Corruption charges she says up politically motivated. Hello im Maryam Namazie in london with the top stories from europe including a mother of a british woman convicted in cyprus of lying about being right calls for a boycott of the country saying it absolutely isnt say. Im paula race for the sport the rockets star man is back from injury and back in business james harden schools 35 points to help houston down the nuggets in the n. B. A. Hello everyone supporters and members of Iraqs Popular Mobilization forces have fully withdrawn from the u. S. Embassy compound in baghdad leaders of the iranian backed group ordered them to leave but theres a condition they Want Parliament to vote on a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops earlier. Wednesday the crowds were back there they were throwing rocks they set fires once again outside the compound angry about sundays airstrikes by the u. S. On the has blah brigades camps are the strikes that killed at least 27 fighters irans Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khomeini has also condemned the u. S. Strikes and warns tehran will defend itself if threatened. Me. If you run decides to confront a country it will do it without hesitation we are strongly committed to the interests dignity in 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 but with its own response the u. S. Is deploying 750. 00 additional marines to iraq in response to the violence President Donald Trump threatens to retaliate against iran but said later he didnt want a war ok so well talk to mike hanna in washington about that side of things in a moment but i want to start with osama bin java had in baghdad so the protesters have all pulled back osama but not over. Yes kamalas been a dramatic 24 hours here in baghdad after a few years and to the central part of baghdad to the sound of helicopter gunships which were patrolling the skies by the u. S. Forces as these protesters were as you rightly mentioned were throwing rocks and stones and lighting fires are outside the compound and now that the iraqi Prime Minister has appealed to them to end this saying that the message has been delivered and it has been heard by all sides weve heard from the joint Operations Command of security in baghdad saying that all protesters have been cleared the area has been taken back into the control of Iraqi Security forces and throughout the last few hours weve seen them move in and a peaceful the draw of all of these people who had come in most of them wrong going to hush the shabby or Popular Mobilization units shia militias who are now formed under and fall under the iraqi Prime Minister it is very interesting that in the last half an hour or so weve heard from his beloved a group which was targeted ads off this Popular Mobilization units in syria that they have withdrawn and they will be sitting across the tigris river across the u. S. Embassy and they will continue to sit there until the Iraqi Parliament legislates on withdrawing all foreign troops arent telling all foreign troops to withdraw from iraq now this is going to be an Interesting Development politically because as you know that i that have been met he is heading a caretaker government after months of protest that he resigned and he is only there until another government is formed and that could take as long as anybodys guess so these are the few developments that have happened in the last few hours it has been a few tense hours in baghdad especially early hours of the morning where with you did we saw protesters getting agitated as well but now. Now seem to be moving towards a calmer phase and politics is kicking in. Thank you some a binge of aid in baghdad and now to my canner in washington d. C. So those protesters have got a very clear demand and thats for foreign troops to go instead the u. S. Is bringing more in it is indeed the secretary of defense has confirmed that an additional 750. 00 u. S. Troops will be centered to baghdad as added protection they are based in the u. S. They part of a Rapid Deployment force they take some 18 hours to deploy so that is under way at present this has not ruled out the possibility of more troops being sent in remembering to that within hours of those demonstrations in the past 24 hours troops were moved in from kuwait Crisis Response group that has some 100 marines who are on base now in baghdad so the u. S. Stepping up its presence while as you point out iraqis are demanding that they reduce it thank you mike hanna in washington d. C. Ok i want have a little look now just to where all of this happened on tuesday have a look at the map it is the heavily fortified green zone in the center of the city pm if supporters were allowed to march right up to the u. S. Embassy compound gates before attacking them and then hours later around 100. 00 marines arrive to reinforce security according to the pentagon which released these pictures more than 700 other soldiers are now heading to join them so we have got to focus on this thread with us now a former iraqi ambassador to the United Nations joining us from washington thank you for your time and bassett are the protesters who have now withdrawn so i guess the acute. Protest is over but this time line that they want for foreign troops to withdraw i mean is that realistic in any way. Well i think it depends what you mean by realistic the last time the United States withdrew from iraq completely at the request or through an inability to come to any other agreement with the government of iraq was in 2011. By tooth in 2014 as we know. The Islamic State in iraq and the levant occupied one 3rd of the country and we were off and running so this is the danger on the other hand of the current government is a very weak government its or it was already as your correspondent noted a caretaker government it is not it doesnt have Political Capital to spend its its a spent force and the parliament will come under tremendous pressure by the militia units by the. Popular militias to take such a vote it could very well happen and it was i think a strategic blunder however good it must have felt to have attacked the p. F. Units it was i think a strategic blunder for the United States and so what happens with that government being quite so weak it means the americans will do what they believe is in their best interests to protect themselves. Thats what the iranians as well who are talking about defending themselves thats all the outside plays in it yes and you have a situation in which the outside players a sort of dictating terms on the ground and literally the government of iraq is a bystander so it feeds further weakens not only this current outgoing government but it feeds into the. Narrative of the demonstrations that have been going on for 3 months that the system in iraq is weak and corrupt and in effect will because it is the because those 3 words describe the current government of iraq facing a genuine crisis where you have foreign powers making decisions over iraq it territory including taking military action. And this action against the us embassy which is a violation both of the sovereignty of the United States at but also the sovereignty of the republic of iraq. Its simply highlights that the entire political system has failed to live up to the reasonable expectations of the demonstrators its an unfortunate position to be in really as facilitator about a former iraqi ambassador to the United Nations thank you for joining us in syria said late province at least 9 civilians have been killed in shelling in airstrikes by the government and Russian Forces 5 children are among the dead turkey accuses those forces of targeting a School Attacks on the last rebel held province in syria have intensified in recent weeks in fact in december alone in the violence forced 9300000 people from their homes. Its a new year but theres no sign hong kongs antigovernment protesters will abandon their cause protest leaders say more than a 1000000 people packed the citys streets on wednesday but the largely peaceful new years day march eventually turned violent as police shut down and arrested 400 people for instilling reports from. What was supposed to be a peaceful march descends into chaos and destruction on the streets of hong kong a small fire most likely caused by a petrol bomb birds before its doused by a will to carry was elsewhere police stupid to arrest a protester after demonstrators ignore their warnings to leave for hours into the protest march police with drew that permit for this rally deeming this to be an Illegal Assembly meaning they can take action to clear the street and that is exactly what they are doing here riot police have got water cannon clearing the streets of protesters as well as the barricades that protesters have set up crowds of protesters many wearing gas masks had earlier used a braless and breaks to block roads police fired rounds of tear gas to disperse the crowds. The march it started peacefully in the early afternoon attracting tens of thousands of people who slowly made their way along with 3 and a half kilometer route young and old they chose to spend new years day much the same way hong kong had spent the 2nd half of last year at another street demonstration. By new years wish for peace in hong kong but that will depend on the government and the Chinese Communist party if they continue to tighten their grip on hong kong and these protests will continue. Along the way maybe a union groups set up recruitment booths and volunteers collecting donations to assist the protest movement was the crowd didnt let up on its 5. Which include an independent investigation into allegations of Police Misconduct during the protests and the right to choose their leaders. Police did a distance away keeping a close watch occasionally protesters who direct their anger at the police over there. Who wanted government protests hong kong has gone on for nearly 7 months now and even though there are rallies and gatherings almost every day theyve reduced in intensity theres no indication the government is willing to make concessions they dont no matter what the outcome will be. No one knows for how long this will go on Florence LouisAl Jazeera Hong Kong let us have a look at whats coming up here on this news hour allegations of mass detentions indias most populous state cracks down on protesters opposing a new citizenship law. Also we will tell you what the pope had to say after this. Quick incident. And in sports the norwegian wowing the world cup crowds in germany paul will have your support that night. Now the United Nations envoy to libya is accusing Security Council members of violating an arms embargo with us and saddam is says there are concerns about foreign fighters being flown into libya now remember Turkeys Parliament is due to vote on thursday about deploying its own troops president reject typer one says that follows a request from the un back to government in tripoli to fend off an offensive from warlord really for hafter the arab league has warned of foreign influence in libya weve got him a bad day with us now nonresident scholar at the middle east institute hes with us on skype from florence him out thank you for your time. When we talk about foreign influences i mean its very vague what is being said there but who are the specific players involved there are definitely a lot of players libya doesnt like any regional or world players even dollar curiously intervening in the country you have right now the primary players however or turkey and russia i would say on the ground and in the air its predominately the u. A. E. Actually the air arties with Logistical Support from the egyptians that are in interrupted leave from the capital libyas capital tripoli since april what do you think of the claims as well that aside from Turkish Forces coming in that there are actually syrian fighters coming into libya as well well these are there are well sourced reports are actually show the Syrian Forces have already been deployed to libya on behalf of the government of National Accord however it is unclear how many they are so far and the russian mercenaries as well this is i was speaking to an earlier guest about this it was saying that actually and if you talk about syria and russia once again as they were. I should say turkey and russia as they were in syria you know being hugely influential it seems in libya. Yet there is definitely been a constant influx of a russian mercenary that has recently actually ramped up so there are more russians that are not coming into libya the idea is that because of u. S. And european inaction and all predominately single out france for being the primary culprit for actual european inaction and this case these 2 players turkey and russia are not poised to actually influence the military landscape of libya and therefore dictate its political future. Probably vince with excluding everyone else but also excluding libyans in the process much like they did in syria it says that what they want political influence because im wondering what all these different players in different groups actually want from the bia you mean the external players of the and yeah players well all of them but in particular were talking about the external ones i guess what they have to gain well the external players and be in a diff they have different agendas obviously turkey has a different agenda then and has different models of intervention the main problem is that so far these have the russia and turkey have intervened because they has been a vacuum left what they want i mean on the russian part is clearly not supporting huf that or they actually want to probably have a area of influence in it and so discord within nato as well so discord within the e. U. And theyve managed to do that by well on the turkish side there are aligned against another bloc that has been intervening in libya quite the Early Release as 2014 dominantly the egyptians and the iraqis about it joining us from florence to talk about the situation in libya thank you for that. Bushfires across to australian states growing along with the devastating toll on both lives and homes more than 200 fires and all burning and at least 8 people have been killed in the last 2 days the support from got the. Entire neighborhoods have burnt 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 positions have been tightly in writing everything there 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 but before the 1st degree temperatures weve got a lot of fire 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 a time a quick and i just couldnt do anything it was just hearing the wind just blew and wind just blew and if you look at everything in mind its just grass its just Everything Everywhere you go its left nothing. No one knows the precise cost of the damage but its clear the widespread devastation is immense. Leon aljazeera right some breaking news coming through israels Prime Minister says he will seek parliamentary immunity in 3 Corruption Cases hes just outlined what is a rare and contentious move and likely to delay any potential trial against mr netanyahu for months and in yahoo few recall was indicted on charges of bribery fraud and breach of trust in november and then he survived a leadership test last week after the likud party decided to retain him imran khan in western roussillon for us to take us through to so hes seeking parliamentary immunity what does that mean it has to be a vote. There will be a vote eventually but let me just take you through what exactly unfolded now had until midnight local time tonight to us for this parliamentary immunity its been a 2 info process with him sometimes he said he was going to ask for it because hed done nothing wrong other times he said. Immunity is the cornerstone of democracy he has 4 hours before the deadline for parliamentary immunity the process is actually quite straightforward he just follows with the speaker of the knesset the parliament and that process then begin where it gets complicated very complicated in fact is what happens next now israel is going into its 3rd election in a year because they werent able to form a Coalition Government