a resounding yes, germany's politicians approve a support mission against isil in syria. ♪ it is good to have you along, i'm david foster, you are watching al jazeera, live from london. well, in this program -- [ gunfire ] >> -- reporting on the friday violence in the occupied west bank where four palestinians have been killed. cameroon reveals what boko haram had in mind for hundreds of hostages before they were

arrested. i'm barnaby phillips in vienna at the opec summit. oil prices are down, oil-exporting countries are divided on what to do about it. ♪ germany now the latest country to take on a direct role in the battle against the islamic state of iraq and the levant in syria this time. crucially, it won't be a combat mission. politicians voted to send the maximum of 1200 soldiers who will serve in support roles in places such as kuwait, turkey, qatar. they will deploy reconnaissance jets and a frigate. it's germany's response to a french request for help after last month's paris attacks. they believe that germany is now a target as well. >> reporter: the vote in

germany's lower house was overwhelming. a margin of 445 in favor to 146 against. and it reflects a wider mood, broadly supportive of military action. but german lawmakers faced immotive questions and vehement debate. >> translator: you can be sure that the bombs of the last three weeks alone in syria have killed more civilians than the barbaric attacks in paris. and the mothers of raqqa are also crying for their children. do those countries leading the war really want to get into a competition with isil about who understands more about murder? those who do this have already lost. >> translator: taking into account isil's disrespect for people and their brutality, there needs to be a damned good argument to vote no. there are no good arguments against taking action. it is time to act.

>> reporter: a public opinion poll on friday found 58% of germans in favor of action even though the same poll found 63% believe the risk of an isil attack on german soil will increase as a result. but the berlin's government stopped short of authorizing direct air strikes inside syria. instead it is sending six tornado reconnaissance jets together with refuelling aircraft, up to 1200 personnel and a german naval frigate which will provide protection to the charles de gaulle already operating in the area. the president will make a surprise visit to the de gaulle on friday. france has also vealed that its aircraft have been conducting reconnaissance and intelligence flights over parts of libya.

the coalition against isil is growing and widening by the day. paul brennan, al jazeera. britain's prime minister says air strike against isil targets in syria will take time and require persistence. david cameron has been talking for the first time since british mp's gave the go ahead to go into action. >> there will be very strong support from muslim and gulf countries that have asked us to take part in this process as part of a process for the change we need in syria. it is going to take time. it is complex. it is difficult. our thoughts should be our pilots and their families as they commence this important work. russian authorities have warned against possible attacks against russian tourists in

thailand. they said a group entered thailand in october with the intent of targeting russia tourists. the thai police say they have no proof as to whether or not the group in is thailand. they say security will be increased at embassies. a town is being held hostage. isil and al-nusra front fighters have been active along lebanon's eastern borders close to syria now for more than a year. it has been the site of prolonged fighting since syria's war spilled into neighboring countries. >> translator: the whole area, not the village is an occupied area. if someone says otherwise then they are wrong and not fully informed. in this area, there are 120,000 syrian refugees more than double

the original population, and of course there are thousands of fighters inside and around the area. at least 40 people have been killed in air strikes in this five syrian provinces. the attacks by russian and syrian forces were aimed at several areas. at least 22 people were killed outside of the capitol damascus, an area that has been under siege by government forces for about three years. and russian strikes targeted a series of towns where isil is thought to have no presence at all. ♪ another troubled day in the occupied west bank with four more palestinians killed. one of them was shot dead after an alleged stabbing, and a man was shot dead after ramming a car into two israelis. they were both injured. earlier israeli troops killed two palestinians who allegedly

stabbed a soldier in hebron. the soldier is being treated for minor injuries. 120 palestinians and 17 israelis have been killed since the violence began at the start of october. palestinians protesters were hurling rocks at israeli security forces m. they responded with stun grenades. this type of violence began after friday prayers in the recent wave of unrest. >> reporter: these incident seem to be becoming the norm. the israeli army saying there have been stabbing and car-ramming attempts across the occupied west bank on friday. so really this is something that goes in ebbs and flows. there are days when there are no incidents, and then there are days when they increase. and it is something that almost even palestinians are getting used to. in the beginning of october when we saw a real increase in this one on one violence, people

would be in outroar. whereas nowadays it is almost becoming something that people are used to happening on a day-to-day basis. also some of the incidents are disputed. we always here the israeli army narrative, israeli security forces and it's very difficult to get a sense of the palestinian side. but there is a lot of frustration, i think it tells you that the street is very tense, so certainly, one on one, people are suspicious of each other, israel, palestinian, and also there is a lot of frustration. when you speak to palestinians they will tell you this is the result of decades of occupation. that the youth are frustrated. they are trying to do something, but when you speak to the older generation, many of those say they have lost hope, and many of these youth who go out to try to do something in their eyes as resistance to the occupation is in vain because nothing will change. in cairo at least 16 people were killed after an arson attack on a nightclub.

a petrol bomb was hurled in the club in the egyptian capitol. police say they are looking for three attackers one of which is believed to be a disgruntled employee who has been sacked. the club had just one exit. and authorities say the wooden roof caught fire and then collapsed. hundreds of men, women, and children have been taken to safety after being freed from boko haram. they were being trained to fight and act as suicide bombers. thousands have been killed during the arm's grouped six year campaign. >> reporter: in the back of a packed truck, there was relief and desperation, exhaustion too. among women and children freed during an operation lead by the cameroonian military. now in need of food and water. this group were among 900

hostages who had been held by boko haram fighters in several different places along the border between cameroon and nigeria. cameroon says a senior member of the group was killed during the two-day operation, which also left a hundred fighters dead. >> translator: among the enemies neutralized we can count the head of operations to boko haram in the area. he lead several attacks against ourer to -- territory. large amounts of weapons and am mission, and propaganda material were confiscated. >> reporter: boko haram roughly translates as western education is forbidden. it's armed campaign in northern nigeria has left thousands dead during the last six years. earlier it allies it's a with isil and has been operating beyond nigeria's borders, caring

aring out several attacks in cameroon over the past few months. it's unclear whether any of the women and girls freed this week were among the more than 200 seized from their dormitory more than a year ago. those freed will now be reunited with their families. an armed group responsible for a recent attack on a totel in mali, in which more than 20 people died has said it is rejoining al-qaeda's north african branch. it's fighters will now conduct joint attacks in mali and elsewhere as victoria gatenby will tell us. >> reporter: the algerian based armed group said it carried out the attack on the radisson blu hotel in mali's capitol. they split from al-qaeda's north african branch two years ago. but the two groups have joined forces again. the leader of al-qaeda's north

african branch made the announcement. >> translator: we tell our beloved nation that the lines of islam have joined al-qaeda. we will be one sword with which to slaughter our first enemy, namely the crusader france and its agent in the region. >> reporter: the two groups say they coordinated the attack on the radisson blu hotel. other armed groups including isil operate in north africa, but analysts say the decision by the leader to align his group once more with al-qaeda not isil is not surprising. >> i think it's probably more personality based. but i think he -- he -- this group is very much one that is sort of linked around the individual leader, and he is a figure who has always been very explicitly more in the al-qaeda

camp rather than the isil camp. >> reporter: they say they want their fighters freed from think prisons, and the attacks to stop. molly has been in a political crisis since the coup three years ago. it was followed by an armed rebellion in the north which lead to french military involvement. since then mali has taken control of its own security, but france, and the united states remain ready to help, as they did during the attack on the radisson blu hotel. the leader said he welcomed the hotel attack. he also warned of more attacks in france. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. you are watching al jazeera, stay with us if you can. in just a moment, the palestinian teenagers will be talking us to about what they say is a life of constant threat in the occupied territories. and the spewing lava that can be seen from afar, as mount

edna erupts again. ♪

>> half a million fields will lie fallow. >> if we had another year of this severe drought, i'd say all bets are off. ♪ reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. journalists join the fight against isil in syria. the country's parliament votes overwhelmingly to send military support. it will be a non-combat role, however. cameroon says some of the hundreds of hostages rescued were to be used as suicide bombers. and there have been confrontations on the occupied west bank, four palestinians

have been killed in separatists incidents. and indeed a high proportion of recent attacks on israelis have been made by pretty young palestinians many teenagers. hoda abdel hamid has been to meet some of the youngsters in occupied east jerusalem to try to find out what is pushing so many of them to use violent ends. >> reporter: i wish to wake up in a jerusalem at peace. for how long will our blood run? for this boy, rapping is the best way to express how he feels. >> translator: life in the old city has become very difficult to those of my age. we like to go out, but now we can't do anything. it's too dangerous. if i go out for a walk, i will get stopped more than once if a soldier speaks bad to me, i want to defend myself, but if i say something wrong, i will get detained. our parents don't allow us to

leave the home. they are too scared. >> reporter: this boys' school is in the heart of jerusalem's old city. tensions are high, and being a palestinian teenager these days not easy. >> translator: we take our precautions. we don't go to the jewish side. it can be dangerous for us. anyone can accuse of anything. a settler can scream, he is a murde murderer, and that's enough for the soldiers to shoot us. >> reporter: coming to school has become difficult. a recent report by israeli's internal security services say it is exactly this sense of deprivation and lack of hope that is at the core of the anger of so many palestinian youth. and that bottled up anger and frustration sometimes translates into acts of violence.

it's what happened to two cousins of 15 and 13, who on october 12th after school stabbed two israelis. one died and the younger was detained. >> and he describes a situation when -- while his older -- 15 years old cousin addresses him one or two days before, and tells him we should be -- we should be martyrs because life is so bad. we have no future. and i don't see anymore ryeson. in his affidavit from the 14th of october, still in the hospital, he says we know what will happen after the stabbing or they will break our bodies just like we're in now, or we'll be martyrs which means or we

will die. >> reporter: he is now standing trial and could face up to 20 years in prison. this boy shares that frustration, but he wants to become a professional footballer. >> translator: education is my way of fighting. it is more impact than stones, but in this situation many times i am prevented of going to school but i miss out on many classes. >> reporter: the doesn't feel safe. his teacher walks him to the check point before his home. he went through this time, but tomorrow is another day full or worries. hoda abdel hamid, al jazeera, in occupied east jerusalem. from the united nations a warning that yemen is at serious risk of suffering a famine. almost half of the country has been classified after being on

an emergency level of food insecurity. 14 million are struggling to get enough to eat as violence continues. >> clearly yemen is one of the hardest places in the world to work. massive security concerns, escalation in the violence. we are improving our reach in getting to more people every month. but with half of the country now just one step away from famine, we need the international community to come together and support us. it is the organization of oil exporting countries, known as opec, and it has been meeting in vienna. it is not expected to announce reduction in production, despite the low prices. let's hear from barnaby phillips. >> reporter: the countries in opec rely on oil export. the price of a barrel of oil in

recent days has been dropping below $45. that's less than a third of where it was seven years ago. this presents challenges for all 12 opec members. but countries like algeria, and libya, and venezuela are really feeling the pinch. they have been arguing for a cut in oil production, that would push prices back up. others, like saudi arabia and qatar, have the cash reserves to withstand low oil prices for sometime. saudi arabia wants to keep production levels high, hoping that low prices will put some producers in non-opec countries like the usa and brazil out of business. but opec has two big problems. firstly, most of the world's oil is produced by non-opec members, so its power to control the market is limited.

secondly, it's members have very different agendas. iran, for example, wants to significantly increase production as international sanctions are lifted. >> the level of cohesion just doesn't exist anymore within the cartel. you have saudi arabia, who are very much the figger head as i mentioned. then you have other countries such as iran and iraq which are capable of producing a large amount of oil, which require the cash flow from the production, and these guys are now vying for market share. so they are not only competing for the rest of the world as opec, but also with other opec members in markets such as the u.s. and asia to gain that market share. >> reporter: most experts expect that saudi arabia will get its way. so oil prices are likely to remain low for a year or so.

barnaby phillips al jazeera, vienna. south african authorities have issued an arrest warrant for oscar pistorius. pistorius could be sent back to jail for as much as 15 years for shooting dead his girlfriend on valentine's day in 2013. cafe where five people were killed during the paris attacks has reopened. it has once again welcomed customers. three weeks after five people were shot dead and another three were injured. the cafe was one of a number of venues targeted in a series of attacks on november 13th, in which a total of 130 people lost their lives. the cafe owner said she redecorated her establishment to quote, erase the signs of the

nightmare. u.s. police and the fbi say they are still at a loss to explain why a couple shot 14 people dead this week in california. the suspect and his wife were shot dead on wednesday having attacked a christmas gathering in san bernardino east of los angeles. explosives and thousands of rounds of ammunition were found at their home. our correspondent rob reynolds has been talking with people who knew the suspect. >> reporter: these men worshipped with the suspect on at this mosque. they say they saw no signs that their acquaintance was radicalized or capable of mass murder. >> how could that be? he is married, he has a 6-month-old daughter, he has a good job, what would make a person do such a thing. they say farook never appeared angry or like a person holding a

judge. >> he was very respectful. >> reporter: you can't talk about politics or international affairs? they do say that he took his muslim faith very seriously and even memorized the entire quran. these men say they are as shocked and baffled as anyone else about why he would have done what he did. >> he seemed like a very nice person. to us -- all of us it is very shocking, someone that we know that actually did this crime. >> reporter: on thursday afternoon police allowed journalists to get close to the center where the killings happened. what shocks many people here most is how farook and his wife could have made pipe bombs and planned mass murder while caring for a 6-month-old baby girl. thursday evening members of the muslim community gathered, praying, mourning, and trying to

make sense of an unfathomable crime. rob reynolds, al jazeera. brazil's supreme court has rejected an appeal to block the impeachment process of the president. the house speaker has accused rousseff of manipulating government accounts. >> reporter: the brazilian congress in brasilia is now debating the future of the impeachment against dilma rousseff. the president of the lower house is leading the campaign. >> translator: i'm informing you, mrs. president that if you want to express yourself, you have a period of ten sessions, starting with the election of the special committee that is investigating the impeachment proceeding. >> reporter: for hours they read the formal accusation against the president, and started creating a multi-party

commission that will define the next steps. rousseff is accused of using money from state banks to cover budget gaps and pay for social plans. she is already struggling with her popularity, caused by the current economic situation in brazil, but also because of a corruption scandal between the state owned oil company, and politicians. now she has to fight an impeachment effort by a political foe who has managed to get the support of the opposition behind him. for this man, the accusations are unfounded. he says that edwardo who is facing several corruption allegations himself is seeking a vendetta. >> translator: it is obvious that this is a retaliation. on the same day he decided to move the impeachment procedure, following the ruling party's decision to continue

investigations against him. >> reporter: this is just the beginning of what will be a long and complicated process. and on the streets of brazil there is mixed feelings about what is going on in brasilia. >> translator: i think that popular opinion is much more against dilma that in favor. the country is in the middle of an enormous economic and political crisis, so this is necessary. >> translator: i'm disgusted by the whole thing. the people need to make her pay over the next three years of her term, on the streets, protesting, not by throwing her out. >> reporter: the accusations have swept brazil into a profound crisis, and nobody here seems to know what the turn out is going to be like. europe's most active volcano, mount edna is at it again. this display of lava could be seen tens of kilometers away.

the airport was closed on friday as a cloud of ash spread across the area. in that part of sicily, the last time it erupted was two years ago. aljazeera.com for all of the global headlines, aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ new details about the couple that went on that deadly shooting rampage in san bernardino, california. >> he was just an all-around great guy. he was everybody's friend. >> while grieving families remember loved ones lost. also new numbers on the economy. what they mean for interest rates. ♪ and an