and denial of the well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera with over forty thousand people killed under his rule it took twenty five years to bring him to a court of law. but why for so long with such a brutal dictator considered an ally of the west you're not reporting to the congress that the press there were engaged in a clandestine. al-jazeera unravels the history of chad's notorious former president the same habit a dictator on trial at this time on al-jazeera. at least fifty people are killed the syrian and russian jets bombed rebel held areas

in syria. and this is. coming up in the program yemen's ready to pull its receives its first aid supplies and weeks off to the east in the saudi that look a. hung jury in president of one orlando there's a class himself the election when it but his main opposition. heading to man. francis departs rome for what could be one of his most delicate yet focusing on the plight. so that at least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian asterix in syria twenty three people were killed in a government to strike in the rebel held in rebel held damascus suburb of east and

the area has been under government siege for years and three hundred fifty thousand people there are in desperate need of aid thirty seven people were killed in russian air strikes on a gathering of displaced people in the province monitoring group says fifteen children among the victims his own binge of aid has just returned from syria to go just across the border in turkey. despite a cease fire agreement between iran turkey and russia the violence in syria does not seem to be coming to an end the airstrikes in the hooter district of damascus targeted three different residential areas according to activists on the ground the number of casualties is on the rise they're saying that they're not able to provide help to all of the victims because they have very limited supplies inside. and a number of hospitals have also been targeted in the last few months they say that because of this siege and the assad government has not been allowing any medical aid or medical supplies to come in and they're not able to treat patients as they

would in a normal situation this is not the only place where strikes have taken place there also russians frights which door in between there and this is an area where isis fighters have fled to but it's not just isis fighters who have fled into these areas it's also civilians according to activists on the ground most of the people killed here there are more have been civilians so it's another day of violence that we've seen in syria activists had been called to telling us from the ground that in the last ten days or so more than one hundred people have been killed in just the eastern district which is besieged by syrian forces and they say they don't see the violence coming to an end any time soon. or hundred tabular is a syrian affairs analyst a senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy he says he's not surprised about the resumption of that strikes ahead of the next round of geneva talks. oftentimes when we go to towards negotiations seemingly

sealed agreements are not c. old. it's also hard to predict the activities of the regime the interesting thing is the russian involvement and they're one of the sponsors so we have to wait and see but it's not a good sign and it's a bit of deja vu. in the process the russians and iranians in the regime are using military force to shape diplomatic process and that's. you know a very. good tactic in terms of getting results in many many hours they're willing to escalate or able to do so and the problem for the united states and so i said there are unwilling to escalate and that's the reason why russia and the regime are doing this and i'm afraid that saudi arabia has begun to lift its blockade on yemen after three weeks medical supplies were flown in and the first ship carrying food has been unloaded but with yemen facing a famine u.n.

aid workers say much more is needed and quickly the shop has this report. the saudis have promised to lift the blockade of the yemen port of poti died four days ago but it was only on sunday that the first desperately needed food supplies were unloaded. now the ship has reached the port of where they entered carrying flour and relief material swaying five thousand five hundred tons this is not enough for you many people needs but we hope this is a good sign to open the port of potato and lift the siege many provinces. unicef says a child dies every ten minutes from preventable diseases that would equate to more than five hundred children dead in those last four days alone. five thousand tonnes of flowers unloaded on saturday but it's just a trickle too little and far far too late for the most vulnerable today it is fair to say that yemen. it's one of the worst places on earth

to be a child more than eleven million yemeni children are to be in acute need of humanitarian assistance that's almost every single yemeni boy and girl unicef says the war in yemen is sadly a war on children close to five thousand children have been killed or seriously injured in the last two and a half years and it welcomes the opening of the airport at santa it allowed us to send in a first humanitarian convoy one point nine million doses of vaccines vaccines that are urgently needed to vaccinate six hundred thousand children across yemen since the saudi led coalition began fighting the who tees in two thousand and fifteen the country's basic infrastructure no longer exists.

the blockade began on november sixth after hutu rebels fired a ballistic missile into saudi arabia the saudi military said the pl ok was imposed to stop weapons being smuggled into yemen but the un is warning that commercial imports of food and fuel must also resume the world food program says continuing to choke off those supplies could have a disastrous effect on fourteen million people living in the remote regions of northern yemen completely unable to cope for themselves peter shop al jazeera. both the president of honduras and the main opposition party have to claim victory in the country's presidential election that's despite official results yet to be declared by the nation's electoral court incumbent president hollande hernandez is seeking a second term as leader. if any. is the official tally records have been coming in that's more than clear cut we won this election that's what the six of poll returns

clearly shows. will opposition leader disputed the president's claim instead saying that he is the rightful winner. the results show that. the ballots are being tallied. the opposition of this election will not accept anything but the ballot result. will it enough sanchez who's got more from the capital to go to go for president one of london and this has claimed victory is that just a few minutes after the official media revealed in exit polls that he had a lead over. the alliance alliance a political opposition parties and now right after that former president who had been ousted in two thousand and nine by a military coup came out as a. representative of the alliance that in fact is they reject those numbers and

there they have their own exit poll saying that some of the alliance was winning the trend that he had fifty nine percent and for this president one of london and that's only thirty three percent he said that he hopes that the electoral tribunal respects that trend and the next president of. both candidates have claimed victory. and. away before the electoral tribunal any official results. thousands of protesters in the pakistani capital have announced that they will end their three week protests that turned violent over the weekend demonstrators agreed to sit enough to federal law minister ahmed voluntarily step down and apologize for a clerical law era that spot the protests demonstrate is being on the streets since november the eighth when a change in electoral laws was seen as blasphemous six people were killed in eva

two hundred injured when protesters clashed with police on saturday indonesian authorities have closed the main airport in bali because of volcanic activity on the island mt has been pouring think ash and steam into the sky since tuesday indonesian authorities have issued the highest alert and as geological experts warn the volcano erupting volcano last wrote today in nine hundred sixty three killing more than a thousand people and destroying several villages. still ahead here on out zurich keen to have their say in the polls path to democracy as millions turn out for provincial poll. that we talked to zimbabweans praying for a stronger economy and a price a future at the end of a week of a people. welcome

to look at the weather across america snow starting in north america and see this area of snow pushing up across central parts of canada otherwise across much of eastern canada and through the bulk of the u.s. actually weather conditions are looking dry and finally to a struggling temperature wise there minus one but otherwise not too bad for this time of the year fairly average winos is this frontal system which is slipping through across the rockies and towards the sierra nevada and that system which has been pushing up from the west another area of low pressure pushing in the pacific northwest part of the pineapple express so cold but sunny wet weather for seattle and some snow up over the rockies down into central parts of america in the caribbean sunny for jamaica where the conditions are settling down after a very wet weather we have had the jury look you know settle across the bahamas and parts of cuba and also says concentration of rain for costa rica and panama it could be very wet here over the next forty eight hours or so make your i.q. to also seen some heavy rain but certainly through guatemala through into billy's

and much of mexico where the conditions are looking draw and find somewhat of south america where we've got a few showers across ecuador through into peru and bolivia this frontal system across parts of power required to give you some heavy rain and there will be some heavy rain affecting rio de janeiro. short films of hope. and inspiration. a series of short stories that highlight the human triumph against the odds. al-jazeera selects at this time.

how do you watch al-jazeera reminder the top stories this at least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian air strikes in syria twenty three people were killed in a government test reichen the rebel held damascus suburb of peace and a more than thirty were killed in a russian attack on a gathering of displaced people and ends with. the saudi led blockade of yemen has been partially lifted off the three week medical supplies being flown in and the ship carrying food has been unloaded millions of yemenis are on the verge of starvation of the years of war type strictures on imports to get aid. both the president of honduras and the main opposition party have declared victory in the

election but the official result is not yet in one help or london and this is seeking a second term as president. saudi arabia's crown prince has told a forty one nation alliance of muslim nations that terrorists cannot be allowed to tarnish the name of islam had been selling was speaking at the first meeting of the islamic military counter-terrorism alliance in riyadh. there is no doubt today's meeting is of great significance simply for the reason that over the past year 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 where the saudi crown prince also go offered his condolences to egypt where three hundred five people were killed on friday off to fight his tugged at a mosque in northern sinai mass graves have been made for some of the victims which

included twenty seven children egypt's president of the fattah el-sisi has promised the use of brutal force against those responsible. there's been a vigil in gaza for the victims of the egypt attack and malcolm webb was there. hundreds of people have gathered here said someone killed. in the agency friday of the gunman opened fire at a mosque in the town of and all recent killing more than two hundred had already said about one hundred kilometers from here many palestinians live now hundreds of egypt so some people here knew some of those who were killed this morning events organized by some of gaza's political factions that he has some political significance this is a message of sort of the you know that muslims should be born after the musket of which had been. hit with the us he would be willing to say anything.

we support or wouldn't. want to see him. on his brokering reconciliation sold to. political parties and i'm not sure what the hottest thing in factions this is meant to lead to hand over of power here on friday from hamas to the palestinian authority you've ministration of gaza and the monitors of these developments for. you to arrive in gaza the more i think of these the reasons why i'm not just trying to belittle facts and i want to show solidarity with egypt at the moment but many people in gaza on i would have rather seen several repeated but failed attempts at reconciliation before the only way to see what will happen in the coming days if this reconciliation will actually produce something. now pope francis has left rome for a six day visit to mean more in bangladesh he's expected to address or hinge

a refugee crisis during the trip more than six hundred thousand range you have fled violence in myanmar to bangladesh in the past three months the papers previously condemned me most treatment of the ranger but his skull hytner reports. not for me i'm gone he faces unique challenges on this trip. roman catholic leader pope francis has been an advocate for refugees and the oppressed around the world on monday he embarks on a trip to the region facing one of the biggest a force exodus in the world this year previously he called the muslim or hindu good and peaceful people tortured and killed simply because of their faith during his visit the main focus will be on their plight but many will also be focused on whether the pope actually calls them. something the catholic leadership in myanmar has advised him against there are six hundred fifty thousand catholics in myanmar that's less than two percent of the country's population which is overwhelmingly buddhist. a member of unsung suchi is ruling party explains why they don't want the

pope to use the word. we do not accept the temora hinges they are bengalis muslims from bangladesh so he would like to request that he use the official term if the tape uses the ten you have to assume that it's an insult to. one bishop from a remote pocket of catholics in chin state is hopeful the visit will go smoothly. and i might be some differences of opinion between the pope and the me on my government but since he's been invited to this country i'm sure they will be understanding. a growing list of nations and international bodies are calling the military crackdown on the right ethnic cleansing something myanmar rejects visiting both sides of the crisis the pope will meet military and civilian leaders here in myanmar who also hold a large mass and young dawn the nation's largest city. then later in the week will

travel to bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of refugees are sheltering with plans to meet a group of and the country's leadership catholics all across myanmar traveling here to yangon to see their cope some trips taking days by road and by rail and some sleeping outside just so they can be here. i'm ok with the fact that he's coming for everyone in the country not only for christians you know. our country is not stable there are many conflicts the pope will bring peace here we need development i hope he's going to help bring development high hopes for the pope's first visit to myanmar. in which he will need to not only bring the message of peace from a religious leader but channel the abilities of an artful diplomat he's got other al-jazeera younger. voters in a poll and taken pots in elections in the final stage of a peace process that started eleven years ago the aim is to turn the country into a federal democratic republic so mr imports from the nine districts.

the early morning cold is no deterrent for these people in the district they have come to exercise their right to vote district and national officials have been working for days to ensure the election happens far one new constitution is being implemented and as a local elections have already taken place this is the first phase of election for national and instead as i'm leaving this election is important because they do about implementing the constitution the first phase of this election is happening in the hills and mountains where climate and terrain can be challenging the second phase will take place on december seventh in more moderate climate there are nearly six thousand registered voters here and competition is fierce every vote counts and representatives from all sides are keeping

a tight watch. there are candidates representing both the left alliance of nepal's communist party unified marxist leninist and the former maoist and the democratic alliance of the nepali congress and the right of center parties one candidate will represent this district in the national assembly and two in the state assembly but for people like groom who runs a hotel here this election is more about development and tourism and i'm with i really hope that we get a good representative tourism is important for us and we need good roads for people and tourists here we also need schools and hospitals. district is on a trucking route and has recently been plagued by roads but the journey is precarious polls close at five in the evening local time but by late afternoon most people have already cost of a while in milan district officials say that more than the expected number of people have cost their ballots nationally the turnout has we know making it

difficult to predict the outcome of this election which will turn into a federal republic so he has rushed out of their district in nepal. is a bubble in newspapers reporting that wrote mugabe was granted full immunity and a payment of ten million dollars to convince him to step down as president is involved independent also says a former president has been promised he can keep all his properties and that he will be paid his salary for the rest of his life the ruling party disputes that we got we got a special deal here in which us reports now from harare. officials in say that robert mugabe got the usual standard normal retirement package given to any former head of state we're told that he wants to stay in zimbabwe he plans to do that but he is able to leave the country and go to singapore for his usual regular medical check ups he's indicated he wants to do some farming in the country and we've heard his wife grace is still planning to build the robert mugabe university all eyes are now on the new president emerson when i got well and the cabinet he is

going to form are some indications say that it could be as early as monday when the cabinet is announced people are wondering will he be inclusive will you work with opposition party leaders will he also work with other political parties which could indicate that he is maybe genuine about being a unifying leader but some zimbabweans fear that if we see more of the old guard in cabinet it could indicate nothing really has changed on the ground and they fear is that if that is the case and things one transform quickly in terms of the economy the main thing are who are struggling economically and financially is the economy who is the finance minister going to be they hope that individual is someone who can work with the international community bring investment into the country create jobs and lisa tate the struggling economy well reviving zimbabwe's scrupled economy will be a key issue for the new president and with unemployment is as high as ninety percent business owners are hoping for better times but many are still pessimistic and

recent. time for contemplation to zimbabwe's momentous events the church of christ has twenty eight congregations in harare and they're all here. and did roof in the front row a university chaplain by his side a law student his studies had been broken up because his family became destitute. behind them a couple who may be wearing their sunday best but they're reliant on a small business that barely balances its books they're only just getting by. it's the sort of service that always has religious intensity but after the dramatic events of the last two weeks this one has an added dimension out would relief in would anxiety there all of one faith but there's a broad cross-section of people here all of them sharing the hardships of so many

years most of them all unemployed some self-employed. tries to run the business exchange rates and the hyperinflation make family life painful at times i'm a business man but i can't afford to feed my family. because. the situation is as it is and where people are going to save the changes maybe even the business community just want to see that change is not new that we see. here is not. the only thing i've been using like he was the vice president and he still is in place and he's on top so we guess after twenty five years. it. is pessimistic about his future it's the age of twenty five i should have been doing something better with my life but like now i'm still. after school i have no hope i don't know we saw something that i can celebrate. and so

different mood than the elation of last week namely are representative of many people they have hope but not trust andrew simmons al-jazeera harari. to cuba and the nation is held its first elections a year off of the death of fetal caster the new national assembly is expected to pick a success if eighty six year old relic castro says he will step down in february after serving two five year terms a lot in america to lucy a new and explains what it means for the communist country to six decades of castrated. this is cuban style democracy from seven a.m. people voted in the only election in which ordinary citizens have direct participation. this enthusiastically explains that unlike in other countries municipal council candidates are not allowed to campaign. their biographies and qualities are posted everywhere so you can read about them and make your choice.

the choice begins in town halls where each neighborhood proposes someone to represent them cubans are electing twelve and a half thousand delegates out of more than twenty seven thousand candidates but not a single one of them belongs to the opposition even though this year for the first time an unprecedented number of dissidents attempted to run but without success. a longtime opponent says it's impossible not. don't have to be a member of the communist party to run but if the party doesn't approve it you can't be a candidate in this system nothing is as it seems it's a system designed to perpetuate a one party socialist state or as they say here the revolution. and it will be put to the test in february when in directly elected national assembly chooses the successor to president raul castro marking the end of the sixty year castro era.

well known musician says opposes the election process. no system is perfect but in other countries you have the right to vote for a political project and next time say no this doesn't work i want to bid on another project or modify it in cuba you can't. three years ago was temporarily blacklisted after this performance but he's saying that he wanted to choose his president by direct vote. it's widely presume that this man first vice president. with the placement of castro but as kind of access points out it's not up to him. i have no way of knowing since we don't choose or decide that's why people feel that those at the top decide for you. a decision that is supposed to begin here at the municipal level where those who disagree can only protest by casting

a blanket. you see in human i'll just see down. at least eleven people have been killed after a bus overturned in southern chile on saturday it was carrying healers from a health center who worked with the indigenous men people about twenty were injured police say the they believe speed was a factor in the crash the floor of a nightclub has collapsed on the spanish island of tenerife injuring twenty two people people fell from the ground floor into the basement their injuries included broken legs and ankles tenerife because of moroccan is a highly popular holiday destination for europeans. south korea will review whether or not to abolish its anti abortion law the announcement came after two hundred thirty thousand people filed a petition calling for the law to be abolished sold criminalize abortion in one nine hundred fifty three during the korean war when leaders wanted to boost the population and the army to fend off north korea is powerful opposition to the legislation drive in a strongly christian country scientists in australia are encouraging people to help

them study native frogs spy recording the creatures themselves israeli museum has designed a smartphone app that can record the unique sounds of two hundred forty frog species in fabian is under threat from climate change predators and human development. not many. that you get. that sound like a lot taps. absolutely everything so some of the frogs that you might hear might sound like. bach and. so amazing diversity and this fine will help you capture those calls and then we can identify where frogs are and how they're doing frogs at all on our website al-jazeera. dress.

so this is al-jazeera just time to recap the top stories here and at least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian air strikes in syria twenty three people were killed in a government to strike in the rebel held damascus suburb of well more than thirty were killed in a russian attack on a gathering of displaced people in the province the saudi led to blockade of yemen has been partially lifted after three weeks medical supplies have been flown in and the first ship carrying food has been unloaded billions of yemenis are on the verge of starvation after years of war and tight restrictions on imports including aid. both the president of honduras and the main opposition party have declared victory in the election the official result is not yet in one hundred nine this is seeking a second term as president. and this. is the official tally recalled has been coming in it's more than clear cut we won this election that's what these exit polls clearly show. when opposition leader has disputed the president's claim

instead saying that he is the rightful winner. the result showed that more than thirty percent of the ballots are being tallied and we are a heed the opposition of this election will not accept anything but physical ballot results to pakistan thousands of protesters in the capital have announced that they will end their three week protest turned violent over the weekend demonstrators agreed to sit in the after the federal law minister ahmed voluntarily stepped down and apologized for a clerical laura that spot the protest demonstrators have been on the street since november the eighth when a change in the toll roads was seen as blasphemous six people were killed and over two hundred injured when protesters clashed with police on saturday. indonesian authorities have closed the main airport in bali because of volcanic activity on the island has been pouring think ash and steam into the skies since

tuesday in the days you know authorities have issued their highest alert as geological experts warn the volcano may erupt the volcano last year up to nine hundred sixty three killing more than one thousand people and destroying several villages. headlines news continues here on out is there right after out there said . documentary. at this time.