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a russian jets bombed rebel held areas in syria. and this is outside life and also coming up in the program returning to come protesters in pakistan vowed to end their protests after the federal minister volunteered to step down over his clerical error. prone during president on all under nine does declares himself election winner would say this is made opposition . into the indonesia's mount volcano forces the closure of bali's main airport. we start in pakistan where thousands of protesters in the capital have announced that they will end the three week protests that turned violent have the weekend demonstrators agreed to end the sit in federal nor minister ahmed voluntarily step

down and apologize for a clerical law that spot the protests demonstrators have been on the street since november the eighth when a change in electoral laws was seen as blasphemous six people were killed and there were two hundred injured when protesters clashed with police on saturday and let's speak now with want to come out joins from colorado. it seems we have resolution. absolutely that appears to be the case that day was arranged early morning islamabad time when all of the people a grade that they were dating did a grade to their document at six point edge and that would include include the release of all of the protesters and within three days the law minister's resignation as you mentioned also that day will be at thirty day period in which a proper inquiry a report will be shown as to whether this was just a clerical added or there were more people behind this idea would also be an

inquiry into the botched operation by the government so indeed for the first time i rail of hope that this all will result peacefully the leadership of the protesters of god is now saying that they will be marching all the way to go up on job within after the announcement of victory they will of course continue to wake tree but this will c.d.'s really have serious implications because other ministers are likely to go to engage in a minister who ordered that operation has come and scathing criticism from his former colleague the interior minister who was the interior minister of this country formulate so they will be implications for the government a huge setback for the government and there were three for the protesters tell us about more about that setback was likely to be the fallout not only for the government politically but also for. generally a public because there were a lot of arrests and a lot of injuries to. spinning

out of. the united arab emirates to come back to the prime minister that the military could not be used again. because they were not good people for them and they should be. because the entire country was bad and i was going to happen. to. be under scrutiny definitely have far reaching implications. people who are stuck on the highways. finally start moving. from the leadership of the. within the next hour and they were left. to what they wanted to protect. then

of course now waiting for their leadership to announce and. to come out thanks very much indeed kamal hyder reporting that at least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian air strikes in syria twenty three were killed in the government to strike in the rebel held at damascus suburb. 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 the monitoring group says fifteen children were among the victims there's only been jevon aid has just returned from syria 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 are 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 the strikes have taken place there also russian strikes which door in between the resort and this is an area where isis fighters have fled to but it's not just isis fighters who fled into these areas it's also civilians according to activists on the ground most of the people killed here they were your have been civilians so it's another day of violence that we've seen in syria activists had been called a 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 well let's hear now from andrew tabler who's a syrian affairs analyst and senior fellow at the washington institute for near east policy he says he's not surprised about the resumption of the strikes ahead of the next round of geneva talks. oftentimes when we go to towards negotiations seemingly sealed agreements are not sealed and 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 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 to indonesia now where authorities have closed the main airport in bali because of volcanic activity on the island. has been pouring thick ash and steam into the sky since tuesday and today's you know thirty's of. his geological experts when the volcano erupt. up to the nine hundred sixty three killing more than a thousand people and destroying several villages but now it's a marketing guy who's an associate professor at the university of adelaide he was actually in bali near the volcano yesterday and joins us via skype from perth. many thanks for joining us here on the program what's your assessment you having been so close to all kind of what's your assessment of what the situation is right now. yes so as you know the maybe i'll go eruption has increased not to video of the last few days it started with

a significant and sustained action eruption starting on saturday and that's been ongoing and over the last day or so that's evolved into what we call a mathematic are optional and showing signs of magnetic option where molten rock is now getting close to the surface and it's at that stage of the eruption that we really warry that the that the eruption could become more intense and we could have major explosive events ok and one of the main dangers from that i mean power from the obvious the lava and so forth but i guess because it's a rainy season that has implications too does it. yes one of the biggest dangers and in fact what causes much more deaths and damage than the lava is what we call la havas which volcanic mudflows where the ash mixes with ryan and then can flood down mountains and the river valleys lot has already started and been seen in from moscow and so that's one of the biggest hazards and and that's one of the major exclusion areas from the volcano right now as we look at the pictures of the

mountain we can see if you vos plumes of ash does this billowing into the sky and that's has big problems for flights apart from anything else. yes so this is there's little danger at the moment from people who are well clear of the exclusion zone so that there's a limited little danger for people to be affected by anything such as lava if they're outside of the i ten kilometers the biggest dangers are la havas which is which have also been evacuated from those areas and as you said the actual sat three kilometer hiatt or more. that is now where you can always pop someone bali was always a lot yesterday that's close to four and has a potential to cause health costs if you magically in the on right now are going to go and wife's you mentioned the exclusion zone there what is the situation with the people who live nearby the mountain. so i was up in that area yesterday and there's actually very little panic in the air and people have been preparing for this for a long time most of the people have been evacuated from the tremors and you're

quite associated with. the eruption began back in september so your parties have this well under control that's a fact why didn't the area that slightly widen the exclusion zone to try to act like few more people but that's that lease that main area around the volcano has been cleared and this is your assessment that it could be any moment now but it really is potentially so unfortunate volcanoes are terribly difficult to predict. and it could have a major eruption at any moment but it could also undergo a bit of an eruption of that settle down. looks like you're busy so i will let you take that cold mountain to appreciate your time here in your expertise thanks very much indeed thank you very much my pleasure. the president of honduras and the main opposition party have declared victory in the country's presidential election that's despite official results yet to be declared by the nation's electoral court

becoming president one orlando one and this is seeking a second term as leader of the senate. is the official tally wrinkled fifteen coming in it's more than clear cut we won this election that's what these exit polls returns clearly show well meanwhile opposition leader salvador nasrallah disputed the president's claim instead saying that he is the rightful winner. in the result showed that more than thirty percent of the ballots being tallied that we are indeed the opposition and the selection will not accept anything but the school ballot results might have sanchez has more now from the capitol to kusa gump . well president one of lumbermen this has claimed victory is that just a few minutes after the official media revealed in exit polls that he had a lead over. of the alliance alliance a political opposition parties and now right after that former president for liar

who had been ousted in two thousand and nine by a military coup and came out as a. representative of the alliance saying that in fact if they reject those numbers out there they have their own exit poll saying that. of the alliance was winning the trend that he had fifty nine percent and for this president one of only thirty three percent he said that he hopes that the electoral tribunal respects that trend and the next president. both candidates have claimed victory. and. way before the electoral roll gave any official results are still ahead here on al jazeera yemen who did a poll it was first supplies in weeks after the. heading to me

pope francis departs road for what could be one of his most delicate overseas trips yet focusing on the plight of the injured. triangle a raid. zero. temps and it's going to. welcome back so we look at the weather across the levant some western parts of asia is quiet and then after quite an unsettled spell of weather we have got a weather front which stretches across parts of iran and dives through into the gulf region so that could be some rain here and elsewhere around the caspian sea could be one or two showers on the eastern shores when the eastern side of the mediterranean the weather conditions general looking fairly quiet and twenty one in beirut heading on into choose day we have got this low pressure beginning to move in getting as far cyprus i think during the course of the day not that stage or the

highs of nineteen and back down to a bit warmer in tehran that fourteen now as we head across in theory be impinged for weather conditions generally fine for the most part but this front could give the threat some rain across parts of saudi arabia would entirely rather chance of showers pushing to catch up but it shouldn't be anything of any intensity otherwise weather conditions looking fine upper darby looking pretty good temperatures there rising to twenty nine so that's heading into southern portions of africa where it's quite unsettled at the moment we've got some rain effects in parts of zimbabwe and through into mozambique some heavy showers still for the east coast of madagascar still some showers affecting the eastern side of south africa but as you head on to choose day becomes largely dry here funny cape town twenty two. the way the sponsored by cats. news has never been. a constant barrage every day but the messages simply stay. plain that.

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apologize for a clerical lawyer that sparked protests. at least fifty people being killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian and strikes in syria twenty three were killed in the government strike in the rebel held damascus suburb of eastern ghouta more than thirty were killed in a russian attack on a gathering of displaced people. 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 hundred one unders is seeking a second term as president. saudi arabia has begun to lift its blockade on yemen after three weeks medical supplies were flown in and the ship carrying food has now been unloaded but with yemen facing a famine you know an aid workers say much more is needed and quickly peter shop has this. the saudis had promised to lift the blockade of the yemen port of hundred died four days ago but it was only on sunday that the first desperately needed food supplies were unloaded and. now the ship has reached the port of how they entered

carrying flour and relief material swaying five thousand five hundred tons this is not enough for you know any people needs but we hope this is a good sign to open the port of the data and lift the siege all your 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 to little and far far too late for the most vulnerable today. it is fair to say that yemen is one of the worst places on earth to be a child but 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 tease 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 where rebecca barber is a humanitarian africa see manager oxfam australia and she says easing the blockade is welcome but the side led coalition is more aid into the country. it's not anything lying and not you matt yemen is a country in which well then twenty million people depend on one of terri and existence and typically in well it's eighty to ninety percent fuel and medical supply and so these classes were that they needed the enemy people cannot be men and less there is are full and the young men airports and seaports and

aligned and people want by a humanitarian and connection. and that's instance one of the key issues at the moment is that that's an extremely to be sure any judge deal across the country still is not counted as a humanitarian in currently not being well. and all very well are. and then it was applies to the fourteen as humanitarian assistance that it does not it feel to transport that assistance act country then it's not much of a it's a desperate desperate need. to be brought in because it will be a. pope francis has left for him for a six day visit to myanmar and bangladesh is expected to address they were going to refute the crisis during the trip more than six hundred thousand have fled violence in myanmar to bangladesh in the past three months the papers previously condemning the most treatment of the region but as scott hide the reports from young go on 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 fate. 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 two g.'s ruling party explains why they don't want the pope to use the word or hinge or. we do not accept the temora hinges they are bengalis muslims from bangladesh so we 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. there 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 also hold a large mass and young gone the nation's largest city. then later in the week he'll 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 there are some trips taking days by road and by rail and some sleeping outside just so they can be here. and i'm ok with the fact that he's

coming for everyone in the country not only for christians. our country is not stable there are many conflicts the pope or 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'll need to not only bring the message of peace from a religious leader but channel the abilities of an artful diplomat scott either al jazeera younger. voters nepal or taking part in elections and not the final stage of a peace process that started eleven years ago the aim is to turn the country into federal democratic republic. ports now from one district. in. 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. new constitution is being implemented and as a local elections have already taken place this is the first phase of election for national and the state assembly 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 form of 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 done tourism and imo 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. and district is on a tracking route and has recently been linked 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 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 that he has rushed out of the well and district in the. shares in the retail giant amazon reached a record high at the end of last week not to mention from holiday sales its founder

jeff bezos is now the world's richest person reportedly worth more than one hundred billion dollars but for those employed by the online store to deliver goods it's a very different story. john delivers packages for amazon. the gig is unpredictable amazon flex drivers spend as many as sixteen hours a day watching an app for an 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 i do i will be in a car and i think doing those drop 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 we were earning our 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 tools page 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 surgery percent of your labor costs you're not painting to social security you're not paying into workers' compensation for workers who are injured you're not pain 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 paycheck is 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 around through you're a private contractor you permit 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 jake aboard al-jazeera. scientists in australia are encouraging people to help them study native frogs by recording the creatures themselves this trillion music in has

designed a smartphone app that can record the unique sounds of two hundred forty frogs species in phoebe and is under threat from climate change practices and human development. not many. get. tats. absolutely everything so some of the frogs that you might hear might sound like. an great great great so amazing to. capture them and then we can identify where. she said. that is for this program but to all the stories that we're covering on al-jazeera dot com plenty of comments and analysis is what is the latest you.

have before we go just to the headlines here and i was there and thousands of protestors in the pakistani capital of announce that they will end their three week protest after sporadic violence broke out over the weekend demonstrators have agreed to sit in the federal law minister voluntarily step down and apologize for a clerical error that sparked the protests. at least fifty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian strikes in syria twenty three people were killed in a government airstrike in the rebel held damascus suburb. where more than thirty would killed in a russian attack on a gathering of displaced people into a province the 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 millions of yemenis are on the verge of starvation after years of war and tight restrictions on imports and that includes.

both the president of honduras and the main opposition party have declared victory in the election but the official result is not yet one orlando one and this is seeking a second term president. the finish. is the official records have been coming in it's more than clear cut we won this election that's what these exit poll returns clearly shows. on the other hand the opposition leaders salvador disputed the president's claim and said saying that he's the rightful winner. the results show that more than thirty percent of the ballots are being tallied anyway i read the opposition and the selection will not accept anything but physical ballot results. and uneasy authorities have closed the main airports on the island of bali because of volcanic activity mt i go in has been pouring fake ash and steam into the sky since tuesday internees you know authorities have issued their highest

alert as a geological experts warn that the volcano may erupt spewing lava down the mountainside people living within ten kilometers of the volcano have been ordered to leave the volcano last erupted back in one thousand nine hundred eighty three more than a thousand people and destroying several villages. headlines missing. africa. country stands because it's considered so successful why is. president of ghana not. talked to are just. at this time. to look at. all.