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Start to screen passengers from china as fears grow over the spread of a new virus. With the top stories from europe including people. Refugee crisis. At breaking point. And. Chrono mcgregor makes his much anticipated return to action the irishman is taking on american donald surrounding later on saturday with the hopes of winning for the 1st time in 3 year. We begin with breaking news from lebanon where police have been firing tear gas and water cannon the protesters who are demanding a speedy resolution to the financial and economic crisis that these are pictures from close to the Parliament Building in the capital beirut hundreds of protesters have been involved in running battles with Security Forces the demonstrators are angry over plans by the ruling party to form a government from the current Political Class lets go live to beirut. Has been out of on the demonstrators for the last 3 hours now weve seen these running battles zeta bring us up to speed with the situation than now. Yes adrian you say 3 hours it hasnt and the running battles continuing fierce confrontations between Security Forces and antigovernment protesters here Security Forces firing tear gas to move the crowd from marchers where we are in the center of beirut the protesters are very defiant theyre playing tough and really with the Security Forces they managed to push them a few 100 meters back with them and they moved forward again as you can see ambulances in the streets evacuating the wounded dozens have been wounded and the ongoing conference has got them on the protesters as well as the Security Forces protesters are hurling rocks after the Security Forces this all began outside Parliament Building which is approximately 500 where we are the protesters the i think a lot of protesters who are demanding a change in leadership in this country try to storm the building they try to reach the building so Security Forces responded with tear gas and water cannon. This is the 1st i took violence since chinas day when activists announced a week of rage thats what they called it the week of rage they plan to escalate the protest action after their movement to the momentum of their movement slowed in recent weeks they are growing increasingly frustrated theyre saying that our Peaceful Movement are peaceful rallies and theyre doing nothing to convince the leadership to leave power to have those the power to end the pan the government this is what people want you can see theyre taking away a people have their. Life but also. You can see the firecrackers thats the way for them there is how to provoke the forces so that. Theyre not back. The place the president of the public michel aoun has called on the king to restore. Him is great but at the same time were protecting public opportunity at the fact that he spoke protesters but people here are and weve been speaking to people and they say that the Economic Situation in the country ringback is so 2 bad that they have to behave left to live and theyre promising to stay on the streets to pick up the momentum and still have the Political Class there to to power. Why this escalation now weve seen you here since october 17th you havent left the street life. Because we dont have social justice in this country we have nothing. At this point in life at this point is not its not worth living if this doesnt change and we are in the common economical crisis our system as. Theyve theyve been just theirselves how much of a failure there are in every single way we have no Ministry Working we have nothing we have nothing people are dying by books and you think hell think this is the system do you think that any change can happen theres no or no way its been its been almost a 100 days nobodys listening theyre still forming the same. Lets not use our story but this is how it is we dont want to use the cursing word but which is what theyve been doing is crime theyve been their criminal is real we are ruled by criminals very words theyve done the civil war and this didnt present during us ok but do you really think i mean do you have all the support that you meet and there are still people who support those in power how would you could how youre going to convince them to side with you if order and order the food in a fair and where we are in an economy. Crisis everybodys going to get hungry everybodys going to need to do this soon and i dont have to convince anybody about whats happening today its clear whats happening who can get a hold of their money in the banks who has electricity and. Water how can you resist this season that were breathing now how could you really were on air. Sick with tear gas smoke and the smoke from fireworks those explosions away hearing fireworks those running battles continue you keep having to move position to talk to us because of the tear gas and the the riot police who are trying to disperse the crowds. Yes you can see the stuff thats even in front of us even more tear gas. Right hundreds are trying to do over this past week or way to leave a marker where this is the epicenter of the protest movement where it all began on october the 17th where we saw thousands and thousands of people gather in peaceful. Rallies to demand a change in leadership to demand politicians who have been governing this country since the days of the civil war to leave office they blame them for the dire Economic Situation for mismanaging the country they say that they have basically privatized their country and they are benefiting from the states resources and not the people the people keep giving they keep being taxed and they get nothing in return that they have no basic services. And this is either something tragic or. Theyre trying to reclaim their country when you talk to the go wrong at all i dont own a boat. As you can see people are wounded this is this is an ongoing confrontation and the problem is or the biggest question is if this keeps continuing and this unrest continues in the streets of the capital theres a political vacuum an economic crisis and people are armed this is a country where people are armed as well so this is a fear that many people have where is the country heading to and this is but but if you ask people here they tell you or well i we dont really have a life we dont have a future and so were not going to lose anything by continuing to do this but we talked about a few 1000 people here its very important to mention that those in power the mainly sectarian parties who remain in power do have their supporters who believe what is happening here is a conspiracy and they believe that they should be given a chance there are talks to form a god. But its not what the people here demand the court demand here is we want an independent government the ministers need to be experts they sit and be affiliated with the different Political Parties and they should work for early elections thats the commander in the street but the Political Class has been responding say no were not going to give up power we want and that can take thousands of interim and tell populace for a couple of us from the street you need to topple us from the ballot box yes we will create a government of experts but those experts will be named and referee Political Parties id say that many thanks indeed i was there is a lot of their lives on the streets of beirut amid the running battles between protesters and police which have been going on for well over 3 hours now. Thick with the smoke from gas and fireworks abraham name is a Civil Society activists and a University Professor in urban planning he joins us now live via skype from beirut. Professor what do you make of of this where do these protests go for me yet. To be honest no one can tell what we can see is the progressive accumulation and escalation. As it is old of the of the rising and. Frustration and rage from the people because the current political powers are not that you desponding in any positive manner to the demands of the people that have been brought this thing for over 90 days peacefully in the streets they continue and deny and they continue in their gains and public sharing. Of the forming government they continue to ignore the demands of the people like nothing has happened since october 17th and this is the resulting in people had a feeling cornered and thus the violence. Coming out like that not to forget that the recently had been also us getting from there by a continuous oppression detaining young people. And using force and this also resulted and any action from the people with violence from their side. What several 100 perhaps a couple of 1000 protesters out there on the streets of beirut right now have their frustrations shared by the population as a whole does does everyone agree with what theyre doing. What to be honest i feel that the economic crisis that we have reached and we are suffering from a now i think it teaches everybody the problem is that the sectarian part of this that dishman are using their propaganda and their sectarian tautog to charge people against the revolution and somehow there are some people who are still believing in this discourse unfortunately but i feel that the economic crisis has reached the pockets of all the lebanese and many are unemployment rates are very high the devaluation of the bins pound is also growing things feel out of hand the prices of commodities have been rising with no control we had a total chaos in this country and i feel that no one here has not is not feeling frustrated the problem is that some people feel that they should be more peaceful and theyre using the this aspect of their volution to do a counter attack on the revolution but i feel that all people are cornered in some way or the other and theyre bound to reach that point the eventually we spoke to a commentator earlier who said that today was a turning point for lebanon after these protests and i will wake up to find a very different country to more well i tend to share this opinion too that today is really a turning point in the under evolution. The excessive power that have been used by the Security Forces burning of the revolution leigh. And the square there using and also the very simply using live ammunition i think this level of the. President of violence will trigger more even says severe reaction from the people and. No one knows how it will escalate but definite. At its maximum today tonight. For really good story many thanks indeed for being with us. Now to the latest developments in libya the state of oil firm has been forced to close 5 eastern ports that have been under attack by forces loyal to the war Khalifa Haftar its expected that the move will result of the loss of 800000 Barrels Per Day of output meanwhile in less than 24 hours all eyes will be on the german capital berlin thats where a peace conference is set to take place World Leaders have been working diplomatic channels extensively in the hope that after the un recognized government of. Will both attend turkeys president one is the latest politician to voice his opinion ahead of the conference in a newspaper column he warned that if the libyan capital tripoli was afford to have to it would become a Fertile Ground for the rebel groups to keep banks the government that has recently deployed troops to help against forces. In just a few moments well take you live to hushmail whos in berlin ahead of the conference which begins on sunday 1st though lets cross to tripoli aljazeera has more of the one head is standing by for us bring us up speed. The situation on the oil ports the National Oil Company has declared a force. Well. Before i speak about the situation. To the country. The spokesman of the operation the governments counter military. Stated they have documented a clear violation of they have to plane and the. Plane. Green. He calls it a clear violation of the cease fire. Only 24 hours before the meeting in berlin the situation in the oil terminal is in the east of the country remains a very uncertain as the blue cade continues and the n. O. C. That the state with the National Oil Corporation has been warning that the only loser in this game is libya while other well put up producing countries will increase their Production Capacity taking the advantage of. Libya now. Also says that its now if this blockade continues it will be losing about. 55000000. 00 a day or about 800000. 00 bad it is a day this intuition also remains a very chaotic dead as there. Are 5 major Oil Terminals in the east of the country have been blockaded by protesters including militia men tribal militia men along with the poor have to groups and then protesting what they call the military existence in libya here in the west of the country or the camp led by the you know recognize the government of National Court there is still a question mark what will happen in berlin especially after both qatar and tunisia have been excluded despite the fact that the government have been insisting on germany to invite both countries. After what had live in tripoli lets go back to berlin. Any kind of unified position among the various World Leaders who are going to attend tomorrow what are they really strictly expected to come out of this please. Unifying adriane of the 12 states attending the berlin peace talks is going to be the biggest challenge facing german chancellor Angela Merkel she needs to navigate through the complex Political Landscape that has divided keep players about libya she held talks a while ago with the. Prince mohammed bin zayed whos not going to attend the conference itself to model and both discuss the need to and the political crisis in libya both insisting that this should be no military solution a solution to the crisis in libya guess what the government of National Accord in libya for example accusers the United Arab Emirates for exacerbating the situation there by providing significant military assistance to the warlord. Who controls more than 2 thirds of the country and this is one of the things that america has to overcome the situation has become so divisive. What you have on one hand countries like turkey qatar italy to some extent and the International Community providing assistance of the government base in turkey of the other hand you have the moderate is the egyptians the saudis the russians and the french assisting general highly for have to if you could because it consider him to be the only ball work against the rise of armed groups militias and extremism in the region and i think tomorrow when merkel meets with all the leaders attending the conference she would have to tell them its about time to solve the crisis or as were going to see in this report libya could become a nightmare scenario for the International Community. This was the moment to leave years archrivals were supposed to agree to a cease fire Prime Minister face the stars and warlord highly for half the. In moscow for a meeting brokered by Vladimir Putin and. But hafta walked out of the last minute the collapse of those talks has been a setback for International Efforts to end the conflict many are now waiting to see whether leaders from 12 countries can achieve in berlin what eluded put in and done in moscow and persuade rival factions to reach a truce while the bill in conference is try to do is get agreement between the states meddling in libya to stop their support of the warring parties problem is that western states on operated put pressure on half that front office in particular the u. A. E. So the promise is that the foreign medicine medical billing it in ring hollow german chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for a permanent ceasefire in libya and implementing an arms embargo but that may not be an easy task libya has been marred by an Armed Conflict for years after is leading an offensive to capture tripoli backed by the u. A. E. Eurabia friends and russia the general has brushed aside reconciliation efforts. Hes intent on defeating his opponent as Prime Minister of the International Recognized government based in tripoli. Any talks taking place when tripoli is under a question is an absolute disrespect for those who are killed for the sake of democracy it is a disrespect for those forced out of their villages and cities hotter has a list of demands he wants armed factions in the west to disband and his Libyan National army to take over has also made it clear that the military and maritime deal said was just government signed with turkey should be scrapped for the leaders attending the berlin peace talks the libyan conflict has reached a Tipping Point violence is on the rise and an arche has paved the way for a wave of mass in areas to join the conflict raising fears it could be a prolonged and spillover threatening your security thats why the International Committee is determined to end war in libya. He is a political analyst and director of the tripoli based Sadeq Institute he joins us now live from london good to have you with us given all that weve just heard what if anything can we expect from this conference more absolutely nothing. In the shortest way possible if you look at the last 24 hours alone a violation of the arms embargo and i will go an air Strike Committee but after 24 hours ago the oil crescent shut down taking off half of libyas oil off line marking 6 months by the way of the last one the libyan in benghazi tried to request a cease fire libyan elected member of parliament so you have sergei were who was kidnapped 6 months ago and is now the anniversary of a kidnapping and potential death so now were looking at a scenario where in addition to this by the way i should shouldnt forget this over the last 4 or 5 days huge shipments from of without the special forces base to be made made through egypt and eritrea into Eastern Libya it doesnt look like theyre preparing for a peace talk doesnt look like theyre preparing for a cease fire it looks rather preparing for another offensive and thats the danger here is that all of this illusion trying to bring putin their yes thats going that putin was the strong man that was really giving after all of this support who think it and get him to sign and that was a distraction the real danger here is that the military support and the diplomatic support that has been given to after not only in the last mind months but over the last 5 years has been given by france which is effectively gagged the u. N. Mission from essentially sanctioning condemning and criticizing after when antonio terror was the chief of the u. N. Witnessed the offensive on april 4th but also has been giving a diplomatic immunity to his backers in egypt and the u. A. E. To continually violate the arms embargo over the last 9 months over the last 5 years what could have happened in berlin could easily happen in a scott conference over the last 9 months what has changed today there is no new dynamic in the u. N. Security council there is a new dynamic in the e. U. This is an attempt what europeans that demonstrate that they want to do something but not a real attempt to actually solve the problems which are very very simple so how how badly will this reflect on the europeans if this doesnt go well the more if they walk away with nothing. Well today libya is a headache but some moral its a danger because the migration crisis that plagued europe only 4 years ago 5 years ago that led to the debate here and vote here that led to the rise of the far right in and leg up party in italy and germany and austria and poland those things emerged after libyas last migration crisis today its a nuisance but some more oh is this a massive massive danger in libyas oil and europes other nato neighborhood thats the problem if we can expect anything it is i sound like a broken record but it is a broken problem and its something that nobody wants to solve and its been broken by members of the international me that have absolutely no intent on ripening any of the local factions we already know that sort of ours it was willing to sign the deal because he signed in turkey and left he signed it under pressure from turkey and left moscow but after it didnt what would have changed in the last week apart from an arms embargo violation again a huge airstrike and i will go in only an hour an hour ago and the shutting down of libyas Natural Resources in the last 24 hours is its gotten worse since they last try to broker peace you say to no one no ones going to no one wants to solve this moment turkeys president wants to have a go though i mean hes got hes got troops on the ground there in libya will easily. Hes had a go at trying to defend the us at the g n a in tripoli the un backed government but a un backed government cannot rely on the Un Security Council that brought it to life the Un Security Council has a very Important Role that goes beyond the role that turkey can play and germany can play because theyre not members of the u. N. Security council the members of the u. N. Security council the u. S. U. K. France russia and china and one of those members is essentially trying to give diplomatic immunity for have to continue to not only commit war crimes in the way that has been investigated for the last 5 years but to continue is offensive its simple weve been distracted for the last 4 months but the idea of an illusion of Russian Support there because putin invited him to so moscow putins never met after half that left russia because he couldnt meet putin so i dont understand how west still discussing the role that russia plays when a century the actors are simple france giving diplomatic immunity egypt in the u. A. E. Giving military support if they want to sort of that conversation they just start with they shouldnt start by playing a game of russian smoke and mirrors in berlin and expecting people to buy it this is a 9 year problem that has been essentially the same for the last 5 years its not repeat its not repeat unless you want to make a repeat and thats really good story many thanks indeed and i saw the body there in london thank you 3 u. S. Airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from one hand in china for a new virus that has so far thats the deaths of 2 people yorks j. F. K. Airport along with those in los angeles and San Francisco taking passengers temperatures and asking them about symptoms china says that they need 50 people have been infected but research by Londons Imperial College suggest there could be more than 1700 cases the u. S. Based centers for Disease Control says it says it hasnt seen this kind of disease before chinese officials have identified this al brake and being caused by a novel coronavirus. A corona virus is a class of viruses that can cause the common cold but it actually can also cause more serious diseases like mers and sars deserves to treat you in beijing has more on the governments response to the outbreak. The Chinese Government they are very much trying to keep a lid on any sort of widespread panic theyre trying to say that everyone who is associated with this particular seafood wholesale market which seems to be connecting all the people who have been affected so far have been are being closely watched or have been tested and that everything is under control and that theyve said that everyone who is affected is from is from rouhani and so far it hasnt broken out into other areas now of course the government is trying to do this because were entering the Chinese New Year period is not a small city 11000000 people live there and during this period there are about 2000000000 trips made across china if theres any panic sparked around this corona virus that it could lead to all sorts of cales so the government is very much interested in trying to spread the message that it is all ok if you have any symptoms get tested because were not ruling out human to human transmission but at the same time dont panic and just go about every business thats thats their message so far. Well this mystery virus has been identified under a class of viruses that can cause the common cold but could also be a serious and saw as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and that killed nearly 800 people worldwide in 2003 chinese authorities suspect that the virus began in a Seafood Market in the city of han its thought that its spread from species to species chinese Officials Say that there are no cases yet of it being passed from one person to another that appears to be a 10 day delay between infection and detection thats made up of an incubation period and a further delay before a hospital admission amish is a serious call a Johns Hopkins center for Health Security and says that this is the 1st time theyve identified this particular type of corona virus that experts are often wary of new strains because of previous widespread outbreaks. It doesnt appear that has widely transmissible between human to human but there is some suggestion that it might be possible we have seen cases in individuals who did not have contact with the Seafood Market for example cases that are in thailand and japan both did not have contact with the the market so there may be some limited human to human but its not spreading very efficiently and thats a good thing so were really just really trying to understand where this is coming from in that Seafood Market which animal there are there were some environmental samples positive in the seafood section but there are other animals that are housed there so there really is a lot of epidemiological detective work that needs to be done to figure out where this virus originated so the quicker you can actually understand what caused this virus to emerge and if this is transmitted between humans how severe the infections are the the faster you can spring into action and get that information out to the world and Public Health authorities the better chance you have of stopping it from spreading right now we havent seen this have the type of spread that we saw with sars we know for example that Health Care Workers have not been infected in china and Health Care Workers are sort of the canaries in the coal mine theyre the sentinel people who get infected when something is transmissible so it doesnt appear that this will pose a risk to the everyday people and there is a very strong link to that Seafood Market which has since been closed and clean so hopefully this will be contained and there is a lot of good news in this when you compare it to what happened with with sars so i dont think that panic is warranted at this time. Were going to weather update next here on the news out then hong kong as government aims for a more muted Chinese New Year but protesters have other ideas but in sport bayani turn up the heat in the n. B. A. For a stay with that the rest of the schools around 15. More wet weather across the eastern side of the mediterranean so that means more shallow as creeping their way towards the levant a little further east we have got some more clout added right and snow pushing across iran heading towards afghanistan that wintry mix there sunday some snow with the high ground up towards toran for example temperatures no higher than around 4 celsius as that west the weather around the levant system in place as we go on through sunday still in place as we go on into monday as the most showers along the spells of right developing here at this stage further south across europe in peninsula it is slushy fine and dry temperatures here in doha getting up to around 20 to 23 degrees over the next couple of days come back across the northern parts of africa generally dry for the most part but you notice this weather system here that we have in the western side of the mediterranean thats going to introduce some rather wet weather see go through the next a day also choppy waters big ways into that western side of the mat the cloud the rain there across northern parts of algeria Northern Areas of morocco and the way some snow over the high ground as well for good measure so we are going to see some wintry weather there over the Atlas Mountains come down into central possible africa more big showers to come. But. An escape from severe hardship on to the world stage as a Paralympic Champion movie i want to say for now though for the 1500 meters and the bronze for the a thunder and a desire to Work Overseas i went knocking on doors looking at a job and was interested in immunology studies that led to International Recognition as a Global Leader in Regenerative Medicine to inspiring journeys of human endeavor arabs abroad the paralympian and the bone makea on aljazeera. Aljazeera. Where ever. Well again its good to have you with us adrian for going to here in doha with the news from aljazeera the headlines lebanese Security Forces have cleared the streets of the running battles with protesters earlier they fired tear gas and water cannon at the protesters who are demanding a resolution to the financial and economic crisis in the country hundreds of gathered as part of the building in. Libya state oil firm has been forced to Halt Operations of 5 ports in the east of the country its facilities have been under attack by forces loyal to the wall califano after its happened the day before an International Conference on libya is usually open in berlin and 3 u. S. Airports have begun to screen passengers arriving from hans city in china for a new virus this so far led to the deaths of 2 people that china says almost 50 people have been infected but experts believe true scale of the outbreak is far higher. There are hopes of a breakthrough in frances long running strike action for more on that lets join barbara sara in our european Broadcast Center barbara. Thank you yes the National Destruction could be eased with the transport union calling for the industrial action to end on monday on saturday though opera workers joined a protest movement against the government pension reforms. I. As the performers how do the latest in a string of creative demonstrations which have included a public ballet orchestra performances and flash mob dance routines on friday night president Emanuel Mccraw had to be vacuity from parents is a goof do not see a turn because protesters block to the exits while singing and chanting. Go to cyprus now the cypriot government has called on the e. U. To help it deal with increasingly large numbers of migrants and refugees arriving on the island most of them travel from turkey then to the soft declared republic of northern syre cyprus and on to cyprus but once they get there those migrants and refugees say that they dont feel welcome as chalons reports now from the mediterranean island. Omar has experienced much misery shes not giving her real name to protect family back in syria Bashar Assads massacres forced her to leave via lebanon to cyprus but life here is not happy so do you think the government do you think cyprus as a country once here now know its a racist country the day after their ship arrived 4 months ago omars husband was arrested hes not being prosecuted but police wont say why theyre not releasing him only that they think hes a Security Threat and. We came from an unjust country we came from oppression from Bashar Al Assad syria and we came to this country thinking theres justice democracy and human rights things on is much better for many other Asylum Seekers people queue for menial jobs and me go welfare coupons through the night to be one of the lucky few seen by a handful of stuff during office hours asylum applications can take many years to complete its an overwhelms and confusing system as more arduous routes into europe are restricted the relatively simple journey from turkey to the self declared republic of Northern Cyprus then into the south becomes more travelled 15000 now have Refugee Status here upwards of 15000 more applications are pending now these are the huge numbers on the global scheme of things certainly compared to the millions of refugees in turkey but cyprus is a tiny country and it now has the highest number of Asylum Seekers per capita of anywhere in the European Union cyprus is interior minister says they need european help because the system is at breaking point if turkey is continuously. Pushing people to across the green line to cyprus they are entering the european territory its not a cyprus problem anymore. In my creation its a european problem but some on the ground see things differently Doris Polycarp who runs keysar refugee focused and geo hes critical of europes inaction but he says cyprus has created a hostile environment to make itself a less attractive destination if you dont do you are job and you are in fear that this society will blame you for the situation its very easy to say youre obviously responsible for not showing so very little saying that. And we didnt do what we should do as with all refugee stories whether governments are on able or unwilling to cope its real people who suffer for each islands aljazeera cyprus nato has presented the blocks 1st High Altitude Surveillance Drones initially the r q 4 drones are the 1st part of a fleet of 5 which nato expects will be operational in the coming months be a man they are craft are capable of flying to almost anywhere in the world at a staggering 18000 meters above sea level thats twice as high as a commercial passenger jet. These drones will be. Important because they will help us to better understand what is going on along the borders they can support our missions to fight International Terrorism and of course also they can be a valuable tool in dealing with the consequences of natural disasters the 1st woman to be appointed to a management position in the vatican says that shes looking forward to advancing a feminine point of view in her role pope francis named francesco the giovanni is the new undersecretary for Multilateral Affairs in the vatican secretary of state should be responsible for coordinating the holy sees relations with groups including the u. N. The age of army says her appointment is a reflection of the popes support for women in the church. Going to have more from london shortly now though lets go back to adrian. Barbara many thanks in Syria Warplanes a bomb Shelter Housing displaced people is killing 4 people its the latest attack to violate a cease fire the came into force a week ago. Reports. A desperate rush to save lives in this shelter for displaced people was one of several sites hit by recent airstrikes in syria. Inside is a family including several Young Children yeah the urgency crews take the injured to hospital or some of the missiles hit several towns in the Northern Province of aleppo. But for others its too late. Because some of the airstrikes hit this house which was for displaced people they came here looking for shelter trying to escape the bombing when we arrived we found 4 bodies on the ground. Turkeys president recep tayyip there dont want says syrias government violated the cease fire brokered by turkey and russia. The target it live province is the last territory controlled by rebel groups in syrias northwest region. Thousands of civilians are caught in the violence the u. N. Says more than 300000 syrians have been forced from their homes over the last 10 weeks women men and children simply carrying out everyday activities at the workplace in markets and at schools being killed and maimed in senseless violence. These protestors say theyve had enough they are tired of short lives cease fire agreements that go ignored. For those of us living in syria we know the talks of cease fire turned out to be lies there is no ceasefire a few days ago there was a massacre here that killed civilians. Many families are now packing their belongings in lead. So many dont yet know where they can go b. C. Of the aljazeera. The f. B. I. Believes that saudi arabias government orchestrated secret missions to help its citizens escape the United States the agency released a highly sensitive memo which suggests that saudi officials almost certainly assist u. S. Based saudi citizens fit to flee the United States legal system the f. B. I. Says that saudi officials deceive the embarrassment of saudi citizens and during the u. S. Judicial process being greater than the embarrassment of being caught evading u. S. Law that the classified document lists alleged crimes that range from traffic violations to child pornography rape and murder 2 u. S. Senators jeff merkley and ron wyden pushed for the f. B. I. Letter to be released they warned that saudi will continue its behavior if trump subpoena strafe doesnt backed the trump and ministration and government doesnt get tough now it will happen again and again and again thought well im going to be pushing for it for the trumpet ministration to step up the fight eve are supposed to be our allies well thats fine but theyre not above the law and im going to make sure that the ministration pushes now to protect the people of oregon and our country. After a season of devastating bushfires severe floods are now affecting parts of australia heavy rain soaked coastal areas of queensland New South Wales for the last few days charlotte ballasts reports. Risky from fire now carry from floods last week bushfires came within 10 kilometers of the straining reptile park never got it coming in the park a war. Since thursday heavy rain has left parts of australia is east coast for queensland and New South Wales plagued by record breaking busch guys this was welcome relief i might. Just drinking. In New South Wales a wounded kuala licks water off the road rule fire service here sued rain fell across most of its fires although doesnt still its just beautiful listening to what they are seeing to it on the roof its a long time since weve had it here so were enjoying it up to 300. 00 millimeters of rain fell in southern queensland forcing commuters to get creative 70 percent of queensland is affected by drought. This was the 1st time 14 month old lacey soon had ever seen right. Much of a strike has been in drought for a good 23. Where the fossils been at their worst if youre looking at really heavy rainfall coming in on parts around the trees of obviously being damaged if not destroyed so then i want to soak up the water the ground struck hard they will tend to just wash off so thats why you do essentially get to the flooding. For many astray flooding is a small price to pay price chapmans farmers in the grips of drought hes been hand feeding his cash to keep them in line. And i dont care how were at 80 i can ride all the way because far as im concerned weve never had so much run into them and he will be near 70 new. The rain is expected to move south over the next few days and bring relief to the state of victoria with firefighters continue to be dogged by flames and they could use more help from above charlotte dallas aljazeera. Mexicos government is promising jobs to nearly 3000. 00 migrants who are hoping to get into the u. S. At the moment in guatemala as they make their way north towards mexico Central American countries have come under increasing pressure from washington to stop microns crossing into the u. S. Members of venezuelas Opposition Party say that they have transcripts of government officials offering them bribes they say that ordeal recordings reveal 700000. 00 each was offered for them to turn on leader of. Latin america and as you see in human reports now from caracas. A new twist in the hostile takeover of the new israel as opposition controlled parliament. Nearly 2 weeks ago soldiers prevented opposition. From entering the legislature. While a small group of dissident deputies installed their own man as speaker of the house with the governments full support. Now the majority opposition leadership is showing would it says is proof of how the government tried to buy off deputies to oust why the law including. The thing is we agreed on 700. 00 initially there was another proposition of 1000000. 00. I suggested 1. 2 but they came back with 500 and said no thats unacceptable so we arrive a bill ground of 700000 which is still money you know. Kina says he met and taped. A deputy whod been expelled from his Opposition Party offering him the bribe just ahead of the january 5th vote for control of parliament he says only 16 out of more than 100 deputies took the bait and that he and others who refused are now in danger. Today i am being seriously threatened in my physical integrity and that of my family aljazeera tried without success to speak to who nevertheless responded to the accusations on twitter calling the recording a hoax and threatening to take his accusers to court for slander he added if deputy might have had this audio why didnt he make it public 2 weeks ago after the election as the director of the National Assembly he didnt because he didnt have what is a vulgar montage we asked mccain not the very same question and he responded that it was because of fears for his and other deputies safety now that theyve gone public he says that if anything happens to them they will hold president Nicolas Maduro personally responsible the white house has accused of than israel in government abusing bribery tactics to oust what it regards as the legitimate opposition leadership and slap sanctions on Deputy Noriega according to the voice transcript the socalled turncoat deputies met with president mahmoud of personally the night before the bribe offer was made to calculate how many votes were needed. None of this is admissible in a court of law but then its the court of Public Opinion that the opposition is trying to win over. To see in human aljazeera us. Just ahead here on the news and sports. This double olympic champion chases her 1st win of the series. A searching investigation into gun culture in the philippines. And the new rules that would put in place to control it in this country it is not a right so if you listed the rights of latest got orders youre not solving the problem of criminality of the kind of peace because these are not the people who are committing the crimes who are your customers a lot of people but has the violence actually caught was rewind stray bullets on aljazeera. The u. S. Is always of interest to people all right well this is been going on for a number of hours but tear gas being used pushed by ill give you the report story from an International Perspective we try to explain your global audience why its important how this could impact be allowed at the height of the storm the water was so high that you did above my head this is an important part of the world people Pay Attention to what is going here now to do is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. Forward. Or. Oh oh. And again this time next week people in hong kong and of course elsewhere in the world will be celebrating Chinese New Year but the government of hong kong has canceled some events because its concerned about violent protests its also banned the sale of items with any political messages 0 sarah clarke reports. The streets a decorated in traditional Chinese New Year style markets a big tour a park essential to the busy and colorful festival plants and flowers signifying hope and promise for a new year. But the government is bad the silent water known as dr goods any items with a political reference that hasnt stopped prodemocracy Groups Holding their own independent markets because of the protests and also we think that people this attack more control on their own freedom and in the moment so we plan to set up this market. Hopefully hong kong people can have their freedom on how to use them on the basis this is one of a number of crowd funded markets being held across the city called. Handicrafts and products highlighting the message that still hold those came to reaffirm their political stance in the past hong kong that is that facing some problems with police. We want. To happy. To let them feel happy and the progress can show the home they are around 15 independent organize markets being held by the Chinese New Year holiday break the location of some of them is not being shared publicly you have to register 1st to get those details in the current climate organizers fear any politicized event will be targeted by place security checks are in place across the. Festival locations but the government isnt taking any chances the annual fireworks display has been cancelled so too has the traditional Chinese New Year from right what was once considered the most significant festival of the year in hong kong is rather low key the 2020 antigovernment protests upon another rally on sunday which might fear the dampen the celebrations. Aljazeera hong kong. Sports has far thanks so much in italian champions event is could have a new challenge their dominance in syria. Their Temple League win in a row 5 on saturday the romans 51 win over sampdoria put some just 3 points behind uva and just a point behind in a man who until now had looked the most likely could use to break the run of 8 straight titles but to have at last in the league since september immobile a trick of. And the English Premier League title looks more and more likely to go to liverpool this season after defending champions Manchester City slipped up again 2 late goals from Sergio Guerra looked to have given them a 21 win against crystal powlett but well fred forced an own goal from for a 19 yo in the last minute to 2 the final score. City now 13 points behind liverpool who have 2 games in hand the 1st of those is on sunday when they host manchester united. The Iranian Football Federation claims the country has been banned from hosting any matches with foreign teams on home soil federations said it received a letter from the Asian Football Confederation requesting that all games involving a rainy and sides should be played in a neutral country about it wasnt made clear if this was due to security concerns they have seen as yet to make an official statements tossing a bushel at us in for just we must host matches because this is our peoples right we should not deprive all spectators from hosting games this is our absolute right and we insist on it in mens tennis number one rafa nadal says hes confident Australian Open organizers wont let smoke from bushfires affect the players concerns about air quality or heightened when one player was taken off court with breathing difficulties during qualifying the skies have been clear as fans arrived in melbourne ahead of mondays 1st day they told me that they have the right specialists here analyzing and more of the rising give me 4 minutes there and there is a parameter that with some parameters we dont play i really can not believe that the most Important Committee in the world. 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Ok and that is all yours for for now adrian back to you many thanks indeed for a that is where we end the news hour time for us in doha to have the baton to our colleagues in london Barbara Starr here to update you in just a couple above and stay for watching us here get. The big stories general sounds like maybe angles in this story are too numerous for comfort with different angles from different perspectives things going to really bring relief. 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Are insights into circumstances that you clients was in about the changing. 20 years of me continues with good morning good on how to 0. The find and determined angry protesters take over the streets of beirut as patients of a government in action runs out. Hello im Barbara Starr youre watching aljazeera live from london also coming up on the program libyas conflict threatens its Oil Infrastructure can the warring sides reach a compromise when they meet in berlin on sunday dozens of confirmed cases of a missing