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at their first ever surreal. we begin with the war in yemen where the rebels say they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates the group's television service says they were targeting the. nuclear reactor which is on the construction in the west of abu dhabi emirates but. the claim meanwhile fighting has continued to intensify in yemen's capital between the booth is and forces loyal to oust president ali abdullah saleh for many years the common ground but that has now changed and saleh has now called for talks with all sides to end the war how the hawks to reports. to the alliance that control. yemeni capital

sana'a was as unexpected as it has been violent dozens have been killed or wounded since the fighting began on wednesday between forces loyal to alstead present. and the his face. now salah is calling on yemenis to rise against his former partners. and i call on all the yemeni people in all the cities all the provinces all the districts and neighborhoods to take a united stand to defend the revolution and the republic against this group who have been irresponsibly playing with yemeni people for the past three years robbing the institutions and breaking into government buildings only seek revenge on the revolution and the republic. has called for talks with the saudi led coalition on condition they stop their attacks if the crippling blockade and allow for more humanitarian support coalition statement welcome sollars move saying it would redeem yemen from the evils of iranian terrorist and sectarian militias return it

to an arab pure and natural fault but the loosies who are backed by terror own say they still have support from members of silos political party and addressed directly. we used to praise your position in the past even though it was one of words only which came with its fair share of backstabbing disappointment discouragement disobedience and many other problems remain patient but that wasn't enough for you shame on you a big shame. silas struck an alliance with the who stays after a popular uprising ended his thirty three year rule in two thousand and twelve he was succeeded by his deputy abt a month so had a who fled to saudi arabia after the who take over in johnny two thousand and fifteen and it was there he called an emergency meeting on saturday to discuss the situation with. the saudi led coalition has been fighting to restore hard. power

meanwhile sila says he wants a quick and to the conflict which is a volved into the world's largest humanitarian crisis. the regional analysts believe is past me motivated and is looking for a future road for him and possibly members of his family in government whatever the case this latest violence is threaten to destabilize yemen. well the military spokesperson has been speaking about the missile launch and the recent fighting between the rebels and forces loyal to president. firing the cruise missiles at the u.a.e. is an important qualities of late for the yemeni military especially since it took place at the right time and place there was coordination between the u.a.e. and sell it to destabilize however the plan was filed it was the last card in the hands of the aggressors by filed politically militarily and economically despite

all the power they have. the war in yemen has its origins in the failure of a political transition following the twenty eleven arab spring uprising forced out longtime president and triggered a complicated struggle for power as how the abdel-hamid explains. in many ways the conflict in yemen underlines the contradictions and rivalries of an arab spring. it was all about reinstating the authority of arabic rebel months were heady the internationally recognized yemeni president he had risen to power after the popular uprising in two thousand and eleven taking over from his boss. who had led the country for three decades the struggle to impose his authority in a country riddled with poverty the spread of armed groups and corruption he also couldn't fend of the rising influence of the who thieves who had taken control of the northern province of. sather and the capital sanaa. once at odds the iranian

backed who these and deposed president who still had the support of many in the military became allies and were planning a total takeover of the country. but more than two years later neither side appears close to achieving a military victory and the political cards are being shuffled once again the tactical alliance between the who's the supporters was fragile at best both being highly suspicious of each other's motives but united by the same desire to overthrow the had the administration former president ali abdullah saleh now says he's open to talks with the saudi that coalition if it will put an end to the fighting and the blockade while they need to lift the blockade and open the airport and allow food and medicine into the country we will open a new page for them for dialogue what is happening in yemen is enough. this

turnaround effectively puts an end to the partnership with the who sees their leader criticize the move as an attempted coup by sol he's very charismatic in the way that he knows how to to actually go out of his way change one hundred eighty degrees and be very pragmatic in who he. goes into a coalition with and showed that once again if it suits him of the timing is right he will do what is necessary to remain in power it's about regime security and he's very good at the probably the who this is that they're an ideological player so they do have a clear belief system they believe in something they have an ideological objective they want to achieve and solid doesn't have that for solid it's pure about purely about interests and it's about establishing or maintaining his power base as president saleh was a close saudi ally and full several times he's also known as a man of great survival x. friends have once again turned into enemies inflows into new allies leaving her the illegitimate president of yemen in the cold without the. u.s.

president donald trump says he never asked a former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating his former national security adviser michael flynn and a treat trump blamed fake news for covering what he called coneys line is we testified before congress in june that trump had spoken to him about letting flynn go on friday flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with russia's ambassador insists he was asked to do so by a senior member of trump's transition team reported to be jerry kirshner as part of an investigation into allegations of russian meddling last year's u.s. election in a second trade the president also attacked the f.b.i. he said its reputation is in tatters and called it the worst in history. democratic senator dianne feinstein says a senate investigation into u.s.

russia links has also revealed a possible obstruction of justice case i see it in the hyper frenetic attitude of the white house that comments every day the continual tweets. and i see it most importantly in what happened with the firing director komi and it is my belief that that is directly because he did not agree to lift the cloud of the russian vested geisha and that's obstruction of justice. dion easterbrook joins us live now from washington d.c. so this tweet on saturday we were all talking about diane where trump knowledge is seen knew that. when he's now saying he didn't even write it. that's right and it just raises a lot of confusion because there was a lot of backlash over that tweet in that tweet as you mentioned he said that he

fired flynn because he not only lied to. president mike pence. about comfort stations that he had with russia but he also fired him because he had lied to the f.b.i. which raises questions about what did the president know and what did he know it which is what senator feinstein alluded to that that could be construed as. obstruction of justice because just a couple of days after that former f.b.i. director james comey claims that the president asked him to go easy on mike flynn and then you saw that tweet today where he said well i didn't say that i didn't ask him to end the investigation so it seems like he's trying to deflect attention away from that tweet that he made yesterday and then sort of piling on the f.b.i. today either way members of his own party have been asking the president to stop the tweeting in fact this morning senator lindsey graham of south carolina who has been in the president's corner but has also criticized the president says he needs

to stop the tweeting because it's not doing him any good and if i can just move on to that of the hot topic whether the president plans to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem what is the latest to hearing on the. well we really don't know much about that at this point his son in law and advisor jared questioner was asked about that today here in washington he said that the president is still looking at all different angles he's considering what he might do we may know something later this week he says the u.s. one there is speculation that the u.s. could acknowledge jerusalem as the capital but not actually move the embassy there are so we're hoping or we're expecting that we might know something about that what whatever move the white house may make as early as wednesday of this week good to get your update thanks very much dynasty broke from d.c. the u.s.

says it will set his own policies on migration after withdrawing from a un pact designed to improve the handling of refugees and migrants globally un member states will meet in mexico on monday for talks on the plan known as the global compact on migration is aims to protect migrants and refugees around the world the us ambassador to the un nikki haley says the pact is inconsistent with u.s. policy is the international organization for migration is disappointed by the u.s. decision and the us is the consensual country of migration to syria is going to have an impact and is obviously going to disappoint but nonetheless in this globalized world there is no doubt that people are on the move and countries have to coordinate coordinated non-binding were and that's what the compact is all about and there are large movements of markets in particular and he's impressed with all countries cooperate in the. united states is a really important voice of migration and you know it's. essential

so it's been in use its practices of migration to the forefront of. those mines it's important to always be heard and be disappointed that they're not. twenty six people including children have been killed in syrian government strikes the strikes targeted cities and towns in damascus province including. its main on the saved by the syrian army since twenty thirteen ramadan has. on an open field just outside the city of hama displaced syrian families have set up camp there part of the now familiar exit polls from syrian cities and from government falls as they endured weeks of bombardments then fled panicked defenseless in the face of incessant up talks and with little hope of a that despite all relief. there are thirty to forty tents

here two to three families live in every tent the renault toilets running water schooling for the kids we don't have much. they joined the ranks of millions of city and most of the homes in the conflict. this is the hardest is the boat this bite us says find some it is the war crimes. the aerial bombardments israel is still running once vibrant neighborhoods into decrypted shells of their former selves the government insists it's protecting the people targeting sold them terrorists based in residential. but often it's the civilians who are. whenever the bombs land it's the syrian civil defense force or why told it's come to the rescue rushing in to free the injured and recover the day. job is as green as it is dangerous food shortages are also adding to the misery of cities.

we haven't eaten since last night we had rockets falling throughout for the sake of god this has to stop. dozens of civilians. killed in recent. months. the u.s. humanitarian coordinator for. five hundred people with i didn't medical needs have to be about. the people of syria say they're victims of a crime committed by those charged with protecting them briefly they defied the. uprising crushed. outrage about what's happening in syria but no agreement on how to bring peace to one. still to come on the. disputed president. on the detroit river in the only

floating in the united states. electric car racing. direct. refugee crisis while visiting mammal the leader of the catholic church. candidly in private meetings he's facing international criticism for not using the word until he was in bangladesh where he met refugees escaping a military crackdown. i was interested in my message getting through so i saw that in my speech if i had used that word the door would have slammed shut but i describe the situation the rights that no one should be excluded citizenship

to allow me in my private meetings to go further i was very very satisfied with the discussions i was able to have meanwhile aid agencies have warned that young were hanged your women are being sold as sex slaves from cox's bizarre child stuff reports and how people trafficking has become common in the camps which were supposed to be a source of refuge cartoon is not her real name we call her that to protect her identity the fifteen year old ranger refugee says her mother father brother and sister all killed by a multi shell fired by the me and mom military at her village three months ago she says after she escaped by boat to bangladesh two women approached her on the beach saying they could help her instead they sold her into sex slavery. they told me if i went with them they would look after me and help me find a husband. says that up to three weeks of being locked in

a house alone she was sold to a bangladeshi man she says the man took her to another house raped and sexually abused her for twelve days. he said i will choke you i will stab you i will kill you do you want to be killed the way the military killed people in me and ma i won't let you go a local aid agency the latest a cartoon but doesn't want to be named said its staff working with trafficking victims have received death threats from criminal gangs operating in the refugee camps the head of the organization told us riggins you girls some as young as thirteen are being taken by the traffickers. it's thought some have been smuggled abroad. hasina begum and her family have been living in a refugee camp in bangladesh since fleeing an early a crackdown by the mia military in the one nine hundred ninety s. . a teenage girl was kidnapped on the way to school the kidnappers were wearing

a woman's neck out to cover their faces that's why they went recognized. sex and labor trafficking networks have existed in the camps for years but more than six hundred twenty thousand rangers have arrived here in the last couple of months and at least sixty percent of them are children and aid agencies having to focus on the delivery of vital humanitarian assistance at this stage so the trafficking situation is getting worse. with so many vulnerable people coming into a small area in such a short space of time. it's definite almost but it's increased there's been recruiters here in this bizarre bank that us previous to this influx and we know that they're getting more business and that new criminal networks have sort of kicked into action we have to start addressing us and we have to do it now urgently after twelve days the man who brought culture returned to the two women who sold

her they left her in the refugee camp where she now lives with a woman who found her alone and afraid so stuff that al-jazeera cox's bazaar went with. hunter and security forces have restored calm off the days of violence following the disputed presidential election the electoral commission is yet to declare a winner with president one all under one and as the head of opposition candidate salvador. three people have done injuring opposition protests the latest was a nineteen year old woman glynnis is saying she was shot by someone just in the capital such as a security forces have been given extra powers to stop the honest hello reports from the honduran capital. there are thousands of protesters on the streets of right now people as you can hear chanting out president one orlando . to give you a sense of how large this demonstration is. behind me talking about several

thousand people that are marching on the streets of tehran but what people have been telling me is look they write history and transparent elections they've lost confidence in the national election commission which after a week since the general election has still not managed to provide an alchemy of these elections this demonstration was organized by members of the opposition party but the people that we've spoken to come from all walks of life we're seeing families out here we're seeing students were seen members of the of the opposition party but we're also seeing members of the president's own party it's right here it's not in any way similar to the riots in the fields and the conscious that we saw between demonstrators and police only days ago but. there is still a tear in the people already after a week before an election result commission here

a decision on these very tense and very very needed presidential elections here and wonderous. venezuela's government says it's close to reaching an agreement with the main opposition to tackle the country's ongoing economic and political crisis the meetings in the dominican republic all the first negotiation since anti-government protests protests and in july. i've decided that the reason for gravity apart from being difficult i should say that we are close to reaching an agreement we will return on december the fifteenth to seek to lay the foundations for a definitive political economic social and cultural agreement we are deeply satisfied we want to thank all those who made these procedures possible. qatar's foreign minister says the emir temin bin hamad al phony will attend the gulf cooperation council in kuwait on tuesday the regional alliance is facing its worst crisis in decades as he sounded

a blockade of cattle and has its seventh month foreign minister mohammed bin abdel rahman alphonse says he hopes the summit will provide a blueprint for ending the standoff ports. kuwait has been the mediator in the gulf diplomatic crisis that began in early june the country is now getting ready to host a meeting of the gulf cooperation council invitations have been sent out to gulf leaders but it's still not known for sure who will attend since the beginning of the blockade on qatar kuwait. has attempted to end the dispute in october he warned of the potential collapse of the g.c.c. if the crisis continues many analysts agree this is i think the middle quite knows very well that the crisis is actually for a long and we are going to see probably two blocs within the g.c.c. one is led by saudi arabia and it. will actually have.

to a lesser extent probably kuwait. so we'll be having been to see a lot of that one asked on saturday about the gulf diplomatic crisis at the international mediterranean dialogue conference in rome of those foreign ministers schiff mohamed when i come on a sunny said it was important for countries to work together you need to reach a level of understanding going security principles that everybody is going to appoint and everybody should and should be committed to and then from there we've been. on it on the next system for a lot of the cooperation the foreign minister added that the gulf region is collective security had been threatened by the measures taken by the blockading countries i think. he's in bought ticket out of. this is something qatar will not do about it has made it to me and many times a by the middle and by other companies often show that they cannot actually accept

a thought that they want a negotiation they want. concessions by all sides actually to solve the crisis the blockading countries of saudi arabia the you. egypt have accused cutout of supporting terrorism maintaining cordial relations with iran and meddling in the internal affairs of their countries allegations the company government has strongly denied other maintains there is no legitimate justification for the actions taken by the four nations calling their decision of violation of its sovereignty the last time quarter played host to a gulf cooperation council from what it was in two thousand and fourteen back then no one could have foreseen this kind of crisis now just three years later the g.c.c. may have arrived at a defining moment on the cusp of a hugely important summit that many observers believed would not be happening this year. lawyers for the former egyptian prime minister say they have met him in cairo she thinks family says he was arrested and deported

from the u.a.e. after announcing his intention to run for president she had been based in since losing to mohamed morsi in the twenty twelve egyptian election and comment leader of the federal c.c. is widely expected to seek another term. iran has opened a one billion dollar extension of a ports which it hopes will allow it to bypass regional rival pakistan as is and has rouhani inaugurated the expansion of the southeast and port on sunday india has also committed five hundred million dollars to the project shallop ballasts explains its strategic importance to india and. chubb a hobby horse is the only one iran has on the indian ocean its location is what makes it important the port allows india to bypass pakistan and trading with iran and afghanistan pakistan blocks land based trade between the countries it provides

india with a south north trading route that could go as far as russia a test run of wheat from india's dean dale porte a distant for afghanistan was a success one month ago india will now develop her berths at the port and help build a royal line direct to afghanistan not only does this build a transport corridor or independent of pakistan it puts a run at the heart of the initiative how would a time when the u.s. is moving to isolate iran through diplomatic and economic means india and iran first agreed to develop the port together in two thousand and three but it went nowhere after iran was hit with sanctions fourteen years later the two regional powers of joyed with afghanistan to develop trade beyond their borders parts of india are preparing for more bad weather days just after cycling aki back to the south of the country a low pressure system that thailand could strengthen into

a tropical storm a move towards tamil nadu and. states aki killed at least fourteen people and more than two hundred fisherman had to be rescued by the coast guard. why britain is. still facing heavy moral and political opposition. the lebanese basketball player who isn't letting his disability gets in the way of his competitive sports or demands for equality. and one of the world's most extreme for. the longest day. how i was still got some rather wait to see whether in two parts of central and eastern europe and i'm still plenty of cloud down around the balkans down to was a southeastern corner that's all pushing its way further east which as we go

through the next couple days me what up to is an old west we've got. a lot started to push its way in for london just seven degrees there. and say the state snow a little further east just pushing out of germany into poland bad of cloud of the rain down towards a southeastern corner and again that will make its way further east which has become through choose to nothing moscow temperatures minus three degrees celsius just around for ankara there's that when she whether they're still in place just around central parts and over towards the northwest where some are just fall out of the past with the wind started to come in from a westerly direction a milder direction it will cloud over by the end of the way but at least it will be . a cloud across northern parts of africa big area cloud that just coming out of libya pushing towards as we go through the next cold enough behind the winds coming in from all the northerly direction it's just eighteen degrees celsius should broaden out for northern parts of algeria. fourteen or fifteen celsius here fly dry

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al-jazeera. where ever you are. welcome back remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera fighting continues in yemen as who the rebels say they fired a cruise missile towards the u.a.e. abu dhabi has denied the claim. u.s. president donald trump says he didn't ask former f.b.i. director james comey to stop investigating when national security adviser michael flynn led house they guilty to lying to the f.b.i.

. and syrian government as strikes have killed at least eight people and damascus province that have also been attacks in the single into which has been under siege since twenty. and there will peace prize will be awarded next saturday december the tenth this year's winner is the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i cam a group dedicated to creating a world without nuclear arms in the days leading up to the award in oslo we're looking at the nuclear capabilities of individual countries the u.k. was the third in the world to obtain nuclear weapons scientists played a key role in developing the first atomic devices but now their strong moral and political opposition to britain retaining its all still on the b. phillips reports inside the control room tension mounted as the circumspect away.

a weapon so terrible that britain argued then and now it helps guarantee peace nine hundred fifty two it explodes its first nuclear bomb off the coast of australia today its nuclear weapons are exclusively just for supper means at least one of which is always armed at a secret location at sea britain builds the bombs on the submarines but the missiles come from the united states. if relationships between united states the united kingdom broke down to such an extent the united states was no longer willing to continue to maintain. that over time. some stage after a number of years probably in the case of. we would have to give up our nuclear force or build our own. maintenance capability. this is the site west of london where britain's nuclear weapons are made and it's here that they have been

made for many decades and during all that time this place has been a focus of protest from peace marches in the fifty's and sixty's to the nearby peace camps of the eighty's amongst all the nuclear states opposition to these weapons has been greatest if britain and prime ministers have preferred to retain an element of doubt as to whether that ever used them which made this debate so unusual personally prepared. hundred thousand innocent men women and children. yes. the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared. but the leader of the opposition a much more hesitant. to. use any circumstances where anyone's of prepared to use a nuclear weapon. it's disastrous for the whole planet although most british m.p.'s

do believe that the threat of use makes britain safer the only time there has been a nuclear weapon strike in the world was a time when only one nation held that capacity and so it is in being able to be part of overall nuclear security as we push towards a nuclear free world which is really important that the u.k. can play its most effective role in other words in an unstable world don't expect britain to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon to be phillips al jazeera london. well next in our series will be exploring china's nuclear power but the number of nuclear war has in its arsenal is a state secret. now the simple text message just turned twenty five years old the service revolutionized not only how we communicate but modern language and technology to us paul brennan takes a look. twenty five years ago human communication changed forever in the

u.k. a software engineer used his computer to send the first of a text message to a mobile phone just two words merry christmas it was the beginning of a true revolution a revolution not just in technology but also in language and the way we communicate that first text message or s.m.s. showed that mobile phones were capable of much more than just voice calls today's smart phone apps have their origins all way back with that eureka moments of the first text of the limitations of s.m.s. inspired the heavily abbreviated new language and more recently the rise of the m o g now in two thousand and seven u.k. users sent sixty six billion text messages by two thousand and twelve it was one hundred fifty one billion but by twenty fifteen internet based tech services like whatsapp and messenger were overtaking s.m.s. and twenty fifteen what's up and messenger together handled sixty billion messages

a day that's nearly three times more than the twenty three billion texts sent through s.m.s. and twitter of course a direct descendant of the original s.m.s. is now the world's window into the mind of the united states president so has the text message had its day well perhaps but it'll never really disappear because in an emergency even if you've got no wife i know three g. connection you can still send a simple text when they are packed with was the software engineer who sent the first text message and joined says over skype from montreal thanks very much for coming on. there on this anniversary of yours and i spent my first question i remember the first time i saw an s.m.s. is quite exciting and quite addictive but what made you create it develop and did it make you rich. no. the company i was working for some a group at the time we were just implementing basically what with your same standards for my life and it's not to question wasn't something either me or the

company i was working for and invented it was simply part of the the mobile network standard so we could manage that managed to get that first text back in december of ninety two and it hasn't made me rich you know i wish i'd had like point zero zero zero zero one of a penny for every text message that's been sent but unfortunately i don't so or you know i have not got rich from an obvious thing that we've moved on now to what have i but all the different other ways that you can send messages but. with a brain for these sorts of things what are you projecting predicting the next stage will be. well i don't know i think people are just going to still keep texting really i mean whatever media may use either a text on a phone or what's apple messenger. you know how much more do we need to. take to get over here you know the. the great uses for texting are things like you know i'll be home in twenty minutes or i'm going to be late and why why do we need to

make that more complicated you know now you've got those you've got those great things on your phone where sometimes central message and and your for only going to pick you want to three responses and it's like saying i'm going to be late you know it's already on the screen you just tap it once so i guess you know the apps are getting smarter about what's getting sent over the text messaging is you know i think it's pretty much going to remain the same i mean that's sort of the same vein as a bit of a backlash going back to very simple basic phones that some people and that can only text and that you can use more sophisticated outlets. well i think people love the simplicity and a lot of people don't need that complicated way of sending messages i mean you know some of it is a bit more complicated than it needs to be in all the settings and things like that you know i i remember having my own not here if only for the town or whatever it was so simple you could just repairing

a phone and on press two or three things get your message sent you know one of my keyboard using some kind of t. nine input or something like for me that was the internet that was by far quicker than it is just using my smart phone and when you first sent merry christmas that you must have had no idea really the impact this is going to have you look back now i suppose quite naive. yeah i mean but back then it was just it was just a day's work it was something i was paid to do you know by my company it's come down here show the software that we developed show that it works send a message and at the end of the day it works we were just doing what what we were meant to do and you know i came away from there just just happy that we try and do the work it's not you know i had dreamed all it wants to become today kind of thing but we thank you for making communication so much easier with thanks very much for joining us actually the end of year holiday period

is a busy time for postal services across the world but some deliver it's all trickier than others tell hender went to the u.s. city of detroit to experience a unique delivery route. welcome to the world's only floating postal code the way we go. when cargo ships from around the globe travel the great lakes this boat brings mail and a lifeline will become alongside or just be about us for if that's all right that'll be fine and they don't even have to stop somewhere between detroit and windsor canada a makeshift mailbox plunges down the freighters side. and returns with the daily post. in an instant it's over. there on your porch that april through december if you're on an international freighter going down the detroit river this is the only way to get your mail and while every other postal

code in the u.s. is fixed zip code for eight two two two goes wherever this boat goes this is captain. scott in eight hundred seventy four jim hogans great grandfather started using a rowboat to ferry messages supplies into later mailed to passing ships and a century later the fourth generation owner got the call they had found an opening in the middle of that summer and said hey i need to the south after noon and one thing led to another and here i am forty four years later so the importance of continuing at in the family as his what really makes sense to me now there is no business quite like it throughout the world and in major ports there are boats who do deliveries to ships but the west is the only one of its kind that is pacifically . extension of the us post office it's got its own zip code it's its own boat and frankly knowing the crew there they're pretty unique to the company has delivered

everything from pizza to a donkey this ship sank during a stormy delivery in two thousand and one killing two crew members now the family business is expanding for delivering groceries. to some of the ships and also like to get a few other boats to do some other. charter things if possible just in time for the fifth generation. john hendren al jazeera detroit. disabled people in lebanon demanding fire a treatment saying last protecting them. sunday is the worldwide day of persons with disabilities and raising awareness of disabled people's rights and reports. says the best word to describe him would be competitive. several times a week he comes to this basketball court in central beirut to practice drills he's

part of a wheelchair basketball league and also takes part in marathons over the years yousif has won dozens of medals and trophies and says his disability which combines into a wheelchair has never stopped him from succeeding. i have challenged my disability and i have challenged this society l. even i ask every person with a disability to fight and face these obstacles because if we don't fight we will die use of his part of the lebanese welfare association for the handicapped that campaigns for the rights of disabled people according to government statistics around four hundred thousand lebanese live with disabilities and although legislation has been passed to protect them the laws are rarely enforced. those with physical challenges aren't the only ones who are fighting for rights and acceptance those struggling with other disability see big too often ignored and excluded. works in administration at

a high end bathroom and kitchen design store in central beirut he was born with down syndrome and has been working there for the past four years says he loves his job. and you have. planned here. runs the company he says some of his staff were initially uncomfortable with the idea of having a colleague who is disabled something he believes is common for most workplaces in lebannon but soon after she started working there attitudes began to change had a bill. for all of us he's a catalyzer of good spirit of joy. and we had a feeling great and played for force had been that is among us. says

despite all of his awards and medals because of his disability he still doesn't feel fully accepted by society and that others like him are still too often excluded from work and other opportunities which is why until that changes continue his fight for the rights of all disabled people in lebanon. al-jazeera beirut. still to come on the program. i'm tanya paige reporting from cape town on the world's first successful hops transplant which happened fifty years ago in the throat. and ben stokes makes his return to cricket but things didn't quite go as for the flight all the details coming up in school. there are a group of kids from tanzania halfway around the globe in new york where these children come from those who have the genetic skin condition known as albinism

often live in fear of being attacked for the color of their skin al-jazeera first met up with iraq in two thousand and fifteen after attackers chopped off his arm believing it would bring them luck the leases charity works with the shriners hospital for children in philadelphia to provide for static limbs this is the children's second visit to the united states to replace their original devices which they've outgrown seven year old baracoa is quick to put his new arm to. helping these children is a long term commitment every year they have to return to the united states for fittings and adjustments and every year their connection to their american friends gets deeper i think while they're here they realize they're really not different when they're in the dead a dream house which is charity house they feel empowered. now

it's fifty years since the world's first successful heart transplant was carried out by dot to christian at a town hospital the technique her. already been trialed on a dog in the u.s. a decade before but dr bernard was the first human to human transplant the operation gave a heart from a twenty five year old woman to a fifty three year old man despite his success the patient louis washed lansky died of pneumonia eighteen days later the anti rejection drugs had weakened his immune system but his new heart function normally until his death that led to the development of better transplant drugs by the late one nine hundred seventy s. many of dr pronounced patients were living up to five years with their new hearts.

well that first heart transplant operation is still generating groundbreaking ideas today as tanya page reports. crotty scale hospital is home to a museum dedicated to the world's first heart transplant it happened in this room under the steady hand of dr christiane barnard who died in two thousand and one the surgery has barely changed in fifty years what has of course dramatically changed is the postoperative immunosuppression post-operative care and that led to from norman survival right you have today seventy eighty percent of transplant patients living after ten years in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the first transplant triggered a debate on whether it was ethical all not letters written at the time show a mixed response to the surgery one doctor in the former yugoslavia describes it as the most important event in the history of the human spirit

a man in turkey wants to send everyone on the surgical team a new pair of shoes congratulations but some were negative as well one man in a stray or his father complaint with the police he thinks the operation was illegal and this woman and italy said never men shall be able to replace a human heart as man can't replace god as well half a century later a lack of education and awareness continues to prevent people from bridges storing as organ donors but without them none of these men would be alive today three of them have new hearts the fourth a transplanted kidney we don't have a very strong tradition of people becoming organ donors so why not consider living on to somebody else and giving somebody else a second chance and to weigh in a little bit as one legacy of dr bonnets pioneering surgery is inspiration the cardiology team at the hospital where he worked is continuing to break new ground

just launching a new plastic heart valve that could revolutionize the treatment of remeasured heart disease the significance of what we do now is a practical significance because we talk about thirty three million patients. who would otherwise that these trainee nurses have come to be inspired by dr barnard work by looking at the first six hearts he transplanted some see the vital organ as the center of our emotions others as a pump but it's only understood as well as it is because of dr barnard and his team tiny a page cape town now over to do our way and they has all the sports thank you so much so well manchester city have reestablished their eight point lead at the top of the english premier league they did so by beating west ham having gone behind the equaliser necklace off some men they with less than ten minutes to go david silva got the winner the win means city have

a called astro and chelsea's record of thirteen consecutive wins in a single premier league season. it's up in the last three games is not easy to attack but maybe today i'll learn a little bit like a moment here to talk to you we do for him because we blew which was normally don't play like this with your struggles in doing it maybe to attack this kind of defensive much better for us and so with the good news for me for the future. his how the top of the table is looking at leaders city undefeated but united can cut the gap next sunday when the two manchester teams play each other now struggling italian team ben of and so had to keep it a thanks for their first ever points alberto bring nearly ventured forward for a free kick and headed home an injury time equaliser against ac milan it ended better then so it record breaking run of fourteen straight defeats in italy's top league. now the fourth season of formally racing is just got underway in hong kong

this is the series that uses only electric powered cars let's have a listen to what they sound like. why the role of a traditional petrol engine but organizers believe they can generate a marketable sporting product and help speed up the development of electric cars for regular road users b.m.w. audi and jackie were of already involved while porsche sadie's asset to join in the future. the series began in twenty fourteen with a race in beijing's olympic park there are ten teams consisting of twenty drivers over a seven month season they race on street circuits in eleven cities because of a top speed of around two hundred twenty five kilometers per hour that compares to f one cars which reach three hundred sixty kilometers per hour formally is a sport where fans can vote to directly affect the action the three drivers with the most. found steven votes received extra power in the second half of the race well earlier on we spoke to former commentator jacques nicholls who is in hong kong

for the start of the season he says the lack of noise can actually make the sport more accessible it is strange to get used to the cars not having noise and i'd only get there is a massive motorsport found i love a screaming engine that deafens me like are there anything but the next few days but. you're there for the racing you're there to see who wins you're there for the competition and that all still exists in an environment where people can bring their kids if they want to because they're going to have to wear it defenders and all of that swimming and you can run it in the hope you would never been able to run in the center of hong kong an event that used to really loud engines that sort of woke up the whole city every time they went out there is just not possible so. for the strangeness of not having the noise the positives you get back to the locations in which for ease able to race. when former a first started essentially all the cars were the same now you're getting more and

more big manufacturers coming in spending money building their own power trains electric motors batteries that sort of thing to put in the back of the car and as a result it's just getting bigger and and bigger. when we was there before it was known to be needed that that makes it so when paul is lot of people say well why do we need a raisin championship for electric cars. in the years since then it's become apparent that how do you read o. . course you are joining the championship mr hughes who are going to be joining the jump you all need a market for your platform on which to market their electric vehicles and i think it's not so much formula is changed it's pretty much the same as it was when it started three years ago it's just getting bigger i don't see it overtaking the one and being the biggest motorsport series in the world simply because of the history that formula one has going back to nine hundred fifty and the association that people have with with formula one but i think for me has it has a very bright future there's no doubt about that with all these manufacturers

coming on board because as they have to have somewhere to show off their electric cars and what they can do with electric vehicle technology australia have taken control of the second ashes test against england england finishing day two on twenty nine for one of this after australia had declared on four hundred forty two for eight shaun marsh hitting an unbeaten century australia one up in the series one man england could do with is all rounder ben stokes you suspended from national jussi he made a poor return and everything for cancer free in new zealand the all rounder out for two and failed to take a wicket stocks has been barred from england duty while u.k. police investigate an alleged assaults he was involved and smog pollution forced three stops in play during a test match between india and sri lanka in delhi sri lanka players or face masks at one point in an effort to carry on playing the indian capital has been struggling with poor quality for several weeks trying to skirt saying the conditions meant some of his players had to leave the pitch to vomit. and

competitors at one of the world's most extreme form races have been negotiating its longest day a sister event to the legendary marathon disarms which takes place in. the horror is now ongoing in south america stage four in peru was a seven saeco almost a challenge this week long event consists of a two hundred forty kilometer route and apart from strictly russian water run as i have to carry all around supplies are looking for now let's get back in london. for this news hour but i will be back in a moment with much more the day's news don't go away.

the street is quiet the signal is given. out yet so it's safe to walk to school last year there are more than thirty metres in this community in one month the police say this area is a red zone one of several in some townships in cape town children sometimes a quarter in the crossfire when rival gangs fight so parents and grandparents have started what they call

a walking bust to try to take the violence i lost my family looking where i lived or years ago i also lost my but there are more than one hundred fifty volunteers working for several walking busses teachers say it is working class attendance has improved the volunteers also act as security guards. building a new life on an entirely beach living off the sea and. a dream shared by so many but so few make it a reality. of family business led by a remarkable woman with a flair for cooking and a zest for living. island kitchen at this time out is in.

the rebels in yemen say they fired a cruise missile towards the united arab emirates.