our first president george washington said if you want peace prepare for war the coming war on china at this time on a jesse and. al jazeera. wherever you are. syrian government strikes kill nineteen people a nice and goose or head of u.n. sponsored talks to end the war.

and i mean this is out there life and also coming up in the program and there is opposition leaders salvador maintains a steady leader of a president as vote counting continues. we have a representative in congress who they say was here a long time ago they color pocahontas. he's done it again u.s. president donald trump mocks a democratic senator at an event on airing native american. indonesians mount i going volcano continues to spew ash forcing the closure of one of the busiest airports for a second day in a row. so then government strikes have killed nineteen people in syria's rebel held enclave of the capital damascus it is the second such attack in forty eight hours and on sunday twenty three people were killed by shelling in air strikes including

a number of children the attacks have come at a key moment in the conflict a new round of un backed talks are scheduled to begin on tuesday aimed at ending the six and a half year war opposition groups and government representatives a jew to meet in geneva but u.n. officials have been unable to confirm that the government delegation is planning to travel is james pace. peace talks in geneva was supposed to stop this bloodshed. but as we've seen many times before the time table of failed diplomacy is actually creasing the agony of the people of syria. parts of aleppo province. and the outskirts of damascus bombarded the assad government has been intensifying its onslaught in the days and hours before talks judah's start. assad didn't leave a single corner that hasn't been destroyed if you want to fight it don't target civilians instead take on the armed groups at the front lines god willing they'll

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 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 of commitment to brave it 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 are 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 stooges. 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. geneva well let's hear now from a summit in java has been speaking to people in three areas of syria to ask them about their expectations from the geneva talks. when there are no place in the sky and there is less fear of forces invading you there is hope all around you in this particular town in northern syria this is drabness and people are trying to come back and resume their lives but when it comes to talks in geneva they're not very hopeful they say this is the revolution that they began and it has been taken away from them and the world really doesn't care. i'm in syria and they call me a refugee what can we want from the talks but. as long as assad remains geneva

doesn't mean anything. they show solidarity with syrians but in reality they're all complicit and involved in the destruction of syria we just hope the siege can end. our hope is not russia nor iran. and. we hope this round could be a new beginning because of the major changes before the geneva meeting we see the meeting in geneva whether it's the eighth or the tenth or the twenty fifth round of talks there are all the same there is a lot at stake at these talks opposition leaders have been telling us that they're fearful that if the united nations fails yet again to come through this solution to provide a long lasting peaceful terms that all sides can agree upon they will be forced to go to word sochi and then russian solution when they feel that russia will undermine the role of the united nations as it tries to bring its own version of

the saloon. and many people here will tell you that this is something that they do not want meanwhile the united states says it's considering adjustments to how it gives military support to kurdish led forces fighting eisel in northern syria he considers the kurdish syrian fighters known as white terrorists on friday the turkish government said that u.s. president donald trump told his counterparts yes a typo to one that supplies to the kurdish led groups would hope for the state department now says such decisions on military support will be based on battlefield requirements. not on. we are allies of the us under nato and we have made it clear several times to us with the right method with the right rhetoric that this was not the right thing to do what we were told in response was that they attached a lot of importance to the fight against eisel and as a result they had to assess all options but of course it is not a choice for us to work with these organizations to fight against it is

a necessity they told us but we are having difficulty understanding this since when do you need to work with one terrorist organization against another terrorist organization it's not fitting of a serious state and not behavior that suits a country such as the united states or any korea is professor of journalism at american university the american university of beirut and senior fellow at harvard university and he says that the lack of unified opposition and u.s. inaction is allowing the syrian government to retake control of land resources with the help of russian and iranian backed forces. the track record of the united states and syria in the last six seven years is that it has not consistently done anything really well it keeps changing its policies a little bit here and there and sometimes dropping them we had a change in presidential leadership and policies are just a little bit we have problems now with trump says something and then the state department of the fence department says something else so it's hard to tell what

the united states is going to do what we know is that they've gradually pulled out of the driver seat or they never really were in the driver's seat but they were hoping to drive events in syria about five six years ago and and now they have relinquished that to the russians they have a link with the kurdish groups in northern syria they'd like to keep that link it's one of the few bits of leverage they have but it's still not clear what they're going to do with the track record that they have of recent years suggest that they're probably going to gradually let the syrian people to the extent that they can but more the russians the iranians and the turks that defined the future of syria thirteen people have been killed in thirty injured in a suicide attack southeast of the iraqi capital of baghdad it happened near a market in the know how one area i sill has claimed responsibility imran khan has more now from baghdad. well the sources are telling us that all after the explosion

took place a small improvised explosive device that a number of gunmen at least fall they say fired from the roof tops of buildings adjacent to the market and that's where we saw a lot of those that's taking place now we are hearing that isis have claimed responsibility for this is attack now this will shock a number of people in baghdad i guess it's going through a relative heat of calm the last major suicide attack like this that we saw bombing that we saw was actually in may know the happiness you very small incidents outside of baghdad in the south but nothing in the south of baghdad sorry but nothing the scale of the star as i say i still have claimed responsibility for this it's likely that they're striking back because they've suffered defeats in mosul in iraq and syria and also in the north in anbar province sorry in iraq. a left wing television host is on track to win honduras his presidential election dashing the hopes of the current leaders our current leader salvador north ruler is five points

ahead of the incumbent president one all under one hundred with more than seventy percent of votes counted ran a touch as has this report was supporters of seven if i'm not didn't wait for a final result. a popular t.v. personality no doubts sixty four year old nurse but i never took the lead in a much contested general election to get him we want something new from honduras and that new is called salvador nostra. the electoral tribunal says it will wait until all the ballots reach the capital and are counted and that could take a few more days. demonstrators outside the electoral tribunal say they would defend the vote. we are celebrating and we run as can't be stolen from. people to tell us their country fans. that he is the winner of this election and their seller. braiding before there's a final results. from

a precedent been raised to lay a joint celebrations it was a comeback for him the party he found it may return to power says he already feels vindicated eight years after he was ousted in a military lit. it means the start of a new era it means the closing of a cycle that began with the coup and with the tragedy that that has represented for us in political and social and economic times and it means the hope to rebuild honduras that is democratic. hours after polls closed top candidates claimed a victory and candidate recently from the liberal party conceded he necessarily had won the election when president clinton of london and this remains waiting for the rural vote from remote areas with us hoping they could still give him a chance to win. for now the alliance claims a victory that means hearsay is irreversible. but in a centrist i just don't do this. u.s.

president donald trump has raised eyebrows again after using a racial slur at a white house event he called a democratic senator pocahontas during a ceremony honoring native american veterans of the second world war chris and explains why some found his remarks offensive. the event was to honor native american veterans but president donald trump couldn't resist the opportunity to criticize a political rival to use the name of a native american hero in front of a portrait of president andrew jackson who is known for forcefully removing natives from their ancestral lands no less in a way that was not meant as a complement thank you because you're very very special people you're here long before any of us were here. although we have a representative in congress who they say was you know a long time ago they call or pocahontas it's a name he first used on the campaign trail and polka dot this is not happy she got

to refer to the democratic senator and staunch trump critic elizabeth warren the senator who's claimed native american ancestry was quick to respond it is deeply unfortunate that the president of the united states cannot even make it through a ceremony honoring these heroes without having to throw out a wave or the president spokesperson said there was nothing offensive about it you know most people find offensive is senator warren a line about her heritage to advance her career but native groups such as the national congress of american indians have expressed outrage at the president's use of the name pocahontas before and again called it a slur that denigrates her legacy and i think her native women who remain and i think a. one of the name one of the stories of our women in a race in a story but using her name a pejorative term only helps to continue the extremely high level of violence we

have against nato bombing today you know the controversy over shadowed recognition of the veterans who use the navajo language to transmit secret messages during world war two sending what some insist is a message of disrespect christian salumi al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera security forces in zimbabwe say things are normal following robert mugabe's resignation but not everybody is. one of the world's most eligible bachelors is officially off the market britain's prince harry and t.v. actor like mark and not. come back as we look at weather conditions across the americas you see a lot of snow across eastern parts of canada. pushing up from the size towards the

eastern seaboard so new york and washington looking quite pleasant and the same goes as we had on through into wednesday as temperatures continuing to rise in these areas we had more heavy rain and snow coming in the pineapple express with snow over the rockies down in towards the sierra nevada as they head on into wednesday and next frontal system pushing into water pacific northwest for later in the day. it should be largely dry in los angeles with highs of twenty four degrees into central parts of america and the caribbean for the islands. still fairly wet at times across parts of the bahamas but still some sunshine likely in between times moving through into wednesday jamaica should be generally dry and fine we see very heavy showers affecting panama and costa rica they're still there coming in off the caribbean on the trade winds otherwise for the north is looking fine across the yucatan peninsula and mexico city with temperatures there twenty two degrees as you move into south america here we've got heavy showers for parts of ecuador through into peru and also bolivia further south fine weather conditions in

santiago in chile fine a bonus areas but rio de janeiro here would like to see further shower activity. witness documentaries that accompany your eyes at this time and.

hello again you're watching out zero remind of the top stories this hour syrian government jets have hit a rebel held enclave in damascus killing one thousand people this comes as a new round of un backed talks on syria's borders scheduled to begin in geneva on tuesday. early results have given honduras opposition leader clearly in the presidential election more than seventy percent of votes counted sell donuts rella is a five points ahead of the incumbent president pon orlando and on his press conference and to claim victory. thirteen people are being killed in thirty injured in a suicide attack southeast of the iraqi capital baghdad it happened there a market in the know how one area i saw has claimed responsibility right that had been going through a relative period of calm the last major suicide attack that was in many. indonesia's bali airport remains closed for a second day in a row as mt volcano continues to spew smoke and ash up to three thousand meters

into the sky well thirty's of those expanded their evacuation order from the immediate area surrounding the volcano and how much energy and has this report. 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 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 kilometers. 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 you can't get. back to. 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 mohammad to. name a senior military general has denied religious discrimination exists in his country the comments were made after a meeting with pope francis the head of the catholic church is on his first visit to me and it has been advised not to use the word written judge jury in discussions

and military crackdown in min miles reckoning state has forced more than six hundred thousand range and to flee to neighboring bank that ash scott hardly has more now from young gone. 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 general men now 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 a statement on his facebook page say they met for about fifteen minutes now and 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 of issues 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 the religious affiliations now it'll be interesting to see how those meetings go and if they'll be any mention of or hinge it 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 zimbabwe's new president emma cinnamon and guy 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 to select old god figures from robert mugabe's government us reports now from harare. nearly two weeks is the minute she take of zimbabwe security forces say the situation is getting back to normal the police who haven't been seen on the streets about it for days. for now that means doing joint patrols with soldiers to try and maintain little and order law enforcement. or do you see

been reports of looting and illegal occupation. by particularly farms in houses. yes. is criminal in your midst. and will be made by the people of the law the announcement comes days after a muslim and i got the new president 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 the most high profile is a gracious the former finance minister he's accused of corruption going back at least ten years. some say so late to punishment could be a sign not much is going to change under the new administration we might have had one person removed but then. 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 in 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 up with the functions of the state sets a dangerous precedent. the french president has a right in the queue on the first stop of a four day africa visit he says he wants to transform france's relations with africa and will give a major speech on tuesday to kick start the process but he's not the first french president to make such a promise to talk about reports. the french president arrived in bercy no fasces

capital what to do go late on monday night he was warmly greeted by president. emanuel michael says he's come to africa to start a new chapter in french african relations one built on equality rather than former colonial ties. i wanted to make the first stop and why africa trip it's also a symbol to mark a new era of relations not just with your country mr president but with the whole continent. back or has condemned france's colonial past he says he wants to end sixty years of french influence over its former colonies where self interest was the guiding principle. former president jacques chirac embodied the neo colonial approach that became known as far south lake 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 syle region became a new frontier in what he called france's fight against terror. the french have no desire to remain here in mali because of themselves and africans who ensure the security the independence of the sovereignty of mali that's how i understand relations between france and africa. when it comes to africa 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. like every new president says hell into the old french african networks of faith is that any and most presidents in that keeping the status quo and they criticized for that. model marco has chosen to start his four day trip to west africa with

a speech to students at work or do you know first he says it's young africans who carry the hopes of tomorrow and is france's youngest president he may just be the one to convince them that he means what he says it's also popular i'll just say what good do. britain's prince harry and his fiance the u.s. actress meghan markle have given their first t.v. interview following the official announcement of their engagement beauty shop as. prince harry and meghan markle together outside london's kensington palace the thirty six year old actress brings a touch of the twenty first century to britain's royal family she's an american who describes herself as mixed race which came under scrutiny in media coverage of their relationship and some of that scrutiny and you ended up making a very public statement about it some of that scrutiny was centered around your ethnicity. when you realize that or to think 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 that or 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 and we have never put any focus on that we've just focused on who we are as a couple and so when you take all those extra layers away and all of that noise. i think it makes it really easy to just enjoy being together and to know all the rest of that out. it was in september two thousand and sixteen that they made their first public appearance a sports event for wounded veterans later prince harry was incensed by the press coverage of their relationship his office issued an unprecedented rebuke his girlfriend meghan markle has been subjected to a wave of abuse and harassment a smear on the front page of a national newspaper the racial undertones of comment pieces and the outright

sexism and racism of social media trolls this is not a game it is her life and his prince harry who's fifth in line to the throne so permission from the queen to marry this is a family that from the top that means with the times and sage to say to it to its members and you harry's a modern going he's a guy he's grown up in the modern world he wants to do things his way he's not bound by tradition he's following his heart as opposed to any form of protocol that people think he should marry the world's media had set up outside kensington palace but on the streets of london news of the engagement was greeted with a mixture of delight and disinterest. actually they're. going to get mad when you think. how much of her interests. don't you know really. well then. missing gauge woman speaks volumes about how the royal family has changed and american actress of mixed race will become

a duchess unthinkable even a few years ago peter shot al-jazeera in london. five people have been injured in southern tel of eve after a blast cause the building's collapse footage from the scene shows cars and buildings and go off to flames emergency services are at the scene searching for anybody trapped in the rubble because of the blast is being investigated by police in australia's second largest city have arrested a man accused of planning a mass shooting on new year's eve already say the twenty year old tried to obtain an automatic rifle to attack people in melbourne it's alleged he was planning the attack at federation square a popular spot for thousands of people celebrating new year's eve the mile is one of the high risk persons of interest we had been monitoring him for a very lengthy period of time he's in a strange citizen and he's of somali and parents the allegations are that he was

planning to commit a terrorist act and he attempted to a tiny to do so what we will be alleging is that he was intending to use a farm to shoot and kill as many people as he could in a federation square area on you you say you know if you thought running a marathon was hard enough try competing in one of the coldest places on earth. fifty five runners have braved a grueling forty two kilometer course in antarctica less than a thousand kilometers from the south pole they will full face miles gogol's gloves waterproof pants and several layers of thermal clothing to guard against temperatures of minus twenty five degrees so it's pretty impressive i'm. just trying to recap on the top stories here on out there and syrian government

jets have hit a rebel held enclave of damascus killing one thousand people this comes as a new round of un backed talks on syria's war are scheduled to begin in geneva on tuesday. meanwhile the u.s. says it's considering adjustments to how it gives military support to kurdish led forces fighting i said in northern syria turkey considers the kurdish syrian fighters known as white b.g. terrorists on friday the turkish government and u.s. president donald trump told his counterpart rice of type one that supplies to the kurdish led groups would hold for the state department now says such decisions on military support will be face on battlefield requirements. not all done. we are allies of the us under nato and we have made it clear several times to us with the right method with the right rhetoric that this was not the right thing to do what we were told in response was that they attach a lot of importance to the fight against eisel and as a result they have to assess all options but of course it is not

a choice for us to work with these organizations to fight against i so it is a necessity they told us but we are having difficulty understanding this since when do you need to work with one terrorist organization against another terrorist organization it's not fitting of a serious state and not behavior that suits a country such as the united states thirteen people have been killed and thirty injured in a suicide attack southeast of the iraqi capital baghdad the incident happened near a market in the area i saw has claimed responsibility back that had been going through a relative period of calm the last major suicide attack there was back in may early results have given honduras is opposition leader a clear lead in the presidential election with more than seventy percent of the folks counted salvador nasrallah is a five points ahead of the incumbent president one of the incumbent president one orlando hernandez both candidates have declared victory of ok now on the indonesian

island of bali is spewing smoke up to three thousand meters into the sky by international airport remains closed canceling hundreds of flights and stranding thousands of passengers. all right you're up to date with headlines here and al-jazeera coming up next week. understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to. al-jazeera.