reggae music is really going to trip a lot. of very young is it may come from the make of what i feel that. talks about just call it cuts off an organism or cricket music has a message that's deeply relevant. especially for a good thing this is kind of all right wing assault on our freedom to ask questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being targeted like students teachers activists filmmakers writers may so they've been intimidated that the number of people on the streets to protest has reached our doorstep so in whichever way i'd like to attempt to contribute something it's. an admission of guilt donald trump's former national security adviser seeks a plea deal for lying about his contact with russia.

mrs al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up extra powers for security forces in honduras after violence over stalled presidential election results. they will find the palestinian chief negotiator warns against any u.s. recognition on jerusalem as a capital of israel. plus lebanon's mountain of waste beirut's struggle was rubbish becomes a human rights issue. a former senior advisor to u.s. president donald trump has admitted to lying to the f.b.i. about his contact with russia michael flynn is the first administration official to be charged as part of a criminal investigation by special counsel robert mueller the former national

security adviser says a senior member of trump's transitional team asked him to reach out to russia's ambassador to the u.s. before the president's inauguration a move that is not allowed his guilty plea shows flynn is cooperating with immune investigation could be an important source of information for prosecutors investigating others in the white house a white house correspondents can be held at reports. arriving at federal court in washington michael flynn ignored shouted questions by reporters. inside moments later the former national security adviser to president donald trump pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. court documents show the charges against flynn stem from his lying about efforts to obtain advance knowledge of how foreign governments might vote on a u.n. security council resolution about israel as well as phone conversations flynn had

before tribe was even sworn in as president with the former russian ambassador to the united states surrogate kislyak. flynn is said to have suggested to kiss leon sanctions put in place against russia by the obama white house maybe dropped once trump was sworn in and they did not discuss anything having to do with the united states decision to expel diplomats or or impose a censure against russia flints lies to the vice president about that phone call led to his dismissal after just three weeks in office in a statement trumps lawyer said flynt false claims mirror the false statements to white house officials which resulted in his resignation in february of this year nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than mr flynn but his plea in fact may directly tie the oval office to the investigation by special counsel robert muller and whether or not the trump campaign worked with

russia this suggests that mr flynt has more information to provide about other things the white house has lied about other things the president himself may have lied about and whether or not the white house including the president himself colluded with russia according to the former f.b.i. director james comey trump once asked him to drop the case against flynn and despite claims by the president's lawyer flynn's cooperation with the f.b.i. probe shows that most investigation is ask. could lead to charges against an even bigger target including the president of the united states kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington bruce fein is a former u.s. justice department official and constitutional lawyer he told al-jazeera why this case could be of great concern to the trump administration. we know that mr flynn got a relatively minor charge that carries maybe

a prison term of less than six months in a fine that's clearly lenient in you'd expect that mr moeller would have done that only if he expected something in return namely cooperation which would lead to other dominoes to fall moreover mr flynn had indicated later that someone high up in the white house directed him to speak to miss the ambassador of russia and the only persons who would have authority in my judgment at that level would be those who are acting at the direction of the president himself the speculation is that gerrard questioner was the intermediary between the president mr flynn but the idea that gerrard questioner on his own initiative a junior official who's got no experience at all in government seems utterly ludicrous and that all means that the finger is pointing more and more towards mr trump suppose that mr flynn now testifies under oath that he acted in speaking to mr kosilek at the direction of jared questioner and now that brings then question

or into the play and question or then is going to be asked well who spoke to you because we know somebody of that youth and inexperience is not acting on his own a question or at that point could plead the fifth amendment or he could implicate the president one of the hazards that i think mr trump confronts is that he's so narcissistic he doesn't really have friends who are inclined to go the extra step to try to save him from peril he almost alienates everybody because he throws them under the bus and teach them as disposable furniture if he doesn't need that many more so that's going to be a real problem for him because in many of these cases it's interpretating intent it's interpretive motivation and what people say and in read from body language can be critical here and i don't think mr trump really has a whole lot of allies on that score security forces in honduras have been given extra powers to stop violence. followed a disputed presidential election one person has been killed in scuffles between

police and opposition supporters and dozens injured a clear winner is yet to emerge from sunday's vote present this is now only ahead of opposition candidates. has claimed electoral fraud and call the supporters on to the streets recent soldiers i'm posing a nighttime curfew for the next ten days. the forces and the national police acting in a prudent manner in accordance with the law. on the people to maintain peace and calm to stay tolerant and to not from and hateful sentiments vengeance or division among the whole people. thousands of people are expected to join a rally against germany's far right if tea party which is gathering in hanover to elect new leadership the demonstrators are against the anti migrant anti islam party that captured nearly thirteen percent of the version almost one hundred seats in parliament and september's general election co-leader frock

a pear tree quit. just days after the action to form her own breakaway party it's gearing up to oppose chancellor angela merkel's yet to be formed government now the f.t. will be germany's official opposition party if i'm going to merkel enters into a coalition with the social democrats the f.t. wants to introduce a proposal to repatriate syrian refugees this will be debated in parliament but is expected to be voted against by all other parties controversially the far right party also wants to honor the german army which has been traditionally kept out of politics since the end of world war two and the coming joins us from the german city of hannover talk us through those pictures we're looking at a little earlier on the protests what happened. well jane protests is that the police are expecting or several thousand protesters we saw birds several hundred yeah party convention say you know it where the party convention is

being held as the leaders were driving those protesters were running to try and block the leaders from coming they have vowed to stop the some six hundred delegates from reaching the convention center but these are far left protests is police are taking no chances with frankly where i'm standing right now i can see comic relief that i can see protesters there are helicopters buzzing our overhead they have several water cannon trucks police horses ready to move in if things do get much more tense so far we haven't seen anything more than minus scuffles as these protests. move to block the late is coming in the mood is where i will to get to the convention center where they're going to debate their party platform and elect a new leader. but to us more about this election and you know what it means the bigger picture here politically. will this actually jane comes at

a rather sensitive time for german politics angle america's coalition talks collapsed with my coalition she's now entered into forming a grand coalition with the social democrats the s.p.d. party now this is the coalition that's governed germany for the past four years but what it would effectively do is make this far right party b f t in terms of numbers the most powerful opposition in the german column and this is a watershed moment for germany because this is the first time that a party to the right of the conservatives have actually entered the bundestag since world war two and so many people are saying that a grand coalition while it would be good for stability in europe while it would be good for continuity and debility for germany would actually have these repercussions of giving an opposition role to the far right party now whether that

translates into. a policy platform that moves german politics to the rides that supports the lists of fearing much is being made about that however the f.t. has its own internal struggle that we're going to see play out during this conference their leader petry off to the election step down saying that the party was veering too far to the right so at this conference the party's very much deciding its are an ideological fight will it become much more of a right wing party via shop lead to the ride or will it become something that's more palatable to more people in germany. that enters parliament and the more moderate forces will prevail so we're going to see that as it unfolds this weekend thank you. pope francis is wrapping up his asian tour way funny used the word to him judging a mass on friday the head of the roman catholic church blessed people during a gathering for young people in bangladesh is capital dhaka the pontiff has been on

a six day trip to bangladesh where the international community hoped he'd address the six hundred twenty thousand range of fled violence in rakhine state he didn't specifically mention the ethnic minority until day five of his child's traffic is more from the other kind of a long camp in bangladesh where many of them live the decision by the vatican for the pope not to use the word regain judge earing his three days in myanmar had cast a dark cloud over this asia trip but only in coming to bangladesh and reaching those range of refugees that have travelled from this camp to dakar to see him and on him listening to their horrific stories of suffering inside myanmar and inside these camps it seems there was little choice for him but to mention them by name and of course this is generating a lot of positive publicist see about this crisis but the practical to the practical challenges that these people are facing remain i mean let's look at the

facts in the last week or so the bangladesh government or the myanmar government to come together and putting together a plan what they describe as repatriation of attention the hundreds of thousands of ready to back into myanmar now these refugees still still do not have citizenship still have no more rights than they had when they arrived they are terrified about potential of having to go back and many of them have lost property family members have been killed this plan being put forward suggests that. the region she will be housed in temporary camps close to their property much of which as i say has been destroyed so while this visit by the pope and his decision to eventually call the ranger by their name is generating a lot of good publicist see for the course here the real practicalities about improving the conditions and the future of the ranger remains doubtful so head on

out the door for football as well kept reveals a past match up we'll have the details from moscow. by this guy nine if you. were off the coast of the italian riviera. i was still got some very nasty weather across a good positive here down to the south is still the flooding rains pushing across the balkans making the way. this was a sea in albania recently as a result of some very heavy downpours this is the capital city ronna where we have had some really heavy rain coming through over one hundred thousand people have been affected by the power cuts to come as a result of the big down poles and the heavy rain that has come here meanwhile we're talking snow over the high ground of course to say in any even in northern parts of spain we've also seen some snow here as well so little bit of everything

where are you looking at some rather cold weather still struggling to get up to around six celsius there in london two degrees in paris nina say hovering around freezing in law in the snow that stretches where across the output she said it was at least inside of here but it will make its way a little further south what's nice is this we go on through sunday by sunday songs of somalia. pushing into the northwest london could get up to temple figures so something a little warmer coming through this day still western parts of africa meanwhile could also see a few showers over the next couple of days with the high thirteen. the weather sponsored by cats on these. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage of it every day but the message is simplistic you have the brain of a good logical rational people versus crazy monsters and misinformation is rife dismissal

and does not hold well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint trying to mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. and again you're watching out there a lot of our top stories this hour u.s. president dog transform a national security advisor michael flynn has admitted to lying to the f.b.i. about his contact with russia flynn says a senior member of trans transition team asked him to reach out to russia's ambassador to the u.s. security forces and honduras have been given extra powers to stop the violence that followed

a disputed presidential election president gone along the line on this is now only ahead of opposition candidates salvador has claimed electoral force and called his supporters on to the streets dozens of people expected to join a rally against germany's far right party which is gathering in hanover to elect a new leadership the anti migrant anti islam party won almost one hundred seats in parliament in the general election in september. the u.s. senate has passed a bill to overhaul the tax system the first major changes in more than three decades no democrat voted it's a key political victory for president donald trump after his administration won the support of republicans we've been holding out on friday the house of representatives have passed a separate version so now must meet the senate to agree on a final bill critics say the bill will add one trillion dollars to the u.s. budget deficit in the next decade william black is a professor of economics and law with the university of missouri and kansas city he

says congressional republicans were desperate to get the key provisions of the tax bill through. the paradox is that the republicans have actually gotten weaker in congress and that now has more power over them than he has had it any point in the presidency and that to his strength comes in part from the very weaknesses we've talked about that they congressional republicans are now desperate to have something passed anything that's the first part the second part is they are particularly desperate to get the key provisions of this bill through for their donor base and the donor base of course these are the wealthier people and this tax cut is overwhelmingly going to go for the wealthiest americans and the donors are saying pass this bill or don't come back to us for more contributions and then

basically the key political fact is that trump's base is still with trump and that trumps base is what turns out in primary elections so congressional republicans don't fear democrats anywhere near as much as they fear trump's base in the prime republican primary and trump has played on these theories quite well well economists say that this is going to add only they're a tiny amounts in terms of growth there's a clear consensus among economists so overwhelmingly this has nothing to do with growth and everything to do with redistributing income again towards the wealthiest americans and investigation into white nationalist violence in the city of charlottesville found major failures by police forces the white nationalists were rallying against the removal of

a confederate statue in august when scuffles broke out with anti fascist protests his report says a lack of preparation and coordination by police led to a failure by police to respond to the violence prop eight also found an officer had been removed from an area where a car late at plowed into a protest is killing one woman. the palestinian chief negotiator is warning that the us would be playing with fire if it recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel so america was referring to reports that president trump could announce the policy change on wednesday the white house insists a final decision hasn't been made the status of jerusalem has long been one of most sensitive subjects of the israeli palestinian conflict as both sides claim the city as their capital. and you mustn't when almost a miracle everyone has informed the u.s. administration that jerusalem isn't just a palestinian question it's an arab islamic christian question the u.s. administration understands the enormity of the subject we're being told that

promises were made during the election campaign which would postpone internal u.s. problems that are facing trump or anyone else. but this is a very big issue touching jerusalem a touchingly l.x. a mosque touching the church of the holy sepulcher is playing with fire there's no meaning for a palestinian state without east jerusalem as its capital mark far is an assistant professor at the dar is jude he says trump would go against all his previous s's in recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital. every priest president historically has signed that waiver to not move. the embassy but by actually now break with that tradition i think the pro if you want to call it pro israeli faction of the hardcore boys really faction in his administration questionnaire and others are pushing for this of course question is implicated now in the flynn scandal because he was lobbying with flynn on behalf of israel to get russia to veto settlement resolution in two thousand and sixteen and that's when

a big scandal as well as the question of right now is a little bit of a liability to trump i would hope the trump would actually you know pursue american interests not israeli interests first i think it's part of a plan he could have signed on to at the end in the beginning it wasn't that clear that he would do that but now he seems to move in that direction to have this if you want to call a new york conservative even magenta together with saudi arabia to some degree in the gulf states and even pursuing a regime change maybe in syria who knows but it seems that he has kind of given up the earlier policy you had which was to not being implicated in these old brewing conflicts in the region bear in mind that all presidents of bread barack obama two thousand and eight said that you will some of the united capital of israel and all presidents basic have endorsed that line they just haven't put it into action even trump signed a waiver in june i believe and now will be up again so we'll see what happens saudi foreign minister says the saudi led coalition is looking at ways to increase the flow of humanitarian assistance into yemen saudi arabia placed

a blockade on yemen last month off to a missile was fired from the territory towards riyadh. stop fighting and join the political process. we hope that eventually the who things will realize that this is not. and that they will make peace there are many citizens they have every right to participate in the political process but they can't control the country not a few fifty thousand and the country's twenty eight. that's ridiculous and so this is where we are we are very concerned about the humanitarian situation in yemen we are looking at ways of entrancing the floor humanitarian assistance into yemeni ports airports in the coming days and few weeks we will make more announcements in the. residents of a rebel held enclave in syria's eastern go to have made a desperate plea for more medical and food aid the un has called for the immediate

evacuation of five hundred people including one hundred sixty seven children from the area which is near the capital damascus many of those waiting to be moved are either injured or sick nine people have died in recent weeks while waiting for permission from the government to be allowed to leave. because of the rockets the houses we live in have holes in the ceilings there is nothing else to say it is not enough that we are hungry and cold we are covering ourselves to keep warm and lighting fires to cook we are like barn animals now we eat what can i say god help us we don't know what will happen to us what is going to be the end of us what now what are we to do our children are gone dead from the shelling and the others have fled the european council president says breaks the talks will go no further unless a border plan is agreed island speaking after meeting the irish prime minister in

dublin donald tusk says island will have the final say on what will be the only land border between the u.k. and the european union. it is the u.k. that started break. this possibility to propose a commitment to do this necessary to avoid the hard cold let me show you very clearly. if the u.k. also is some acceptable for ireland it will also be unacceptable for the e.u. . a judge in the canadian province of quebec has suspended the law banning full face coverings for people receiving or giving public services as part of a religious neutrality law passed in october it was criticized by civil liberties groups who say it discriminated against muslim women the judge says more guidelines are needed on how it will work in practice but as well as government and opposition of began a new round of talks in the dominican republic top of the agenda is the economic

and political crisis these are the first formal talks and anti-government protests ended in july months of often violent demonstrations left at least a hundred people dead and thousands detained the opposition wants the government to release political prisoners it's also seeking guarantees that next year's presidential election will be free and fair lebanon is struggling with another waste problem two years after the last one under control but this time it's the way the rubbish has been disposed of that has public health activists worried so in the heart of reports from beirut. lebanon's rubbish is being collected but it's what happens next which is causing concern activists are warning of a new garbage crisis in the making and serious health risks. two years ago the streets of the capital beirut and surrounding areas were clogged with un collected trash and the stench filled the air the main landfill was full and there was nowhere else to go it took months before government leaders found

a temporary solution since then the mountain of voice produced every day in the lebanese capital is taken to two new coastal landfills but they are quickly becoming close to overflowing. leaders are considering enlarging landfills and importing incinerators but environmentalists accuse them of not wanting to solve the problem. solves the problem in six months and the e.u. is ready to offer the twenty five million dollars needed the problem is environmentalist's looking for sustainable solutions for the politicians with landfills so they can reclaim land for development purposes. the situation is worse outside the capital where there are no waste management facilities this is one of hundreds of open waste dumps and they are being burnt environmentalist say lebannon has never had a comprehensive waste management strategy. human rights watch is sounding the alarm with a report called as if you are inhaling your death the open burning of waste is dangerous

say activists lebanese who live near the dumps complained about health problems. when they burned the trash i lose my breath and i can't breathe i use this inhaler because i can't take a breath. i mean my kids are growing up here and you know there's no way of protecting them what will happen to them ten to twenty years from now they will get diseases. activists are blaming the government for failing in its obligations staff at the environment ministry weren't available for comment it was actually very simple solutions to this problem and we're fortunate that the vast majority. could actually be either recycled or composted but at the moment around eighty percent of it is either being landfilled or dumped and some of that is being burned. the garbage crisis did spark several weeks of protests demonstrators accusing politicians of corruption not much has changed since then except that morning's about the public health emergency are growing louder. mouthwatering match

between spain and portugal is the highlight of the opening stages of next is football world cup in russia the european powerhouses have been drawn in the same group along with morocco and iran defending champions germany are in group with mexico sweden and south korea hosts russia will play saudi arabia in the opening match of the tournament. looks in more detail at the matchups. the first thing that really stood out about the draw was actually a much spying versus portugal that could only come about because spain weren't in the top sage you always expect spined with their brilliant track record to be among the top seeds but they won and they will play portugal what i would say is with a walker when they run in the group s'posed spain and portugal will expect to progress whatever happens in the match between them as for the first time finalists iceland you could barely have got

a more attractive guy for them to ply the smallest never to take part in the world cup a fantastic achievement to qualify despite what they achieved in the european championship last year and they're playing argentina in moscow it's going to be another amazing day for the people of iceland what i would say is to manage expectations it's going to be extremely difficult for iceland to pick up points in that group don't really don't expect them to qualify for the knockout stages if they don't it will be quite a story in terms of the toughest going. i look at brazil switzerland costa rica and serbia and i think you've got three strong times what really strong tame this being my favorites and i think they're going to call anything the group of death but i think that one looked the toughest along possibly with that ice and group with argentina in it as well as croatia and nigeria.

you. run through the top stories with you u.s. president on transform a national security advisor michael flynn has admitted to lying to the f.b.i. about his contact with russia flynn says a senior member of trump's transition team asked him to reach out to russia's ambassador to the u.s. . police and soldiers in honduras have been given extra powers to stop violence that followed a disputed presidential election present a lander hollanders is now only ahead of opposition candidate salvatore knows that i was claimed electoral fraud and called his supporters on to the streets. forces and the national police acting in a prudent manner in accordance with the law. on the people to maintain peace and calm to stay tolerant and to not ferment hateful sentiments vengeance or division among the whole people thousands of people are expected to join

a rally against germany's far right if the party which is gathering in hanover to elect new leadership the anti migrant anti islam party one always hundred seats in parliament in the general election in september pope francis is wrapping up his asian tour way you finally used the word religion judging a mass on friday the head of the roman catholic church blessed people during a gathering for young people in bangladesh's capital dhaka before returning to rome in a few hours the u.s. senate has passed a bill to overhaul the tax system the first major changes in more than three decades no democrat voted for the bill it's a clear political victory for president donald trump after his administration won the support of republicans who've been holding out on friday the house of representatives have passed a separate version so now must meet the senate to agree on a final bill critics say the bill will add a trillion dollars to the u.s.

budget deficit in the next decade the palestinian chief negotiator is warning the u.s. would be playing with fire if it recognizes jerusalem as the capital of israel cyber cat was referring to reports that present trump could announce the policy change on wednesday. the headlines and news continues but right now it is the listening post . this month the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons will receive the nobel peace prize but want to hear the real threat in a series of special reports al-jazeera examines the state of nuclear proliferation around the world the be. the bloodiest attack on the street. the middle of my focus. that.