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This news hour in turkey where pollens due to vote on a government motion to deploy troops to libya uncursed supports the un recognized administration in tripoli thats been fighting against the war lord honey for half ton his forces launched an offensive to capture the capital last april but turkey says its troops will protect its rights in the mediterranean and interests in libya and current tripoli have recently signed deals on military cooperation on maritime boundaries but opposition parties in turkey are against the government move they say and promote 1st give priority to a diplomatic solution well without the why it is done by in the libyan capital tripoli but 1st lets go straight to ankara now where mohamed of dough is live for us mohammed said the Turkish Parliament set to vote on this motion whether or not to deploy troops in libya is it likely to be approved because there has been some opposition to it. Yes it is how it is looking at the moment the. Discussions going on in Parliament Building right now where the debate on the motion is going on the been caution it speeches from opposition leaders from the sea had to be purty which is the Main Opposition Party here in turkey and also the. T. Ball for which i hold to the motion saying. Keep could get sucked in into them. That believe that they need to exhaust all Diplomatic Options instead of assuming this line of deploying troops to support the un recognized the government in tripoli of course. Ruling party and its affiliates the numbers they need to pass the vote and that is how it is looking at the moment mama just remind our viewers what exactly are turkeys interests in libya but its so desperate to protect. Well there is a lot play here all the governments official line has been that it has received. An invitation for that influence of troops from the you interpret government in tripoli and that it has a moral obligation as. Libya has a border to the sea with key to. The supporters who they are calling. Because of a coup do not top all the internationally recognized government. Will tell you that there is more to it than meets the eye because turkey has to dick interest when it comes to libya the moderate time Boundary Agreement that its signed with is mostly about giving turkey i had started an advantage. In the race for the Natural Resources proven gas. Reserves in the. One part of the red a trillion other countries have already established. An economic exclusive zone that is due to greece and cyprus and theyre looking to establish a pipeline to transport us from already existing fields to europe and turkey now has gotten up or harmed with this agreement and a great area of influence within the is done with the journey and see and knowing that if after takes all over been making advances recently then that deal is going to be obsolete and put turkey out that is advantage that is what turkey is looking to avoid a situation where i have to take over. From ahmed thank you. Well in libya honey for half task forces have released videos of what they say are new vehicles for the operation against tripoli 3 ships carrying the cars docked in the east important when garcia on wednesday last month have to announce the launch of a decisive battle to capture the capital lets go live to tripoli where mahmoud underwire is standing by michael if this Troop Deployment to libya is approved by the Turkish Parliament were still waiting on the vote in a few minutes or so i mean how how is it likely to change the balance of power on the ground there. Well done and its definitely very crucial to their battle to defending their capital tripoli again its tough to those forces as you know that Government Forces say that have been supported by regional and International Powers including advanced weapons from the United Arab Emirates russian mercenaries from the bag Company Along with the african mercenaries from sudan and chad has been also supported by egypt so they say that. Turkish expected intervention to fight along with the Government Forces is crucial to this battle to defend tripoli as you know in the worst of libya since this battle started in april there price has been very heavy as you know over a 1500 people have been killed so far including civilians over 140000 people have been forced out of their homes because of the fighting so and what is new here daryn is that all institutions in the west of the country are united with a government of National Accord in this military Cooperation Agreement with turkey we spoke earlier to one of the Parliament Members a member of the house of representatives and thats what he had to say. Government of National Call to d. N. A. Being in this desperate situation being threatened by. This blatant aggression. Enjoys support from gyptian it is an argos with weapons and with personnel with the air force and so on so raj had not choice but to look for. To see if any help that he can get at this point so now all eyes in the west of libya are on turkey today to see what is going to come out of that part of incision in Parliament Session in turkey and the west of libya the Government Forces seem to be in desperate need of this military intervention to make change on the ground to change the balance of power on the ground in favor of the government of National Accord. In tripoli would thank you. Meanwhile greece israel and cyprus are expected to sign off on a multibillion dollar pipeline agreement the east med pipeline as its known will begin in rails levantine basin offshore gas reserves to run across the mediterranean to the greek island of crete and then on to the greek mainland itself it could provide up to 10 percent of the use natural gas needs well our senior political analyst mark on bashar joins me live now in the studio and lets talk 1st about this motion being debated by Turkeys Parliament to send troops to libya break it down for us what exactly is turkeys thinking here why do they need to send troops into libya well clearly this has to do more with regional calculus for turkey than it has to do with the immediate direct. Safety and security of that and thats where syria is different from libya syria is on the border with turkey and there are some crucial essential security calculations for turkey and syria in libya its more of a strategic regional calculations and i would say the following its more like turkey is in the midst of a geo political positioning and this is going to happen on 3 levels 1st level is the strategic positioning where in the east mediterranean it feels that the 3 countries you just mentioned egypt greece and israel are somehow coming out to a coming to together against turkey on some projects at least in the iranian and hence turkey needs to react by the likes of an agreement with libya so theres a Strategic Logic to it in these are military and then theres a military logic to it meaning this is a crucial time for to intervene on the side of turkey is our ally in tripoli in order to make sure that turkey does not fall to a renegade warlord basically and then that takes us to the 3rd position and thats a diplomatic positioning because once you succeed strategically and militarily then turkey will have a say like it does now in syria on the question of whether to promote exclusion is going and marwan if turkey does in the troops to libya which is likely to happen now given that how is that like to change the dynamic on the ground given that various International Players like saudi arabia egypt u. A. E. France and the e. U. Of course are all vying for influence and for a bigger part of the pie what is hoped i think. The military russia now behind the actual military intervention is political results not military results i think turkey is getting into libya not in order for the war to simply go on for years but rather in order for the diplomatic process to start in berlin rather sooner than later in other words and i think thats sort of conducive to the new american position the new american position or the new american solution is likely to be more and more is that everyone now recognizes that everyone is involved and everyone is involved in a counterproductive way in libya so instead of demanding that everyone leaves libya to the libyans there is a new logic that says why dont we then ask everyone thats involved in libya to be involved more constructively on the side of peace on the side the war martin lets touch briefly if we can on the military situation on the ground i mean if a turkish deployment will a turkish deployment hold the gains made by the have to because lets remind our viewers hes already knocking on the door of tripoli isnt it unfortunately because of the silence of some of the International Community and the complicity of some of the International Community how if the half that is now basically in control of 3 quarters of the libyan territory and thats a lot for a warlord to being in control of 3 quarters of libya. But still i think once the turks get involved like the russians got involved in syria in 2015 the idea of a turkey gets involved militarily meaning the fall of tripoli is basically impossible its not going to happen just a final thought what about then this new east med energy deal thats being signed today between israel greece and cyprus how much does this go against turkeys ambitions because we know that turkey signed a deal with the libyans so i guess in a broader sense this is all about geopolitics which is the point that you will make here that this surge of positioning works with the economic positioning lets remind our viewers around the world according to one american strategic or just your graphic survey there are some 100000000000 barrels of oil in the mediterranean and 102 really in square cubic meters of gas so if this all smells of gas but it stinks with geopolitics of marwan always good to get your thoughts margaret our senior political analyst thank you mark right also to come here on the news hour including poland over netherlands the dutch government decides on what it would like the country to be cool. And out the years of uncertainty the new year will see britain leave the e. U. Well take you through the breaks it challenges ahead. And well have sports the winter classic in texas provide some ice hockey with a different sun ill be here to explain all of that a little bit later. Now taiwans military chief and 7 other people have been killed in a Helicopter Crash force general shandy ming and other officials were traveling to visit troops in the northeast when it disappeared from radar from somalia as this report. A tangled mess of metal and this is where the black hawk helicopter came down in a mountainous area near taipei it was flying from the capital to the northeastern city of iran but it lost contact shortly after takeoff. A soon as the helicopter disappeared from writer to blackhawk helicopters took off from song sang airport to the saw it soldiers from the lang young military command were also dispatched to search and rescue the Defense Ministry says it set up a task force to investigate the calls that were 13 people on board among the dead is taiwans military chief force general shen. He was responsible for overseeing the islands defense against china which considers taiwan as its own territory and has threatened to use military force to take back control of taiwan holds president ial and parliamentary elections on january 11th and the president chiding when is seeking a 2nd term a political analyst says the military chiefs death will likely impact the Campaign Talking Points once the kerry dates return to campaigning i think well see a president s i emphasize she has been a supporter of the military and shes been a supporter of increased military spending in the other side will probably go away to criticize for example by saying yeah you spend more money on the military but youre not spending it correctly youre not spending it on an update for example you talking boyd from the other sad there have been a number of incidents involving blackhawk helicopters in recent years the latest was in 2018 when a black hawk crashed off taiwans east coast killing the 6 people on board florence italy aljazeera. Occupations of the gun and relief supplies of a rifle thousands of australians stranded in fire ravaged towns 8 people have been killed this week in New South Wales and. Toria west 17 people are missing reports. 4000 a stray leonids were forced onto the beach and stranded here for 3 days now how has arrived for the victorian town of mela cooter the navy ferried people out by the only route possible this ship masked in the smoky haze at the moment were moving people way up or see if this mark cleave will be obligate aircraft into melich her to towards the steam that transportation of people out of there as well when you want to they have a narrow window or high temperatures and strong winds a forecast for australias southeast on saturday in New South Wales fire and rescue has advised her to leave the residents to prepare for extreme fires in the shaded areas from batemans bay south to the Victorian Border a 250 kilometer distance down the coast and another block inland i think the big thing that weve got on the y. At the moment is that its the largest mass rely cashen of people out of the region that would have a sign. People are going have to be patient the rights people are queuing up to get into petrol stations through traffic is unable to get or you clearly have to go to help them to get out of the thousands heeded the advice to leave batemans bay and drive north towards sydney many with nothing left to say but themselves and house is gone its completely burnt we found out yesterday morning to show. We went out there that the block that we were on has been burned from one side of the other does not apply to grass on it theres nothing left. About 1300. 00 homes have been destroyed in New South Wales since the fire season began in october its been a record breaking year the fires arrived earlier and with more fury the normal straight in Prime MinisterScott Morrison counted claims its a consequence of man made Climate Change is no doubt Natural Disasters turned that why andrew. Because thats what i up by our Natural Disasters what were saying is we have we cannot control the Natural Disaster but what we can do is control our response firefighters are trying to control the risk by destroying the bush 1st back burning to create natural firebreaks residents prepared to those choosing to stay gathered supply lines and feel for generations in pumps if the wind trying just for the good impact brought heavily on my house in the night is a time or Family Member of the Family Members further up the road from the site you know it by simply. Of all these residents restocking preparing to face the finest head on challenge dallas or. At least 21. 00 people have been killed in flash floods and landslides in indonesia 18 hours of heavy rain caused rivers to burst submerging parts of the capital jakarta and surrounding areas tens of thousands of people have been taken to temper shelters scott hyde reports. The heaviest rainfall in more than a decade has caused deaths and flooding in jakarta and surrounding areas in west java the rain began on tuesday night and triggered landslides on the citys outskirts indonesias Meteorology Department has called the rain very extreme nearly 20000 people were stranded as jakartas domestic airport was shut down after its runway became submerged people have drowned and others have died from hypothermia or been electrocuted as Power Supplies were damaged by the flooding thousands were forced to evacuate their homes crews are pumping out flooded areas and rescuing those who are stranded the Indonesian Disaster Agency says the rains and rising rivers have submerged at least 90 neighborhoods flooding is common in jakarta this is month soon season and forecasters say more downpours are on their way its got harder aljazeera. Our time for a check on the weather now his kevin thats right there and those are amazing videos coming out of jakarta last month in december we saw almost twice as much as way that they normally would see this was an above average situation were going to be seeing a lot more rain across the area i want to take you into the area go a little bit closer in this is the satellite for about 36 hours notice the clouds across much of the area in some locations they saw well over 200. 00 millimeters of rain outside the city they saw about 370. 00 millimeters of rain just in the hillsides of course if you put that much water in the hillsides it is going to funnel down normally for the month of january though we see about 300. 00 millimeters so just in those 48 hours they saw just about 2 thirds 2 thirds of the rain they would normally see this time of year as we go forward in time were going to be seeing still some showers across much of that area not as heavy as what we have seen over the last 24 to 48 hours but still any rain over flooded areas is not welcome as we go towards the next couple days on s