World the test is the mom a governments take action. Libyan warlord who has flown to greece for talks with the Prime Minister and the foreign minister of greece has criticized its exclusion from a un backed peace conference coming up on sunday the internationally recognized government which have to is trying to overthrow recently signed a maritime and military cooperation deal with turkey angering greece the greek Prime Minister tuchis has threatened to veto any libya agreement at the European Union level because of that maritime deal between turkey and the government in tripoli meanwhile have to who heads the self declared Libyan National army is scheduled to hold 2 days of talks in athens before flying to berlin for sundays peace summit russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will also both be at that conference. Level 90 the most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the Security Council supports the conclusions from the conference if the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other as of now the relationships between them are very strange they dont even want to be in the same rooms let alone speak or meet each other. Or John Psaropoulos has more now on those developments in athens in general have to his meeting with because then there is the foreign minister mr bender has told reporters after. He and general have to have agreed that among general have to aims at the peace conference to secure a cease fire and security in his country should be the pursuit of the. A blockade against any other reaching the warring sides a departure of foreign mercenaries that played such a large part in this war and also no mint of the maritime jurisdiction agreement reached by crafters rival the government in tripoli with turkey last november that is an agreement greece has taken particular objection to because it infringes upon areas in the mediterranean that greece also sees as its maritime jurisdiction belonging to its eastern a. G. N. Islands and so it wants that agreement and all that is its main concern in these talks but of course it is aligned with its European Union allies and partners in wanting International Law to prevail in libya and an agreement thats acceptable to all sides meanwhile fairly fast has contacted russia in an effort to gain support from his longtime ally step mawson as the details from moscow. The press service of the kremlin has just made public that i have to have send a letter to president putin to reaffirm his willingness to go to moscow again to continue the dialogue the peace talks and he also said mr president my dear friend i wish to express my personal gratitude and appreciation to russia for efforts towards establishing peace and stability in libya and this is all of course very interesting because this latter comes a little over 4 days after have to pretty much embarrass president putin after he left moscow there were peace negotiations going on for more than 7 hours so russia the Prime Minister of the u. S. Backed government in libya had signed this cease fire agreement and have to ask some time until the morning to think about it and then suddenly in the middle of the night left moscow without any signature so this was seen as a failure of course for moscow and for president putin and this letter now seems to be safe face saving operation to make sure that russia is back in the game meanwhile the internationally recognized government in tripoli wants catherine tunisia to attend the pearland peace conference on sunday are puerto montt up to why it has more from tripoli. The Foreign Ministry in tripoli has sent an official letter to the German Embassy in tripoli requesting that both qatar and tunisia be invited for the berlin talks we know that the government of National Accord is keen to include both countries to achieve some kind of balance facing the other daily geisha in supporting the warlords leave or have to do as you know at least 4 countries supporting the warlord cliff there have to are invited to take part in the berlin talks on sunday including the United Arab Emirates egypt russia and france so by this move the government here in tripoli is trying to achieve balance it says that tunisia is very important to take part in these talks as tunisia not only as a neighboring country and being impacted and affected by the ongoing crisis in libya but it has been also costing thousands of libyan a few g. s and as for qatar the government says that qatar has been all supporting the Freedom Revolution in libya since 2011 and the government believes that qatar is a key. Player in the peace talks in berlin so news from iraq now dozens of people have been injured in clashes in the capital Baghdad Security forces fired tear gas to break up a crowd of demonstrators trying to breach bridge its close to Tahrir Square where thousands have been camped out for months demanding political change and some passions force the authorities to restrict access to the crossing hundreds of people have been killed since mass protests began in october. Irans Supreme Leader has been speaking out today saying that European Countries cant be trusted in negotiations of the 2015 u. K. A tail ayatollah ali hominine made the comments during friday prayers its the 1st time hes led the salmon into iran 80 is a setback has more now from the iranian capital. The days events began with the customary flag and the chants of death to america as thousands of faithful flock to friday prayers to hear this Supreme Leader many speak the last time he did this was in 2012 in the midst of the arab spring now the spiritual and political leader of iran turned its focus to the United States and europe with the europeans having triggered the dispute because of the 2050 nuclear deal and referred to iran to the United Nations where you got to be on germany france and even government of the u. K. Responded to their threat after the u. S. Withdrawal from the nuclear deal i said i dont trust them and that theyre american servants and clients these countries want to bring the iranian nation to its knees and the u. S. Which is your master couldnt do anything let alone you who are smaller weaker deceitful in the negotiations with those a steel hand in a building glove they cannot be trusted we have no problem with talks but not with the u. S. But domestically the country has seen protests against fuel price rises and in the last week condemnation of the downing of the ukrainian past indigent after it left the broad with the loss of 176 lives the message one of regret and condolence holds to order the plane crash was a bitter accident but through our hot next month iran has parliamentary elections 7 polls show that the turnout could be very low and obvious concern for the legitimacy of the political system here in iran better organized these firing as you made my dear brothers and sisters my d. N. A. Should have iran in the presence of the iranian people is the most important factor of this presence is power many places one of the most important roles is the election as. The cessation of military commander general cos im so the money by the United States has resulted in a wave of support throughout iran but that changed when its military shut down the Ukrainian AirlineAyatollah Khamenei decided to speak at a time when the country is experiencing intense pressure externally and domestically this piece was a big. Supporter of the situation and getting your face up to the challenges that the coming months and years this country may face. The her on. The United States is sanctioning one of the Iranian Revolutionary guards big brigadier generals for his involvement in a violent crackdown on protesters in november at least 300 people were killed when nationwide protests erupted over the increase in fuel prices. The United States is listing i. R. G. C. Brigadier general haasan shover poor under section 7031 c. Sanctions general shop or committed gross violations of human rights against protesters in musher shar he oversaw the massacre of 148 helpless iranians in the marsh our region last november general shot the poor was in command of units responsible for the violent crackdown and lethal repression around musher shar. As President Donald Trump has announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial this includes kenneth stop the prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz who has represented Jeffrey Epstein o. J. Simpson Roman Polanski and mike tyson the trial will be led by white House Counsel the polonium and trumps lawyers. The Legal Process was set in motion in the senate today. No is following events for us in washington and these new additions to trumps legal team will be prominent well known household names amongst the American Public whats been the initial reaction to this announcement. I think people clearly are looking at this and basically saying that trump is clearly going to be taking this very very seriously based on his legal team you have Alan Dershowitz whos a long time harvard law professor and considered one of americas preeminent constitutional scholars interestingly enough hes a democrat that voted for Hillary Clinton in the last election however hes come out very publicly in many media appearances and elsewhere basically saying that he does not think trump should be impeached based on the evidence against him so that really caught trumps attention dershowitz very media savvy he often is a political or im sorry constitutional and legal analyst on television here in the u. S. And then the other ken starr essentially coming out of retirement almost ken starr very well known knowns a celebrity lawyer as well very well known here in washington as the late ninetys was a special counsel in the case against the then president bill clinton during his impeachment so you having 2 people brought on to the legal team that are very well known and that i think this signals that trump is taking this very seriously and he wants people that can deal with the intense media spotlight that is about to happen once this senate trial kicks off next week and of course one of the reasons people be watching this site closely is because President Trump is up for reelection so when his lawyer is defending him in the senate trial they will also be representing him to the American Public. Yeah they will be and this is unprecedented its worth repeating here theres only been 3 u. S. President s that have been impeached but only 2 that have gone to the senate for a trial but only one thats going to a senate for a trial that is also up for reelection and thats donald trump when clinton was impeached and had the trial the senate he was not up for reelection as donald trump is so thats why this is so im president it important to remind our viewers as well that the jury in this trial is going to be the 100 u. S. Senators and they key number is 20 because in order for donald trump to be removed from office there has to be 2 thirds of the 100 senators that vote to convict him right now the senate is 53 republicans 45 democrats so to get to that number 66 which is 2 thirds that means 20 republicans need to vote to convict donald trump thats the key number there and thats where what is essentially coming down to a numbers game here as long as trump can hold on to those 20 he wont be impeached or convicted and removed from office i should say again this all starts with the trial thats kicking off on tuesday but a key number to watch is that 21 day thank you very much gavel in washington. Still ahead on the Program Families with nothing left to lose hope for a Better Future outside guatemala. And flying over in iraq think right so we join the 1st helical to mission of the devastation caused by volcano tom. Hello the bottle of hours ago night and some might still start but the rain has been falling recently in east australia has been beneficial to quench some fires and the slowing weaving nature of this is meant that the reg has been repeating itself in one of 2 places more than once and where it has in cities a case in point its certainly come down fairly heavily now that line is the forecast for saturday and again its all way up the coast from then into sydney inland and beyond to queensland and the showers develop a little bit inland but not a lot so its the fire risk area that is getting drenched but not i view it on the victoria the pictures rather dry when theyre not completely dry it Western Australia were to showers and thats particularly true up towards 80 mile beach maybe occasionally beyond that up towards darwin but the same line exists here on the eastern side rather more hope for victoria and other parts of New South Wales where the drought is still in and the sort of fire risk with a stick a 62 or 3 days i suspect rain more than anything else now we have seen rain developing in these massive clouds just offshore from honshu in the next 24 hours at a wind up from past by tokyo i think it will stay mainly offshore so bit of a breeze cloud and some rain. On counting the coffee from pal says months of trade deal is china capitulates can beijing deliver tens of billions in extra try russia seeks to isolate ukraine with a pipeline via turkey plus south koreas duds been struggling to climb the social escalates counting the cost on out just. Whats most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going to hear it i just see it or we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera live from london a look at the top stories now libyan wallet aloof after has made an unexpected trip to afghans for talks with turkeys regional rival Greece Athens has criticized its exclusion from a u. N. Backed peace conference set to take place on sunday in. Iran supremely to says European Countries cant be trusted in negotiations over the 2015 nuclear deal i told you hominine made the comments during friday prayers the 1st time hes led the sermon in teheran in 8 years and u. S. President donald trump has announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial it includes and it starts with the prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago and its celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz who has represented jeffrey abstain o. J. Simpson Roman Polanski and mike tyson. Well weve been following a caravan of almost 3000 people heading north through guatemala towards the Mexican Border the aim to reach the United States most people are escaping extreme poverty and Gang Violence in honduras its not likely theyll ever get a chance to actually step on u. S. Soil john homan has more now from a migrant shelter in Guatemala City on the problems they will face in reaching the United States. These are the people the freshly arrived in the just curing to get into the shelter and i think theyll tell you a lot from what weve been hearing from the people that we spoke to last night a lot of people are fleeing for economic reasons things in honduras have been bad economically and theyre getting worse a lot of unemployment a lot of people struggling especially those who work in the countryside and then on the other hand a lot of people that are fleeing violence on duras has gangs that suit to be extorting and killing the population and thats been the case for some time in the country so theres quite a strong sort of things that are propelling people from out to get out of what tamala but on the other hand mexico has said that these people you can see going into the shelter at the moment probably full of from sort of hope that they might be able to get to the United States mexico saying that it wont let them pass that it wont let them try and see it that it will perhaps let them into the country if they want to ask for asylum there but thats it and the United States even more sort of has the door firmly closed basically saying that even if they arrive in the United States not for asylum that asylum request will be outsourced back here to guatemala so a lot of hope at the moment but almost quite at this depressing situation because these people are probably not going to have a little chance of getting and staying in the United States. Now to developments in syria at least 2 children have been killed several other people injured in shelling of residential areas russian and Syrian Government more planes had to shelter in the town of cough and high in aleppo as western countryside rebel forces say some rule on the towns were also hit by artillery bombing. In all the developments the present russia type i dont want to accuse the Syrian Government of breaking a cease fire agreement and killing 20 people in the Opposition Health province of idlib the deal came into effect last sunday but the violence has continued pushing more people from their homes and protesters to the streets shot at palace reports. The cease fire deal was short lived in a loop syrias lost opposition on play. Brokered by turkey and russia it came into effect on sunday. This was filmed on thursday it shows a russian jet in the Syrian Army Pounding opposition positions they say they were provoked. But the. Military operations result on southeastern fronts after the insurgents violated the truce and targeted humanitarian corridors. The insurgents a rebels aligned with the Syrian Opposition the last fighters in a war that began nearly 9 years ago is supported by turkey president responded to the escalation after friday prayers and. You know. Unfortunately this is clear proof that the Syrian Regime is not abiding by the steps that we took regarding the ceasefire and the excuse is always ready this is the excuse terrorist organizations are doing this or that these are all lies. You are living in this province 3000000 people its the last opposition stronghold with little recourse they sing of the suffering heart full of not fear. This is as much a protest as a funeral they say despite the ceasefire 2 bombs killed their friends here on wednesday. And in the shadows 350000 syrians who fled their homes since early december like a harsh the found shelter in mosques across the province. And that then we have no one our neighbor knocked on the door in the morning and took us with him myself and my younger brother he pushed us here as were living on relief aid. Life is stark here in the winter many refugee seems is it just building carcasses the snow or heat. From the how does it all know what are we are waiting for someone to have mercy on us come to help us here we committed no crime to be punished this way no one is looking at us and mercy my husband and son of both disabled our life is destroyed this was meant to be temporary now the cease fire has broken again. Dallas aljazeera. Activists in a calling for action to stop attacks by armed groups in the sahil at least 170 soldiers have been killed in less than 2 months out there is a common address has more on this now from the capital niamey. The presence of a large number of Police Officers on the streets of the capital of nigeria dampen the spirits of the protesters they planned to come out on the streets and demand the government takes action to end the violence in the especially near the border with mali while the country has lost at least 106. 00 disorders in less than 2 months. We only learnt on social media that our request to protest was outlawed we werent informed officially and you can see this large deployment of police to chase away as if we were fighting the government the government should understand that we are not at war with them but we are gathering to show support for our soldiers. A small group of demonstrators gathered in the capital but they were chased away by police who mounted roadblocks all across the city to prevent them accessing their destination which is of course the National Assembly why they intended to gather what we see here is just a small number of protesters who are not doing much. Of course to watch what the police are doing right now. You just saw the police i kind of stuff tear gas dispersing the little crowd we had in front of the camera now this is exactly whats happening in most parts of the city to demonstrate to saying there are going to regroup and decide on their next line of action. Tens of thousands of people in the philippines displaced by an erupting volcano on sunday and being advised not to return to their homes volcanologists are saying that it might take up to 2 weeks to establish whether it is safe currently they are able to fly over the crater. Join the 1st mission in a helicopter. These government officials want a closer look at the rumbling a volcano so theyve come to this military air base in the town this province the plan to fly over the crater of the top. And decide how to respond to the threat it continues to pose its been days since the erupted but the crisis is far from over. We flew over the past city towards our late what we saw there was beyond human comprehension. Of what was once a popular Tourist Destination is now on recognizable. From above we can see the and it was killed when kabul came no spewed steam and lava farmlands this choice communities damage to a province in crisis but in the middle of the destruction some are tearing to return for many this is all that they have left. We finally reach the volcano this crater. This is what alert level for looks like up close experts are warning there eruption is imminent. Seconds later a fountain of plaques steam erupts and the pilot has to mcgiver quickly to escape a reminder of hope on the tile the situation is. The very 1st 3 bites of the fish from the filippi. That hour and how long the script called very hairy is back by now ok no eruption and what they had so far they say. What we saw you. Expect. The people. And it was heartbreaking to see the devastation last us for us the military is concerned we know that the. Need to be done in. The sense. And focus more than 50000 people have been evacuated from a 40 kilometer danger zone. But beyond the physical discomfort Officials Say it is the uncertainty of what might happen next that braces the government to prepare for the worst. Since are difficult to accurately predict but more are expected and government Officials Say theyre leaving nothing to chance. But then this province northern philippines. Winter small is the annual misery across the balkans region of europe widespread reliance on coal and wood phys has a severe impact on air quality this year a growing number of citizens across the region to taking to the streets to demand Government Action paul brennan reports. Belgrade sarajevo pristina and scorpio in recent weeks all 4 have been ranked in the top 10 best of the worlds most polluted cities january has been a suffocating ordeal for the residents of the balkans. For the whole of mankind this is not good at sarajevo it then belgrade and all of the city it is pleated because of cause and battlefield call and like myself. A recent u. N. Report agreed finding that more than 60 percent of people here rely on coal and fire wood stoves to heat their homes 20 percent of the regions premier choi deaths were directly linked to chronic air pollution the bosnian capital saudi avers sits in a valley ringed by high mountains and most of the past week pollution in the form of microscopic airborne particles has been at least twice and sometimes 8 times higher than the e. U. Safe limits to d. C. We can hardly breathe when we go out its especially hard for patients with heart and lung problems sometimes you cant even walk on the street even with a scarf on it was suffocating. In the bosnian town of tuzla this week carrying banners saying we want to preach hundreds protested their anger at government inaction we were showing seraphim the local authorities tell us stories about some nebulous temperature inversion and the like but we all know that the basic cause of pollution in this city is particle pollution and from individual stocks the city is simply not investing enough because. Emotion is not that i came here to support these protests and to finally motivate people to enforce a change to show that they care about the city and about breathing with. Governments and local authorities often downplay the issue some politicians refer to it as choking season simply typical for the time of year this year though campaigners are rejecting that narrative like never before and then. Clean energy be made more accessible that older polluting vehicles should be banned the regulations on industry emissions and power plants be tightened all that requires money investment and with impeccable timing the European Union last month announced a new Green Deal Fund promising 1. 00 trillion dollars of investment in the western balkans it cant come soon enough paul brennan aljazeera. Just a quick update of the headlines stories before he gave you the libyan warlord highly 5 to has made an unexpected trip to athens for talks with turkeys racial rival greece meanwhile athens has criticized its exclusion from a u. N. Fact peace conference set to take place in violin on sunday russia and turkey who support opposite sides in the conflict will both be that love an additional the most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the Security Council supports the conclusions from the conference if the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other as of now the relationships between them are very strange they dont even want to be in the same rooms let alone speak or meet each other. Irans Supreme Leader says European Countries cant be trusted in negotiations of the 2015 nuclear deal. Made the comments during friday prayers the 1st time hes led the men into iran in 80 is on tuesday fronts person in germany triggered a formal dispute mechanism in the Nuclear Agreement that could lead to the reimposition of international sanctions. Dozens of people have been injured in clashes in iraq Security Forces fired tear gas to break up a crowd of demonstrators trying to breach baghdads bridge which is close to Tahrir Square where thousands of been camped out for months demanding political change. U. S. President donald trump has announced his defense team for the upcoming impeachment trial it includes ken starr the prosecutor in the failed impeachment of bill clinton 22 years ago on the celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz whos represented Geoffrey Epstein o. J. Simpson Roman Polanski and might tyson the trial will be led by white House Counsel and trumps lawyer. And the 1st aerial images of the toll volcano in the philippines shows the extent of the devastation tens of thousands of people have already been displaced and they have been advised not to return to their homes because of fear is that the volcano could erupt again. Thats it for myself in the team here in london counting the cost is coming up next. The Climate Crisis and the environment take center stage at this years World Economic forum in davos Business People experts and leaders from around the world can expect an icy reception from some as they discuss how to save the planet from the ranks of rising temperatures get the latest updates on al jazeera. This is counting the cost of aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week for signing march. March there are 40 or 50. 00 to our farm thats our farm thank you i keep trying hard to track. China. Deliver tens of billions in extra trade