these were counted along the life time of frustration. at eighty five years old intombi sword what trains as hard as anyone and. i feel so good i feel french i punch this side and decide like this and like that i really love there's a dirty like things like soccer because i will bring these ladies are tough and i take their training very seriously. don't you feel a bit more confident of energetic feel like. new yorkers are very receptive to al jazeera because it is such an international city they're very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. zero. alone barbara sara this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes walking into

a diplomatic minefield pope francis touches down in ian martin meets military leaders accused of ethnic cleansing flights canceled a hundred thousand people told to to leave indonesia's mount a gong really may be about to blow celebrating victory in pakistan protest leaders called off their massive sit in following a top level resignation. i'm joined again with the sports critic says lose the first ashes test to australia and then they're grounded by their management is the behavior of one of the players draws attention away from the pitch. the man in charge of myanmar is military crackdown against muslims has been idea that religious discrimination exists in his country sr gen menon young made the comments in a facebook post after holding last minute meeting with pope francis who was on his

first visit to me and the catholic leader is known to be sympathetic to the revenger but has been advised that to avoid using the term itself scott hardly has more from young girl. word coming out late on monday here the first day of the pope's visit to myanmar that he met with the commander in chief gentlemen this is a meeting that was supposed to take place on thursday caught some people off guard because this word came out late on monday that was originally described as a rest day for the pope now. the general posted as a statement on his facebook page say they met for about fifteen minutes now he said also in that meeting he got across the idea he said to the pope that there wasn't religious discrimination in the country but that it can press office said that the discussed several issues and that the pope got across to the general that there is great responsibility for the authorities here in myanmar during this transition period no there's no word from either side if the range issue was brought up now

obviously that's a very sensitive topic during the pope's visit here now on tuesday the pope will travel to naples or the capital where he'll meet with the civilian leader and other members of the government and other members of religious affiliations now it'll be interesting to see how those meetings go and if they'll be any mention of or hinted but this first high level meeting that the pope had unexpected high level meeting the pope had with the commander in chief of the military no mention of a hinge a but we'll see if that changes when the pope goes the neighborhood or on tuesday well in cook is a fellow of the brookings institution center for east asia policy studies and she joins us live now from washington d.c. thank you so much for being with us here on al-jazeera now realistically how much do you think the pope can and will achieve with this visit when it comes to the rights of the people. well i think first of all it's important to highlight that the pope is there for two reasons the first reason is to demonstrate solidarity with the catholics who form about one percent of members fifty two million people

they too have been marginalized and perhaps not and definitely not to the extent of their him good people but the pope is there to demonstrate solidarity with fellow catholics second the pope is there also to highlight the suffering faced by refugees about seven hundred thousand of them are in bangladesh whether or not he manages to achieve a conversion of hearts of the military leaders as well with aung san suu kyi i think that's highly unlikely but i think it's very important that the pope is able to highlight or shine a light on their behavior crisis which the u.n. united nations describes as the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world so i think that's going to be his main goal in respect of the river so by that do you mean that his main role there could be the highlight of foot for the rest of the world because of course the media has started talking about the range of crisis but perhaps not to the extended should considering you know six hundred thousand people

for example of how to escape from me and marcy do you think it's more about highlighting it for the rest of the world rather than you know creating any actual change in the region and so. i think actually change and change of course would be preferable but i think short of that it's really important to highlight it i think the international rights groups like the un. international human rights watch they've done a good job in terms of highlighting what's going on in the rakhine state and we've seen some changes just last week we saw the united states declare that what is happening in the rakhine state as being ethnic cleansing that took them a while but they are finally there. but the question is whether or not change can come fast enough to make a meaningful difference for there were more than half of the population has fled to me and mark carrying with them horrific stories of killings rape torture arson and

looting of entire villages and i think a problem that the pope is going to be facing is forgive me for interrupting you but another key point that other people have raised is the issue of using the term he enjoyed so the pope has been advised not to use it because it seems to be a toxic term in me and itself do you think there is any benefit to him using this term specifically. apologies we seem to have lost sound to our studio in washington d.c. i'll just give it a few more seconds to see if our technical people can but no unfortunately we have lost the sound that was lynn quokka from the brookings institute center for east asia policy studies discussing the pope's visit to myanmar the pope there obviously there to highlight the plight of the range of people six hundred thousand of whom

have abandoned me and more and of refugees in bangladesh. figure look at some of the day's other news now indonesia has raised its alert for bali's at mount agung volcano to the highest level warning its first major eruption in fifty four years could be imminent one hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate and expand the danger zone and the main international airport has been closed mohammed jim drew has more. it could lead to a major eruption at any moment that's what indonesian officials are saying about the volcano on the island of bali mount agung has been rumbling and spewing ash into the atmosphere since the weekend on monday a mass evacuation was ordered and the danger zone was expanded you know not on the jetty the possibility of a large eruption is very high some indications show they will indeed be an eruption since yesterday the eruption that happened has been accompanied by the sound of explosions and vibrations that can be heard and felt within

a distance of twelve kilometer as. indonesian officials say they will continue to search all the villages in the area and force residents to evacuate if need be. until now based on incoming reports that eruptions and trim is continuous and the love is filling the crater the lava will flow down the slopes after the crater is full. bali's international airport was closed hundreds of flights were canceled and tens of thousands of travelers were stranded after tests indicated ash had reached its airspace. everything and can that get right back. bali is the top tourist destination in indonesia and plays host to millions of visitors each year the volcano last erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three when more than one thousand people were killed my homage to him and. volcanologists routh get to sarah says he expects more explosive

activity at mount a go. actually reawakened about two months ago and where we observed a lot of earthquakes happening inside a volcano telling us that mag most moving molten rock or magnus moving inside a volcano towards the surface with them saw the first start of eruptions a few days ago and the first eruptions were actually what we call free arctic eruptions meaning it was just steam eruptions from heated up water inside of ok no by the hot magma the last eruption or explosion just yesterday seemed to have been on a different kind does seem to have been fresh molten rock or magma involved in that explosion so what we're seeing here at the moment is sort of the beginning or the likely beginning of an eruption which of course could have more explosions in the near future and potentially also a more intensified explosive activity. protesters in pakistan have officially ended

their city near the capital islamabad after the law minister gave into their demands and resigned that they had been demanding that he'd need step down over the wording of a parliamentary bill which they described as blasphemous. explain. after more than three weeks this sit in has turned into a celebration. supporters of pakistan's blasphemy laws were able to force the government into giving in to their demands not only has the federal law minister step down but the government of pakistan muslim noon has also agreed to investigate itself. a crowd of just thousands cities of millions to a standstill here by choking a main artery in and out of the capital city and this really is becoming a common way and all too common a way of achieving any kind of power here in pakistan by being

a disruptive force on the streets and effectively laying siege to islamabad and then making political demands but the threat of force leaders of this fringe group have been bolstered by their newfound influence on the country's political affairs pakistan was great on the basis of the belief that there is no god but allah and mohammed is the messenger of allah we know that for seventy years forward has been committed against the religion so now we should place religion on the thriving. is the man at the center of all this a one time preacher at a mosque in lahore he was removed by that city's governing religious body for his hardline views he's built his support base by being a staunch advocate for the country's blasphemy laws he's even run for a seat in parliament so what's next for this fledgling political party asked the crowd and the answer is more or less stay the same. the latest whatever god lines like you best we will follow accordingly. whatever the just tell us to. we are

completely out there. paramilitary units were on standby to prevent any more unrest and while protest leaders agreed to end their sit in hours later people here were still not ready to leave and more demonstrators were arriving. it's the kind of do or die loyalty to political parties campaign for decades to achieve something rizvi has been able to accomplish in a few months just ahead of next year's elections zain bus ravi al-jazeera islam about russia is the nine responsibility for the deaths of civilians after it conducted a series of air strikes targeting i saw in syria over the weekend and this comes as the latest round of un backed talks in geneva are delayed because the syrian government delegation still hasn't arrived james bays reports. peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before

the timetable of failed diplomacy is actually create the agony of the people of syria. parts of aleppo province. and the outskirts of damascus. the assad government has been intensifying its own slaughter in the days and hours before talks due to start. assad didn't leave a single corner that hasn't been destroyed if you want to fight don't target civilians instead take on the armed groups at the front lines god willing they will teach you a lesson. briefing the u.n. security council in new york the man who's supposed to lead the talks on tuesday stefan de mistura condemned the violence he noted that the syrian government had perspire own its travel to geneva but he said they needed to attend it naturally we hope and indeed expect that the government will be on its way shortly but to get in

i don't break that into the commitment to break them in putting when they met in thought you that meeting part of intense diplomacy in recent weeks the russians who turned things around on the battlefield for assad and supposed to bring the syrian government to the geneva table and the saudis created a new opposition group ing to go to the talks out are key players like former leader riyadh his job in a figures closer to moscow some of which were previously even to write it as a sad stitches a number of western diplomats have told me they're concerned about the way stefan de mistura is handling this process they fear it's becoming russian flavored with a focus on a new constitution and elections rather than on political transition jane spays out jazeera geneva. so much more to come on the al-jazeera news hour including work continues in ethiopia and what will be africa's biggest hydroelectric dam can

challenge from egypt on a mission to transform france's relationship with africa president kroll embarks on a four day war of the region and the job will be here to tell you why these football players have to run for cover in a brazilian gave. the early results have given him. a shot in the presidential election supporters of. are celebrating after the announcement from the electoral court with more than half of the votes counted he has a lead of forty five percent to forty percent current president to one orlando hernandez was expected to comfortably win a second term doesn't seem so likely anymore that sanchez is in the capital to speak to her now and then maria that it's actually been nearly twelve hours since the electoral tribunal announced the first results that we've just mentioned but

since then the numbers have not been updated do we know why that might be. well barbara. indeed it's been more than twelve hours now and the president of the electoral tribunal has said that. seventy percent of what has been counted. urban vote mainly and they want to have a better projection of how the country voted so they want to wait for more. to come in now there's been crunch throughout the morning coming from very different areas of the country bill there are many areas you know so we are basically waiting for those ballots to come in however this is something very unusual. that's when the political opposition and have the alliances started to get nervous and they said that in a few hours they will be protesting in front of the tribe you know because they are

getting suspicious they've been thinking in the past few weeks that the election would be rigged however that hasn't happened according to up servers so we'll have to wait and see until that looks come in. and i guess we will have to wait for that to have an official results of but i mean there's no escaping the fact the salvadoran this has done much much better than people thought he would and he's taking the lead over the president so why do you think happened. well i think he. played in his favor first of all i think that he's very a very popular sportscaster here as. a master of ceremonies floor at beauty contests and entertainment and a very popular television personality here however he's been traveling around the country and he. played

a very important card if you will in his campaign offering drops to the young people which is a much needed issue here does it mean he thousands of young end up in the gangs because simply they don't have any jobs and there's been a lot of young voters first time voters in this election and also i think it played against the person in the fact that. that he's perceived just corrupt. played also the other card as strong fight against corruption so at that goes i think we're too important factors that have given him that lead and mary and i will be coming to you again for updates throughout the next few hours for the moment that he in a sense is into the sea got the same. now germany's chancellor angela merkel says she wants to make a serious effort to form a stable government in talks with the social democrats on thursday the specter bloc

winning most seats in september's election she's not yet been able to agree a coalition the social democrats had been refusing to take part but that has not changed as dominic came reports from berlin. for the past two months martin short his position had been unequivocal defeat as badly as his party suffered in september meant opposition was the only thing they could enter into in this parliament but with changing times so his opinion has changed the failure of the jamaica coalition talks thrust his party back into the limelight could they consider talking during the americans government government party could they consider four more years in government until now apparently not but after a statement to reporters just a short his opinion has changed zeidman biggest should discussions lead to his helping to form a government in whatever form a party members will be able to vote on that the coming days and weeks will demand

much from all those involved in our party in the media and the public we're entering into discussions with outcome is not known no options are off the table. the point to make here is the danger that faces the social democrats because they were widely perceived to have lost voters in the last election precisely because of their membership of a grand coalition with anglo american they look upon another grand coalition and then from the conservative point of view angle in merkel says she is now prepared for another grand coalition but the big imponderable what will the voters make of this what will they make of yet more grand coalition given the fact that both parties were punished at the polls the last time voters got their chance to express their opinions. the french president is expected to outline plans for a new relationship with africa on a four day trip that starts embark in a facile france's relationship with its former colonies is far from easy it's often

been accused of propping up the taters to benefit its own economic interests there are hopes that emanuel and mcconnell will change that as the are now reports. when emanuel mcconnell condemned france's colonial past during the presidential campaign many voters understood it to mean that he wanted a new relationship with africa to end sixty years of french influence over its former colonies self interest was the guiding principle. is part of french restoring it was a crime it was a crime against humanity it was barbarous it's part of the perfectly must face up to former president jacques chirac embodied the neo colonial approach that became known as far south lake he used the french military to prop up authoritarian leaders if they were deemed to be friends of france nicolas sarkozy had little time for africa in a controversial speech in dhaka he said africans had failed to enter the history

books. it was under francois hollande that the syal region became a new frontier in what he called france's fight against terror. france has no desire to remain here in mali because it must be the mali and themselves and africans who ensure the security the independence and the sovereignty of mali that's how i believe relations between france and africa must be so far indicated that he wants to take a different approach to africa that he wants to build a relationship that's based more on equality than historical ties but just how easy that will be remains unclear and when i call has had some false starts he was criticized for saying africa was being held back by women having too many children and for a plan to place french immigration processing centers in some african countries. the way he is approaching africa it's new he chose to go to burkina faso

a country which had a democratic revolution recently he's going to a university to address young people and he'll have a question and answer session with the students that's something with not seen before as he begins a four day tour of west africa michael has chosen to set out his vision for a new chapter in french african relations at a university in capital on tuesday he says young africans carry the hopes of tomorrow and as for his youngest president he may be well placed to convince them that he means what he says with al-jazeera paris. if you push in on with the construction of a controversial despite growing objections from egypt the project has strained relations between the two nations because egypt says it's a risk to its water supply mohamed fadel has visited the site of the five billion dollar project which will one day be africa's biggest hydro electric that.

work at the ground if you're putin a sauce continues through the night flood lights help workers connect on the roads that beehive atmosphere on top of the central section of the one point seven kilometer down concrete slabs suspended from giant cranes for the next layer of the world the project's chief engineer says work is so advanced that some of the sixteen pilot or binds already place. within this hydropower scheme we have two powerhouses one is on the right side and the other on is on the left side the right. for the with ten units and the left is the cure for the with six units. we have sixteen units with this we can generate up to a maximum of five hundred megawatts of electricity. the final capacity of the dam however will exceed six thousand it michael and it will allow you to open not only to satisfy its domestic needs an electric power but also to become

a major exporter of electricity to regions as far away south africa and the western world with sixty three percent of the construction achieved according to engineers here the dam is beginning to take its final shape if you see this part of it it represents the highest level beyond it that's the beginning of the reservoir of the lake on the upstream side it is going to be able to hold up to seventy four billion cubic meters of water. a five kilometer long supplementary dam is being built to world this side of the reservoir that will cover an area of one thousand eight hundred and seventy four square kilometers despite the cost of the dam nearing five billion dollars and the controversy around it joe perry cysts on completing it so its own means its next door neighbor sudan says it's happy with the project saying it will preserve its share of the water that used to go to egypt but egypt the

major downstream benefit of the nile water is concerned that down would affect its share of this vital resource it joking officials say egypt wants construction to stop and pending the completion of the chemical studies and the final agreement over the issues but if your peer is infusing it to comply. with the madame said god bless gun struction has never stopped and will never stop until the project is completed during the technical committee meetings the work continued in the dam we are not concerned by what he did things he did to benefit them as water sources without causing harm to anyone if you are pure hasn't made clear how long it will take to filter down or how it plans to fulfill its promise of not harming danced in countries like egypt as a rhetorical over the project heats up sources have told us they also maximum security around the dam with an undeclared no fly zone and anti-aircraft defenses there have been rumors on social media here in ethiopia about possible air strikes

by egypt to destroy the dam all three getting fears that what could be africa's most ambitious hydroelectric project could perhaps provoke a destructive conflict hammad fight a disease like the ground in a northwest ethiopia. it was the news hour here and still to come how state sanctioned harassment under robert mugabe drove hundreds of farmers from their land the. way online retailer amazon goes shopping for new headquarters promising jobs and investment but how much can it actually deliver and former long distance champion cheers on thousands of his compatriots as they hit the streets. coming up at.

four eastern parts of the mediterranean over the next couple days yet again we've got a little more cloud just rolling across the eastern med pushing across greece pulling out of greece extending into turkey as we go on tuesday can see how the rain clouds gather but across the levant that will bring some rather unsettled weather rain and cool enough to quite a stiff breeze to follow we'll see temperatures in baghdad of around nineteen degrees celsius twenty two celsius there for kuwait some of these as we go on into wednesday and by wednesday it comes that northern areas of syria for example we'll see more in the way of cloud and right some snow there over the high ground of that breeze starting to pick up. on a dry across the arabian peninsula little bit of is possible around more than most part of saudi arabia could see a little bit damp weather coming in here. over the next day temps just forty back a little so little bit of a chill in the air but still get up to around twenty seven degrees celsius with a fair amount of sunshine from out of south africa at present but we have got lots

of showers just draining out of the congo basin extending across parts of the zimbabwe could also see some of the heavy showers and i think. from mother to daughter an ancient craft kept alive by a bustling matriarch. from start to finish. all traditions intertwined with new designs making this family's place unique into uneasy as a rich tapestry of the threads at this time on a just. one of the really special things that working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for us as you

know it's very challenging live but it is but the killer because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel in favor to the audience across the globe. i don't mind of the top stories on our jazeera the man in charge of myanmar as military crackdown against orange of muslims has told pope francis there is no religious discrimination in his country in the knees it has raised its alert for valleys mount are going to the highest level warning

a major eruption could be imminent one hundred thousand people have been told to me . protest leaders in islamabad have called off a sit in of thousands of demonstrators after the resignation of pakistan's law minister who they accused of blasphemy. zimbabwe's new president. is expected to form his cabinet this week all eyes are on whether he will break with the past and name a broad based government or whether he'll select the old guard figures from robert mugabe's era but some human rights activists worry that the new regime is no different from the old one had with us have reports from harare. nearly two weeks is the military takeover zimbabwe's security forces say the situation is getting back to normal the police who haven't been seen on the streets of a rally for days. but now that means doing joint patrols with soldiers to try and maintain law and order law enforcement are already receiving reports of looting

in. particular the farms in the houses. is criminal in arguments the spirit of man when you're for it. and it will be made by people of the law the announcement comes days after. the new president urged citizens not to take matters into their own hands by punishing allies of the former president robert mugabe there are reports that robert mugabe and his wife grace have been given immunity from prosecution the police won't say how many of mugabe's allies have been arrested so far the most high profile is a gracious shomer the former finance minister he's accused of corruption going back at least ten years and. some say selective punishment could be a sign not much is going to change under the your administration we might have had

one person removed but the higher of the new peers remains in place so for me the more things change the more they remain the same and you know if i'm against you and i think you are challenging me. you become fair game human rights abuses the high court recently ruled the military takeover which eventually saw robert mugabe resign was lawful zimbabweans who were tired of having macabre as their leader for thirty seven years have welcomed the court's decision. but others worry allowing the army to legitimize taking over the functions of the state sets a dangerous precedent. since the fall of robert mugabe zimbabweans are hopeful of a new future many though continue to suffer after decades of authoritarian rule and the use of state resources to benefit the mugabe family the media miller reports now from the village of missouri way in central zimbabwe where residents are given

land once owned by white farmers having during the years of fear under the mugabe regime. mazzoli in much shauna land a rich and fur town is perfect for farming and gold deposits scattered in its mountains it was seized from white farmers and nationalized under former president robert mugabe's land reform program in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's but in recent years black zimbabweans here who won back land under that program say the mugabe government has been trying to push them off their farms it was a very terrifying bit they can lead to doing. the dogs every so they awakened us from from our house in the i ordered us to go out is the myself in the mail wife. got out of the house the east with that abyss that didn't destroy my good general

a bedroom in the best bare room my storage and everything christoffersen owners lived and farmed here for seventeen years holding on despite what he says is constant police harassment he and others have been to court to stop it but the police raids kept coming. after yet another day of rain cristobal complains to his wife that their store grain will be ruined police destroyed their storage shed in the last raid more than nine hundred families once lived genoud just one hundred forty three remain with missouri's immense commercial potential and vast water resources people here say mugabe's wife grace wants it or even though gabi is no longer president and his wife grace doesn't have the polish she wants wielded special task force police still present here monitoring the area essentially protecting it for the mugabe family people living here say they continue to feel

intimidated and harassed now we don't know which way will we start which we are going through because every time they stick a guess and even me. little what to do to stay even to sleep all night without somebody several kilometers away construction of a luxury hotel belonging to grace mccarthy has been abandoned the mugabe is also own a dairy farm nearby which grace managed until she turned her attention to a political aspirations while the government says it's given mugabe immunity it's not known which of his properties or businesses he will be allowed to keep there also allegations that there are links to millions of dollars worth of zimbabwe's missing diamond revenue since mugabe's overthrow people in missouri we have been told they can stay giving christopher some hope this will remain his home but no guarantee for me. missouri's and bob when. the u.n.

security council has observed a moment of silence to honor the victims of egypt's deadly mosque attack more than three hundred people were killed in north sinai's bed last week after gunmen stormed a mosque where worshippers had gathered for friday prayers the attack was the worst in egypt's modern history a turkish gold trader charged with conspiring to evade u.s. sanctions against iran will now go on trial in new york this week reservoir of dropped out of sight in the two months leading up to a show jewel trial prompting turkey's prime minister to suggest he is reached a plead the a plea deal with the u.s. authorities and then executive of the turkish state owned health bank are charged with doing deals with the iranian government and entities worth hundreds of millions of dollars but turkey insists the case is being instigated by supporters of the us based religious leader or to local shephard hansen has more on this from

washington d.c. . turkish president has tried and failed to lobby the us government to get this case scraps talking to then vice president joe biden in twenty sixteen and president trump in a phone call in september of this year a key question is whether one of the main defendants raise a bizarre has flipped and is now a cooperating prosecution witness prosecutors have said in documents they filed with the court that they will show that the turkish government was involved in this money laundering scheme there is another element to this case as well the special prosecutor examining allegations of alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election this year has already been looking at the role michael flynn the former national security adviser to the interim had with turkish lobbying efforts and there's some question as to whether we'll get more information about bath as a result of this case as well a senior hamas official says the group will not give up its weapons which is

a key demand of its rival palestinian faction fact that as part of their reconsolidation deal under the agreement brokered by egypt houses you to hand over the administration of gaza to the palestinian authority on friday welcome webb has more now from the gaza strip. a senior hamas official told journalists that hamas believes in the reconciliation reconciliation between palestine's two main political parties fatah and hamas as well as twelve other political factions it's being brokered by egypt and it's meant to lead to the handover on friday of the administration of the gaza strip from hamas to the palestinian authority but one of the big questions surrounding it is what's going to happen to the weapons and the armed wings of hamas and some of the other factions here but at least ten thousand fighters and many weapons here in gaza during a press conference to senior hamas official said this was not up for discussion

said that if the u.s. or any other government trying to pressure hamas into disarming or taking any such action that it would not. yesterday a factor official and said that the reconciliation progress was going way too slowly because of hamas said that only five percent of what was meant to be achieved have been achieved a mass official refuted that he said it is going ahead he said that regarding the reconciliation there is no turning back now. kenya's president two who is to be sworn to office for a second term on tuesday following a long and better election campaign the country's economy has struggled since his first election when in august was nullified by the electoral commission has more now from nairobi. an ordinary weekday morning in kenya's capital nairobi. and as always scores of people make their way to the city's industrial area to look

for casual employment. what is change in the last few months is that jobs have become even more scarfs. even the recent election period and the political uncertainty around it he's waiting for work at this battery manufacturing plant he says he's only done ten days of work and around sixty dollars since august. after the august election on the rerun there were no jobs at all but we still have to come and try our luck. some people try their luck in other factories like this vehicle assembly plant but it's also been tough for big industries the private sector has suffered huge losses many companies have downsized some have closed and investors are holding on to their money for now big contracts which were meant to begin immediately after the election were postponed by international customers who are in to do road construction on

a relisted big project development they said let's wait and see and see how the election spins out. out on the streets most kenyans are also feeling the effects of an economy that is slowing down their cost of living has doubled in the last by ideas and now the government has downscaled its economic growth forecast for this year to five point one from five point nine percent the kaname had almost always dipped during election season it happened in one thousand nine hundred. ninety seven and in two thousand and seven after i disputed election the economy crashed this time around it was already struggling because of among other things a prolonged drought many are saying that the political uncertainty around the election just made things worse if i was present today i would be you know really normal privatization program i would be doing much more to stimulate particularly agriculture it's very you know so many people in our economy are dependent on it

you get it working the sense of well being translates very very quickly across the board and. many people now hope that their lection over the economy will stabilize . but the opposition led by raul is planning more protests and economic boycotts to push for a new vote this may mean one certainty and economic hard times catching al-jazeera aerobic kenya. the united kingdom is preparing for another royal wedding after the official announcement that prince harry is engaged to marry the u.s. actress meghan markle it comes a year and a half after they first met in an introduction by mutual friends the actress is one of the stars of the t.v. hit show suits their wedding will take place early next year carey who is facing life the crown is the youngest son of heir to the throne prince charles and the late princess diana well in their first interview since making the engagement

public meghan markle responded to some of the press interest in her ethnicity of course it's disheartening you know it's. it's a shame that that is the climate in this world to focus that much on matter that that would be discriminatory in that sense but i think. you know the end of the day i'm really just proud of who i am and where i come from it's not easy for anybody but i know that then the day she and she chooses me and i choose her and therefore you know whatever whatever we have to tackle together were individually will always be us together as a team so i think i think she's kept so nicely said of him and this is convinced she's capable of anything. now it's cyber monday the time of year when online shopper is a bag deep discounts on everything from gaming consoles to big screen t.v.'s and people in the us are spending big black friday and sank skidding online sales have

surged to a record high of seven point nine billion dollars and the buying frenzy continues analysts expect cyber monday to drive six point six billion dollars in internet sales making it the largest u.s. online shopping day in history online giant amazon is doing so well that it's now looking to open a second headquarters in new york is one of the front runners but not everyone is convinced of the benefits of that location as gabrielle in his own don now reports . and old abandoned baseball stadium what's become a symbol of a city decline but in the city of newark there are signs that things are changing what is this going to be. this is going to be a very large for me broader we'll have a. housing unit. in newark a revival with the development boom in recent years we believe that the norks time

has come and we wanted to be part of it but now the city located just fifteen kilometers from new york is thought to be a top contender for the second headquarters of the retail giant amazon the city is treating it like it was beating to host the olympics we are that match we had the infrastructure you know we have the people we have the diversity newark is not alone in wanting to become the host city for amazon second headquarters more than two hundred thirty cities are making beard's they are all over the country and range from big cities like boston chicago denver and los angeles to small cities like wilmington delaware population seventy one thousand and. on his promise to invest five billion dollars in the local economy to the winning city and i said the second headquarters could bring fifty thousand new jobs in its bid to moor amazon

here to newark this city and state are offering the company huge financial incentives primarily between five and seven billion dollars in tax breaks critics say the plan is built on a flawed theory called trickle down economics the idea that reducing taxes on business will stimulate economic growth for the poor trickle down doesn't really trickle down to the working class or to low income people so i think people in newark should be really concerned and some people are while we had to pay taxes you know you don't i don't understand that that's not good to me but others see opportunity nor shows a boy image because a lot of people need jobs just one city like so many others in north america looking for amazon to make another delivery a boost to their local economy gabriel zonda al-jazeera in newark new jersey it was the news hour here on al-jazeera still to come on the program that love is

in the air at american in the omani desert just going to have that story and all the rest of the sport in just a few minutes also how a changing climate and the growing demand this person pressure on that issue reining in all the growers.

google with google slang for the sport now here is joe in doha. thank you very much cricket is have found themselves one down in the ashes series against australia and now they've also been grounded by the management the team lost the first test match to australia by ten wickets in

brisbane what's really infuriated the english cricket board is the behavior of wicket keeper johnny best so it's emerged he headbutted a straight and batsman cameron bancroft in a ball in perth last month. i got into a very amicable conversation me with johnny and. you know yeah like i just. just yeah i just graded me with. yeah just ahead. i was expecting. wasn't it wasn't degrading a choice it all was i was expecting and obviously at the top i mean you know he said sorry you know for me personally it was just really weird you know obviously. you know it was so random and i certainly didn't expect it coming you know as i said you know a handshake or a hog was something that would have dane something that all probably would have would have expected more than a head but. as i said like there was certainly nothing in the issues of daddy's

action and i just took it is yeah i don't know jonny bairstow you know a you know he says a lot of very different later to myself as and. yet my head yeah if you are in. full hair for head. it's jones a similar site their coach in chains of until after a poor start to the season milan a seven time european champions but have struggled in the last few years new chinese investors were hoping to boost the club by spending two hundred thirty three million dollars during the preseason transfer window or new players but one teller has been shown the door with the club lying seventh in setting our eleven points outside of the champions league qualifying positions former milan midfielder gennaro good to so will take over all of man fans thought their team was doing badly how about the team at the bottom of ben event zero incredible as it might sound they have started the season with thirteen straight defeats is the worst

start to a camp campaign by any team in europe's top five leagues the previous record was held by mentions united that unwanted record compares favorably with the n.f.l.'s cleveland browns who have lost eleven straight this season not to mention losing fifteen out of sixteen last year but it's not as bad as tampa bay buccaneers he lost twenty six in a row nine hundred seventy six and seventy seven we used to forget for the fans the buccaneers and i might be one of the n.b.a.'s top teams right now but back in twenty ten twenty eleven the cleveland cavaliers were also on the wrong end of a defeat twenty six straight times while relegation seems a real possibility for the italian team benevento one club in brazil went down and their fans were furious ponta per to were trailing three two on sunday in a brazilian league game which would result in their own occasion when their supporters invaded the pitch they were angry at the club's plights not to mention their team was actually leading to nil earlier in this game the match was

eventually abandoned after the police said they cannot guarantee the safety of the players. the n.h.l. celebrated its one hundred year anniversary on sunday and there was plenty of action on the ice including a disappointing loss for the first u.s. team to join the national hockey league the boston bruins they were beaten by the edmonton oilers in dry sight o. and patrick maroon each school their seventh goals of the season for two was school . in the n.b.a. the miami heat pulled off their third straight win facing the chicago bulls after scoring seven points in the first quarter miami got thirty eight of the second to take the lead or in track at school fourteen of his team high twenty four points in the fourth quarter one hundred ninety three was the final score. and when you think of countries that dominate long distance running ethiopia majorly springs to mind but the country is currently facing a slump in form having won just

a single gold medal at last year's olympics judging by these pictures so that won't last long thousands turned out on the streets of paris for the ten kilometer great ethiopia run one of those running for fun many up and coming after each took part which slice the events founder for ten thousand meter world and pick champion haile gebrselassie who is now president of the ethiopian affleck's head of athletics federation. that if you want. you know nothing it goes out. and finally love is in the air at the marathon greg and rosemary dunning chose to take part in the race to celebrate their wedding the no strangers to extreme long distance running having completed the two hundred fifty one kilometer math and

a solemn morocco last year the man doesn't marathon covers one hundred sixty five kilometers over six days. we did the math in the third of the last year and then we went oh i think you know what we should do for our honeymoon and we thought that doing another race like that would be a good thing today in the state like a very nice race all right as for now but it's a barber in london. joe thank you and now business may be booming for lebanon's all of growers but their livelihoods are coming under increasing threat from climate change from lebanon to greece and italy to musea searing summers and unpredictable winters are cutting by as much as a fifth in p.s. tired reports now from southern lebanon. it's a tradition almost as ancient as the civilizations that first settled these hills for thousands of years all of those have been hand picked across southern lebanon much like they are today the fruit is a staple and mediterranean kitchens and all of oil is

a crucial ingredient. lebanese farmers typically press oil at their own small batch facilities it's a complex process that sees the all the fruit washed pitted ground into a paste and then pressed into a golden oil the family has been in the business for as long as anyone can remember he says he can't imagine doing anything else wasn't the same going with a going on of all is very nutritious and has so many benefits even god spoke about it in one of the verses in the koran only of all it is medicine it is the greatest of all these. modernization has made pressing all of us into oil less labor intensive and more lucrative but in recent years farmers have been struggling to keep up with demand all of oil production is becoming increasingly risky business crossed the mediterranean the land of birth according to environmentalists climate change is meeting three pieces before you. from southern europe to north

africa to the levant hotter than average summers and cold winters have seen harvest shrink according to forecasters at the international of council mediterranean oil production has declined by around twenty percent when compared to averages from the decade between two thousand and two thousand and ten delivering a major setback to the billion dollar industry and as the region supply becomes increasingly unpredictable some boss players have started looking elsewhere for future sources of all of oil including california australia and new zealand something producers in lebanon say could destroy their ancient way of life. we are very worried about the import of all of this on all of oil from abroad we must be able to export our own harvest i only hope our industry works to keep these markets open for us because our oil is of the best quality growing global demand for all of oil as

a food and health product is also putting pressure on the mainly mediterranean base apply ors to produce even more but with all of harvest continuing to decline because of the region's changing climate it's hard to see how they'll be able to do that india's tired al-jazeera arab saline in southern lebanon. and that is it for me and the rest of the news our team here mary namaz is going to be with you in just a few moments with more of the day's news about. kingfish

indulge your five senses. you are making very pointed remarks when they're on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been to criminalize or if you join us on saturday no evil person is wakes up in the morning and says i want to cover the world in darkness this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al jazeera december on al-jazeera we look back at twenty seventeen through the eyes of five families who've been affected by some of the big stories of the year in an increasingly polarized world people in power sheds light on the darkest abuses of authority ten days of

comprehensive coverage about nuclear arsenals around the globe and the impact they have on the diplomatic stage a special program dedicated to this year's nobel peace prize laureates i can and their pursuit of a nuclear weapon free world and. we look ahead to the big stories that could dominate the headlines in twenty eighteen. december on al-jazeera. walking into a diplomatic minefield francaise touches down in myanmar.