a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to from dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country haven't truly been able to escape the war. i really felt liberated as a journalist and i'm. getting to the truth as i would that's what this job. returning to come protests is in pakistan vowed to end the protests after the federal law minister volunteered to step down over his clerical error.

this is. also coming up in the program at least eighty people are killed a syrian and russian jets bombed a rebel held areas in syria. adding to me i'm on bangladesh pope francis departs rome for what could be one of his most delicate overseas trips yet focusing on the plight of the refugee. indonesians mount i go to volcano forces the closure of polys main airport. so i thousands of protesters in the pakistani capital have announced that they will end three week protests turned violent over the weekend demonstrators agreed to end the city after federal nor minister. voluntarily stepped down and apologize for

clerical error that sparked the protests demonstrators have been on the streets since november the eighth when a change in the torah laws was seen as blasphemous six people were killed and i have a two hundred injured when protesters clashed with police on saturday that's want to come out hyder joins us from calico. seems we have resolution. rather to paris to be that what is happening now is that all those protesters have been blocking the highways and the main choke points within the city the state is staying put they're saying that their leadership will formally announce the end of this protest after a wait they will be a huge procession a week pre-professional start travelled from islam bog to the city over the hall they will be faced every day jubilation given the fact that this is also the month and rage the proffered mohamed was born in the month of rubble while according to the summit calendar but it's not just the law minister aware of which paid

a price there will be as a minister they had been skating criticism against the country in kenya and minister for the botched operation against these protesters that led to a complete paralysis across the country obviously mere minutes did will also have to go on said there will be an inquiry now as to whether that was indeed a clerical mistake or get more than that also the government saying that they would release all of the protesters within a period of three days and that all is happening after the intervention of the military chief who had to cut short and richard the united arab emirates and governments the prime minister that the military could not be used as an option against their people that it would be the last resort and therefore prevailing over the prime minister who accepted the advice early this morning there was indeed an agreement and vision the next hour or so of the leadership of that broadcast around a formal end to the protest that has battled

a life for the botched twenty two days in the capital city of islamabad and royal pain day and of course as a reaction to that botched operation a complete paralysis across the country or come all of that thanks very much to come we'll have a reporting. at least eighty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian air strikes in syria twenty five were killed in a government test drive of the rebel held damascus suburb of the since the area has been under government siege for four years and three hundred fifty thousand people that are in desperate need of a. full fifty five people were killed in russian airstrikes on a gathering of displaced people in debt as a province monitoring group says fifteen children were among the victims there's only binge of aid has just returned from syria to gaziantep 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 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 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 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 airstrikes 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 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 pope francis is left frame for a sixth a visit to me and mom bangladesh he's expected to address the range of refugee crisis during the trip more than six hundred thousand range you have fled violence in mint condition the past three months the papers previously condemned me and most treatment of the ranger bazza scott hide the reports from young go on he faces unique challenges on the street. 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 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 or 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 really 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 say 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 us. 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 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 guy on the nation's largest city. then later in the week i'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 see there are 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. 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 it's got harder al-jazeera younger. indies you know authorities have closed the main airport and kind of activity on the island has been spewing think steam into the sky since tuesday tens of thousands of people remain stranded at bali international airport the flights were postponed or canceled the national disaster agency has issued that highest alert geological experts warn the volcano may erupt. is an associate professor at the university of adelaide he was actually in bali near the volcano yesterday and he says the love isn't the biggest danger. little danger at the moment from people who are well clear of the exclusion zone so that there is limited literal danger for people to be affected by anything such as lava if they're outside of the climbers on the biggest dangers of hobbs' which is which are

also being evacuated from those areas and as you said the ash is that three kilometer high or more ash floyd that is now where you can always pop someone bali was always a long ball yesterday that's close the airport and has the potential to cause health hazards all was up in that area yesterday and there's there's actually bird 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 in the if quites associated with the precarious eruption began back in september so the zero parties have this well under control that evacuated the area slightly widen the exclusion zone to try to evacuate people people but that's not least that main area of research around the volcano has been cleared still ahead here in yemen today to pull its received its first aid supplies and weeks off to the east. under president orlando hernandez declares himself election with. this main opposition.

welcome back as we look at the weather across the levant some western parts of asia is quite down after quite an unsettled spell of weather but we have got a weather front which stretches across parts of iran and through into the gulf region so that could be some rain here and elsewhere around the caspian sea could be one of two showers on the eastern shores when the eastern side of the mediterranean the weather conditions gerri looking fairly quiet twenty one in beirut how do you on in to choose the we have got this low pressure beginning to move in getting as far as cyprus i think during the course of the day another 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 the weather conditions generally fine for the most part but this front could give

the threat of some rain across parts of saudi arabia would entirely rather chance of showers pushing to qatar but it should be anything of any intensity otherwise where the conditions looking fine abu dhabi 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 and still some showers affecting the eastern side of south africa but as you head on to choose day becomes largely dry here finally capetown is twenty two. with over forty thousand people killed under his rule it took twenty five years to bring him to a cool to blow. but why for so long with such a brutal dictator considered an ally of the west here reporting to the congress and to the press they 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. ever again about yards or let's have a reminder about the top stories this hour thousands of protesters the pakistani capital of announcing they will end their three week protest off sporadic violence broke out over the weekend demonstrators agreed to end their sit in off to federal law ministers i think fallen terribly stepped down and apologized for a clerical lawyer that spot. at least eighty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government and russian air strikes in syria twenty five people were

killed in a government test track in the rebel held damascus some. more than fifty five killed in a russian attack on a gathering of displaced people and. indonesian authorities have closed the main airport in bali due to all kind of activity on the island and has been spewing thank our national stadium into the skies since tuesday thousands tens of thousands of people remain stranded at bali international airport after flights of disposable country a national disaster agency has issued their highest alert as geological experts warn that the volcano may erupt. saudi arabia has begun to lift its blockade on yemen after three weeks medical supplies are flown in and the first ship carrying food has now been unloaded there with the yemen facing of famine u.n. aid workers say much more is needed and quickly peter shop has this report. the saudis had promised to lift the blockade of the yemen port of her 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 her entered carrying flour and relief material swaying five thousand five hundred tons this is not enough for you many people need but we hope this is a good sign to open the port of her data and lift the siege in 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 tons 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 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 pluck a 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. the saudi arabia's crown prince is told of forty one nation alliance of muslim countries that terrorists cannot be allowed to tarnish the name of islam had been solomon was speaking at the first meeting of the islamic military counterterrorism 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 well the saudi crown prince also offered his condolences to egypt where three hundred five people were killed on friday off to fight his talk to the mosque in northern sinai mass graves have been made for some of the victims which included twenty seven children ages present abdul fattah el-sisi has promised the use of brutal force responsible. there's been a vigil in gaza for the victims of the egypt american weapons that. hundreds of people have counted. those killed. in egypt since friday the gunman opened fire at a mosque in the town of and all recent killing more than two hundred recently about one hundred kilometers from here many palestinians lives and 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 and it has some political

significance this is a message of sort of going to the muslims would be born after the most. meeting with the board or. to see him. on his brokering reconciliation sold to. political parties and hamas. to name 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 opponents of these developments for. you to arrive in gaza tomorrow these are reasons why not just once political faction wants solidarity with egypt at the moment but many people in gaza on already have rather seen several repeated that failed attempts at

reconciliation before they wait to see what will happen in the coming days if this reconciliation will actually produce something kind of. not both 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 incumbent president han orlando hernandez is seeking a second term as leader. anymore is the official tally records have been coming in it's more than clear cut we won this election that's what these exit poll returns clearly show what opposition leader disputed the president's claim instead saying that he is the rightful winner. and the results show 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 physical ballot results cuba has held its first elections a year after the death of female castro the new national assembly is expected to

pick a success of eighty six year old raul castro who says he will step down in february after serving two five year terms in america and italy seeing human explains what it means for the communist country after six decades of castro. this is cuban style democracy from seven a.m. people voted in the only election in which ordinary citizens have direct participation or several 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 a place for all gastro 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. the decision that is supposed to begin here at the municipal level where those who disagree can only protest by casting a black vote. we see in human i'll just see the. voters in nepal are taking part in elections that marked the final stage of a peace process that started eleven years ago the aim is to turn the country into a federal democratic republic sabrina shuster reports not from the ninth district. the early morning call 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 daily action happens. the new constitution is being implemented and as a local elections have already taken place this is the first phase of election for national and is stated as and this election is important because we 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 planets 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 lalu groom who runs a hotel here this election is more about development done tours. 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 tracking 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 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 there when one district in nepal. zimbabwe

newspaper is reporting that robert mugabe was granted full immunity in a payment of ten million dollars convince him to step down as president zimbabwe independence also says the former president has been promised he can keep all these properties and they will be paid his salary for the rest of his life but the ruling party disputes that mugabe got a special deal reports from harare. officials in zanu p.f. 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 from a guy is still planning to build the robert mugabe university all eyes are now on the new president emerson when i got here and the cabinet he is going to form some indications say that it could be as early as monday when the cabinet is announced people are wondering will it be inclusive will you work with opposition party

leaders we 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 in things one transform quickly in terms of the economy the main thing now for most of us 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 we're going to go back to our top story in pakistan where thousands of demonstrators say that they will now and the protests let's speak to robin who joins us live from the capital islamabad where it all started. so the demonstrators to protest the same contents that the with the resignation of the federal nor minister. but what will the full out

somewhat of this be. that's really a great question i mean this is a very very different morning here in islamabad today three weeks and a few days after it all began the protesters here have gotten what they wanted the resignation of the law minister at the center of all the controversy and the government has now actually promised them that they will also investigate themselves and find out what led to the proposed amendment to the oath is taken that left out the name of the prophet to begin with and this is really. a rising moment for this previously unknown political group and their leadership even now people have not left these protests sights they're waiting for their leaders to speak and hold speeches and press conferences to say that they were victorious and then that's when everyone will and going home and this previously

little known political group will no doubt be using this is an opportunity to show the voting population in next year's election that they can effect change and this is really the way to rise to power in pakistan through street movement and through disruptive street movement that changes the status quo and so going forward no doubt the the supporters and is the rivals of the lush. or i'm sorry of the love bank of a lot of this new political group they will no doubt be watching closely as the next election nears all right that's a picture from it's not about the same as reporting that i think. so this is out there are these are the top stories thousands of protesters in the pakistani capital as we've just been hearing announced that they will and the

street in front. yes after sporadic violence broke out over the weekend demonstrators have agreed to end the sit enough to federal law minister. voluntarily step down and apologize for a clerical lore at that spot the protests. in the news you know authorities have closed the main airport and have all kind of activity on the island has been spewing thick ash and steam into the sky since choose day tens of thousands of people remain stranded at bali international airport after flights were perspired or canceled the national disaster agency has issued their highest alert as geological experts warn that the volcano may erupt at least eighty people have been killed in just twenty four hours in government to the russian air strikes in syria twenty five people were killed in a government airstrike in the rebel held damascus suburb of recent grew to more than fifty five were killed in a russian attack on a gathering of displaced people and. both the president of honduras and the main

opposition party have declared victory in the country's presidential election despite official results yet to be declared by the nation's electoral court incumbent president juan orlando hernandez is seeking a second term as leader. and it is the official tally records have been coming in it's more than clear cut we won this election that's what these exit poll returns clearly show one opposition leader salvador nasrallah the speech of the president's claim instead saying that he's the rightful winner. the results show that more than thirty percent of the ballots are being tallied and we i read the opposition and the selection will not accept anything physical ballot results. the saudi led 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 including a. pope francis has left frame for

a six day visit to myanmar in bangladesh he's expected to address the wreckage at 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 paper has previously condemn him on treatment of the ranger. all right up to date with the headlines here on out there got more news right after one of one he's. setting the stage for a serious debate up front this time on al-jazeera. lifestream has become a massive cranes and a big.