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Say will slash their incomes. Police violence under the spotlight in france, an attack on a black music producer goes viral for offices are detained. Visa service in doha, diego maradona, has been buried in where outsiders as tributes continue to roll in from around the world, including a barcelona, pays a former club and team of current argentina captain and i welcome to the news hour, our top story, a scientist at the center of Irans Nuclear program has been assassinated near the capital tehran gunmen ambushed a vehicle, carrying mosques and factories are there, and his bodyguards in the city of, of late have died in hospital. Iranian officials, including the foreign minister mohammad javad, zarif suspect israel was behind the attack. Theyve not provided any evidence, a military commander promise to retaliate. Iran previously expressed concern that u. S. President donald trump, would try to punish the country before he leaves office in january. If to go or at 1st the car carrying him was shot at about 15 seconds later i mistimed pickup truck that was loaded with explosives blasted about 15 to 20 meters away from his call. Inflicting rules on him that led to his death. Well, there was a professor of physics at the imaam hussein university, a former head of the Physics Research center, and a Senior Scientist at the Iranian Ministry of defense, western and Israeli Intelligence claim. He was the man in charge of project ahmad, which they say was irans attempt to build a nuclear bomb. But iran denies ever having tried to develop a nuclear weapon. A landmark report by the u. N. Nuclear watchdog, the i. A. E. A. Identified him as playing a key role in work to develop nuclear technology. Hes also believed to retain links to irans elite revolutionary guards. It was subject to a u. N. Security Council Asset freeze, because the council says iran refused to make him available for an interview with the International Atomic energy agency. There is a big has more now from the iranian capital tehran, the Intelligence Ministry has said that theyre launching an investigation. Now this is a very high profile, killing. In fockers are there was a high profile nuclear scientist. Now he had been targeted in the past going back 10 years, so his movements were highly protected. It was kept a secret, and there will be questions internally about how this has happened, how the Security Breach has happened. But there has been official response. Foreign minister divides raef has pointed his finger at israel, the head of the armed forces. He has also blamed israel and Defense Advisor to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Khomeini has said that the perpetrators will be targeted now most in fact, result there was also known as the father of Irans Nuclear program. He was given that name by some individuals outside of the country. Now that Nuclear Weapons program was around 2003. Some activities went on until 2009, barcoding to the i. A. E. A. There were no more Nuclear Weapons programs taking place inside iran. So the question is, why would anyone want to assassinate him now . And the feeling here in iran is its an attempt to sabotage any future negotiations or talks between iran and president elect joe biden, around 2015 nuclear deal that nuclear deal that President Donald Trump pulled a night of state out of and impose sanctions on iran. Now president elect joe biden has said that he would like to return to that deal. And iran has also indicated that they would be willing to return to their commitments as per that deal if the United States was to rejoin this assassination. Would make any future talks any future negotiations, very complicated and increased tensions in this region. Well now to pos is executive Vice President of the quincy institute, which is a think tank focusing on the importance of diplomatic engagement and military restraint. Is also author of losing an enemy, obama, iran and the triumph of diplomacy joins us now from reston, in virginia, by skype. The important question now, i suppose is whether iran will be provoked into a reacting in a way that could lead to some sort of military strike on its facilities. It could, and i think to a very large extent, it depends on how other actors react to this if there are very strong condemnations from europe. For instance, if there is a clear message from the, by the ministry that it will not only not tolerate these types of attempts at subatomic diplomacy, but also inflict the cost anyone who does that. Then i think there is somewhat of a chance that the iranians will show restraint. But if there isnt, then i fear that the politics inside of iran will shift to the extent in which its going to be very difficult for them to show that restraint. And moreover, even if their reaction ends up not being as harsh as it otherwise could be, the prospects for its pull missy will have suffered, nevertheless. Right. Even if iran does absolutely nothing to respond and simply bides its time until you have a new administration in the United States, it could still its made the restoration of the j. C. P. O, a, the new kid agreement. Very difficult prospects for diplomacy of dim yes, and i think as was pointed out in your report, that appears to be the intent behind these attacks. That is certainly the way that it is being interpreted by people close to the by the administration. There was a tweet from mr. Brennan, that just came out not that long ago, which indicated that they not only saw this as a criminal act, but even referred to it as potentially having been state sponsored. But that is a way of indirectly calling out israel because there is no other state i hope side of the u. S. Itself. That has the intent and the capacity to conduct an attack like this. Is you say that if iran has blamed israel for past assassinations of this nature, but obviously that is no confirmation that who has authorized this, whether a Foreign Government has carried out this attack. There is that bought, how significant is it then that someone of loss in fact, is background and seniority was, was assassinated inside the country . Well, the danger for the iranians, of course, here is that is really reveals the tremendous breaches of security that must have existed in order for this to happen. And its taking place within a context in which the i. R. G. C. Intelligence have been arresting, environmentalist, arresting academics and claiming that these people are spies all the same time that were seeing. Not only this assassination attempt or is successful assassination. Other as assassinations, as well as other forms of sabotage of the nuclear programs, of the questions that i hope people in iran starts asked himself, has r. G. C. Intelligence been focusing on all the wrong targets . I mean, if the, all of the figures that have been assassinated in the country in past years, so this is not the 1st, but nonetheless, were you, you a surprise that the intelligence agencies one able to thwart this . Certainly because he has been one of the venal, most protected individuals inside of iran. Mindful of the fact the israelis have engaged in s. S. Nations in iran before and have managed to assassinate several Iranian Nuclear officials. Some of them quite senior. So this was someone that they had tried to kill before and she failed, and the iranians knew very well that he was a target and there was no security around him. Nevertheless, whoever did this most likely israel managed to get to them. Thanks very much. Trita parsi for joining us on the knees out. Thank you for having me. Watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead on the program. Iraqi supporters of a population cleric take over baghdad stari a square head of his parliamentary bit. As astra zeneca vaccine trials, the w. H. O. Says more data is needed before any conclusions can be drawn. And from dying on the streets to international competitions. Young, filipino chess player making big moves again. Ethiopias government denies that the Prime Minister has for jech to talks with to grain Leaders International negotiate his push for a resolution to the weeks long conflict. 3 African Union special envoys met with, but in this ababa he told me, dont you speak to representatives operating legally in the region . A day ago, the army was ordered to carry out the final phase of its offensive and moving on to graze regional capital. A government imposed deadline for 2 grade forces to surrender expired on wednesday. Well, the ethiopian Prime Ministers spokesperson, brilliant. Describing the governments position. I think of widely understood, but with regard to the strong words with rejection, particularly because they have not rejected talking to anybody from the gray region impact the provision of nutrition. There have been that from a constitutionally, by the half a federation, an amalgamation are a composition of the various gray Political Parties that are active in the program region. At this point, one of the key apply the rule of law been undertaken. According to the laws of the land on the, on the question of the criminal code of the federal democratic republic or people are copying your own National Forces of the crime is a criminal act considered a true one. Meanwhile, the United Nations is warning fountains of people off fleeing grey region. Tens of thousands of already arrived in neighboring sudan, and many refugees say they are struggling to get access to any kind of health care or basic supplies. From godric near the border with ethiopia. This is the only Health Facility at village, a refugee camp near sudans border with dozens come here for medical assistance each day. Techno will die says he was when by doctors back in his home country that he was developing cardiac problems. Now he says, days of walking, to flee from fighting in ethiopia, stigler a region and standing in line for aid and for treatment is making him feel worse. I was told to be careful not to exhaust myself to take care of my diet, but since i had to flee my chest pains have been increasing. And when i come here, theres often a long line or no doctor, for hundreds of patients in the camp that hosts more than 15000. The center is the 1st and sometimes the only place to seek treatment. Despite that, it has little to offer to patients, all fled to escape fighting from to grey. I wasnt suffering from anything when i was back at my ive been struggling to get medication since i got here, and the treatment is very poor. More than 45000 refugees have been displaced by the fighting integrate. Its thought of 3 weeks ago, following a government of unsafe on the to Peoples Liberation front. The offensive was a response to an attack by the front on a military base and came after months of tension between the Regional Government and the federal government. 2 camps have been opened in sudan to cope with the influx of refugees. But providing services, especially health services, is challenging as more and more refugees continue to arrive. The camp here has 3 doctors who are also refugees to tend to the sick. We dont even if we cannot we dont. Are this where you know, that could be of benefit. There are many here that weve grown to be that if they are going to be this, but we dont have the drugs. We dont obviously i think everything about sudans commission of refugees says its trying to assist the refugees with access to health care, but need support from organizations to be able to help the sick develop whats needed is for Health Organizations to provide emergency medications. The Refugee Community is no mingling with the local community and some turn to local Health Facilities to get treatment. Health organizations need to step up to ensure that refugees have Proper Health care. Most refugees here say they dont know how long they remain in this camp, or if they will be relocated to places with better facilities. But they say they hope their calls for assistance will be listened to before a medical crisis. Of course, he will morgan aljazeera of out of state. Thousands of farmers in india marched on the capital, new delhi after 3 days of breaking through Police Barricades on state borders. They want the government to repeal laws that could and guaranteed prices for the produce something they fear could put them out of business. Elizabeth prana reports from new delhi using their tractors to remove Police Barricades, pharmacy voyde victoriously on their way to the Capital Region of delhi. For 3 days, tens of thousands of farmers from the states of punjab and haryana pushed barricades, shipping containers and even trucks out of the way the, the tear gas water cannon and being hit by Police Batons didnt stop the farmers from continuing on their march court. Lets go to delhi, but the comic farmers across the country want these black laws brought by the government to be repealed. This is our demand. The farmers are against 3 new laws which allow private companies to buy directly from them. They say the changes will see the end of the governments guaranteed minimum price for their project was and leave them at the mercy of large corporations, around half of indias 1300000000, people who work in the agriculture sector. Many agree that it needs reforms, but they say these laws wont benefit farmers. After trying to stop the march for days, delhi police made a concession. After discussion with former leaders, delhi police had an order them toward peace will grow as a 3rd meeting, got a good omen, but already they are really appealed to them to mundane b. S. But most fondness didnt take up that offer will block the highway until the government comes to talk to us. We will block the highway here who will listen to us there in new delhi. Theyll make us sit somewhere and know what will come to talk to us. Alice off to delhi police assigned an area for protests on the outskirts of the city. Few farmers showed up, even as the supporters set up a food store to feed them. There was a Large Police Presence here waiting for the farmers. And just as large a presence beyond the area to stop the farmers from reaching Central Delhi and what have been the biggest protests since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. Elizabeth parata aljazeera, east delhi. Well, now to france, that the president is saying a Video Showing Police in paris beating up a black music producer is unacceptable and shameful. The incident has resulted in an investigation and the suspension of 4 offices. Its also sparked outrage towards a police force already under scrutiny. For the heavy handed tactics as the tasha butler now reports from paris. A shocking video Police Officers brutally beating a man in a music studio in paris. Images captured on c. C. T. V. Record producer michelle seculars says police force their way into his studio physically and racially abused him without telling him why. And then arrested him. If there was a policeman pointing a gun at me hiding, why did they think i was armed . Were they going to shoot if they could find that angle . Of course i was afraid, im a person. I was scared. The people who are supposed to protect me were pointing their guns at me. French news organization, lupe sider, published the footage alongside pictures of michelles injuries. The video sparked anger from some politicians and french world cup stars, who denounced racism, prosecutors throughout the case against the producer, and opened an investigation into 4 Police Officers. Under pressure to react, frances interior minister condemned the violence as measures like in the pictures are unspeakable. More extreme, lee shocking and a series i found out about them. About what happened. I asked for the Police Officers to be suspended. All 4 Police Officers have since been arrested in the video of michelle has been highly publicized in france. This is the front page of one of the countrys main newspapers. It also comes there just a few days after some people say the Police Used Excessive force. While clearing a migrant camp from the square, a Police Inquiry was ordered after Police Officers were filmed, beating migrants, and journalists, as a true way, is one of frances best known campaigners against Police Brutality. She accuses police of causing her brother adamas death in 2016, while he was in custody. We see these images now, but can you imagine all the people that have suffered Police Violence that have died because of Police Brutality in cases where there were no videos and thats why families like continue to shout. So everyone knows that Police Violence and racism exist. The focus on Police Violence in france comes as pressure mounts on the government to scrap parts of a controversial new law that would crack down on peoples freedom to film and publish images of police on duty. The government says its necessary to protect offices, but opponents say its an erosion of rights and the without images like these Police Officers wont be able to be held accountable for their actions. Aljazeera, paris. So im now joined by a professor of french in european Politics University college london. As were hearing in a tashas report, theyre all visibly strong reaction to this video. How, how intense would you say is, is the anger in side france over this assault . I think its really genuine anger, and ive never seen really the question of Police Brutality eat coming into the mainstream of politics and the media. Its the 1st time. Its not the 1st time. Weve heard of cases of Police Brutality. In fact, i think if people wanted to know about it, its been going on for a very long time. You need, theres even a tradition of Police Brutality and racism in the french police. The difference between now and 1020. 00, or 30 years ago, is before each used to place outside of the city centers in the outskirts and the brutality of the police were directed at ethnic minorities youngsters. Whereas now it is really taking place in city center. And i think that the turning point was reached 2 years ago when the, you know, this movement started where, you know, they, people taking to the street in a City Center Mall white population. And i think people could see then and could start also filming the police in action. And i think thats, thats the culmination, really what weve seen this week with this horrible beating. And also acts of racism because the victim is a black person and he was of course, victim of racist, shouted receipts to be used by, by policemen. And so really, i think thats the 1st time. So the anger is genuine. I can see a lot of people normally would be moderate, would even be in denial regarding Police Brutality and suddenly accepting that it might be that more than the case up of a few socalled black sheep. Indeed, the brutality might be endemic, institutionalized, and very widespread. So right, so how could it be a turning point then in some way, or is there still this underlying reluctance to accept that its a structural institutional problem of violence and racism . Well, as you would expect, the government is keep saying that its the case of a few cases isolate and we going to deal with them. That was the reaction of the minister of the interior this week. However, you know, there are a lot of isolated cases and when, you know you have almost week in week out, couple of very, you know, him important cases breaking out in the news. I think its becoming more than and you know, something that the question of the black sheep theory can be challenge and i think i think it will take probably a number of people in the judiciary in politics, in the media really to, to really take a stand on that, and i think the reason why youre be having for the 2nd week on saturday, a major protest against a very controversial socalled Global Security bill. And its article 24 which will be banning the filming of police action. And therefore, you wouldnt be able to, to, to, to capture on camera what we captured this week, for instance. So for people who are fighting because they think its really a breach to ratify this is this incident given its their reaction and their reaction to it. And of course, the brutality of the footage. Is it likely to strengthen opposition to that bill . Because of course, the fair is that if something, if that legislation goes through, then cases like this will be well, totally undetected and undiscovered. Of course, those brutalities come at the worst point for the government because the opponents to that through the bill and through this controversial article, i have no can really argue that. Look, if we can fill now police in action, notably when it commit acts of brutality. Well, they will get a not to send a probe reads even giving a license to the police to be even more brutal. So of course it is very is restrict strengthening the hand of all the opponents to the bill. Thank you very much. Appreciate your thoughts on this story and joining us for well now to iraq, tens of thousands have been chinas support and financial shiite cleric tyrell sandor before parliamentary elections. A jew to take place in june to try and soothe antigovernment protests. Sider had initially shined his support for the demonstrations, but protest leaders now say hes chosen to protect the system. So mona fulton reports from baghdad. The on friday, followers of powerful shia cleric took over baghdad starting square in the in moms words, the goal of this friday prayer was to defend their religion and homeland in the face of immorality and nonbelievers, a criticism of the secular leaning antiestablishment protesters who until recently occupied this square protest have positive and negative sides as with the negative sides of any protests and the hands of the American Embassy pis. The obscene attached to the prayers also aims to shore up political support. Yes, yes, to our leader, they proclaimed their support for sutter after he and his aim to secure a majority in the forthcoming parliamentary elections, which would allow him to nominate the Prime Minister. Tartaros solders, a patriotic leader for all iraqis, the sunnis, the shia and the kurds. Hes considered a shepherd, do not run from so if the people his constituents, he represents but many disagree. The prayer took place in the same square where just weeks ago, Security Forces cleared remnants of iraqs beleaguered protest movement, which had aims to topple the ruling class, including the sudras who won the last elections. Activists say the protests gradually lost steam due to violence. And because Political Parties including the sudras, hijacked their cause, they infiltrated the demonstrators, demonstrations squares, and in every city wherever they can. And they tried to manipulate the process and try to get to solvent. Sutter has long tried to brand himself a reformist, and initially supported the protests. But india and he is seen as having chosen to protect the system. They have lost a lot of grounds, political grounds, social grounds. People who have doubted them as being the real reformer suits, but they found out they are not. They are just part of the political regime which runs the country since 2003. So there are now trying to gain back some of the ground, and indeed thousands turned out to show their loyalty for solder. Fridays prayer was a display of power on the part of the sudras movement of hurdles of the june elections. But antigovernment protesters had struggled to organize politically, to put up a serious challenge to incumbent party slike, the sadrist herder aiding their prospects for a coral success. Similar Fulton Al Jazeera but that the World Health Organization is saying that more data here is needed to review the efficacy of Oxford University in astra zeneca. As Coronavirus Vaccine doubts have been raised over its effectiveness of the participants were given different doses by mistake leading to 3 different results. Astra zeneca says its likely to run another global trial after the japanese found to be 90 percent effective among a subgroup by ara. What weve seen as a press release and what is really the next most important step is that the data really needs to be evaluated based on more than a press release. Theres only a 1st of all limited amount that can be said in a press release. And secondly, it really needs to be reviewed in terms of the data and questions asked about the data that may come up in the course of the review. Russia is working with hungry to try to speed up the process of approving its Coronavirus Vaccine for people. Theyre hungry and doctors are due to travel to russia to observe the manufacturing process and the tests for the sputnik 5 vaccine. As part of those efforts on foreign minister said the country wants to have a vaccine by january last week, the 1 hungry against using russias vaccine. Well, meanwhile, denmarks Prime Minister is broken down in tears while apologizing for a government ordered to kill millions of mink. In an effort to curb the spread of the corona virus meditate, fredrickson was visiting a farmer whose entire herd of mink was euthanized. The order came after 12 people were infected with a mutated version of the virus discovered in a mink. Fredericks and now admits the plan had no legal basis and is facing calls from the opposition to resign. Its ok. Another woman. We have 2 generations of really skilled mink farmers, father and son who know very, very short time have had their lifes work shot hurt. Its been emotional for them. They have a 1st step for them. Sorry. And as i was saying to them, when we are on the other side of this and hopefully have a proper agreement in the compensation. I hope that they and all other mink peters will remember that it was not because of them. It wasnt because they have been preachers that we made this decision. On the contrary, the worlds best mink pleating takes place right here where we stand. But its because of the virus still ahead on this news hour from london, amazon workers walk off the job around the world hoping to deliver a message to their bosses in venezuela. Verdicts. Iran for Oil Executives accused of corruption. And mike tyson will return to the ring this saturday. What everyone thinks thats a good idea. Another typical november weather in europe is cold, foggy, and dank. And thats true at the moment of the plane. If youre just been disturbed a little bit further south by this circulation in the western med, that will bring rain to eastern spain, Southern France and eventually across its lean towards greece circulation. Here will bring rain into portugal. Its fairly quiet for the british isles. And scandinavia, for a change, the code is being eaten into by breaks as snow. Rain through poland into austria was, was forecast is a drop in temperature, very little separation, not today because its overcast. Its not a foggy, or is gloomy in much of eastern and Central Europe at the moment, which to say is typical for november. This is also typical. The Stormy Weather moving east through greece will be particularly went, i suspect. So the day or 2 of that to go through our geria stretching back towards morocco as well as it moves, slowly east with in juicing a warm wind ahead of it actually does not generally 22. 00 in tripoli, but it is a warm wind coming out of the heart of africa, abidjan they represents the next where theres a long way size of the shows tend to come and go this time of year. Youve got sundry weather on saturday and again all monday, but sunday looks fine. Coded 19 is a Public Health crisis that has been compounded by capitalism. The Big Questions raised by the Global Pandemic housing system based on private ownership and the pursuit of profit the world in a ton of busts. Capitalism is the pandemic. That so much of the suffering exploited to protect the people for the profit episode. One of the full hailed the meltdown on our coverage of africa is what im most proud of. Every time i travel read, whether its east or west africa, people stop me and tell me how much they appreciate our coverage. And i focused is not just on this suffering, but also on the more opera, lifting, and Inspiring Stories of people trust aljazeera to tell them whats happening in their communities and appear and on bias tape and other non frick. And i couldnt be more proud to be automated who knew the a welcome back. Our main story, this hour, a scientist at a center of Irans Nuclear program has been assassinated near the capital tehran, the vehicle carrying moss and factories are there was ambushed by gunmen in the city of god. He died later in hospital thousands of farmers in india of marched on the capital, new delhi, after spending 3 days of breaking through Police Barricades on state borders. They want the government to repeal laws that could end guaranteed prices for their projects. The french president Emanuel Marc Bolan says hes shocked by a Video Showing Police in paris, beating up a black music producer. The incident has resulted in an investigation and suspension of 4 offices. Now and all the stories were following a theres been a further blow to Donald Trumps attempts to overturn the president ial election result. U. S. Federal court of appeals has rejected his campaigns request to block joe biden being declared the winner of pennsylvania. In their ruling, the 3 judge panel said charges of unfairness are serious, but calling an election unfair doesnt make it. So. The panel rejected drums of widespread problems with mail in ballots counted in the state. And that democratic officials scheme to ensure bidens victory trumps lawyers have to eat if they plan to appeal the case at the u. S. Supreme court. Now amazon, what . Because in several countries are going on strike, calling on the company to improve pay and safety conditions. The protest make amazon pay coincides with black friday. And Multinational Companies biggest sounds bent to the here, gone workers in bangladesh, undemanding pay for finished orders. That would then cancel because of the pandemic. Meanwhile, make amazon pay is being projected on to london head courses to demand a government inquiry into practices in the wet place. So im now joined by chris moyles, a former amazon employee and founder of the congress for a set of essential workers. He joins me now from seattle. Tell me more about the protests that you have been busy organizing and what you and your colleagues are calling full. Absolutely. Oh yeah, weve been protesting the recent weeks they may 1st was our 1st demonstration to get the collective the and together weve been traveling the country protesting the project base with residents. We started up in new york city. That is 80000000. 00, mansion went down to washington d. C. , that is 23000000. 00 mansion and we went out to beverly hills. That is 165000000. 00 man. Now we are here in seattle, washington. And if things were advocating for is that well, need to be provided by the company that suhaila has a paid up, its the way back in june. And the unlimited time law options as well as medicare and child care, that number of different demands that these workers deserve. Right. We saw in the midst of that pandemics. You allude to the, the vost personal wealth of chief executive, jeff bezos, who is, well, hes already the worlds richest man, but actually because of amazon success during the course of the coven, 1000 pandemic has been even. Well, thea, now obviously black friday has happened in many places, but beyond black friday. How can, what do you call for people to do consumers . Stand the solidarity with the sense of workers, you know, essential workers are amazon employees and the company failed to protect us. So if you stand a solidarity with 60. 00 workers where its going to boycott these companies cancel your prime membership, stop order from amazon. And so they do get to buy employee. We have a warehouse workers that are out here getting sick workers that have died in march, same facility, they have started abrogating. It was in the very beginning. They failed to protect us and thousands of employees worldwide contract this virus and many are out here suffering still. So when asked if were consumers to stand this holiday, where if thats a workers in boycott the company, yen, how important is it then for you that the citizens and people out there do that bit . Because really, when you look at multi 1000000000000000 dollar corporations, trillion dollar corporations like amazon, they really need to lodge in sprawling for trade unions or governments to necessarily control. Absolutely. And thats the problem that we have here. United states this company is a monopoly. It could change that growing control of the market controlled america or to control the propaganda thats out there. They have way too much power. They do. They hire all this the valence. They do Union Busting tactics. They fire employees like myself that speak up on things that are very important. And this is what they do. This is what theyre known for. I mean, when you get a slap it on the wrist, so its a time now that were in, that we need to fight back. So this is what were out here trying to do, which are to speak up and fight back and get some of that power back. I mean, amazon says that they have a very good track record in supporting their employees and customers in communities and providing safe what can conditions, competitive wages they say in great benefits as someone used to what a company wants. Whats your response to that . Though, you know, its absolutely false narrative and its not the reality of the situation. You know, you have workers that work for this company that has been sleeping out of their cars workers of out here. So by being check to check this work is out here being forced on extensive medical leave and just theyre not even being taken care of. You know, the company expelled to take care of their, their medical needs, fail to listen to all their employees, demands fail to listen to their employees speaking and they could shoulder america to the point where they could. So consumers go see the stories that dont care about it. So we dont continue these demonstrations. They would never know the truth and so thats what we have to do. We have to contain to speak our true tell the stories that speak up what a boy so that on her that is still working for that company. And hopefully one day we have gets up point where we have be able to organize and unionize, be protected as workers. Well, thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us krystals joining us there from seattle. Absolutely, thank you. Now the British Government is facing criticism for deploying troops to defend Saudi Arabian oil fields without informing parliament, or the public troops were sent to protect the fails following giant attacks. Last year. Its not known how many soldiers have been deployed, but the operation is still ongoing. Defense ministry defended the move, saying the oil fields a critical and need protecting. Well, we spoke to anderson if it is a spokesman for the campaign against the arms trade, it is said that the u. K. Has sent weapons to support a war that has created a humanitarian crisis. Theres been very little transparency in this exercise. Parliament has never told public who has never told. And what it really underlines is hope integrated the u. K. And say the military is. And they uncritical political and military support, which has been given to this 80 regime since day one of this terrible war. And this more has created worst humanitarian crisis in the world. And yet u. K. Made weapons at least essential rule. U. K. Made soldiers have been working on the ground with the saudi Led Coalition, which has been responsible for this brutal parkmans since this war began view case licensed at least 6000000000. 00 pounds worth of fighter jets bombs and missiles to the society Led Coalition deal to could be far higher, but in any case, because arms deals are not just a model, they would also, it would also granted illegally. And the u. K. Government was ordered to stop the arms sales. And yet at that time, it was also working in a military capacity to protect. So easy oil without telling parliament or public rights that this is certainly very concerning. The trouble ministration plans to withdraw 2 and a half hours in u. S. Troops from afghanistan in january and a further push to end americas longest war. Many u. S. Bases are being handed over to the afghan army despite a surge in violence. Controversy was, its one of those bases and once volatile region in the east of part of the country where Security Forces are trying to maintain a fragile calm, these valleys have seen violence and death. Like few places in afghanistan. The area was occupied by isis fighters who targeted people in the region and destroyed their villages. Now, things have changed. Q, what sort of had to suffer . There is a taliban presence in the border areas of this district. d but isis completely eliminated from this area for nearly 4 years, relentless u. S. Air strikes, supporting Afghan Military operations across achieving in eastern afghanistan, destroyed by so sanctuary here on the floor with afghan army uniform to go on. For years. A year ago would have been completely impossible, but now since i saw was going to be early on, they have been very quiet at the nearby base. Its also quiet. It was from here that u. S. Special forces with the use of Sophisticated Technology and air support for i saw the base was handed over to the afghan army may. These emblems are some of the few reminders that american troops were once here when the foreigners left, they did not leave equipment like weapons, vehicles, and other military equipment that we needed. We are an urgent need of heavy weapons, like artillery, mortars, cannons, and ammunition. If we have all these heavy artillery with us, we will be able to defend our country in a better way. The base commander says the taliban often attacks the base from the mountains day and night. The base is only levon kilometers from the border with pakistan. From where he says taliban fighters can slip into the area. Nato has suggested i soul, remains a concern here and has promised to support the afghan Security Forces for the next 4 years. Despite the sudden u. S. Drawdown in the villages of achieving people who had fled, the fighting are returning to their homes. Some say that makes no difference. The americans are no longer in the area with us in that we are proud of our Security Forces and we are not worried. We want the taliban, the government on the face, negotiating teams to know that we have suffered a lot and we cant afford to see more funerals of our loved ones. We want peace and peace at any cost. And if peace ever comes to this remote corner of afghanistan, people here also hope they can finally have a hospital and a Bigger School for all the children. So everyone can know what a peaceful life looks like. For the contrary, al jazeera a change eastern afghanistan. After 3 years of Venezuelan Court has found 6 u. S. Oil executives guilty of corruption, they were arrested in 2017 after being called to caracas for meeting the defendants who all deny any wrongdoing worked for the u. S. Refining company. Sicko which is owned by venezuela state oil for John Heilemann reports these 6 Oil Executives, 5 of them. U. S. Citizens are already been stuck in venezuelan prison for years. Now theyve finally been tried, found guilty of corruption and received sentences of between 8 and 13 years. Whatever he wants to this letter is from one of them to mobile though its the 1st public message from any of the men since their arrest. He wrote it just before his trolls. Conclusion is lawyer. Now reaching across race where justice is done, ill be able to rebuild my life and try to compensate my family for the last moments, the light is intense, the hope is great. Give me freedom. Freedom was denied to him. Human rights advocates say that venezuelas Justice System is plagued with corruption inefficient simply school bias. His lawyer the male white, intimate case, there is no evidence. Its not there is no circumstance evidence or no indirect evidence or flawed evidence. There is no evidence, none period. The game or game be out, how does it i asked the team of venezuelas attorney general topic williams for his response about the cases no comment. The men work for oil company sick go. They were arrested and charged with embezzlement. After being looted to a business meeting in venezuela 3 years ago, the case is played out against the backdrop of the acrimonious relationship between president Nicolas Maduro and the trumpet, ministration. Like many other countries, the us supported mcdougals rival, one quite those claim to the presidency, or we want to get every american back if the u. S. Secretary of state has indicated that he believes the 6 men being used as political hostages. That despite before the trolls verdict, but those family were hopeful, he would be home for future thanksgivings, just like the ones they used to celebrate together. So i think my father wants to share to the world that he message out. Lot of hope and of justice. Hes been held for at you know, over 3 years im just lee, and now theres a glimmer of hope. With the trial im going. Now the trial is over for the 6 men and their families hope appears to be waning. John homan. How does it still ahead on the program practice for the behind brain doesnt go too well for one. For me, i want to try to be, to have more in this ball. Sure locusts ravaging crops could become a thing of the past with researches here in the u. K. Saying they might have found a solution to the insect problem thats been plaguing farmers for years or searches and looking into the genetic code of Desert Locusts to find a pesticide to kill them or stop them from swimming, but have to be obviously chemical that doesnt harm the crops. The u. N. Says a small crowd of 40000000, locusts eats the same amount of food in a day as 35000. 00 people will tell. Matheson is an associate professor of neurobiology at university of leicester and he was part of the team carrying out the study. He hopes it will lead to a pesticide that can control the insect population without eradicating it. Once youve got a genome, you can do all sorts of Different Things with that. Clearly controlling locus is one of the things that we would want to tackle. And when i say were here and this is anyone who wants to get involved in doing this, essentially. So this is not just our program, but were trying to provide a resource for people across the globe because one of the big problems with controlling most this is simply the infrastructure on the ground. When we spray pesticides on, on animals or in the current pesticides. So we kill the locust, but they have a huge amount to consequences as well. But most of the toxic of the operators and so are using them. So the idea, once youve got the genome, you can start trying to design pesticides, which target things which are specific to the genome of this particular organism and dont have the knock on effects for other insects. For example, in the environment sport. Now if peta in doha mariyam, thank you. Argentinas world cup winner. Diego maradona has been buried in a private ceremony in buenos aires, but tributes continue to come in from all over the world, including at his former clubs. This was barcelona messi, the current argentina captain. So often compared with marathoner, holding a minutes silence in their Training Session on friday, where donna, who died from a heart attack on wednesday, played for vassar for 2 years in the early eightys. Donna was also remembered in qatar before fridays games in the asian champions league. The remaining matches of the tournament are being staged in the gulf country in a bio secure bubble of the coronavirus for a whole to play earlier in the year in this group. Even beijing go on, overcame melbourne victory to no, to qualify for the last 16. Tokyo olympics organizers will hold 18 test events ahead of the delayed games, which are set to begin next july, but follows a successful gymnastics meet in tokyo. That was earlier this month. Some events will include athletes from abroad, but no foreign fans will be allowed any. And some wont even have athletes as they look to test operations. Only. These test events wont be the same as the ones that we had planned before. The perspiring meant we reexamined what would be needed. We want to properly test the coronavirus measures that the Operations Department will brush up on at the beginning of the new year. Young chess players from around the world are preparing to compete in an International Online championship. And one player making big moves is a 10 year old prodigy from the philippines. Ellen dogan reports from men al bashir bhutto may seem like a typical young boy, but at the age of 10, he is already the philippines chess, prodigy. He improves his skills on manila sidewalks, mostly in the streets of kapil, were older avid chess players like a meet to pass the time. Here he beat veteran players with the mastery and position where you least seen from Young Players like him. Even pulling a jaw with master player to guard to go far. If he gets the right support, the support from the government is he needs to be exposed more to get better or was 6 when he started competing internationally. He has played in iran, china, and malaysia, and for so many muslims here of long felt discriminated against in a country where they are. A minority alba share is a source of pride. People here tell us our story mirrors their own aspirations. A young filipino muslim making it to the global stage because of sheer talent and determination to practice law in competitions, i always work hard to make it worthwhile for my parents and those who supported me. The best part about chess is winning, but losing is good too because you learn more. But there are struggles. Back home. Al bashir comes from a poor family who moved from our we city in the southern philippines, a place held back by war and displacement. His parents have often struggled to make ends meet, so paying for alba shares training has proven to be difficult. Despite his classes and online competition, he still has to share a laptop with 5 other siblings. Nation level, no one invited him updates my home. I have but they both have restraining. Its not d. C. But yet so we have to support. He said to compete in the field, the online world cadets and youth rapid championship this week. And although hes weak internet connection, the tell me cost him critical minutes to game out the share remains confident, like so many prodigies before him. He says his chess pieces have given you a sense of purpose and hopefully l. We out of poverty. Dugan aljazeera manila. There has been a huge surge of interest in chess around the world thats largely because of people being locked down by the pandemic. And also because of the usually popular netflix show, the queens gambit. Chess isnt always competitive. Just skin off it is the show is about a young female chess prodigy and is netflixs most watched limited series ever. Google has also reported searches for the word chase at their highest level in 14 years. Woman grand master and chance commentator. Shes excited the show is helping attract more women to the game. She says so many words armitage, worried so large a good positive steps to develop this work for a finish our of players of all international chess. Better each day. Implement the project last years and most importantly, they prove by now ill be your find for a few not just also, oh goody bags are making prestigious places like an Apple Shanghai lose. And so just players are our interest. Its to be a professional athlete. Youre still at, were 15 degree im not planting unpleasant experiences from member to ben. I mean, thats a little bit stronger today, and we can go big company even more are as former undisputed heavyweight boxing World Champion. Mike tyson will return to the ring on saturday for the 1st time in more than 15 years. Tyson now 54 years old will find roy jones jr in an exhibition match in las vegas. Jones is also a nice fiftys and a leading neuroscientist has warned that both mean risk, serious brain injury as the brain gets older, tissue is not quite as pliable as it was before, so i think they probably are at at greater risk of more serious injury, like brain bleeds its, you know, its just, its just not something that im a big fan of. 7 times formula one World Champion Lewis Hamilton was fastest in fridays practice ahead of the bahrain grand prix. I want to make with Michael Schumacher record all 7 world title for the most recent grand prix in turkey. Hell be going for easy with of the season on sunday. It was one notable crash on friday. Give you can see alexander elbowing of red bull going into a wall, significant damage to the car too. But youll be ok to take part in saturdays qualify. And thats all the sports news, marion. Back to you in london. Lovely thanks very much patel that wraps up the news hour, but ill be back with a full price and in just a few minutes around the days top. Stories coming up very shortly. December on aljazeera, its 10 years since of revolution in tunisia ignited the arab spring. Aljazeera looks back at the uprising and asks what really changed across the middle east. This stream is where al jazeera has global audience becomes a global community. A year after the 1st coronavirus case in china will examine the devastation caused by the virus and the efforts made to eliminate covert 90 people in power is back with more investigative documentaries and indepth stories. Climate leaders will gather online to press ahead with a new stage of the paris climate agreement and examine the possible Global Solutions december on aljazeera. On counting the past president , xi extends his grip across china and hong kong. Could taiwan be next, a failed decades, all false leave on the face of free market economics. And the people of chile redefine capitalisms, last taxing the rich to pay for the pandemic in argentina. Having to call all out just the other off to well, due to frances great empire began to unravel in vietnam to most of the people he was throwing themselves into the street, just bursting with joy, kissing each other, and algeria seniors until she last, if they indochinese that manage to be complaints on me. Why not . The decline continues an episode or 2 of blood intense french to colonise ation. On aljazeera, irans Top Nuclear Scientist is killed in an attack by gunmen in the attack iran. One official calls it an act of state tara oh, i Maryam Namazie in london. Youre watching aljazeera also coming up on the program, a new drive to resolve the weeks long conflict in northern ethiopia. Hopes fade after Prime Minister ahmed meets african envoys as growing anger in india, tens of thousands of foreigners descend on the capital to protest against the law. They say