by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. if you're in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time is aiming to replace america and and go around the world for the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time just see a. pakistan's army is called in as thousands of demonstrators try to shut the country down in

protest against a government minister whom they accuse of blasphemy. come fully back to go this is al jazeera live from doha also ahead another step in nepal's long path to democracy where voters are having their say in the first regional elections it's just not enough rights groups warn the arrival of four aides planes in yemen will do little to tackle the humanitarian crisis thus. i don't know what to do. nothing to do with sales may be going through the roof at amazon but we'll find out why some of its workers have little to smile about. thanks joining us for those have returned to the streets on the outskirts of

pakistan's capital islamabad. in even larger numbers despite a police crackdown on saturday at least six people were killed one hundred fifty injured when officers moved in to disperse a protest camp with tear gas and water cannon thousands of others have rallied in solidarity blocking roads in several cities and paralyzing major highways the government asked the military to help restore order but at least for now the army seems hesitant to get involved the protestors are supporters of a religious political group they're angry over the wording of a parliamentary bill and want the cabinet to resign mariana hond has more. granted a call to shut down pakistan issued by cleric and political party leader who stands in opposition to the government for three weeks protesters have choked the streets of islamabad and when there was violence on saturday as police tried to disperse them they spread along highways to other major cities including the whore and

karachi model of this movement is not political it is the duty of every muslim to protect the owner of islam the protesters maintain this is not political but this is an issue that could undermine pakistan's government. it began when pakistan's norman is desired hammered introduced a bill before parliament that made no reference to the prophet muhammad protest is linked it to the highly contentious issue of blasphemy and while the amendment was withdrawn blamed on a clinical era and hammett apologized the little known group behind the protests argued it remained an affront tells them they want the minister gone. and after the violence on saturday they want the entire cabinet to resign to move wherever private television broadcasts a blocked and social media sites are restricted by the energies are

a division we have no news. all the t.v. channels are closed people aren't coming out of their houses because they're scared it's a strange situation in the backyard of the narcanon this is the fault of the clerics their extremists attitudes they simply don't care about people and the business is being destroyed by the clerics doing this in the name of islam they're absolutely wrong and people are in pain the protest organizers have still managed to spread the call for demonstrations today again encouraged by the police failure to get them off the streets kadhim hussein rizvi the cleric who leads to take a lead by pakistan power she has called on his followers to bring the entire country to a home the government has responded by calling in the army many of bracing for what that might mean median home and to zero. come on haifa sent us this update from kandahar are on the highway between a whore and azzam about. for the day the highway systems of

pakistan have come to a grinding halt because the protesters are now broking intersections all along their route which travels from north to south and. thousands of people are stuck on the highway some of the fortunate people who may have some fertility on the road but there are family juergen elderly the sick who are stuck in the long queue the protesters will not allow them to move any further because of the anger that they're expressing after the pakistani government went after those protected and. instead of their flooding them they have now turned out in large numbers and they're saying that they will continue to rotate for many more days to come that of course will mean huge problems for people like day who are already suffering they say they need help and they need some guidance as to what to do. the saudi crown

prince mohammed bin simon has commended the arab islamic coalition for its fight against what he called terrorism he made the comments during the opening of a security conference about combat in armed groups the group was formed by saudi arabia two years ago she wrote that you were human when. there is no doubt today's meeting is of great significance simply for the reason that over the past years terrorism has been wreaking havoc in our respective countries in the absence of concerted coordination between our countries this is becoming history with the establishment of this coalition more than forty islamic countries have dubbed held efforts in combating terrorism with it militarily financially or in terms of political and intelligence cooperation rights groups warning the arrival of four aids planes in yemen is not enough to stave off a humanitarian crisis they landed in the capital sanaa on saturday carrying medicine and supplies that i should go name has more. wheels down at santa

international airport for the first time in almost three weeks until saturday a saudi led blockade had shut down most of yemen's ports of entry after warnings by the un a handful of planes carrying polio and diptheria vaccines and aid workers arrived in the hooty controlled capital had only one like me and my son a international airport was banned from receiving communitarian aid aircraft for more than one thousand days that led to more than five hundred u.n. aid workers being stuck here and the consolation of more than fourteen aid flights . earlier in the week some aid trickled into the western port of who died but that has now stopped the world food program tells al-jazeera it's still waiting to offload a ship carrying twenty five thousand metric tons of wheat and enough to feed one point eight million yemenis for

a month people need an avalanche of eight millions are on the brink of famine and they're struggling to survive cholera polio and diptheria outbreaks in addition to the war humanitarians are serving the needs of seven million people who are completed dependent on. the blockade began on november sixth after who the rebels fired a ballistic missile into saudi arabia. the saudi led coalition fighting on behalf of the government says it needed to stop weapons smuggling the u.n. warns commercial imports particularly food and fuel must also resume the world food program says continuing to choke off the supply could have a disastrous effect on fourteen million people living in northern yemen people it says it doesn't have the resources to help natasha going to does iraq. in other world news a factory explosion has killed at least two people in eastern china it happened in

the ng well in a part of the city event had already been cleared out for demolition the state news agency shin was says the blast cause some buildings to collapse and more deaths are feared about thirty people have been taken to hospital. zimbabwe's new president is getting down to business two days after he was someone in m.s.n. not god is choosing his cabinet and working on government reforms in his inaugural speech on fighting he vowed to reengage with the world fight corruption and create jobs and are same in three points from harare. undoubtedly one of the main aims of this weekend from is actually finishing off a list of his cabinet which is expected to be announced on monday possibly and beyond that he has to look at further ways of attracting investment to zimbabwe he's coming under a lot of pressure from the west to come out with effective reforms he's promised democracy and a lot of people are now saying when will we hear the full particularly m.d.c.

the main opposition party in zimbabwe they are saying that it has to be seen to be believed there are predicting that they will give this man a chance but is resolute in that he will change things even though he has a past which is directly linked to mugabe and also he still stands accused of a number of human rights abuses and indeed an allegation he meant to be learned in the eighty's of being part of atrocities that were ordered so ahead of him a lot of problems a lot of excitement it has to be said amongst zimbabweans but then on this rainy sunday there is this feeling now that is growing that maybe this is not is as beautiful as it seems that mugabe may be gone but now the honeymoon period may not last as long as some people think. the polls have just closed in the past northern

mountain district says voters take part in the first federal and state elections under a new constitution it's a first phase of the vote across thirty two districts election is expected to may the groundwork for the past transition into a federal state since the king was forced out of office in two thousand and six the himalayan nation has been trying to overhaul its political system and leave behind years of violence and instability power is being devolved away from the central government to seven newly created states the change will make it more difficult to remove a prime minister those who push for reform say it will lead to more stable governments have a portion of seats in the state and federal assemblies will be allocated to women and indigenous people name is to increase gender and social equality but they are concerned that fringe is fringe quantities will be pushed aside leaving power in the hands of the parties which have dominated the party politics for decades so has more now from district one of the most difficult area to set up polling both

because of its harsh climate and remote location. when one on district on the other pune a circuit of nepal where elections are taking place for state and national assembly no it's been almost four hours since polls have started and the lines are continuing almost half the votes have already been cast and at this polling booth. is the smallest electorate with just about five thousand five hundred eighty one registered voters but it is one of the most challenging districts because of climatic conditions as well as difficult terrain. because of this or just tickle challenges elections are going to happen in two phases the first phase today is in the mountains and the hills and the second phase of the seventh of december in the lowlands where climatic conditions are much better now there are two major contests . students want the left alliance between the you know unified marxist leninist

party as well as the former maoist and the other ones the democratic alliance the old old get vanguard of democracy in terms of the party congress and the other right wing parties so the competition is really high but locals over here that we've talked to say whoever wins they really hope will develop this district. still ahead on al jazeera the cost of fighting al shabaab we report from kenya where displaced people are too scared to return home last meet one of the foundations of palestinian couples fighting to stay together in the face of an israeli residency. with.

how are we going to little bit of everything going on across north asia at the moment rain sleet and snow sliding across the sea of japan into japan itself this cold front introducing some much cooler air and we have seen a fair bit of snow the west temperatures in beijing struggling to get about four or five celsius over the next day or so further west still shanxi province here and now i still dusting of snow coming in across the region here that wintry weather will tend to ease a little further research over the next couple of days three or four celsius there for pyongyang and also for beijing we have about ten degrees warmer than that in tokyo sixteen celsius in the socket at least that is the case on tuesday a little cooler there as we go on into were to stay there for tokyo but it's still fairly quite nicely around eighteen celsius with some reasonable spells of sunshine where small sunny spells to winter a good parts of southern china hong kong getting up to around twenty two degrees but these southerly winds will push cloud in across the region as we go through

tuesday said he wanted to shout into the southern fringes of china as you move into the middle part of the way also across southeast asia wilson making the thunderous showers as per usual the heaviest of which will be across a good part of indonesia. a hundred and sixty years the. station started a band in an artist straight in cairo. the brass band was so popular it gave birth to an entire musical genre. a century and a half later the sound still resonates with me today. the people's music at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of the top stories protesters have returned to the streets on the outskirts of toxins capital islamabad and even launching numbers despite a police crackdown on saturday the government scaf the military to help restore order by the army seems hesitant to get involved the protesters are angry about the wording of a parliamentary bill. zimbabwe's new president is getting down to business two days after he was sawn in amazon a god is working on finalizing his cabinet and devising government reforms he's out to re-engage with the world fight corruption and create jobs and rights groups so warning the arrival of four aids planes in yemen is not enough to stave off

a humanitarian crisis they landed in the capital sanaa on saturday carrying medicine and supplies efforts to control outbreaks of cholera and if teria have been hampered by saudi that brocade which was imposed almost three weeks ago. kenya's military says it has pushed fighters out of a forest along the border with somalia people who've been displaced by the fighting as scared to go back home though the government wants them to katherine sawyer reports from southern kenya. elizabeth two sons were reason he killed by unknown people they lived inside borneo a forest that extends to the border with somalia. their home area we too as well as other paths along the kenyan coast have been attacked several times over the last few years. we stayed home that night instead of going back to the camp for displaced people one of my sons was not well and so we all decided to be with him

we were attacked at around eight pm two other people were killed on that night in this village the government has often blamed somalis are shabaab fighters who've been using the forest as a hideout to plan attacks and train kenyan recruits but also increasingly conflict between firmus and hard as living inside the forest one of elizabeth cuddle sons was in that house when the attackers came the other one was right out there there was also a friend in the compound their mother was preparing to sleep in the next house she says that the attackers targeted the men they slit their throats and then fled the members of. this lama county administrative leader shows us some of the trouble areas he says the security operation has forced al-shabaab out of the vast forests all the works with the one you see. and all both worlds which they can use. have been seen in years and when i was serious in america they don't mean free like in the us. we come out the government now once more than two thousand people

have been living in this temporary shelters on the edge of the forest to go back home life is stuff for them here they have little food and a bed bag infestation but they say going back right now is not an option so after mcqueary said callum if i knew it's true the government has pushed out but what we fear even more than al-shabaab are the herders in the forest they're the ones who've been killing our people lately they're the ones who should be dealt with before we go back. agnes who also lives in the camp this is the first time in three months that she and her son have come back to check on their home they don't have much time they tell us they have to go back to the camp before nightfall when it gets dangerous catherine sorry al-jazeera we too south in kenya libya's coast guard has recovered the bodies of thirty one refugees who died when their boat sank off its northwestern coast on saturday about two hundred people were rescued and

brought back to tripoli a coast guard spokesman told down to zero that forty people are still missing nearly three thousand migrants have died in the mediterranean sea this year trying to cross into year. now israel's occupation has curbed the freedom of movement for many palestinians in spirit families in some areas at least twelve thousand people mainly from the occupied west bank are affected by israel's ban on family reunification but as smith reports some go for our camp where thousands are crammed into what effectively no man's land. location location location rarely is the property hunting maxim more important than in the carved up territory of the occupied west bank mar obeyed lives in occupied east jerusalem she has the right to live in israel her fiance with some cell a main lives in ramallah and our fifteen year old temporary israeli emergency order means we're some cannot get israeli residency to join his wife to be so they have

to live here. falls inside the municipality of jerusalem so it's governed by israel but it's on the palestinian side of the separation wall. they are bent like any other engaged girl you plan you have to dream i would have chosen for our club i was thinking of a house with a small garden it's more like a dream though faced by the reality i had no choice but to live in for a cup so i can keep my identity card and my life partner. catherine accepts unusual situation i mean seventy thousand people packed into a limited piece of land now the population of course has grown by as many as ten thousand people a year every year for the last twelve years but this town could never expand outwards because of the separation wall and that suits the israelis because it's another way that they can control the number of palestinians living on the other side of the wall the main purpose in our point of view all from our long experience

in this field is to push palestinians outside of their voters to to divide the families they know what it means you know the family in the personal social network and they are targeting the feminists this is they are targeting children they are targeting your families they are targeting you know their presence in jordan more than twelve thousand palestinians are stuck in this bureaucratic limbo and there's no chance of relief in sight burnitz main al-jazeera in the occupied west bank. rallies have been held across the world to highlight crimes against women people march in istanbul in turkey even though police initially didn't give permission those involved want the government to do more to reduce domestic violence and impose gender inequality public demonstrations in turkey have been restricted things last year's fair to cool and the un's campaign that aims to end violence against women has been highlighted in brazil the famous christ the redeemer statue

has been eliminated in orange in support of a cause the united nations says one in three women and girls in every country in every society experience violence in their lifetime. german chancellor angela merkel is urging against another election as she tries to form a new government coalition talks between merkel's conservative rock into smaller parties collapsed last week she still hopes to pull a government together soon after the center left social democrats agreed to more negotiations. so in the next election we must do better we must have solved more problems than we have today it is with this in mind that we must evaluate possible talks with the social democrats of course we're prepared to talk but talks can only be conducted on the basis of mutual respect that must be clear. voters in honduras are heading to the polls for elections that will determine the next president current leader when orlando and wonders announced

he would stand again despite a one term limit public safety is one of the central issues of the campaign honduras still one of the most dangerous countries in the world the security ministry says in the first ten months of this year more than three thousand people died in violence corruption is also a major problem the government has been accused of bribery embezzle meant and doing business with drug cartels and the washer group transparency international says military and police are selling weapons and ammunition on the black market mariana sanchez reports from the capital tegucigalpa. with every election there is hope and he will do just the hope for change is crucial in one of the world's most violent countries horses sandals will vote with that in mind. i want to have the blessing of being able to come back home alive every night for now we don't have that. the promises of improved security i fight against corruption but also of

a better economic future those are some of the core issues the nine candidates are offering no durance on sundays general elections. broadcaster and center left candidates aloofness atlanta is splitting the opposition vote with former professor from the liberal party opinion poll say president that none this is leading he's the first president since recent history to run for reelection the supreme court lifted a constitutional ban on precedents serving more than one term paving the way for it nonetheless. according to the law the solution shouldn't have been adopted but it was approved by the supreme court the electoral tribunal the army said they wouldn't dispute the decision diplomats sad it was the court's decision and we haven't seen extreme civil disobedience because of it. eight years ago president was ousted in a military led coup for trying to conduct

a non-binding referendum on the issue of the election. some voters say democracy is being challenged in this election. on sunday will decide it will have four years of a government that is byo it right and it's all for tarion some analysts say this election will be a referendum on that and this is tenure the challenge for the other candidates will be to convince voters their promises can surpass the economic and security policies this government insists have been a success. here at this one neighborhood on the outskirts of some. people like santiago sanchez say the presidential term limits or even the issue of security are not the most important issues for under the us. if there was work for older people i wouldn't mind waiting for the president. sixty percent of london's live in poverty many say this government has forgotten to give them jobs however many hundred say they may prefer to vote for what they already know and for promises

from new candidates that make ultimately remain unfulfilled and innocent as i just see that they will see on the hundred s. . cambodia's from minnesota own saying has called for the closure of one of the country's main human rights groups the con body and center for human rights was founded by opposition leader cancel ca who is in jail on treason charges which he rejects the main opposition party was this banded by the top border earlier this month by scopes aon saying who's one of the world's longest serving prime ministers is systematically silencing critics. shares in the retail giant amazon reach a record high at the end of last week surging on optimism over holiday sales its founder jeff bezos is now the world's richest person and reportedly worth more than one hundred billion dollars but those employed by the online store to deliver goods are not going as well jacob ward has a story and john delivers packages for amazon. the gig

is unpredictable amazon flex drivers spend as many as sixteen hours a day watching an app for available block of deliveries if they get one they'll deliver perhaps a dozen packages in a two hour window then they wait sometimes for hours without pay i want my job i started what would i do i will be in a car but i think doing the job is great but i just can't make any money doing it right now john is not his real name and we can only tell you he lives on the east coast of the united states he says he doesn't want to lose this job but he can no longer afford to work it either when i started. or base wage plus tips. papper several months to change to. base pay including tips amazon now counts tips for its amazon flex drivers against their total pay john used to make roughly three hundred dollars in

a day now he's making two hundred dollars if he's lucky amazon is developing a service to use drones amazon has made a science of delivering goods fast and cheaply someday it says it wants robots to make deliveries but at the moment it relies on contractors to cut costs in this country if you are treating workers as an independent contractor you're saving up to thirty percent of your labor costs you're not pain into social security you're not paying into workers' compensation for workers who are injured you're not paying into unemployment insurance for workers who are laid off and two months before innocence from the change in pay on a john received a new contract to sign you an amazon agreed to resolve disputes between you and amazon on an individual basis through final and binding arbitration he was being asked to sign away his right to sue in open court and then amazon changed his pay i

shouldn't have to send off e-mails trying to do now through my printer because thirty percent less than what it was last week and i still haven't gotten an answer because there's nobody to talk to i don't know what to do there's nothing to do you can quit that's around through you're a private contractor and you separate term but the job or you don't the holidays put pressure on everyone but for those without the comfort of full time employment there is no such thing as time off amazon says it cannot comment on pending litigation take aboard al-jazeera. rides to and from the indonesian island of bali have been disrupted after a volcano erupted for the second time in a week mt agoing send smoke and ash fifteen hundred meters into the sky it's been running since september keeping about twenty five thousand local some their homes the last major eruption in one thousand nine hundred eighty three killed more than a thousand people.

well again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera protesters have returned to the streets on the outskirts of pakistan's capital islamabad an even larger numbers despite a police crackdown on saturday the government asked the military to help restore order protesters are angry about the wording of a parliamentary bill come on hyder has more from ha ha ha on the road between the hall and is i'm about. there travelling distance from lauder on the motorway about four before and. however it has taken literally prayers deterred from one intersection to another interchange and that of course is causing huge problems because what the protectors have done they have barricaded all those. points where they were able to go much to the border and they have blocked that highway at

several places. saudi arabia's crown prince has commended the arab islamic coalition for its fight against what he called terrorism he made the comments during the opening of a security conference about combating armed groups she wrote that you wish you had . there is no doubt today's meeting is of great significance simply for the reason that over the past years terrorism has been wreaking havoc in our respective countries in the absence of concerted coordination between our countries this is becoming history with the establishment of this coalition more than forty islamic countries have dubbed held efforts in combating terrorism whether it militarily financially or in terms of political and intelligence cooperation two people have died in two others a seriously injured in a factory explosion in eastern china at least thirty people have been taken to hospital after the blast in ningbo as zimbabwe's new president is getting down to business two days after he was sworn in emma said my god why is working on finalizing his cabinet and government reforms his vow to reengage with the world to

fight corruption and create jobs and polls have just closed in the past no then mountain districts as voters take part in the first state and federal elections under a new constitution sunday marks the first phase of the vote across thirty two districts the next spot happens in ten days. inside story starts now. with. good. an unprecedented attack on a mosque in egypt's sinai region has killed more than three hundred people including twenty seven killed why has the sinai.