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salman has given us these opportunities to vote. we are equal to men. >> women in saudi arabia able to run and vote for the first time. the week ahead. five years ago, the beginning of arab spring. a revolt that helped change the political landscape of the middle east. the subject of tonight's week ahead. we begin in south l.a. where the police department is investigating the shooting death of a 28-year-old man. police say he motioned towards them with his gun before they opened fire on him. the issue is whether the officers are justified in firing 33 rounds. community says the shooting is

unjustified, and they're calling on department of justice to investigate. more from bisi onile-ere. >> sheriff's deputies, caught by a bystander's cell phone. african american, death already sparking outrage with activists taking to social media calling for justice, and family members asking why. >> you see on the video he crawling away and they just shooting him. >> sheriff's department says deputies responded to multiple calls. reportedly robertson was roaming the area acting erratically. >> not only was he armed but had actually discharged the firearm several times.

>> deputies say they yelled for robertson to put the weapon down but he ignored them. >> witnesses were by him at that time, we have interviewed them and they believed he was going to shoot them. >> according to deputies, they fired a total of 33 shots. they have both been reassigned pending investigate. the reason why robertson was acting so agitated. >> we are not sure why, or whether there is a drug nexus also. >> it appears to us that a black man once again was shot and killed by law enforcement. >> but also urge patience and calm. >> let the investigation take its course and wherever it takes us and leads us to, that's where we'll go.

we're asking, don't make a decision based on a ten second clip of a cell phone video that's on the news. bisi onile-ere, al jazeera, new york. >> he believes the shooting was justified and the victim's family does not have a case against department. >> they don't know if the gun was loaded. all they know is it was a gun. guns kill, maim, hurt. for the officer to say maybe it is loaded, maybe not, they have no idea. they had a 911 call. they acted accordingly to policy, training and use of force continuum. police are trained to eliminating the threat. eliminating doesn't mean the threat is down. the threat has stopped. they were justified in what they did. they don't want the next chicago or the next baltimore or the next fergdz.

ferguson. so transparency is key when you are dealing with situations like this. >> tensions continue to escalate tonight between russia and turkey after an encounter at sea. it happened in the northern part of the aegean sea. called the actions of the turkish ship provocative. last month turkey shot down a russian military jet along the syrian border. >> the department of state sis americans should stay out of burundi, all emergency nongovernment personnel in the nation to leave. since friday, 90 were killed in

an outbreak of violence. earlier this year burundi's president announced woe run for a third term. tonight libya is on the road to peace. since the arab spring and the ded odebt of moammar gadhafi, thousands are taking advantage of the chaos. secretary of state john kerry is chairing a meeting in rome with representatives of united nations and 16 other countries calling for a ceasefire and backing a new unity government. as a al jazeera's zeina khodr reports they have until wednesday to sign deal. >> rome is from where the international community spoke with a united voice, to bring about a government of national accord in libya. it was also in rome where some of libya's rival factions showed their support for the international community's plan.

there is still opposition to the plan. u.s. secretary of state john kerry addressed these concerns. >> there are still some inside and outside of libya. for their own selfish purposes who are uninterestin reconciliation, unwilling to compromise and who actually want this process to fail. those responsible for violence and those who obstruct and undermine libya's democratic transition need to be held strongly accountable. >> libya has two governments, the eligible national congress in the west and the government in the east. the delegates who came to rome represent powerful groups from both sides. among them a delegation from the city of misrata. the libyan government has many groups but the ones in mi misraa

is very powerful. >> security in tripoli, to bring the government which must be based at the end of the day in tripoli back to the capital. the seat of its institutions and the future seat of the government of national unity. >> there were encouraging statements by leaders here but they also warned that problems still need to be resolved and it could be a long road ahead. the u.n. envoy is warning that libya is in a race against time. the military conflict has taken a toll on the civilian population. lawlessness is worsening but it is not just that. world leaders gathered here amid mounting concerns that i.s.i.l.'s growing strength in libya will give it a gateway to europe. that is why the international community is pressuring libya's rivals to come together and stop fighting and focus on i.s.i.l. under the new plan the government would be able to request international military assistance in the fight against the armed group.

the military option is on the table and the world is in agreement to prevent libya from becoming a new base for i.s.i.l. >> translator: the threat that siefl poses ii.s.i.l. poses is . around sirte. the same way we are tackling it in other countries. >> reporter: for now, this is a victory. libyans seem on the road to peace. in the words of the u.n. envoy, the train has left the stations. but the road ahead could still take a turn for worse. zeina khodr, al jazeera, rome. >> the sunday segment the week ahead, 11:30 eastern, 8:30 pacific, right here on al

jazeera america. calling for the impeachment of brazil's dilma rousseff. frustration is growing against the economy and corruption scandal. al jazeera's natasha guinane from sao paulo. >> wearing green and yellow, the colors of the brazilian flag. this is the heart of brazilian finance. sao paulo was also the head of where dilma rousseff's party was established. this man left the party a decade ago, he called for the impeachment of the president. he said dilma, the country is not yours or the workers party, it is our party. >> this duck, it is a play on a

popular brazilian phrase, we will not pay the duck. it is that brazilians are fed up paying for mistakes of others. youth leader has become a celebrity in brazil. he says young people who are facing 19% unemployment are mobilized both for and against impeachment. >> we don't believe in political parties or even the politician he that arsthat are still in po. >> retiree valkiria says she knows if the president is impeached the next that replace he her may not be better but

are.the is it will set a precedent. organizers wanted 100,000 people to turn out on sunday. president rousseff's supporters are planning protests of their own next week. natasha guinane, al jazeera, brazil. >> to saudi arabia, where women have been elected to posts. >> reporter: the doors are opened to a new time of saudi arabia's life. standing for local elections. >> i feel very happy that king salman has given us this opportunity to vote. now we're equal to men. >> reporter: the journey to gender equality has been a slow one. so has the overall pace of

political reform. the monarchy often interprets literally for localing islamic laws. the only elected bodies in the king.com. >> i want tkingdom of. >> i want to see the woman being part of the planning part of the execution, part of the performance, part of the evaluation, she has to always be there. >> reporter: behind the scenes, saudi women already do have powerful positions. most university graduates are female. yet even with such strides, women still didn't drive themselves to the polls on saturday, a freedom elsewhering enjoy. i.moku moli, al jazeera. >> the decision has to be

permanent. >> we can't go back. many cubans have sold their homes and they have no work. they will not accept us if we return. there will be retaliation against us. >> cubans in costa rica trying to get to america. and people remember the lives lost in last month's attacks amid a rise in national security. and friendliness between donald trump and ted cruz is evaporating. on the campaign trail, next.

>> the fbi' fbi's analyzing ites they found in a lake near san bernardino, california. the fbi is looking into clues for the mass shooting there. hoping to find a missing hard drive of the couple that killed 14 at the inland center. they destroyed e-mails and computer data to hide their involvement. incidents at a mosque and an islamic center. worshipers arrived at the local mosque this morning to find graffiti on the building an a plastic grenade inside. alater, complete police were cao the islamic center of hawthorne where there was more vandalism.

committed early saturday night r early sunday morning. muslim american community have expressed concerns about profiling following the attack. officials say at least one of the shooters pledged allegiance to i.s.i.l. which has expanded in the middle east in recent years. somber tributes were held in prairs today to mark onparis toh since the tragedy in that city. place de la republique and the bataclan. some suspects remain on the loose. mourners say they continue to message that says, we continue to live, we do not hide. al jazeera's jonah hull has more. >> the stie i.s.i.l. attacks ins

happened a month ago. a month in which life from the banks of seine to syria has changed dramatically. >> i think the long term, things will become more serious. because islamic state has become so strong and global jihaddism has become so strong. >> it was friday the 13th and at least eight attackers opened fire randomly with several detonating suicide vests. all were european citizens, all having returned from with battle experience from syria. while others living as social outcasts in paris and brussels. >> there is an umbilical cord between the wars raging in iraq

and syria. ayes could not have carried out this massive attack in paris, without having local, local recruits. >> reporter: paris followed a string of i.s.i.l. attacks on civilian targets including the bombing of a russian passenger jet over egypt that killed 224 people, exactly a fort knight earlier. western capitals have responded with the rhetoric of war, with an expanded bombing campaign against i.s.i.l. in syria amid the creeping fear of attack at home. >> the western powers will not send boots on the ground to syria and iraq. this means that the response is, in terms of rhetoric, basically vocal, we are at war, the reality is in the same strategy. air strikes, along with supporting local forces on the ground, it means it is a long gradual strategy that could take

years. >> it's been a bad month for refugees still filing into europe by the thousands each day. with perhaps two of the paris attackers believed to have entered europe within the refugee influx, border controls have tightened and support for far right immigrant, bashar al-assad moose who's army is the dominant force on the ground in syria. he may benefit from the ancient proverb, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. above all, the wake of the paris attacks has signaled a new reality. a constant threat to innocent life from washington to moscow. possibly for years to come. jonah hull, al jazeera, london. governor chris christie

moves to the main stage at next week's republican debate. christie participated in the undercard panel because of his low polling numbers. on tuesday, cnn will allow 9 candidates on the main stage. 4% in iowa or 3.5% nationally to be included. mike huckabee, george pataki acknowledgkirick santorum and t. 10 points higher than donald dod trump's. fox news has also released a poll with cruz holding 28% of republican votes in the state, compared with 26% for trump. trump who has in the past spoke kindly of cruz took aim at him today arguing the senator is unqualified to be president.

>> i don't think he has the right temperament. i don't think he's got the right judgment. >> what's wrong with his temperament? >> well you look at the way he's dealt with the senate where he goes in there like a -- frankly like i little bit of a main man. you'll never get things done that way. i have a phenomenal business, i have some of the greatest assets in the world. you can't walk into the senate and scream and call people liars and not be able to cajole or get along with people. he'll never get anything done and that's the problem with ted. >> trump added that his own judgment has been sound in business decisions as well as foreign policy, noting he was against invading iraq in 2003. december 18th marks one year of the attempt to normalize

relations with cuba. over the decades, the number of cubans entering the u.s. has gone up by 30,000. in recent weeks a journey has been caught short. al jazeera's paul beban has more. >> reporter: riot police stand guard on the nicaraguan border. the guard refuses to allow them to pass through on their way to the u.s. >> we have noaa no other no othn than to go to the united states. >> cuba will not accept us if we return. there will be retaliation against us. >> reporter: since 1966, those who come to the u.s. from cuba have more or less automatic residency. a influence wave of people trying to reach the u.s. in the past poverty and the

castro government's limits against people made braving the states, now cubans can travel to eecuador without visas. according to customs patrol, more than 10,000 arrived in the u.s. through mexican border. now that number has nearly doublindoubled until the entrane closed. continue their journey but those countries have also refused to let them in. >> translator: this position disappointing a little and especially due to the argued reason which is that this should be resolved through a regional treaty. >> reporter: central american countries have been on pressure to crack down on migration since

2013 when tens of thousands of children arrived in the u.s. uncombined. in the meantime, costa rica's foreign minister is says he is running out of patience. >> we urgently request that the countries ecuador colombia and panama implement more forceful measures to stop these flows. >> for now, these cuban migrants remain in limbo. paul beban, al jazeera. >> planning to discuss the fate of stranded cubans with cuban leader raul castro. up next, the movement that helped change the political landscape of the middle east. and the week ahead, the fifth anniversary of the arab spring.

>> welcome back to al jazeera america. here is a look at our stop top stories. in los angeles, when deputies arrived a suspect was waving a gun and pointed it at them. two deputies then fired 33 rounds in all, protesters say the killing was unjustified, and they want a federal probe. the fbi says it is finished searching a lake in san bernardino, california. divers had been looking for

clues after the deadly mass shooting at a civic center. authorities searched hoping to find missing hard drive of the people who were killed following the attack. >> john kerry is trying to broker a deal between the u.n. and libya's warring factions. he says they are on the verge of forming a unity government to stop i.s.i.l. from increasing its influence but much disagreement between libyan rivals. they only have in the wednesday to sign a deal. >> time for our regular look at the week ahead. this week marks the fifth anniversary of the arab spring uprising. a 26-year-old tunisian fruit seller is credited t with startg the protests, 26-year-old

mohammed buzizi, set himself afire. leaders were forced from office and hundreds were killed in clashes with security forces in various countries. in the five years since mohammed bouzzi's dramatic action, ongoing conflict in syria, iraq, yemen and afghanistan, al jazeera'aljazeera'saljazeera's s more. >> changes of government have brought few closer to democracy. nato air strikes helped libyan rebels tend rule of moammar gadhafi, now it looks like the first act of a long civil war. in the chaos of libya i.s.i.l.

continues to try to seize ground. it has e-adds approximately 2,000 to 3,000 fighters and i.s.i.l.'s central leadership sees libya as the primary ground to stage attacks. the country's latest leader, abdel fatah al-sisi has come hard on dissent. youth led protests in yemen were quickly hijacked by more powerful groups with political agendas. the president of 33 years, ali abdullah saleh, was deposed during the arab spring but remains a powerful.figure. rebels flown as houthis overran large parts of the country in

2014 including the capital sanaa. they're now part of the battle for power. a saudi led coalition started air strikes this year to try to defeat them. the war in yemen is also seen as a regional conflict between saudi arabia, its sunni muslim allies, its arch rival, predominantly shia iran. the disintegration of syria. more than 200,000 syrians have been killed and millions have been displaced causing an exodus to europe part of the largest exodus to europe since 1962. the islamic state of iraq and the levant, or i.s.i.l, grew in this environment. it has drawn thousands of foreign fighters to its ranks. multinational coalition continues against i.s.i.l. and more countries have become

embroiled in this conflict. tunisia has gone further to towards democracy. this year's nobel peace prize was awarded to a coalition of business activists in tunisia, the nobel committee credited them for staving off a civil war. but killed dozens and virtually shut down tunisia's tourism industry by i.s.i.l. courtney kealy, al jazeera. >> joining me in the decide yoas dahlia fahmi around in washington, d.c, graham bannerman. let us begin with you. you have said that the arab spring a misnomer, that what

americans in the west saw as an explosion of democracy was something else. what exactly was it in your opinion? >> well, there clearly was an element of democracy, people moving towards democracy, that was very important. but people don't talk about the evolution of identity that had changed but the hard line authoritarian governments had suppressed that. that was -- for example when i was teaching at the american university of beirut, 45, 50 years ago, you'd ask the average person in the area, who are you? they would say i'm an arab. but now, they would say i'm a sunni i'm shia i'm muslim. but when the arab spring pushed aside those governments, people broad forward their identities which was more islamic

throughout region. >> let's talk about some of the nations that have been impacted by the arab awakening. why in your opinion has tunisia been somewhat successful? >> i think there's been some success throughout the region. most governments today in the region realize they have to take popular opinion into account. where in the past they ignored it. secondly you see little bright green sprouts throughout the region. like the election today in saudi arabia where women were able to participate or the egyptian parliament elections where 73 women got elected and 33 christians. beginning shared power and then when he realized that his time to rule was over, he was willing to step down. that was unusual for anybody in

the middle east and he gets a lot of credit for that but they still face significant problems. >> we'll talk more about the tunisian quartet who got nobble prize this year. do you think thernobel breezy. >> if we look at the conditions that led to the initial revolution, it was a protest against three things, political tistyranny, economic stability,d there wasn't real economic opportunity and the last was technology. for first time we actually saw young people have extreme access

to communication because of their cell phones and facebook. what we saw was people coming to the square the tahrir square in egypt calling for transparency, good governance, and tar tahrir squartahrirsquare, people were g together in the hand of change on the one hand. it might be improbable to insist thithis was the space of politil oneship in the middle of tahrir square. >> how did the awakening as some

call it succeed in facing objectives? >> the the we actually saw the fear barrier broken. people were calling for a stepping down of their leader which they hadn't done before. >> mubarak? >> mubarak. the biggest benefit of this explosion of protest was that the fear barrier had been broken and continues to be broken because people still come out and protest until today. that might be the biggest positive of the arab spring. what has happened since then in many of these countries? in egypt, we have an elected government that is extremely repressive. under the current government we have up to 230 deaths happening in police custody. >> is this the outgrowth of arab spring or something else? >> this is an outgrowth of a return to authoritarianism. currently in egypt there are

40,000 political prisoners. we have a president who just until the last parliamentarying election was legislating under presidential fiat. the antiprotest law, the antifreedom of assembly law, all of these came to dismantle the civil structures. >> let me give mr. bannerman a chance. in your earlier comments the parliamentary elections in egypt, on the other hand, our other guest says there's so much repression there. in syria what happened to the arab spring there? >> syria is a tragedy beyond method but the forces are identity are thil there. the question we ask, why is

assad still this and who supports him among the syrian people. >> and what is the answer? >> the answer is because of this influence identity or this reassertion of this islamic identity people who weren't of that group felt more threatened by the islamacysts, they are still better than the threat of islam. by those people i mean you're talking about the minorities, the christians the jews, the a alloites, if you're an arab nationalist or syrian nationalist, assad must be as bad as he seems to be. >> are you saying that the

country should take its course? >> i'm saying the united states is interested in syria. we don't control the option and we don't control the government. what i'm saying is it's a dangerous situation, to have the united states get involved. >> professor fa hfersmi what do you say to that? >> there are a political, they fear the alternative which is islamist politics. i think that's actually not true. what we're seeing happening in syria, you remember moments have of the uprising, where a few schoolchildren spray-paining on evere in their school. to couch it in ideologic terms

really is note capturing the heart and the spirit of the initial revolution. >> let's move to another cub, yemen, where several years ago the united states thought it was a stable ally. its leader was actually complemented by president obama. now we have a proxy war. to what extent did the arab spring trig they're or any association going onen there? >> the case of yemen is interesting. the removal ever their leader led to a political vacuum. change doesn't simply mean removing leadership without there being alternatives put intinto place coalition formatin and a road map to change. what we saw happen in yemen is a real struggle, what happened in houthi rebels and the yemeni rebels for power.

these are marginalized groups, this is how revolutions happen. now it's a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran, can't be limited to the way we look the then internally through their borders. all of them are struggles through which the rest of the players see their future. >> mr. bannerman i'll give you the last word. would you talk about long term western spiflg u.s specifically. engagement post-arab spring? >> from 1897 to 2011, the leader of yemen was a zaidi. , for anyone who thought that was not going to cause huge civil distress were naive. this was going to be abattle of

identity for the people of yemen. the same things are taking plate meticulous the region. best interest in the region, cattle liscatalyst for change. what has happened was an identity crisis has replaced those hopeful days. whether the united states looks to the future, we have to be cautious because we can only interfere and be seen as an outsider and this can only have negative impact for our interests and for the people of the region. >> graham bannerman, professor, thank you for your insight on the week ahead. and before we go, here's a look at other stories make stories in the week ahead. closing arguments for the first defendant in the death of freddy gray, preparing for demonstrations as the trial of

officer william porter ends. the crisis in ukraine and the fight against i.s.i.l. also on tuesday, the greek parliament will vote on new financial reforms they need to pass, in order to secure $100 billion in bailout funds. the fram franchise star warw the puppet show, return to a lost art form, a must see performance in malaysia next. >> it has been a stormy weekend in the midwest. the severe weather is not over yet. flooding into monday and winter storm warnings in part of colorado. more of that whether i return.

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by committing acts of kindness. all the issues from politics to inspec inspects economic ex . >> overall, violent crime is down. in 1991, there were 928 in the city. but safety is relatively. >> it is done from the top down. >> city worker lucio is fid up. he took the day to protest.

>> it always has been. we've known it our whole lives. we hear shots almost every night. everybody is on pins and needles. then after a while you become numb to it. i don't want to be numb to it nymph. >> disparities of decades past are catching up. ash-har quraishi, chicago. >> our special series, five days in chicago begins tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. eastern. now to the weather. while the northeast are experienced unusual warmth, some areas of the rockies recorded up to 7 inches of snow. the snow postponed the on of a new express lane.

more from kevin corriveau. interesting weather. >> we have a lot to talk about in parts of colorado. the snow has ended for now but new system is coming in across the west that's going to be a big problem as we go to the next couple of days. let's take a look at what is hatching. the snow system that was in colorado is moving through kansas city, oklahoma and the panhandle of texas. upper level low is still going to cause problems this evening through parts of like i said the middle plains as we go into monday and monday afternoon as well, here we are looking at those new showers, new storms coming in off the west coast. off the next couple of days, higher elevations will be snow, one to two more feet. cascades as well as the sierras. heavier rain across louisiana and mississippi. earlier, we saw a big problem in

terms of tornadoes. eastern texas, two there, one in the panhandle of texas, but 50 homes damaged because of the storms. people are still without power across parts of the state. they are cleaning up right now. we are looking at some better conditions as that storm was out but unfortunately flooding is now going to be a major problem as we look over through the beginning of the week. come back and i'll show you where those flood potentials are. kansas area of red, that is flash flood warnings. they have just been issued over the last couple of hours. they will remain in effect until at least mid morning. flood potential across parts of eastern texas, arkansas as well as into plns. temperaturelouisiana. randall said, 30 much of the northeast, new york was at 55, the max temperature was at about 66 here. storm conditions across most of

the east and the temperatures are going to be quite warm, washington, d.c, high of 69°. out west it is feeling a little bit more like winter. >> thanks kevin. pope francis has praised the climate agreement reached in prairs oparis on saturday. he told thousands gathered for st. peter's square, the deal's success requires the cooperation of everyone and urged the international community to move quickly. his encyclical dealt with global warning. six installments ha of star wars have already made many bills of dollars. but florence looi reports.

>> r 2 d 2 and c 3 po. this is star wars in shadow puppets. elaborate puppets are trap trand to the screen. it is a concept dreamt up. >> to reconnect youth, traditional act. so maybe if you use something which they can easily recognize, like darth vader, you can actually help to project. >> help of a veteran of the arts form. pop dane has seen traditions

over the decades. he started a gallery for visitors as well as a school where he trains puppeteers and craftsmen. so the renewed interest in it comes as a pleasant surprise. >> i never expect there are so many audience come to watch, and to me it is a good sign. >> reporter: the troop travels around malaysia giving performances which are being well received. >> most of the young people are excited, the idea is crazy, how can you do something which is science fiction, in a very old culture. >> reporter: however the show wii has received permission from

lucas films, the producer of the star wars film, needs funding until then it's only a 1 15 mine performance. florence looi. al jazeera. >> and may the force be with them. coming up, third rail. we leave you with this picture of the empire state building, lit up in blue and white, in honor of the last night of hanukkah. good night. >> we're here to fully get into the nuances of everything that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target.

i'll ask a democratic member on the house homeland security committee. on the panel is there a right way to respond to mass shooting, and why fear is great business for the n.r.a. this is third. >> americans fear fresh attacks from i.s.i.l. after the massacre in san bernardino. republicans say efforts by democrats to restrict gun sales will not make the country safer.