Scraps laws imposed under dictatorship. But 1st Iraqi Security forces have opened fire on crowds in a Southern City as antigovernment protests worsen at least 29. 00 people are reported said after the protests in nasiriyah and were also hearing of 3 tatts in nashua off the army earlier to spot commanders to the provinces with instructions to restore order well on wednesday the iranian consulate in there was set on fire from baghdads mamma junction reports. In iraq a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate late tuesday in the Southern City of najaf setting parts of the Diplomatic Mission on fire replaced. An iranian flag with the intent of how to go when the consulate was set on file all the broad police in the job and the Security Forces started firing and as if we were burning a rock as a whole the right police fired tear gas canisters intensively on the Security Forces rained as heavily with live bullets. Protesters say iran is exerting too much power in and off and they want their government to take action to limit it according to analysts its not just this attack that significant but also the symbolism of where it took place this is the city where the Ayatollah Khomeini used to live its considered to be you know the heart of the shia muslim world and iran thought that it had the population the iraqi shia population on its side in terms of its you know regional policies clearly thats not the case the this is the 2nd time this month that an iranian consulate in a shiite majority city has been targeted by the demonstrators 3 weeks ago Security Forces killed 4 demonstrators who stormed the consulate in the city of karbala both attacks feed into the wider antigovernment protest movement thats engulfed iraq since october. By early wednesday violence in the yet another shia majority Southern City dozens killed or wounded in nasiriyah when Security Forces opened fire with live rounds and tear gas to disperse crowds of protesters hours later and military announced the troops would be dispatched to southern iraq to restore order antigovernment demonstrations have been raging in iraq since early october with protesters accusing the government of corruption and demanding a complete overhaul of the countrys political system since the unrest began at least 350 people have been killed and thousands wounded. Political analysts say the only way for the government to find a solution is by pushing for reform to. Go into to issue a new electorial role for the best of the people to hold early elections off to be rocky paula been dissolved itself and the government resigns but many protesters say much more needs to be done day after day the demonstrators that we speak with be they in baghdad or other cities tell us they dont feel the government is taking their demands seriously they say that no matter the risk they will continue to come out and press for the rights and opportunities they say they deserve my gentleman does it or buy that on the ships where he has the director of the Gulf Study Center university he says public anger in iraq is directed at both the governments hands as a rainy and influence. In the past few weeks there is no doubt the there was a process of rebirth and iraq and that the process basically talking about a new National Identity because. You know sects close this it is across tribes all of these things so whats happening now in iraq. Is an evidence that people there are fed up of you know our site or in interventions and i think they also see that how much this outsider and outside intervention has corrupted the political atmosphere more and more and it creates a political elite which is more corrupted more related to the outsiders rather than to the interest of the people and this kind of level of anger increasing increased rapidly in the last few years with the with the expansion of you know corruption and poverty and the need and the lack of infrastructure and the services which the government unfortunately has failed to deliver to its own people the visitors there are against both they are against they recognize or not because there is the assumption that this government is very weak its actually rely on outsiders and more important they are upset of their arc of the iranian intervention or enter. Business in iraq and they see that this kind of intervention is not helping iraqis its actually create contribute to see iraq as a failed state. 3 planeloads of yemenis have been welcomed back to their country from prisons in saudi arabia 128 men were flown into sannas International Airports aboard red cross planes to be greeted by he commanders and family members while they were released as part of an Exchange Deal you know special envoy Martin Griffiths as welcome the prisoner swaps that come amid a new push to end the 5 year war the saudi u. A. E. Late coalition and so on where the state that santa airport would reopen to limited flights alone patients to fly it for medical care but other top was at the airport in santa as the prisoners arrived. This flight is the 1st flight. For the president before this the 1st offer szell swarup all release of for president of war by saudi arabia u. A. E. Little qualification people are hoping this would push forward for achieving all realizing the peace in yemen which has been going through difficult and destructive times throughout nearly 5 years many of those wife talk to hope they will find their relatives. To agree to go out of this international both but so far we couldnt know that. The exact number of who though will be ripe but according to the news that i have heard that some of them have been detained and. Which is the just 40 kilometers from sun are also those who are being detained in areas and because the law and the coastline of. There are also for sherman the. Concerns that the they want their fighters to be released also there are thousands of people who are being detained who are thats involved in the war especially those who try to travel outside yemen through the areas which are under the control of the saudi us. Well he spoke. To. This is the prisoner release is a great 1st step from saudi arabia. I walk speak to him to stop all the war against your men to release all the prisoners to. The sheriff all. In yemen and also to open the sun i of course if you know any justification to close this airport for about 25000000 yemenis living inside and living in all your many governor ridge. Citron government scrapped a controversial law that was used to limit womens rights the cabinet passed a degree notifying the public order law set in place by former president Omar Al Bashir thousands of women were flogs in public for wearing trousers scoring aides without headscarves or wearing indecent crew thing well he remarked on this in khartoum she explains how the new law will make a difference to women the public order act was an act that was introduced in the mid ninetys by the former government now most of the people incidentally that as an act to regulate society it dictated how men should wear how women should wear where women should be seated seated in Public Transportation basically people feel like it was oppressing the freedom and the movement and the lifestyle of people here in sudan and thats something that local and International Rights groups have said repeatedly they say that the laws under the act of the public order law made it very hard for people to be themselves women were not allowed to be out in public very late and very late was open to interpretation depending on the security agents it had its own moral police or vice police that regulated and went around society to make sure that women did not come back home late that they did not dress in decently according to the invitation of the moral police law that was a around at the time so people viewed it as a law that was basically around to constrain on the use of sadam and to try to dictate how they live their lifestyle and how they want about their daily lives. China has accused our trump of sinister intentions after the president signed a strong kong human rights bill the law means washington can impose sanctions on chinese on who can officially deemed responsible for human rights abuses and sarah clarke reports from hong kong thousands there say theyre grateful for the u. S. Decision. In Central Hong Kong they gathered to say thank you to the United StatesPresident Donald Trump signed into law the hong kong human rights and democracy act on wednesday the prodemocracy protesters embraced it as a sign of support i think is a good thing for hong kong biggest given the special are how do say that the economic. Situation of faux pas to all Mainland China actually yeah. I think it was affecting. The whole situation im very organised to be a part of the whole college stay standing here. Im not saying the word cerebral but to to. To share one delightful moment of being here yes for this reason of course that thank you mr speaker i thank the legislation had rare broad bipartisan support in both the u. S. Senate and the house of representatives and with the people of hong kong it allows the u. S. To introduce economic sanctions against hong kong and withdraw the city special trade status if it believes the government is failing to protect democracy and human rights prodemocracy activist joshua wall held the legislation as a victory for the protest movement which is paralyzed parts of the city since june it just increased. World leaders around the world and politicians aware that its time for them to its down to hong kong but the Hong Kong Government rejected the legislation accusing us of interfering in the citys internal affairs and sending the wrong message to violent protesters critics included the citys former chief executive after all these years it has to be on me because the one people in the west look at the habit of opening the most of the countries as if they had done better. But theyre all domestic problems china echoed that message describing it unnecessary and more into it and some of the u. S. Ambassador in beijing jungle Hong Kong ChinasHong Kong Hong kong if purely chinas internal affairs no Foreign OrganizationForeign Government and foreign individual has the right to interfere with ongoing the u. S. Legislation comes less a little way to promote Democracy Party secured a landslide victory in the citys District Council elections that too has been a morale boost for these protests but so far the government is showing no signs of compromise in meeting these demands for political reform sarah clarke 0 hong kong. Still to come here on aljazeera were going to mars and beyond europes multi 1000000000 pound plans to explore new frontiers in space. And its the worst disaster in british sporting history 30 years on theres a verdict in the hells from manslaughter case. How the weathers looking you could still dry and a little more settled across the middle east weve had some patchy rayman drizzle for a time and some wetter weather the next the carrier cloud just spilling out of syria towards iraq easing across iran but not too much right on this for the time being so were getting up to around 50 degrees celsius in tehran mid twentys there for baghdad and for kuwait city its a low twentys in look a little further north and you can see theres more in the way of clouds there into that cloud will thicken up enough for some rain or snow over the high ground elsewhere across the region in this case be lousy try with plenty of sunshine and were going to see across the raeburn peninsula charles and wanted to show i was there just around the northern sections of the gulf and maybe with a little more cloud in play just around the south you must see a few spots of fright but nothing less the speak of temperatures here picking up around 28 degrees and light winds and very pleasant for the coming days pleasant enough to you across the Southern Africa it is lousy try because some live. More than parts of madagascar Northern Areas of mozambique pushing up into tanzania more heavy downpours there across a good part of the democratic republic of congo and also. The well its not just blowing the producer has failed to trade on a Foreign Stock Exchange was a transparency valuation over ambition we want to happen here the Worlds Largest oil producer and you dont list in the Worlds LargestStock Exchange that definitely says something out to syria investigates the politics of point the middle easts most potent economic when the Saudi Aramco Company and the state. On aljazeera. This is al jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of nasiriya after 29 people were killed during antigovernment protests Security Forces opened fire on a demonstration the army is sending its commanders to several provinces to restore order. The un has welcomed the transfer of a yemeni prisoners from saudi arabia a group of 128 people landed in sinai airports which has been cool since 2016 they were released as part of an Exchange Deal. And sudans government to scrap the controversial law that was used to limits womens rights the cabinet passed a decree nullifying the public order law set in place by former president Omar Al Bashir. A former u. K. Police chief has been cleared of the man slaughter of 95 level fans some 30 years ago david i can feel commanded the 1989 f. A. Cup semifinal at hillsborough stadium in sheffield where the fans were crushed to death it remains the worst disaster in british sporting history the fokker has this report such as i was there for the f. A. Cup match between liverpool and not even forrest at Sheffield Wednesday skills her ground had started on time but outside the stadium the 1st signs of disaster a boy lifted clear from the crowd still waiting to get. Inside the ground behind one of the goals horrific events were unfolding thousands of liverpool fans were being crushed behind high antiriot fences commons at the time. Police and players struggle to comprehend what was happening. Years of investigations have given a detailed picture of the day a major inquiry blamed a breakdown in policing including a failure to delay the game and a decision to open gates that allowed fans to surge into the stadium and then into the already packed standing areas the much commander was former chief superintendent david duncan field he stood trial for gross negligence manslaughter he didnt give evidence because he suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder duncan field had initially claimed that liverpool fans had forced a gate open and rushed into the stadium he later admitted it was a lie. Police have been accused of trying to shift the blame on to the fans. Relatives of those killed fear they will never know the full story of what happened at hillsborough most accept that a catalogue of courses led to the disaster. Hillsborough is see it into the countrys consciousness. Altering Safety Standards of sports venues around the world and changing british football for ever leave barca aljazeera. A key witness in the us impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has been accused of Sexual Misconduct 3 women have made allegations against gordon sundins the u. S. Envoy to the European Union they claim he retaliated against him professionally after they rejected his sexual advances sundance has denied all of the geishas calling them can coax it his testimony linked president trumps decision to withhold aid from ukraine where the investigations n. C. His political rivals and another man at the center of the impeachment inquiry is also in trouble president trumps personal lawyer has been accused of pursuing lucrative business deals with ukrainian officials u. S. Media is reporting that really giuliani explore deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and thats while he pressured ukraine to take up damaging information on democratic president ial contender Joe Biden Giuliani says hes never accepted a penny white house correspondents kempley harkat looks at how damaging the allegations might be. Gordon silent just to remind viewers is really the star witness for the democratic partys case against President Donald Trump and and really the basis in many ways for why they believe that he should be impeached his testimony particularly damning he behind closed doors said there was no quid pro quo but then changed his testimony and said very publicly that in fact that the president was leveraging his office in order to try and get an investigation into his political rival joe biden so now the fact that the has had his credibility challenged with these allegations from these 3 women certainly is problematic for the democrats in all of this the 3 women have accused gordon someone of Sexual Misconduct one of them says that it haunted her that she saw that. He had been confirmed as an ambassador and essentially gordon somebody is denying all of this on his personal website he has said that these are untrue claims of unwanted touch