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hello and welcome to this al-jazeera new life and. that is coming up in the next sixty minutes u.s. president donald trump is set to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and move the u.s. embassy to the city from tel of eve a plan greeted by diplomacy and risk violent protests. fueled by strong winds california wildfires forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. closure for families of argentine soldiers killed in the falklands war as a remains are finally identified. over the way to a sporting clearing russian athletes face a decision on whether to compete as neutrals after the team is banned from the winter olympics.

the repercussions of u.s. president donald trump expected decision to recognize the resulin as israel's capital and move the american embassy there are already being felt even though he's not even made the announcement yet palestinian leaders in both the occupied west bank and ingles are calling for three days of rage president mahmoud abbas says trump's move will have dangerous consequences or similar sentiments have come from saudi arabia's king sound man who says the decision will inflame the feelings of muslims he along with the leaders of egypt jordan turkey syria the e.u. france and germany that warning president trump against it that the status of jerusalem is a central issue in the israeli palestinian conflict israel claims the whole city and that's against international law well the palestinians well they want the occupied eastern part of the city as the capital of a future state. she have returned the ripples now from washington d.c.

. but at the white house there was no sense of the international uproar that's been caused by donald trump's forthcoming speech announcing the u.s. is recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital this is a campaign promise to keep trump financial dinah's like las vegas casino magnate sheldon adelson and his right wing evangelical base whom the president needs now move them ever as his popularity ratings plummet throughout the day the president briefed the regional leaders which led to this question at the state department briefing i'm wondering if you can say that the that he's gotten the support of anyone for any decision that he might make so again i'm not going to characterize those conversations minutes later the white house press secretary was similarly callie about the decision i'm not going to get ahead of the president's remarks that he'll make tomorrow to say other than israel which thinks that this move is twenty two years overdue that all of the feedback he's been getting from world

leaders is overwhelmingly negative so no again he spoke with five leaders that's hardly indicative of everybody across the globe mr president the fifth fleet of the president called was the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu israeli politicians have welcomed comes to jerusalem the israeli mayor of the city so that the embassy move could take two minutes by switching the sign on the current u.s. consulate in west jerusalem administration officials who didn't want publicly to be named later said that was not going to happen more about building a new embassy would take at least three to four years to the question of whether that means of this decision could be reversed if president doesn't stay on for a second term the officials insisted once the process of planning and you embassy begins it would reach its conclusion they also said the president was simply affirming what they called quote reality both historical and modern that connect to the state of israel to the city they argued issues of sovereignty would not change

and said that not moving the embassy since it was required by congress in one thousand nine hundred five had not made any difference to the peace process but trumpet ministration was still committed to a two state solution they said if that's what both parties wanted. but with reports over the weekend that the president's middle east envoy is pushing a saudi backed plan that gives israel full control of all of jerusalem it appears that trump's announcement on wednesday will be in keeping with the direction of his administration's emerging middle east policy she average hands the al-jazeera washington probably have comprehensive coverage got her a false it has in occupied east jerusalem. she is in ramallah in the occupied west bank and been a smith is in gaza let's start with harry in occupied east jerusalem at the damascus gate and there must be a huge sense of anticipation them because this expected announcement is just hours away. it is

a lot of anticipation especially among the. ruling coalition there happens to be in today. an international conference of diplomacy staged by one of the leading newspapers in israel and so we've had. characters from israel's political circles. of course being asked about and in many cases commenting on this presumed declaration coming from the white house from donald trump we had the education minister especially members of the right wing members of. the welcoming this education minister saying that other countries should follow suit the justice minister saying it's a triumph of the american spirit the transport and intelligence minister saying that anybody who doesn't see jerusalem as the capital of israel then questions israel's right to exist what we haven't seen is a clear reaction yet from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu he too was speaking at this event he kept his remarks to the priest crypted ones promoting

israel's technology and so on and then in a facebook video on the way out as he was driving away he did make some oblique reference to it saying that this was. israel's historical and national identity was being emphasized in important ways particularly today and he gave a pretty broad smile as he said that all right harry thank you very much that was harry said live in occupied east jerusalem less. west bank now the palestinian authority the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud abbas has warned president trump in the phone call twenty four hours ago about the kind of response he can expect among the palestinians not to mention beyond the palestinians and in the arab world. yes absolutely he actually said that they were being. warned of the implications of

them announcement only here and as you said in the wider arab and muslim world as a matter of fact the palestinians have a ready called three days of rage starting today we haven't seen any mass demonstrations they were still some clashes going on for example. and. we heard from a senior member of. he basically really the palestinian position he said. again the rights of the palestinian people against the national and he went as far as calling that. happens as. he also said that after that the role of the broker. would be neutralized underlining the fact that the u.s. basically is going against convention international convention also. agreements

that it has signed. against the principle. that he was calling basically the same lines that we heard from president mahmoud abbas on the world but he said this was not only an issue. because basically the israel would have a monopoly on. the question. we do know the president have a phone conversation yesterday with. a. good word for him or actually trying to mobilize him. you are having. you get when you're talking to people is that basically this announcement that hasn't happened yet but everybody's. expecting it and everybody knows that after that everything would have changed here on the ground all right hoda abdel-hamid

live in ramallah now we can hear from ismail haniya who's leader of hamas is political he's been speaking to. the trauma decision is a serious aggression on our policy team in people on the arab and muslim nations and on the free people of the world we think and believe that this is a sort of a gamble and an adventure that has no ceiling when it comes to the actions of the palestinians arabs and muslims and on the free peoples of the world we warned that the bad results of such a decision and before the decision is to be taken we warn against the bad results and we call for the complete halt of this decision because no one can know what the consequences will be i think the decision will be the start of a terrifying era on the palestinian and regional landscape all right let's go live now to gaza and our correspondent there ben is with the problem is that is that is this move is put into action as many people now expect that takes away so much hope

from the palestinians doesn't it in terms of ever achieving their own independent state. well yeah i mean we've had some of our frustration expressed here in gaza by palestinians here in gaza today when there was a small protest kicking off essentially these three days of rage of palestinians will be taking part in along with other palestinians in the occupied west bank yes there's enormous sense of frustration particularly if you're in gaza because for the palestinians there is only so much they can do they are out there centrally sealed in by israel on three on two sides and inside and sealed in by on the other side they can't go to protests there can protest here in gaza instead and i think we'll see that happening over the next few days and you heard isha. say that this was essentially the end of the peace process that hamas still matters in garza's handing over control of gaza to the palestinian authority that process is

going on at the moment the unification process but still can considerable support it has fighters on the arms here in gaza so what here says is still relevant nancy all right. there live in gaza where conflicts over jerusalem go back thousands of years including of course in biblical times the roman empire and the crusades but the current fight for the ancient city is a distinctly twentieth century story in time explains. two major events within weeks of each other in one thousand nine hundred eighteen have in part led to events now first the signing of the balfour declaration when the british government announced support for the creation of what it called a national home for the jewish people in palestine the signing was soon followed by the so-called battle of jerusalem where british troops defeated the ottoman turkish

army which had controlled jerusalem for centuries after nearly thirty years of british colonial rule the state of israel was created in one thousand nine hundred forty eight with west jerusalem as its capital effectively dividing the city in half with the historic and religiously important east under jordanian control that changed in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven and the six day war between israel and arab states israeli forces seize large areas of territory including east jerusalem hopes were raised in one thousand nine hundred ninety three with the signing of the oslo accords which ended the first intifada or uprising and laid out a framework for the creation of a palestinian state those efforts ended in two thousand with the start of the second uprising were jerusalem was the frontline of riots and suicide bomb attacks the israeli government began building the separation wall in two thousand and five

and continued to approve the construction of huge jewish settlements and occupied land making the creation of a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital increasingly difficult to see now the united states one of the key brokers between the palestinians and israelis is breaking with years of precedent by recognizing all of jerusalem as israel's capital unpredictable consequences could be the result. well there's not one country in the world that's got its embassy in jerusalem not because the international community does not recognize it as israel's capital present trends likely decision pits america therefore against the rest of the world the turkish president roger tired has been calling for an extraordinary summit of muslim countries to be held next week and later today he's due to meet jordan's king abdullah the jordanian king has warned president trump of dangerous repercussions

and wants an emergency meeting of the arab league as well as the organization of islamic cooperation to be held on saturday the rainy and supreme leader ayatollah ali how many says the intention to move the embassy is a sign of u.s. incompetence and failure saudi arabia cata morocco iraq egypt are among a host of countries who have expressed said disapproval of the move and the u.n. the e.u. the pope they're warning president that his action could undermine peace efforts over israel and palestine even the foreign minister of the u.k. boris johnson a close ally of the u.s. and israel voiced concerns over the plans. are we can speak to our correspondent now sinan because she is in istanbul istanbul is where we're expressing this meeting between the president added and king abdullah of jordan said and start with president everyone he's been very vocal he's made some very

strong comments. yes martin president our don has been reacting against the u.s. call for announcing jerusalem as israel's capital and he made a call for the islamic cooperation council i see countries for an extraordinary meeting which is going to take place in istanbul next week on december thirteenth and since the early morning according to presidential spokesperson turkish president have been making phone calls with the islamic countries leaders about the situation to create a common ground and to show more resistance and reaction against the u.s. the situation also if cording to presidential spokesperson prisons are gone will be continued having his form talks with the islamic country leaders and keep his. keep the consultations with those countries also there was one statement by

turkey's foreign minister who is in brussels right now for the nato meeting he said in his press conference that as turkey he only help of turkey he has conveyed turkey's concerns regarding the situation to u.s. secretary u.s. foreign minister tillerson and he said tillerson is expected to calm very these concerts to washington also he said that no one is no one wants and a decision like this in the world right now even israel is not that keen on in ousting jerusalem as its capital why is this the situation being taken right now is there a meaning so he's trying to be in that actually this is us this isn't in directly not is rise decision in a way. there are some protests in the streets martin turkish people have been reacting since the morning they are they are gathering in some common play and some

squares some morsy and that's all in cities to show. their solidarity with the palestinians as president reject a part on also has been saying that this is that common cause for turkey and for the whole islamic world martin and indeed said king abdullah of jordan of course has a particular interest in what goes on in jerusalem because of course jordan has a stewardship doesn't it of the islamic holy sites. yes of course by the way this today the the reason for this visit was actually marking the seventeenth year off by a letter of the prometric relations between turkey and jordan and the two countries have always been on the same ground. on the on the same page regarding the regional issues and according to what the presidency presidential sources have an ounce

yesterday the content of the meeting is going to be. the primary topic is going to be jerusalem and the u.s. decision about jerusalem and other regional security issues military cooperation and other security issues will be on the table and president and king of the present are gone and king up the law are expected to meet around thirteen time and they will have a joint press or at around. seventeen g. we are expecting to hear very important statements by both jordanian king up to law and turkey's present trajectory part on martin i have calls will bring you those important statements coming from the president of turkey and the king of jordan here at al-jazeera thank you say the. loss or to come here on the al-jazeera news hour including the g.c.c. summit ends with no solution in sight to the deadlock standoff within relatives

of colombians wrongfully executed by the army seek justice and australia's cricketers take a big step toward winning back the ashes from england have all the details. now the british prime minister to resign made his face a barrage of questions over a story. the prime minister's questions in parliament earlier this week northern ireland. on which maes minority conservative government depends scupper the deal that she hoped would result of an impasse with dublin over the question of the irish border the issue has become central to overall talks moving forward. to resume a says progress is being made and britain will leave the e.u. by march twenty ninth. we're leaving the european union we're leaving the single

market in the customs union. we were. able to. we will do what is right in the interests of the whole of the united kingdom and nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. eighteen months after the referendum the prime minister is on able to answer the question no no no no nono no no no no no she was she thought she was coming here to make a statement it was vetoed by the by the leader of the d u.p.a. . really is wagging the dog here. lawrence in our correspondent is in london and the talk the talk the cloak is indeed taking isn't it for tourism a and these negotiations because she's really got to get to the next stage

doesn't she by next week when european leaders meet him brussels again. and it looks very much as if that's not going to happen now the do you feel you refer to these these very pro british unionists in northern ireland who are really quite zealots. in some of their belief in the union they are not the sort of people who even though the government paid them over a billion pounds to prop up the prime minister pay them a million a billion euro per pound of proper government up they're not the kind of people who are going to be mass starved into changing their view and their view very much that they won't have a border that they could call down the irish sea between the youth the mainland u.k. on one side and the country band on the other because the unionists would say that looks like halfway towards the united ireland. which they despise and that's why they scuppered it but they also say that the there shouldn't be a border between southern ireland and north none of those well which made everybody to say well what border do you want exactly and of course they can't give an answer

to that question either and so the very point when it looked like the government did have a deal with the e.u. to grant northern ireland some sort of special status to do you can be scuppered that and today we're told that they're no closer to form forming any sort of agreement with threes amaze governments and so it looks like any sort of putative negotiation back in brussels at the end of this week is now not likely to happen the irish government meanwhile in dublin has put out a fig leaf saying we can maybe go into next year before we discuss this but it drags on and on and on and in the end you're is left with this is inescapable conclusion it's a reason maze traps between the very hardline and those who want some sort of deal and she's sufficiently weak that she can say to one group we're not talking to you go away this is the way we're going to do it it's a terrible mess a situation and a lack of control and as if she didn't have it bad enough he's also got problems with. david davis he's been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.

yes in microcosm of an example of the chaos that the government for the last twelve months or so has been seeking to assure business which is terrified of bricks it that it's ok because they're carrying out what they call impact assessments of the of what breaks it will mean leaving european union into business and david davis had said repeatedly that there is enormous amount of detail on this but he said we can't tell you what it is because the secret and if we tell you the european union will find out in my face the negotiation now this morning in turn around and said actually there are no impact assessments at all we never did anything which is absolutely startling to everybody because business is going to say will we you don't know what is going to be how are we supposed to stay in the u.k. in that case we're going to move to holland or somewhere and a variety of different opposition m.p.'s are now accused them around it being a liar of misleading parliament which is a breach of the ministerial code in the u.k. and say he should resign in promises questions there is no there are no questions

about that except to say that he said that the opposition says that they have to go but it does give you an absolute sense of the total drift at the moment marty honestly i would say everyone thinks well bracks is going to happen it's just a lot of that it won't because it's impossible now to say what the next three months let alone twelve months in this country and politically all right thanks for that live in london. now to yemen where fighting has escalated in northern part of the country forcing more families to flee their home forces from the saudi led coalition battling the fighters inside a province now this is a stronghold it is very close to the saudi border. the u.s. says it's extremely concerned about the situation and the un security council says it's similarly alarmed from the killing of the ousted president ali abdullah saleh on monday. in particular their call on parties to immediately provide safe

rapid anie hindered and sustained commercial and humanitarian access to the populations of all affected governorates. through all of yemen's forts and airports most importantly who data bought and sunnah airport. the member of the security council. to uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law and in another development the fighters of five shots at hundreds of women in the capital sanaa who were holding a peaceful protest demanding the release of solace called that he was killed by the iran that the rebels on monday after he switched sides to the saudi led coalition. goes leaders have to say criticize yemen's who says and it wrongly accused of

backing the rebels as they finish the summit early in kuwait but there was little or no discussion about the diplomatic standoff between three member states and the blocs was dispute since it was created. reports from kuwait city. while the announcement that this year's gulf cooperation council summit would go ahead as planned in kuwait came as a surprise to many it also brought renewed hope for a diplomatic breakthrough that might in the gulf crisis upon his arrival in kuwait on tuesday is a mere shift i mean been hammered acehnese issued a statement expressing sincere gratitude toward kuwait's emir. and his wishes for the success of the current summit stressing that the current situation in the region required the council's members to band together against all odds and challenges but even before the summit officially kicked off the divisions were very much on display. first the united arab emirates announced it had formed

a new economic and military partnership with saudi arabia that would be separate from the g.c.c. then saudi arabia the u.a.e. and decided not to send their respective leaders to kuwait it could be that it is embarrassing for some of the leadership of the country is the quartet work i think anthony has. to turn up. and therefore they sent a lower level but it could be that they're just wanted to have this. just to show that they're actually still exist and the summit is going to take place but nothing else is going to happen which is a really disappointing in that case. in the end a summit that is usually slated for two days ended after only a few hours kuwait's emir said his country will continue mediating in the dispute protests are going to crucially be recent months of saying a lot of troubles but the wisdom of my brothers of the leaders of the gulf

countries managed to calm things down and now meeting today will lead us to continue playing the role that will live up to the aspirations of our people in order to have certain mechanisms to sort out disputes with guarantees that will allow everyone to abide by these rules. added that the gulf has faced painful and negative development over the past six months due to the refeed. six months to the day says the beginning of the blockade against qatar some here in kuwait say the fact the representatives of all member countries actually showed up means that this summit should ultimately be considered a success others however say that today's developments call into question if the g.c.c. and institution which at its core is meant to highlight regional unity will be able to survive much longer do much easier who wait. now thirty thousand californians have been forced from their homes by wildfires field by strong winds their los angeles and work on some of hollywood's best known t.v.

shows has stopped and official reports. it really isn't the extent of the fires in southern california can be best seen at night found by one hundred kilometer an hour winds that tailing through the countryside thousands have left their homes many under mandatory evacuation orders the fire is pushing quickly towards the city of ventura we are making sure we are out ahead of the fire making sure we have evacuated in advance of the fire and we're basically leapfrogging our engines doing structure defense as a fire proceeds. more than five hundred firefighters walk through the night doing what they could to bring the flames under control but more than one hundred fifty structures have gone many more are under threat. the very nerve wracking to see a fire up in the canyon headed your way just i mean just be ready and just don't wait. the fires are causing huge power outages more than a quarter of

a million people in the area no have no electricity officials one of the pace of the flames telling locals get out while you can you must abide by these evacuation notices we saw the disasters and the losses that happened up north in sonoma and this is a fast very dangerous moving fire in of tobar california suffered its most destructive wildfire in history forty three people died there's no indication how this leak this fire started. i'll just leave it. right it's time for the weather now here's richard any words of hope for the people of california not the short term martina mean the santa ana winds which are fueling those flames fanning those flames are at their peak at this time of the year and obviously with climate change we're living in a world where they cross the western part of the u.s. this become a regular feature and it's tooter anthropogenic climate change so the current situation is with these winds coming up over the mountains they originate over the

great basin around the area of high pressure in the mojave desert and they filter down towards the coast accelerating as a dry it over the mountain so the winds are picking up again back up to about well eighty to one hundred kilometers per hour quite easily so i don't hold out any hope in the short term so as we leave the north america behind and head across into northern parts of asia it's worth pointing out that we often think of beijing this time has been really smug and people struggling but in actual fact the air quality in beijing has been absolutely wonderful over last a few days and people are enjoying it why at the moment it's crept up into the moderate category but for a major city like this it's actually very good air quality at the moment somewhere where the air quality is truly appalling is delhi and in delhi we have seen some really really bad pollution and eating during the course of the test series against sri lanka players vomiting on the pitch pairs having to go off because of the

pollution and i'm afraid here the pollution levels are like remain pretty high right across the city. thank you very much. there are news why police forces in honduras are refusing to enforce a curfew with political deadlock over who won the presidential election plus. heading for the last sixteen find out his in the knockout stages of the champions league do you have all the details. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera.

take a look at the top stories here. president john this is ready to announce later that the u.s. will officially recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and that he plans to relocate the american embassy there white house officials confirm the news in a briefing. arab leaders are calling for three days of rage in protest against. palestinian president mahmoud i. could have dangerous consequences. for world leaders have been reacting sharply against the expected announcement. carnahan by doing this they will be hit harder than before the islamic world will undoubtedly stand up to them the enemy will absolutely be unable to achieve its desired goals on the issue of palestine palestine will be liberated. we are concerned that the move could sharpen regional conflicts the status of jerusalem is complicated and sensitive all parties should do more for the peace and

tranquility of the region behave cautiously and avoid impacting the foundation for resolving the long standing issue and initiating new hostility in the region. clearly this is a decision that makes the movie. that the. american proposed peace process is not proof that happens it is a matter of priority militants. our nation feels a historic responsibility to jerusalem which it has served for four hundred years citizens from every segment of society communities from all over the muslim world are united on the subject of palestine and jerusalem jerusalem is out on a jerusalem is our common cause all right let's go live now to the white house and our correspondent there. a wave of international opprobrium against what the world is expecting to come from the president any indication any

more indication as to what we can actually expect from the president later on today . well the white house has been pretty consistent in its message in terms of the fact that the president is set to declare that jerusalem is the capital of israel given the fact that according to three white house officials they say that the president feels that this announcement is acknowledging what already is a political reality given the fact that the seat of government for israel exists the knesset in jerusalem the president though making no apologies about the speech that he will be making in about four hours time here at the white house the background officials and white house officials i've been talking to this morning telling me that the president essentially is a president who has often have the courage to do what other presidents wouldn't and of course for twenty two years presidents have been postponing what the u.s. congress mandated in one thousand nine hundred in the one nine hundred ninety s.

and that is this declaration that jerusalem is the capital of israel and the move of the embassy but we don't expect when the president makes a speech that in terms of laying out a timeline and this is not going to be a quick move there are more than a thousand diplomatic personnel that are working currently in tel aviv there will be a relocation of those individuals as well as the construction of this embassy it is something that could take much longer than the president's term if he is a one term president and that is a four year term this could exceed that timeline so we expect that the president is going to lay out what he promised on the campaign trail has to be a major delivering of a campaign promise to evangelicals very powerful rich jewish donors and also sort of hawkish republicans who have made up. consist of poor part of the president's base kimberly how can live at the white house and of course we'll be carrying that

statement from president trump. said don't miss it. another of president obama's controversial issues is that travel ban against six mainly muslim nations including a round and round being one of the six countries that's been blacklisted by the white house and although many iranians may resent the u.s. government's new visa restrictions their feelings about america as a country may be somewhat different. reports from the iranian capital tehran. before the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine hundred and poppy i was a boxer that he says got him a job as a guard for the u.s. embassy after the chaos of the one nine hundred eighty s. he traveled to europe where he ate at mcdonald's for the first time he loved it so much he wanted to share the experience with his own people and must donald's was born. for sure rocco iranians love american food because it's tasted delicious and has personality disagreements party obsessor government to government

not people to people and with a son living in the u.s. state of georgia he hopes to visit soon it will be his first time. we ask about the travel. he says he's not worried about getting a visa because he has faith in the system and. i know. it seems if the american president were to visit iran he'd find at least one friendly face earlier this year the restaurant by guys was named america's favorite burger and there's one right here in teheran you can google it but it's not exactly the same thing. it's a homegrown iranian business with the same name issues of trademarks aside in urban centers like to han eating out of places like this is becoming more popular but not everyone has the same for the united states many iranians say the new visa restrictions are islam. child. you as.

the best. the ultimate if you reach there. you want after. maybe. and i'm just finding other solutions for my life and while they may enjoy the food america is no longer the top of the mountain for young iranians maybe many years ago it would be considered something very important and you know maybe it would be something which would make students iranian students were. not the only goal or the only option that they have continuing their studies experts say the u.s. visa ban is a miscalculation they don't and cannot accept to be limited in traveling to other parts of the world including america they say is very do i think so i'm very. insults against iranian pride so this quiet. back at home puddy

admires his most prized possession a gift from an american stranded on the side of the road he helped a stranger fix his car and got him on his way. it was more than forty years ago before the revolution when u.s. diplomats still lived in iraq he said that night he made a friend. the american eagle and the islamic names of god symbols hanging together on the walls of at least one iranian living room the same bus ravi al-jazeera. i was there a semantic the release of his journalist mahmoud hussein he's been in an egyptian prison for over eleven months hussein is accuse a broker saying false news to spread calles which he and the al-jazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on december the twentieth while sitting family. recount over a proposal from the honduran opposition to end the stalemate over last month's

presidential election the authorities have failed to declare an official winner and that's violent protests as well as a. report. after more than a week since the presidential elections in honduras a winner has yet to be named prolonging a political crisis a nationwide curfew remains in effect but across the country protests continue well into the night hours. in the latest turn of events hundreds of elite police forces known as cobras have announced they will no longer be obeying orders to enforce the ten day curfew one officer told reporters they are rebelling. our people are sovereign and we are in their service furthermore we cannot be confronting and crushing their rights the only going demonstrations continue to call for a hundred president one orlando at nine days to step down and for the national elections commission to finalize an announcement the organization of american

states has expressed concerns over quote irregularities errors and systemic problems within the elections and have issued recommendations that the process become more transparent. demonstrations blocking roads and bridges are also having a significant economic impact across honduras several cities are reporting fuel and food shortages causing worry that the political crisis is only getting worse. but. this is a being investigated for killing civilians who were wrongly accused of being guerrilla fighters as many as three thousand colombians many of them were farm as well allegedly killed by the army to base the government's campaign against rebels . from. for almost ten years has been searching for the truth about the killing of her son fay you've learned that at the . lurd by fake job recruiters he left home and then returned alive months later she

was told by officials that for you to west's killed in a clash between fired gravels and the military and that her son was the rebels' local commander you know. not a lot of the ways that could have been his case even if he was twenty six years old he was like a little boy in an adult body he had the mental capacity of an eight year old he never learned to read or write and had a physical disability in his right leg and arm. and was just one of many who disappeared over a period of six years most were found in mass graves dressed like rebels in time investigators discovered that during the presidency. at least three thousand colombians were killed by the military or were victims of an apparent effort by soldiers to boost casualty figures driven by performance related bonuses a little over eight hundred military members have been sentenced so far in what has

become known as the false positive scandal almost all of them soldiers. but human rights organisations allege senior military officials played a pivotal role in the killings however few have been charged in coming days one general and four colonels will be promoted despite being under investigation interestingly enough there wrestle mess has been. playing or doctoring. to eliminate relevant information. during that period the defense minister says the senior officers have the full confidence of the government. and. nobody on the promotion list is under formal penal investigation those who are have nothing. this means the resume is good to continue serving colombia. that is not surprising.

we see no light at the end of the road not the truth nor that those truly responsible ever be judged. after all these years lose my only hope is for the international criminal court to intervene if colombia fails to bring gertrud and justice. the remains of eighty eight thousand in the in troops who were buried as unknown soldiers during the one nine hundred eighty two for clinton's war have now been identified and it's finally bringing some closure for grieving relatives as today's a boat reports from one a side. note of my gomez's brother a while ago was nineteen years old when he went to war and was killed. that was thirty five years ago and norma has traveled from the remote north of argentina to the capital to find out whether her brother's remains have been positively identified. i am very anxious them very upset because i'm not sure whether they

have found him my mother died a few months ago waiting for her we need to know and be able to meet them a proper burial we need to know whether they have found him in. argentina and the united kingdom went to war when argentine troops invaded the british controlled. which the argentine. during the two months of fighting two hundred fifty five british troops and nearly six hundred fifty argentine soldiers were killed about twenty percent of the soldiers killed in that war where an identified buried in graves marked only by a simple message i didn't only known to god according to a report by the international committee of the red cross out of one hundred twenty one graves eighty eight of them were clearly identified the relatives of those who were killed during the war were brought here to this building where they informed whether their loved ones were among those identified. on their body that has been

working identifying victims in war zones for decades he says working on the islands was not easy. it was a complex process that took a very long time but the red cross form the team that involved experts with different specialties from all around the world working on the islands was difficult because of the conditions there but it was successful. what made possible the identification process was an agreement between the u.k. and argentina with the assistance of the red cross. this agreement was based on humanitarian law and it's an umbrella that unites all those aside from the conflict that exists between countries that we will have to resolve but also shows that when the end benefits everyone the objectives can be achieved it. on tuesday. was told that her brother a lot of the was among those identified she's now hoping to eventually return her

brother to the disputed islands where he was killed to be buried in a grave with a stone that will bear his name. we'll have the school in just a little while here on the other their news hour including reaction over story. was truly a discretion. reaction to russia's buy from the winter olympics joe we'll have all the data.

in front of the school through martine thank you so much

a day after russia's team was banned from the winter olympics in pyongyang the court of arbitration for sport says it's received twenty two appeals from russian athletes banned over doping at the last games in sochi now they want their verdicts before the next games begin in february in south korea the i.o.c. is decision was the first time a country's team has been banned in a blanket fashion for doping but claiming that russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the winter games as neutrals known also as a limp dick athletes from russia now russia's deputy prime minister and former minister for sport for tollywood ko has also been given a lifetime ban by the i.o.c. but as the head of the russian football union he still presides over next year's world cup preparations and russia has been fined fifteen million dollars for the cost of the investigation and to help fund an independent testing authority to be in place before picking chang yossi sending out a strong message on doping this time around. this.

system in russia was an unprecedented attack on the integrity of the olympic games so i hope. these athletes. will see the great opportunity they have with these decisions to present. generation of russian. and in this way to build a bridge into a clean their future of olympic sports well it's left russian athletes with that tough decision on whether to compete as neutrals figure skating of kenya mad feared of a who was tipped as a gold medal favorite was just fourteen when the sochi games were taking place and there's never been any question over her integrity but she's told the i.o.c. panel that her dream of competing at the olympics may now be over she said unfortunately now i understand that i can lose this chance because the circumstances they do not depend on me in any way i cannot accept the option that i

would compete in the olympic games without the russian flag as a neutral athlete russia as a committee head was a little more positive about the decision. the decision i should say from the very beginning is rather controversial there are both positive and negative sides speaking about the positive side the international olympic committee allowed all clean russian athletes both an individual and team sports to compete in the olympics this is first secondly this team will be called a team of russian athletes they visited kuwait span from international football a suspension has been in place since october two thousand and fifteen because the government interference in the running of the game yet to be decided if that means that kuwait will compete in this month's gulf cup in doha the president is in kuwait so he made the announcement on twitter a little earlier. mr president i would like you to another because the spanish.

were the first. this extension of the call it was a solution is it thank you very much and thank you for the lineup for the last sixteen of the way for the champions league is almost complete but despite making the final twice in the last four years at least going to dread have missed out this season they were held to a one one draw by chelsea in group c. that might have been enough had roma not won their match against instead it's roma who joined chelsea in the last sixteen and athletico are back to the europa league let such problems though for manchester united marine years man beat c.s.k. moscow two one to win group will join them as runners up and last season's runners up eventis grab the runners up spot from group d. with a two no when over limpy all cos they follow barcelona out of the group but their coach is hoping to avoid the spanish giants for as long as possible bestial of us showing that i thought ok enough. we played enough times with we cannot play

against them in the last sixteen so we think that will play against an english team because it's impossible to play against roma and against so what i see we will encounter an english team in the next stage the final champions league group matches take place across europe on wednesday with four places in the knockout stages still up for grabs manchester city tottenham royal madrid and the sheikh to so already through liverpool could join them they need at least a draw against spartak moscow to be sure but a loss could be enough if sylvia lose napoli must beat fi in order and hope the shock to the nets quinn otherwise the italian side will lose out and chantelle will go through and porto will progress as long as they can match like six results. australia's cricketers have taken a two nothing laid over england in the ashes series after winning in adelaide

earlier england began the day needing one hundred seventy eight runs to win and it would have been a record chase for them but they lost wickets quickly captain joe root was out on sixty seven having failed to add any runs on day five mitchell starc rich through the batting order taking five wickets for eighty eight until england were all outsourced radio winning by a hundred twenty runs the third test starts in perth on december the fourteenth and if a stray wind that they'll win back the ashes an australian captain is certainly breathing a sigh of relief. yeah it has has been a pretty tough twenty four hours from being honest. you know it's so hard to think captain of a country you have to make difficult decisions and sometimes you know make the wrong decision you know it's all part of a learning experience and hopefully i can learn something from this guy and i think the way that we the way that we got about the second innings is i think proved to.

everyone really that we're still massively in this series. i think it's simplest we've shown that throughout the two games with periods that we can perform australia but just not for five days and that's going to be our challenge really. fans painting all their hopes on that match in perth for now if that's all the sport for me all right thank you very much indeed. that's all for this al-jazeera news outlet don't go anywhere because we'll be back with lobby back at least in a minute also with much more of the day's news a closer look at what's going on in the occupied territories. oh you. compiled testimonies a victim of the congolese mustnt. as this intimate evidence finds its way to international courts the central african republic is plunged into further. and

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that's what we're talking about the very most about shooting people are not able to show to turn themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into an outright open war that the city journal security to all the people who pay the price clearly there writeup unprejudiced setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where ever you all. palestinians are as to respond with a rage to the u.s. president.