A bill to limit the President Trumps ability to attack iraq. In the libyan war Khalifa Haftar rejects a call for a cease fire going against a plea by turkey and russia. And the top stories including. Trying to cash in on celebrity status public shock and anger part time. And in sports the tennis world number one makes a losing start to the new year actually barty sapper is a shock to a dinner opening match the brisbane national. So we begin this news with breaking news u. S. President donald trump says that he has suspicions about the crash of a ukrainian airliner outside tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board were killed when it came down shortly after takeoff u. S. Intelligence sources of concluded that it was shot down accidentally by an Iranian Missile a view that donald trump shared with reporters. I have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could have made a mistake on the other couldve couldve made a mistake it was flying it was it was flying in that our system there had nothing do with us it was flying in a pretty rough neighborhood and somebody could have made a mistake some people say was bin cannick i personally dont think thats. Even a question lets bring in our White House Correspondent kelly how could he live for us in washington what is the president basing his suspicions. Well its not entirely clear but this president has been known to be a little bit fast and loose with intelligence in the past the question is is thats what happening is that what is happening right now we do know that for some time since the crash of this ukrainian passenger jet that in fact there has been an effort to figure out what has happened investigators including u. S. Military intelligence looking over satellite data electronic data and radar and certainly there has been speculation but nothing conclusive that perhaps this was a mistake because the timing was so unusual you remember the timing adrian when all of this was happening when the reports of the crash of this passenger plane occurred it was immediately following those 2 strikes missile strikes by iran on military bases inside iraq that also housed u. S. Military facilities it would be very reasonable given the u. S. President s rhetoric at the time the promise to strike back at iran if it targeting u. S. Interests that there that iran would think that perhaps it was under attack we do know that in fact diego garcia the base in the indian ocean where the u. S. And said be 52. 00 bombers. Are entirely reasonable to speculate on the part of iran that perhaps those were flying in the air the question becomes now were they mistaken was this passenger jet mistaken for potentially potential bombers over tehran thats the question that needs to be examined and again the u. S. President certainly insinuating that iran may have been the cause of this crash can i stay with us because Something Else i want to ask on a different topic in a few moments for the moment but he thanks iranian officials have this huge strong denials that they were responsible for the downing of that jet and as there are still such a body is on the line now from wrong what are they saying dorsal. Well weve been hearing from the head of very a countrys Civil Aviation organization that the abt says that it is scientifically impossible for displaying to have been shot down by a new style i explained that of the time that this plane was flying over iraq and on the airport that there were hundreds of other planes in that area and that evolved as you know that coordination lists all the other airlines in that its a very busy airspace the are International Airport and it is absolutely impossible for them to mistake this plane for anything other than a passenger plane so the idea the accusations need to be rationed that this was shot down by the jolliest completely being disregarded by the iranians completely being. Put aside and saying its not true its a false narrative that there is a certain countries are trying to prove for with all cheerier motives now on the set that the International Airport of calling me is about an hour and a half tide of toronto its not in the city limits it is quite a bit far out. And there is a lot of traffic in and out of that airport theres a lot of Flights International flights that come through that airport. So there hasnt been a lot of accidents from that airport many of the you add plane crashes that we heard from over the past 2 years have all happened within that domestic flight in iraq because of the fleet of airplanes are so old and they havent had parts being able to service part because of sanctions on iran many of the domestic flights have accidents and those happen some of the best to care for within the city airport but the International Airport de monchaux many airport was built. A few years ago a chair a fairly new airport and its very well equipped 5 trouble to it many times and its always always been. You know working functionally operationally theres never been any issues but this is very very unlikely that this was very very difficult to absorb the news that this plane just crashed. Without any reason at the time and. I remember when the news broke on wednesday morning we were still dealing with a missile strike on i know outside. U. S. Base in soundbar province so this story wasnt featuring a tire i could at the time but now with all this news its very very different story weve heard from a number of the victims families who say theyre just theyre shocked many of them had dual nationalities they were canadian and they knew this and that is why weve heard from the canadian kind minister Justin Trudeau he describes as foreign minister to put together a team of diplomats to come to tehran and hes been speaking to be going on there in foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif about this accident because of the number of canadians that were on board so we are waiting to find out what the leading foreign minister will have to say in the coming hours from now the iranians are good denying that they had anything to do with this plane with an accident and im very very unfortunate accident well have all this breaking news later in the days off the public dole says rory and tyrone many thanks dad. The u. S. House of representatives is due to votes on a measure limiting president Donald Trumps ability to take military action against iran as the forum for the assassination of the iranian general custom samadhi continues House Speaker nancy pelosi says that she doesnt believe saudis killing has made the us safer we are passing today a war powers resolution to limit the president s military actions in ministration must be escalate and must protect prevent further by Alliance America and the world cannot afford war but what happened. In the view of many of us is not promoting peace but an escalation not that we have any confidence in the goodness of the good intentions of iran and we certainly do not respect an actor in my intelligence background know just how bad school money was not because we expect good things from them but we expect great things from us lets go live. How did your castro whos on capitol hill what are we to make of House Speaker pelosi is common so what are we expecting from congress today. Well you just heard the speaker say that shes confident that this resolution will pass out of the democratic controlled house of representatives today its notable that this is a nonbinding resolution it does not carry the force of law so if it passes as well as its sister measure in the senate it would really be a strong rebuke a statement from congress in response to trumps unilateral decision to strike and kill general celeb monny and democrats have said he did so without Consulting Congress which is in violation of the u. S. Constitution now there had been concerns about this leading up to yesterdays briefings here on the hill where a Senior Administration officials and including cabinet members and the cia director were here to brief members of congress behind closed doors on what the imminent intelligence was that administration has claimed justified the killing of sui monny but rather than temper the criticism which was the purpose of that briefing really it seems to have incensed members more because afterwards not only did we hear continued criticism from democrats but also a few republican voices joining in saying that the Legal Authority cited by those briefers for the hit to take out sulaimani was a farce they ministration saying that the Legal Authority dates back to 18 years ago when congress authorized the u. S. To retaliate against the 911 attacks so different conflict different adversary and different time of course which has led to those renewed criticisms now from members of both parties at trumps decision to kill general silliman me id even he thinks lets bring you want to go to White House Correspondent kelly hell cooch is live outside the white house whats the president making of all of this kimberly. Well the u. S. President continues to defend his unilateral decision to assassinate general sola monny and not seek congressional approval for that military action hes also defending his right of the administration he says to keep secret from congress and remember this is a coequal branch of government hes defending his right he says to keep the intelligence that he says prove there was an imminent threat to americans and thats why this killing was necessary heres what the u. S. President had to say we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy we also did it for other reasons and were very obvious somebody died one of our military people died people were badly wounded just a week before and we did it and we had a shot at him and i took it and that shot was pinpoint accurate and that was the end of a monster heres the problem with not sharing intelligence with congress not just is it required to have this debate when it comes to military issues on the part of the United States but there is a real obligation of the u. S. President to share at least in the classified setting and the reason is because recent history if you go back to 2003 shows that when this intelligence wasnt shared openly there were mistakes made in that the u. S. Invasion of iraq back in 2003 the argument made by the administration that time is that there were weapons of mass destruction thats why the u. S. Needed to act only to find out later adrian that in fact that intelligence was flawed aljazeera White House Correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington can be many thanks. Breaking news this out of libya wars Khalifa Haftar rejecting calls by turkey and russia for a cease fire to be implemented by sunday moscow backs the libyan war old whose forces have been trying to seize tripoli since april while turkey supports the un recognized government based in the capital the e. U. Has warned that libya faces becoming a 2nd syria if a cease fire is not reached soon lets go live now to tripoli al jazeera of the what it can tell us more whats the significance of this mahmoud. It seems that the warlord who for have to is determined to move one end this battle to take control of the capital tripoli and member that the government of National Accord along with other institutions in the worst of libya have stated that they are will coming. Forward in regard to the cease fire proposal that was suggested by russia to be implemented by sunday of this month but meanwhile the government of national called says that it has the right to defend itself and to defend the capital tripoli the warlord have to seems to be pushed by his own lies remember that the decision is not have to us the decision is not made by the house of. Representatives excuse me but by the the countrys backing have to namely egypt and the United Arab Emirates so those countries have been investing and have to for the past few years and it seemed that they cannot accept a half way specially after have to his forces have been recently advancing get in southern tripoli taken control of civil or locations and moving towards densely Populated Areas remember that have to have recently taken control of the strategic city of sirte it and it was a swift takeover especially after one military brigade with the ultra puritan Islamic Movement called salafism just switched. To have to the forces at the last ditch at the last moment so in this case morris collation more fighting on the ground is expected as expected especially after have to just. And i was it that did not abiding by the ceasefire proposal so after sunday it seemed that were going to witness more escalation in southern chile and also around the city of sort it out 0. Reporting live from tripoli mccord many thanks indeed this is the news hour from our serious time to come on the program evacuation orders parts of australia as more hot windy weather is forecast threatening to fan bush fires that are burning out of control. And in support irans footballers suffer a setback in their bid to qualify for the olympics. After months of turmoil the british house of commons has finally passed the briggss Withdrawal Agreement bill for more on that lets cross to Lawrence Taylor at our european Broadcast Center or thanks adrian the bill passed the commons and will now move to the house of lords it passed 332231899 vote majority it paves the way for the u. K. To leave the European Union on january 31st after that there will be a one year transition period the 2 sides have to come up with a deal on their future relationship in that time but the chief negotiator says it wont be possible to reach a comprehensive agreement with the u. K. In a year. We simply cannot expect to agree on every single aspect of this new partnership. We can do our best. Practice to. Do it bore ok. We have to translate the political will in legal terms but we have to reach an agreement on what i could do but sick agreement for treated goods. New parker joins us here in the studio a significant hurdle here for the prop for the new Prime Minister shortens achieved for his predecessor treason may didnt achieve youve managed to get the lower house of parliament the house of commons to back his all important Withdrawal Agreement that agreement dictates the terms of britains divorce from the European Union was already agreed in principle with the e. U. Before the previous election but since then the arithmetic in parliament has changed course Johnson Controls a significant majority of 80 seats which is meant that this bill is passed comfortably after its final reading in the commons 330 votes to 231 what is next in our go to the upper house the house of lords where it will undergo further stages further scrutiny downing street has urged members of the lords not to block it and given the weight of public support for the conservative party and indeed breaks it it looks as if it will pass in the lords relatively quickly before finally getting royal assent and becoming legislation has added it was just since someone from the Opposition Labor Party wanted amendments to be included the conservatives have rejected those stiff resistance from the Scottish Nationalist Party who control 80 percent of the seats in scotland the e. U. Party actually tabled a statement to the Scottish Assembly saying that they do not consent to the bracks it legislation will make a difference probably not it looks very very likely that on january the 31st of the u. K. Will leave the and so when that if that happens and when it does then the hard work starts of trying to negotiate a deal we already had some sketches in there from the chair money here thats right in the e. U. So people that it wont go easy on the United Kingdom are having some very warm words though from the new e. U. Commission chief delay and she has promised unprecedented cooperation she said a partnership that goes beyond trade is closer when it comes to things like Climate ActionData Protection fisheries energy so on and so forth but just to remind you this bill thats currently going. Through parliament includes a clause which means that there cannot be a further extension so if there isnt any Economic Partnership by the end of the year then well britain leaving the European Union on something of a cliff edge johnson is hoping to have an Economic Partnership in place by july but very very soon many people think about but maybe a little bit too ambitious but johnson says he can achieve it in fact thank you very much. The thousands of protesters have returned to the streets across france in the latest mass demonstrations against Pension Reforms transport services were disrupted and power cut in some areas in a bid to force the government to scrap the planned overhaul critics say the changes would require millions of french citizens to push back retirement potential butler has more from