the border with iraq. ♪ so you are watching al jazeera live from headquarters in do what and coming up changing the rules and lebanon tightens syrians hoping to cross into its borders and to opposition activists shot dead in bangladesh and leader remains defiant and attempts to leave compound despite a police barricade and surviving boko haram, we meet residentss of one northeastern town heading back

home after they were forced out. ♪ news in saudi arabia on the border of iraq and happened in the police patrolled area and police say one of the two attackers exploded a bomb that killed him. al jazeera correspondent abdul says that the border area is a concern for the border police. >> translator: one of the border patrols on the northern border came under gunfire by what the interior ministry statements described as terrorist. security forces deals with the situation as necessary. attackers were cornered one of them was killed and the other detonated a bomb belt killing two security personnel and injuring a third. it is known that the saudi

borders represents a grave concern among saudi leadership and authorities and close to areas of long lasting armed conflicts and the only entry and exit point and the border stretches 900 kilometers with more than 40 border guards. a bomb exploded at a house used as a base by houthi fighters in the yemen capitol and one person was injured and comes just hours after al-qaeda in the peninsula says it's responsible for another bomb blast south of the city. syrian government forces have launched more air strikes around italy and shelling east of the capitol damascus people in rebel-held areas trying to establish a homemade air defense system to protect themselves against government attacks and as we report a change of leadership in syria's opposition in exile is not expected to have any major impact on the

fighting. >> reporter: for the last two years she and daughters spent almost everyday fearing air strikes by syrian government forces. everyone she knows has lost someone to missiles and barrel bombs which have killed thousands of civilians. >> translator: they are going crazy not only when we hear the sounds of sirens but jets and children are very frightened. >> reporter: people here call the jets of the airforce factories of death and opposition fighters who control it have a basic air defense system and someone spots a plane and they call it in. a hand alarm raised warning people that a plane is coming. activists say some alarms seized from government forces and some are being locally manufactured the fighters have built shelters to seek cover. >> translator: to inform

residents jets are hovering in the sky and so it can take necessary precautions islam army operation rooms informs the posts in order to sound the sirens. >> reporter: but even concrete buildings cannot withstand air power of regime and this is what happened after one such strike in opposition-held duma and rebels are continuing to launch attacks and say they have made gains in northeastern aleppo and complain of weapons being in short supply and improvising with what they have. for its part the syrian government says it's on the offensive in many areas, state t.v. reports government forces captured opposition-controlled jaba and isil held resort and the exile has chosen another leader and takes over as syrian national coalition president who served just one term and it does

not have much influence on the ground and limited backing of international community and the change in leadership doesn't mean much. and she and her children continue to seek cover. in a war that seemingly has no end in sight. i'm with al jazeera. visa restrictions on syrians trying to enter lebanon in force today and hundreds of thousands of syrians crossed in the neighboring country to escape violence but from now on they will have to declare why they are entering lebanon and provide documentation. and let's now go to jane ferguson joins us live from beirut and jane just explain to us who does this new policy effect the most? >> it effects syrians who are not registered as refugees inside lebanon at the moment and that is a huge number not only syrians who want to enter today and from now on but syrians who

also live here and now to deal with syrians who may be arriving in lebanon today and from now on what they will have to do is fill out paperwork where they say why they are here if they are students business men or perhaps travelling to the airport to transit to beirut airport have to say why and as you say provide documentation and then they are subject to whether or not they will be approved for entry. and that is normal at many international borders around the world but it's very new here where there is free movement between syrian and lebanon since formed and it will affect syrians who live here and lived here since the civil war because it's common for syrians to come to lebanon for work and businesses and employ them as cheap labor force of lebanese and people here a long time will wonder when they renew current permits will they be approved to stay and it's not clear yet how strictly this will be implemented but we do know that

syrians who come in under the previous arrangement where they would be given a six-month permit and when it runs out they go to government officials will have to say why they are here and provide documentation as well. but for now it's not clear how this is going to play out in the long run. it's a huge task for the government and waiting for clarification as to what it's going to look like for them. >> reporter: now jane with so many lives and livelihoods at stake why is the lebanese government implementing these restrictions now? >> reporter: under pressure a long time and huge influx of syrians in lebanon has been overwhelming for the lebanese government and 1.1 million syrian refugees who are registered here and those are just those registered and they are not going to be subject to this legislation and they are not going to be asked to leave in any way but there is also a huge amount of syrians who come

in for work who are here basically fleeing the war in syria but who are permits more middle class and people who can support themselves and here for various other reasons and the lebanese government say they have essentially to try to formalize this system as part of a security measure as well there has been spill over of the civil war in lebanon and putting pressure on the security apparatus here so by registering people or hypothetically trying to register everyone here that will be a security measure as well. and of course we have spoken to u.n. officials who have pointed out that the lebanese government and also other governments surrounding syria who have had to deal with huge amounts of refugees saying for sometime they are struggling to cope and that international pledges of donations really need to be made good and people need to make those donations to these governments so they can cope better. >> reporter: jane thank you, jane ferguson reporting for us from beirut.

let's go back to our top story and that is the attack on two saudi guards near the iraqi border and i'm told we have a senior professor is here from jetta and thank you for being with us and there has been talk that the attack looks like the act of islamic state of iraq and lavant the armed group, are you hearing the same report? >> reporter: well people suspect that because they came from the iraqi area from the iraqi border and that is something we heard before for the attack in saudi arabia. there this was seen before and that is the conclusion that there must be that it's mature and waiting

for investigation but it's going to be hard because both were killed. >> we do know too this is the second attack on saudi arabia's borders in about a week or so now. do you see this affecting the ties between saudi arabia and iraq? >> reporter: iraqis iraqi government it could be a possibility and then could discuss what the conclusion here is iraqis are on the border guard and continue without cooperation from the iraqi government. there is no interest for the iraqi government for cooperation

of their ultimate at the moment. >> we will have to leave it there, thank you so much for being with us a columnist at the saudi gauzette and four army soldiers killed in attack by the group known as islamic state of iraq and lavonte and the bear -- barracks and 17 soldiers wounded and peshmerga forces and isil fighters in northern iraq over the control of a strategic village and this is between the isil stronghold of mosul and the kurdish capitol of erbil. al jazeera continuing to demand the immediate release of journalists in prison in egypt for more than a year greste and fahmy and mohamed were wrongly convicted of broadcasting false

news and helping the out lawed muslim brotherhood which is denied and on thursday they ordered a retrial that could begin within a month and lawyers for greste and fahmy have fired requests for them to be deported from egypt. much more still to come here on al jazeera including anger in response to a school attack that left 148 dead and said to decide to try suspects in military courts plus exhibition of everyday objects transformed for tools for protest and social change. ♪

♪ let's take a look at the top stories on al jazeera, to saudi personnel have been killed on the country's border with iraq and happened in a border patrol area near irar and police say one of the two attackers detonated a suicide vest. syrian government forces have launched more air strikes and shelling east of the capitol damascus. people in rebel held areas trying to establish a homemade air defense system to protect themselves. and syrians hoping to enter lebanon will now face tougher rules and they will now have to declare their reasons for entering the country and provide documentation. more than 1.1 million syrian refugees are now living in lebanon after escaping the war. a suicide car bomb targeted a

foreign vehicle east of the afghan capitol and at least one european trainer and two afghan policemen and six civilians wounded in the attack. pakistan house of parliament set to vote on whether to set off special courts to try terror suspects in the wake of taliban attack on a school last month which killed 148 people and most of them children and such courts could allow them to overrule judiciary and lifted a ban on executions following the attack. let's go now to mohamed and explain to us why this need or why does the government see the need to shift the military courts to try these cases in the military courts rather than civilian courts? >> yes, there has been a lot of criticism during the last few

years against the civilian court and the civilian judicial system in general because of the group have always threatened judges and even have killed them and because of those cases the judges became intimated according to critics and judicial system and the system is unable according to many critics to actually implement the law especially in the cases of armed groups because of those threats against the judges and also because of the cases in which the people who were put to jail have been released in many cases because those who are jailing them are afraid that you know the armed groups will come back and retaliate against them so also so initially the judges who are unable to issue death penalty in many cases because they are afraid as i said of those threats and criticisms levelled against the judicial system and that is why the government especially

decided after the attack in peshwar to shift particularly the cases related to armed groups and violence against or in the name of religion to special military courts. >> and just does prime minister shariff have much support for these amendments? >> you know three weeks ago the attack happened in peshwar which i talked to you and first time brought many parts of the spectrum probably all of the political components here in the country together for the first time perhaps in resent history of pakistan and the prime minister has been shariff campaigning for this and met with party leaders and everybody was on same page because of popular support by the military and/or so the government has seen during the last three weeks

as i said for a tougher action against armed groups that is why we are expecting this bill to pass very easily in the parliament which will look at it and vote on it in the next hour or so. >> reporter: thank you, we will come back to you on an update within the hour or so thank you. mohamed reporting for us from peshwar. the bangladesh nationalist party leader is now attempting to leave her compound after being confined by security officers for the past two days and she has been locked away after she urged activists to take to the streets as part of a campaign to hold new polls. two activists still remain opposition party have been shot dead during clashes with supporters of the ruling party. let's get the latest now who is joined on the phone from the capitol capitol daka and what happened and has she left her compound?

>> at the latest that we have is that the fighting has, in fact reached the capitol daka and earlier most reports said scattered clashes across the country but in more areas and now it's major towns. there as been fighting in old daka and attack in daka and there are some gunshots being fired in clashes in the city of bangladesh. as this woman calls it and remains in her compound she has made several attempts to get out but there is a huge array of police and others and security forces on the compound and it's very hard to see how she can march out. but her hope seems to be in her efforts to do so we will share

the passion with reporters and increase agitation they have in the country. >> reporter: tension across the country and all eyes of course on the compound and you mentioned she tried to leave the compound. what happens if she does leave the compound? will she be arrested? >> it's unclear because there has not been any official reason given as to why there is so much police in front of her, in front of her office and no one come out and said she is under this and it's not really clear what would happen if she managed to leave the compound and also not clear what would happen if she managed to leave the compound and wasn't arrested and was on the rally side even among opposition leaders there and not sure themselves about what could happen if they are success and a

lot of speculation going on and the hope is for the opposition is that if she manages to head out of people and borders from all over will sort of conjugate where she is at this moment and that is not happening. >> reporter: thank you for that and we will get back to you as this story develops speaking to us from the capitol daka. let's turn to a story out of nigeria now where suspected boko haram fighters seized a military base in northern part of the country and this is just outside of a town near lake chad and the multi national joint task force established in 1998 to battle cross border crime is based there and over the years the mandate expanded to fighting boko haram but soldiers fled the area on saturday. residents of the northeastern nigerian border town has begun returning home and forced out when boko haram fighters took control of the commercial center

and we report on how the town is struggling to recover, a warning that some viewers may find images in his report disturbing. >> reporter: and they are harvesting what remains of the family farm on the outskirts and left it unattended when boko haram fighters over run the town. they lost a substantial amount of produce. >> we were supposed to as they say two months back and due to this incident we are not up until this time around and due to this incident i lost my father who owns this land. >> reporter: as they work all around them are the sights and smell of death. the result of six weeks of occupation by boko haram. >> there is one dead body there and therefore we cannot invest and likewise many people around

us you can film some dead bodies besides our farmland. >> reporter: on the way to town the streets are littered with evidence of the carnage and weeks after boko haram fighters were chased out this is largely divided. security forces in charge of moving out but despite presence most people who fled are staying away. many businesses remain shut and hope for a quick return to normalcy. the central market traders busy clearing debris from the shops. a large section of the market was set on fire hours after boko haram fighters took control. hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost and the traders here face an uncertain future. >> it's difficult to say if some will ever come back to the town and many traders lost everything money, goods and even customers, yet, some

despite their losses come back to clear debris hoping for some miracle but the truth is people are desperate. >> reporter: boko haram history of attacking towns anvild villages repeatedly people are left with only one thing hope hope that the resent victories by the military and vigilantes will hold i'm with al jazeera, northeast nigeria. one woman has died and three others were injured from a land slide and destroyed 7 houses but managed to pull two children from the rubble alive and the houses were hit by the slide and were built on an old coal mine that closed 50 years ago. in the u.s. thousands of people have paid their respects at the funeral of new york police officer shot dead with police partner in brooklyn in december

and both ambushed by a man who said on social media he had intended to kill police officers to avenge shooting of unarmed black men by police. some police officers at the funeral service turned backs on new york mayor bill deblasio and criticized him for not backing police force during a resent waive of antipolice protests. trial of one of accused in the 2013 boston marathon bombing opens on monday and prosecutors seeking death penalty for dzhokhar tsarnaev. >> reporter: 21 and plead not guilty to 20 federal charges including using a weapon of mass destruction and he and his brother are accused of assembling and setting off

explosive devices near the fine issue line of a marathon. >> one guy with a leg blown off at a thigh and another with a foot blown off. >> reporter: three days later spotted and allegedly had a gun battle with police alerted by the fatal shooting of a university police officer allegedly committed by dzhokhar tsarnaev and brother captured soon there after. >> why young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? >> reporter: prosecutors say dzhokhar tsarnaev born in kirzistan taking blame for the bomb ings and for u.s. attacks on muslims in afghanistan and eric holder who opposes the

punishment authorizes the death penalty and significants offer of plea bargain to save his life and government not executed anyone since 2003 tom ackerman. exhibition shows how ordinary objects can be tools of protests and we have more from london. >> reporter: they are all the faces of those loved and lost in conflict daring syrian street art created from stencils on the wall of one of london's oldest museums where art and politics collide, from the symbols of the struggles the folk art with political violence to a trunk with a death mask from a man executed in the u.s. this exhibition examines how everyday objects used by social movements to further their cause. one of the most resent the umbrella used by anti-government

protesters in hong kong. >> we take our starting point from the late 70s when the struggles really against the rise of globalization and rise of new technologies offered activists new ways for debate. >> reporter: here symbols of rebellion and revolution show even in a world where social media is now often a driver of change ordinary objects can take on new meaning and evidence suggest how-to guides at the museum used by protesters in resent months. visitors invited to leave their own messages here a reference to michael brown the unarmed black man shot dead in ferguson missouri and over here save nhs, britain national health service. these blurred lines between art and politics are celebrated

here. so too is the idea that protest is an essential part of civil society. i'm with al jazeera, london. and you can always keep up to date with all the latest news and analysis on our website at al jazeera.com. ♪ after a 6-year struggle to pull out of the resecs, america sets the -- recession, america sets the tone - who wins and who losses in 2016 vladimir putin's russia kicks off the new year engaged in a new cold war with the west. we look at russia's shaky economy, and falling oil prices are a part of the story the white house takes action against kim jong un's north korea for the cyber attack on sony. whether it make a difference. i'm