were held in 2014 and the new house of representatives wa