Soldiers in a raid on their base libyas u. N. Recognized government and the warlords have to agree to calls from both russia and turkey for a cease fire and to go to school ready. For a crash. Stage of the race in saudi arabia. Hello we begin in iran where the government is dealing with the growing fallout over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of a ukrainian airliner on wednesday hundreds of protesters have gathered outside the u. K. Embassy in tehran theyre calling for the embassy to be closed well Irans Foreign Ministry has summoned the British Ambassador accusing him of attending protests against the. Governments initial response now hes denying that its a protest meanwhile have been held right across the country after the revolutionary guard said it mistakenly shot down the jet killing 176. 00 people and the Iranian Parliament has denied a cover up but told the military to take precautions to avoid further disasters now the recent crisis with the u. S. Was prompted by the assassination of the iranian commander. In iraq meanwhile qatars emir is into a push to ease those tensions is the 1st leader to visit the iranian capital since so many was killed in a u. S. Attack on january 3rd its. Rocked her so this visit comes as a very critical time in the region weve agreed that the only solution is to defuse escalations among all parties and weve also agreed that dialogue and only dialogue is the only route to any solution to any crisis lets bring in Dorset Jabari for an update from. A 1st discuss the meeting between the qatari emir and the iranian president what was the takeaway message from the meeting at a press conference they held. Well the 2 leaders expressed their willingness to increase the ties between the 2 countries both economic and political this visit is seen as a very critical one at a time where iran finds itself in the love not only a internal. Tensions that are on the rise but also in terms of their relationship with the International Community this visit is the 1st for the emir of qatar since he came into that position in 2013 he was in terre haute the invitation of the iranian president for a close session meeting as they put it to express their desire to increase their relationship and the cooperation between the 2 countries of course the emir of qatar explaining that at the time when qatar went through a very difficult time after the blockade that was imposed on them in 2017 by saudi arabia a number of other countries it was iran who really came to their aid very quickly so he said their relationship has never been stronger but they wish to continue that moving forward and that they want to see a deescalation of the tensions in this region we know that the emir of qatar has also invited me to visit qatar at his earliest convenience and he will be meeting with irans highest Authority Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the coming hours before he departs back to doha domestically or so what can you tell us about the continued fallout of the downing of that ukrainian flight earlier this week and why there had been protests right in front of the British Embassy. Well theres been a series of events that have led to where we are today 1st that was that the nile by all levels of government after the downing of that plane that it could not have been hit by a missile by a missile and then there was a stunning revelation by the head of the Aerospace Division of the revolutionary guard on saturday that it was indeed a human error that launched the missile towards this passenger plane that brought it down and killed over 170 people on board so this is what the iranian public was very very angry about and they still are about the fact that the iranian government they feel lied to them for a number of days that they werent forthcoming initially about what had actually happened so there was a vigil held outside of im your cab your university in tehran on saturday evening and thats where the British Ambassador was in attendance he said he was there to pay his respects to the victims and then he was arrested briefly and he was released but the foreign minister has since someone to him because they say that he was attending a gathering that was not that theyd have appropriate permits by the authorities so it was an illegal gathering and he was as a foreign diplomat was not allowed to be there so this is where things are out at the moment we are also hearing that a number of people gathered outside of the British Embassy to protest his presence last night at that visual and they are demanding that the British Embassy be closed then and this investor be expelled this is of course the latest in a series of diplomatic disputes between iran and britain over the past few years so well have to wait and see how it unfolds in the coming days. All right its a door so well leave it there thank you for that update from tehran well just a short while ago the u. S. President donald trump weighed in on those protests in iran in a tweet he said this to the leaders of iran do not kill your Protesters Thousands have already been killed or imprisoned by you and the world is watching more importantly the usa is watching turn your internet back on and let reporters roam free stop the killing of your great iranian people lets bring in mike hanna to talk about this is joining us from washington so these tweets have just come through but these follow a series of tweets that trump put out some of them even in farsi indeed President Trump has been tweeting on the subject for a number of hours now you started late last night hes continuing this morning once again it appears to show his administrations opinion that pressure on iran can lead to popular dissent demonstrations in the street this appears to be the administrations strategy for dealing with this ongoing crisis the belief that through a mixture of economic sanction individual sentient and popular pressure that is the best way to deal with the iranian crisis and mike meanwhile we understand that the u. S. Defense secretary has been speaking out on the sunday talk shows about iran what did he have to say. Well the secretary of defense mark esper has been talking among the many things that he said was one specific thing that he could not confirm President Trumps contention that for specific embassies with facing imminent attack nevertheless the secretary of defense said that a number of embassies would have been under attack because they are a symbol of American Power and presence in a number of regions he continued to insist that there was an imminent danger that the Trump Administrations action was justified on the basis of this imminent danger but would not be drawn into the specifics of what the imminent danger is despite numerous calls from members of congress including those whove been briefed by the pentagon on that attack in baghdad so the situation is too that the secretary of defense insists that despite the criticism of the iranian government despite the sanctions against it President Trump is still willing to talk without preconditions this is what he said well it is still the legitimate government if you will of iran and what weve said ive said publicly the president certainly has said is we will meet with them we want to sit down discuss without precondition a new way forward a a series of steps by which iran becomes a more normal country. Well it appears that the trumpet ministration adopting a very bizarre in a way a carrot and stick the carrot the promise of talks the stick ongoing economic and individual sanctions but to make it very clear iran has insisted repeatedly that can be no form of any dialogue while these sanctions remain in place ok mike thank you for that update from washington lets bring in our senior political analyst joining us here in doha and well get to the visit of qatar as amir in a moment but 1st on what mike hanna was saying about the secretary defense hes basically saying that President Trump is willing to talk without preconditions yet at the same time we see the president doubling down on his maximum Pressure Campaign on iran what is the strategy there if there is one. Maximum pressure its sort of paradoxical and its important that you ask the question because what we understand is that after 2 years of maximum pressure it was clear to the Trump Administration that that strategy wasnt working and irans leadership continued on the same path in the region and within iran and if the iranians will simply not lay low and allow the sanctions to bite and so they just went in various directions whether its in iraq and other places in the region hoping that they will counter the american pressure and try to force washington to reconsider its policy in order to go back to the nuclear deal because as everyone knows the new girl there is not just a bilateral affair between washington run its an International Affair in fact it is enshrined in the u. N. Security Council Resolution and thats why iran is sticking by it it doesnt want to be dictated to and humiliated by a new american mr ation because the whole point of making deals between states its those deals stick regardless of the new government or the an incoming government but President Trump basically threw the entire diplomacy against the wall and decided to pursue a whole different kind of diplomacy after the different guarantees that were provided to the iranians by the Obama Administration now the American Mission thinks impunity works more pressure more intervention and apparently and i wont put it exactly last words but apparently. The american assertion no and thats my interpretation of the tweets its indirectly seeking regime change in iran the same administration that says we do not seek regime change anywhere including in iran but when you start inciting demonstrators and when you start saying not only the warden was watching especially america is watching what does that mean exactly what should what and for what purpose because in the end of the day president obama pursued with iran to godless of the region in general but with what he had pursued with iran is a policy that says look normalization with iran will allow iran to open up and that will and that opening a middle class in iran to pursue more freely its will for a more open Iranian Society and that will take care of issues but what we have today is an impure knitty that its been tried for 40 years against iran and it always failed and for a country like cats who has whats described as good relations with the United States and good relations with iran is there a role that qataris playing here and how do you read the visit of the qatari emir attack iran and his meeting with president rouhani. I have no information that the emir of qatar is carrying any messages i dont think he is getting any messages but clearly just by the fact that when our country steps forward a trust and tries to bridge at least in terms of ideas in terms of perception in terms of Regional Security and out of voice of sort because thats whats is missing and thats whats been missing in the whole iranian american equation and a voice because this is a region that has some 400000000 arabs if anyones going to be affected by any escalation between iran and the United States its the arab region the proxy wars that are or for to between the United States and iran are happening where syria lebanon iraq yemen what are these these are arab countries but why isnt there an arab voice available to be a 3rd dimension if you were in this relationship between washington and tehran why because the arab world is divided and so the voice from qatar a country that does have relations does have communications with washington to iran and iraq is an important arab voice to be heard in tehran ok well leave it there thank you very much. Tunisia air thats where our government sources told aljazeera that the death toll from thursdays attack on an army base has now risen to at least 89 no one has claimed responsibility nick charles more. This is the cost of a conflict that most of the world knows nothing about 89. 00 body bags soldiers from neiges army killed in an attack at an army base in sheena go drug close to the border with mali no one has yet claimed responsibility but a number of groups are active here and fallen to cross west africas say hell region has been increasing last month 71 soldiers were killed in an attack me and neiges border with mali and became a fast some believe the conflict in libya is worsening problems across the region after the collapse of the libyan state. After the world now. And that by france that in libya thats way thats when all the problems in this house because they came with heavy and the static to attack countries like mali need book in fs so. Those countries are too poor to face. The terrorists who are fighting them a National Security meeting will be held in niger to work out how to fight ahmed groups including eisel and french president emanuel macron is expected to host leaders from the region on monday with most likely discuss the future of frances military presence in the same hild we need to have a military answer because we need to where educate those jihadists terrorism also but it wont be enough because we need to bring also social and the humanitarian cost is also rising the un estimates half a 1000000. 00 people have been displaced in the region because of the violence nicola gage aljazeera. Well theres been a surge in violence right across the region and the number of People Killed in attacks and burkina faso mali uneasier john from 7. 70 in 2016 to more than 4000 last year its largely because of a combination of attacks by armed groups and intercommunal violence remote areas where the states presence or especially vulnerable the humanitarian cost is also growing the u. N. Estimates half a 1000000 people have been displaced a 10 fold increase in 3 years lets bring in. A political and Security Risk consultant a terrorist shes joining us from paris via skype thanks for your time with us on aljazeera why does the area remain so vulnerable to attacks from armed groups from. For summer isnt a very new situation but as you mention it say there is again the fire escape. Similar months and months is now when its true that the threat is not cruel way nuff to be a one to face censure evolution and the grounds that the reason why there is this meeting is 72. 00 more in france. The president s record more for and with the other president and the sad region of france g 7 g g 5 sorry sammy initiative if its to review these strategies but the message is that military as it has been saying military solution is not enough and there isnt any laws talk country received the governments receive and out of funds from different civil war pretty regular are going to since many years now that do for us is the National Forces. And this countrys on that and in concert there. In and of course there are a really able or 2 to do the job that is not Michael James out let me ask you about that in particular because why are these forces the International Forces and and French Forces in particular who have been invested in that area since 2030 and why are these attacks are happening under their watch. What is not under is our watch i mean that was out to contribute to the security and to to lets say so this should part the National Air Force is and is not no more a National Program its original program so that the idea is to carden it better as it is always different the National Forces and france has is in is there as a backup should be there as a backup the problem is that you cannot address sets he chooses. Forces mainly to reach the ration shows the iran rather that have not been addressed so far what would you like to say i mean its because as they said the reason the way it is address is i mean military and that has to be addressed also and the political aspect thats meaning the governance that when you have some 1000000 billions of. Euros in this area to the reinforced institution and sufficiently the need to really institution that and that exists and in the way that the governments there or correctness are. Going to smother is maybe the weather of the 1st issue so that has to be addressed properly and mean that we have through to make a connection to make coordination and i mean the. Linking the security and a Good Governance rights country is there is that ok well we thank you ill have to leave it there weve run out of time but thank you very much i know that sally for joining us from paris thank you. Thank you went to morehead on the hour including. Schools are closed thousands of people. Anger over. Corruption. On. Our stories coming up in sports. But 1st countries ravaged by war 2 separate cease fire agreements are now in effect warring sides in syria libya have agreed to put down their arms after negotiations brokered by russia and turkey its 2 countries support opposing sides in each conflict we have more on syria in a moment but 1st to libya thats where. Initially rejected calls for the ceasefire. Reports from. After rejecting a cease fire call blade turkey and russia last week warlord free for have to change his mind a few hours before it was due to go into effect. The general command of the libyan ira bombed forces announces a cease fire in the western side of libya the ceasefire starts from one minute past midni