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television i'm jim and all this is the knees are live from london coming up. it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel condemnation and control over seas the u.s. president makes his announcement and directs officials to begin preparations to move the american embassy from tel aviv. palestinians have been protesting at the move their leaders in the occupied west bank in gaza have called for three days of rage. if you say only by realizing the vision of two states living side by side in peace security and little recognition. as the capital of israel and palestine and right from the un to un corelli's there is a war the decision will further destabilize the middle east. i'm tatiana franchise with the sports including the latest from the final night of the

champions league group stages details later in the program. a very warm welcome the new u.s. president donald trump has officially recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and has directed officials to begin preparations to move the american embassy there from tel aviv the move has drawn widespread condemnation palestinian leaders so calling for three days of rage israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu hail be announcement as quote a historic landmark and urged other countries to follow suit a white house correspondent kimberly how it has more. more than twenty years ago the u.s. congress recognized jerusalem as israel's capital with that the relocation of the u.s. embassy there from tel aviv but every u.s. president since bill clinton has blocked it from happening

a till now i have determined. that it is time to officially recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel it's an historic foreign policy term for the united states but the white house says reflects a political reality given jurist is the seat of the israeli government trump denies this will harm ongoing u.s. peace efforts we are not taking a position of any final status issues including the specific boundaries of the israeli sovereignty in jerusalem or the resolution of contested borders those questions are up to the parties involved many people overseas added washington disagree and have warned the us president not to break with decades of historical precedence the way its peers perceived in the region particularly by the

by they are a publics is going to be problematic for the united states and will raise further questions about whether the whether or not the united states can be an honest broker in working out an arrangement between israel and the palestinians many people argue this has little to do with peace or security but instead is about boosting the political standing of a beleaguered american president for months the trump administration has been dealing with the impact of a scandal that seemed former top officials criminally charged god bless israel god bless the palestinians and so the jerusalem announcement breaking decades of protocol allows try to keep a campaign promise and refocus attention on his policies he won the election not in washington he won it in wisconsin and michigan and places like that and what he said was the problem is with washington and if he didn't do this he would becoming

part of washington in so. therefore his own base not not on this issue but on keeping your word is important. but white house officials admit it could be years before the embassy moves which virtually insurer's this will be an issue in the next presidential election but we have correspondents covering this story from the u.s. jerusalem and ramallah in the occupied west bank let's first get the latest then given how he's at the white house hi kimberly i know that you've been aside the white house all day at your view on whether this move will be fodder for trump's critics or is it a bar to some of his supporters. well tell you what some of his critics have been saying namely the democratic head of the senate intelligence committee mark warner has come out with a very strong some very strong words against the president's move saying this comes at the wrong time is concerned about this inflaming tensions in the region and also

the concern is this really up ands u.s. foreign policy with regard to honoring international agreements that the status of jerusalem was always supposed to be part of a final status agreement in terms of a peace deal between the israelis and palestinians and as the analyst of my package said just a moment ago this certainly does put in question or at least cast doubt on the united states's ability in terms of being an honest broker to try and negotiate any form of a peace deal between the two sides so certainly that is a concern being put forward by a very prominent democrat but you have to remember too that donald trump did point out somewhat accurately in his announcement that the u.s. would be recognizing jerusalem as israel as the capital of israel and also relocating the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem he did point out that this has been u.s. foreign policy for more than twenty years it was ratified through the members of

congress and a bipartisan level and was reaffirmed as recently as this summer at a bipartisan level so what is interesting is that from capitol hill there hasn't been a lot of protest with regard to what has happened but certainly that condemnation that has been coming has been very sharp in the form of a very top democratic senator kimberly in your piece that we just saw you pointed very much to this idea of having political coverage and this idea of you know following off what you said that you would do in trouble that promise that he would make this move so how much is this move about taking that ball. it's an awful lot about the president certainly is one to highlight what he sees a success and certainly when you talk about political courage donald trump believes that he in fact is doing just that when it is true that other presidents in the past have campaigned saying that they would recognize jerusalem as the capital of

israel but then have not followed through in the way the president has as of now so certainly donald trump is trying to boost his standing and he has been applauded already by christian conservative groups donald trump has certainly had some trouble over the past year whether it's the russian investigators and active use ations of collusion is certainly has been eroding his base somewhat so this is an attempt to bolster that base and to try and get some quick wins in the final weeks really of his last year or rather his in the final few weeks of his first year in office campaigning how give it joining me from the white house kimberly thanks. well let's speak to the chief representative of the p.l.o. vote who's in washington who some of their warm welcome to the program your reaction first of all to the decision that was made today. it's very irritable and unfortunate it's a black day for peace in the middle east residents aren't simply completely about

to they're not at their agenda not only on his or in action on the ready of our when you extreme secular movement of his right and the majority of israelis don't want to see it was that ocean on the nine hundred sixty seven borders it's just the very minority of israel the president of the up to that edge and on the one hand on the other hand this is a syrian rule number one to not to misstate us from jerusalem the status of your summit is protected by the people in general sort of the palestinian people and you will see them as you just saw in your life and only about that and it taught me gates that netanyahu the prime minister was it's like two that are in their city and dignified resistance but that more pushed him to reverse these actions so you're muslim of the status of the muslim of the muslim and we still sort of spoken of it before the. announcement continues and will continue speaking out of the us that this is about the status of the u.s.

this is about the status of the peace process this is about the someplace of the two state solution all together and this is about the status of the international system and international legality and therefore today we think the u.s. has damaged its us that this has inflicted a sense inflicted. this clinic's occasion of the will of the honest broker because they have taken one new one side against the rest of the world they have damaged the prospects for peace process and that was that solution because the muslim is at the very heart of it and we have accepted to enter they negotiate in one thousand nine hundred base when the letter we received from the u.s. from signatory big it making sure and guaranteeing that the u.s. is inviting us on the basis of international law and to report to its recreate the u.n. security council resolutions and then for peace and that is a must and it's open patient that began in one hundred sixty seven including east jerusalem and in that. didn't you know big time that the u.s. will respect the status of the us and it will not recognize israel as called the an

extension of it and this is a point and status issue this is an issue for negotiations today the us has they can as you would a stab in the back if you make. that got and t. has it and they did on their own got on decent promises and therefore it's a little of that peace process that was disclosed and i'm glad it's meant to sam i just want to ask what the implications are politically then i mean could we see a situation where this decision that's being made embolden some ass and undermines the p.l.o. . i don't think it empowers anybody it's only empower us it's a precious gift to the very extremist of the non-solution this of the autumn a good dentist for those who want to see how religious war rather than i put it to going to get a conflict that could be resolved it is a precious guest guest so there is only settler movement today that celebrates in the illegal settlements aside there was a bank and there was a limb and today is this empowerment. all those parties and partners of the

us for all those years who have invested heavily in making sure that we are right at the peaceful source and it's very little sense of the announcement on it and plays into the hands who'll of those who want to see as you know some want to see the palestinians sort of but want to see the fun of the patient over and i think that is based on metz but i believe the things about the problematic actually and its international standards. it's precious to me that is the most of them will remain there there are three hundred eighty thousand palestinians and also them all in this city who are on the mall some of the churches or in the homes of the schools warmness to get someone to shops and then for the most of them wouldn't mean international support america seems a very very international eat it by the way even the positions of them in. senators congress what have you have have come out against this is it is about the time of

mistakes you know we will take this but these you can political ones that is this moment we believe it is that the moment and we palestinians have now to decide a new course of action and that you'd better should we realize that and that's why the palestinian president declared today in his speech to the nation and to the load that part of the unity that we could mean that he saw one and that it would be some very serious but the decision was taken by some some not joining me there from washington so i thank you is very prime minister benjamin netanyahu has hailed the move calling it a historic day for israel the president's decision is an important step towards peace for there is no peace that doesn't include jerusalem as the capital of the state of israel i call on all countries that seek peace to join the united states in recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and to move their

embassies here i share president trump's commitment to advancing peace between israel and all of our neighbors including the palestinians this is been our goal from israel's first day and we will continue to work with the president and his team to make that dream of peace come true so how we feel such as us live from western some hi there harry so how is that now who've been framing this moment and has it been received. well he's been talking about it as you said as a historical milestone to rival some of the most glorious moments in jerusalem's history he said it was a courageous and just decision by donald trump and he ended his remarks by saying directly to donald trump that he thanked him and that the jewish people and the jewish state would be grateful for ever for this moment and as you heard there he was also talking about this as some kind of step on the way towards peace towards

a settlement with the palestinians now this is something that i think many people are finding a little bit baffling in similar language to that used by donald trump at the same time as the palestinian reaction and the wider arab reaction in this region has been so uniformly condemnatory of this palestinian leadership saying that really the trump administration is disqualify the united states from being an honest broker in any peace process as a result of this and then you have the reaction of the palestinian population in east jerusalem i mean they will have listen to this wondering when and if donald trump would refer really anything in their direction he did talk about not pre-decided any final settlement and that's not defining that the limits of jewish sovereignty of israeli sovereignty over the capital that he now call jerusalem but he didn't talk in the same way the same emotion of way that he talked about the

israeli link to jerusalem as he did to the palestinian link they see it just as much as their capital city as do israelis and there really wasn't any of that content in this speech so from that perspective seeing this is a route towards peace seems a bit of a stretch how far from the journey life from a westerner somehow i think. well donald trump's announcement has already prompted protests in gaza this demonstration was organized by different palestinian factions which called for palestinian unity the protesters burned american and israeli flags they also waved palestinian fly list and banners proclaiming jerusalem as our eternal capital and calling it the red line palestinian president mahmoud abbas has rejected and condemn the move by the us. you're helping me and my palestinian people we are going through very difficult times after the decision made by the u.s. administration regarding jerusalem they have chosen to contradict all international

resolutions and ignore all international positions which have been expressed by many other countries and leaders of the last few days all the efforts towards peace have been ignored this is a reward to israel and a further encourages the occupation of the state of palestine hold up till he joins us live from ramallah that's when the by the west bank high bare hoda can you describe the main emotion the main sentiment where you are right now. well i think many people would describe it that they were very disappointed that felt that they have been stabbed in the back especially those who actually did believe in the peace process those who did believe that somehow the u.s. administration could still play a vital role in big resolving this conflict a huge sense of disappointment maybe a sense of loss and also anger that certainly sums up. the feeling you know before

the announcement i asked many people how they felt and they were still sort of in this believe that some of them would say let's just wait and see what he's going to say but somewhat use very harsh words of if indeed this announcement happened it would be utter madness for example now joining me here is most of our better woodies a leader of the palestinian nationalism initiative thank you very much for joining me you read president speech it's only really towards the end that he addressed the palestinians. did he say enough to the palestinians he didn't really speak about the palestinian aspirations noyce had enough to show that he is also a zionist he said enough to show that he is totally. he deserves not to be a member of the likud party you know. this is not to do that is suitable for the president of the united states and by deciding to remove the move the

embassy to jerusalem to declare it was a limb as the capital of. his practice practically taking over the role of the united states as an immediate and if you should peace process he practically is aborting his peace initiative before it is born but most importantly he has become he made his administration a participant in violating international law. participant in the next single q. bye to the truce which is illegal by international law and most importantly has put his administration in a very isolated position with. the whole world is reacting if using the district in his announcement now president mahmoud abbas said what you're saying now that the u.s. has lost its role in the peace process so what happens next what are the options for the palestinians i personally thought the peace process is dead since more than

twenty years to be honest with you so for me this is not really surprising but it's so boring for those who have believed in the united states and all of the united states and their hopes on this ongoing so-called peace process we've tried for twenty years to convince them that this is an illusion we've seen the settlements go after the we've seen the disappearance of palestinian thirty three confiscated by israel and we see in the israeli consolidation of today's edition of it was a limb but some people do the want to believe now it's the shock of their life and now we have they have to adopt what we have been proposing for twenty years which is an alternative path. we have not lost our case or our goal or our cause. those who believe in this new go to these negotiations have lost them and you think people still believe in the two state solution at this point i am not sure but for

me the issue is not two states or wednesday the issue was the freedom of the palestinian people the issue is over the dignity the issue is our rights the issue is justice but after that speech i don't find the difference with we do lose a limb and jaffer i have very strong feelings also towards jeff and i think the fact that we as palestinians are accepted one compromise after the and we're ready to accept the two state solution on less than half of what the united nations decided we should have have encouraged the appetite of the israeli aggressive but i think the movements it's time maybe to tell the wall enough is enough we will not give up on two state solution of course maybe this is what israel wants us to do now we will never leave israel from the response ability of killing the two

state solution. but if they killed the two state solution which would which now would trump is helping them do that we are not without options we have one option which is one. democratic one state solution and we will struggle for it i think we are now freer than before because we. have been freed from the obligations thank you very much now that actually this last thought the feed from obligations something that i have heard a lot speaking to palestinians they said that maybe at this point it's time for the palestinian authority to react to look at other options and to have overtures with other countries around the world bring them into this peace process but certainly the overwhelming feeling here is one of big disappointment and as some people have said they felt they have been stabbed in the back by the u.s. administration what abdel-hamid there live from ramallah thanks. well the status of

jerusalem itself is at the heart of the israeli palestinian conflict and it's hugely symbolic for both sides to understand why we need to go back seventy years and u.n. vote carved up palestinian land into two states a jewish one and an arab one in one nine hundred forty seven but under this partition plan the holy city of jerusalem was given a special international status to be governed by the united nations but a year later during the first arab israeli war israel captured more territory leading to devote to the division of jerusalem west jerusalem came under israeli control and east jerusalem came on the jordanian will bought in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven after the six day war israel unlawfully occupied east jerusalem it's still under israel's illegal occupation despite u.n. resolutions in one thousand eighty israel for the consolidated its grip over the city and that's when its knesset or the parliament declared jerusalem to be its co-eternal and indivisible capital be international community rejected that by

refusing to recognize its claim over the entire city where palestinians see east jerusalem as the capital of their future state but it's not just the palestinian issue but an arab and islamic one as well the city is the holiest sites for lose them scris sions and jews a lhasa mock scanned the western wall of the church of the holy sapulpa are all in that city well for more on this al-jazeera senior political analyst marwan bashara joins me in the studio so maron we just heard there with hoarder. talking to the palestinian leadership and saying actually you know we're freer than we were yesterday because we're free of those obligations that we had let's just dig into that what does that mean in terms of moving forward from this decision. what you know as you know most of it with is is a palestinian leader but he's not within the palestinian authority and he's always been critical of the oslo process the thing with also probably the us the process

was also agreements that he hopes that the syrian people would be free from of course have the advantage of. americans and europeans providing the policy in authority was support with money with funds and so on and so forth while the obligations are such that the pacino thought at the basically needs to police palestinians so that they do not hurt the israelis meaning that they will stop their resistance against the israeli occupation. this would have been a good arrangement if it would have led in a short time to palestinian independence free of occupation and a fair resolution of the refugee questions it didn't simply prolonged the occupation and deepened the israeli settlements in palestinian territories i mean think that for example juices would discuss in it or the rest of the occupied territories there were you know

a handful of jewish settlers in east jerusalem after one hundred sixty seven even an up until the early seventy's there weren't many but with the continued occupation and especially after nine hundred ninety three with the peace process. the number of jewish settlers in east jerusalem and in the occupied territories doubled so many times that now we are more than half a million jewish settlers. illegally settling in occupied territories under international law a country cannot push its own citizens on occupied territories but israel did that and now america is not only blessing that it's recognizing what president thrones now calls a reality on the ground that we must recognize imagine that every time a country takes. you know a step that is completely against international law towards another country and

then to say this is the reality imagine if the united states would have said ok it's ok for iraq to occupy kuwait now it's a reality so the kuwaitis need to deal with it then say that this isn't half an american soldiers and a half of the world firepower in order to liberate kuwait not for palestine. i wonder in terms of israeli reaction i mean we've heard netanyahu say this is a historic day but i want to how do you know verse so will that feeling be across across israel i mean the rhetoric is that this is somehow part of the path to peace but will there be voices in israel that say actually no i'm not in my name this isn't part of the path to peace where are those voices actually. i should just read before before we get to israel i just read that. in fact only twenty percent of american jews support. this. trump

move on recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital now that they don't themselves support but i think the timing of this thing is wrong because it will weaken american position in the arab world and it will lead to perhaps its collation insecurity and it would humiliate. america's allies in the region including saudi arabia egypt and on the others but even in the israeli press earlier in the year there were there were reports nuts and they were denied by prime minister not any l. that i knew i was not encouraging trump to declare jerusalem as capital of israel because they were still and are still hoping for extended bridges with certain gulf countries like saudi arabia and there are numerous and they did not want the question of recognition of jerusalem to be in the way so again if you read just last week if you would but iraq the former prime ministers

of israel's article in the new york times i mean i cannot even speak about prime minister netanyahu using the same language that it would but arc uses about how prime minister netanyahu is destroying israel and the chances for is there at the live in peace and how he's destroying israel's democracy and how he is destroying the chances for israel to survive as an independent jewish state in an arab neighborhood that's barack you know so i think on the overall president trump is only strengthening the worst. israeli coalition government in the history of bad coalition israeli governments you know so this is a bad day all together for israeli opposition for the peace camp for the jewish community in the united states this is further were not because those people do not want jerusalem to be the capital of his or they all do they just don't like the

spin they don't like the cynicism and they don't like the fact that it's done in a way that tramples over an entire peace process over international law and over of course by the stinney and writes so once again to summarize because this is going to be my line for the week this was an american speech but these were is radially ideas this was trump's voice but these were not the neo who's words and that's why this will not run their america great again that's for sure but it could render israel a greater israel again with no chances for peace in the foreseeable future mowen bashar thank you wealth that's come this news hour we continue our coverage of downtimes decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. in turkey protesters gathered outside the u.s. embassy in ankara to show their opposition to the end meant. cash incentives and

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the mind of the top stories here on out to see around us president donald trump has confirmed his highly controversial decision to recognize israel's capital and move the american embassy there from ted update. from sufficient has drawn worldwide condemnation protests as had been on the streets of palestine long before the announcement the arab league says it will hold an emergency meeting on saturday israel claims all of jerusalem as its capital but this has never been recognized by any major player internationally until. all this but international condemnation of the plan to move. and your.

today's decision condemns to death all the steps taken for peace the united states has a very important role in the peace process and part of it is to be impartial until we reach a peaceful resolution sitting this is you it is a regrettable decision and that france does not approve of and which control the ins international law and the un security council resolutions. will trumps announcements far to anger from the u.s. ally turkey a crowd of protesters have gathered outside the u.s. embassy in ankara earlier president reject tired already and warns the decision would cause public on rest across the muslim world well palestinian protesters have also been demonstrating outside the u.s. embassy in istanbul are reports of mohammed the dough is there and has more in turkey's reaction to trump's announcement. reaction to president trump's decision was swift here in stumble hundreds of protesters moved to the u.s. consulate here protesting what they said was the shocking decision taken by prison

trying to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem which they said was tantamount to recognizing jerusalem as the cup or toll of israel they said they were shocked some of the people we spoke to say they were shocked the president trump would take such a drastic measure is support of one of the protests in the middle east conflict and of the same time the u.s. was a sponsor of the peace process now early on in the day president ridge of tabor underground also spoke on mentees was to a growing chorus of condemnation saying that the u.s. decision was illegal and against international law and treaties and say that the muslim world must speak with one voice on this issue and towards this end he announced that on the thirteenth of december that's next wednesday he's calling for a meeting of the organization of islamic countries to ensure that there comes out

of that summit a concerted response to president trump edition well mike hanna spent following events from the united nations in new york from where he joins us now hi there mike at what's been the reaction then from inside the u.n. . well there had been a lead in to this announcement so in recent days there's been a lot of discussion about what event what's going to happen what will be its impact on any attempt to resuscitate a long dormant peace process but even so the tramp announcement met with a degree of shock and in some circles a degree of anger the secretary general had been making very clear throughout that the u.n. has very clear positions on jerusalem and shortly after president trump had delivered his speech and tenure at the terrorists emerged to once again restate the u.n. position in this moment of great thanks i want to make it clear

there is no alternative to the two state solution there is no plan b. if he's only by realizing the vision of two states living side by side in peace security and little recognition we jerusalem as the capital of israel and palestine and all final start to issues resolved permanently soon negotiations that the legitimate aspirations of both peoples will be achieved and how isolated mike does this leave the u.s. within the u.n. it now. well the u.s. has always been a somewhat isolated when it comes to matters pertaining to israel for a long period of time now a u.n. resolution after u.n. resolution in the security council has come to an abrupt end because it has been vetoed by the united states in fact in the past some fifteen years there's only

been a veto withheld on one occasion and that was under the obama administration back in december but even so the us makes very clear that it will not be dictated to and particularly under the trumpet ministration there's very much a hard nosed attitude being exercised within the united nations the most recent resolution on israel one hundred fifty one nations voted in favor only five voted against one of them the united states but despite this ongoing minority the u.s. as a permanent member of the security council has that veto now some in the u.n. have been calling for an emergency security council meeting in calling the bolivian including the bolivian ambassador but even if such a meeting is cons convened there is not likely to be any resolution because awaiting such a meeting would be once again the u.s. veto i can of there live from the united nations mike thank you. russian leader

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certain death. deportees boss even showed up to support him that's. when people are trying everything to find their way in a new country learning the language culture and trying to be integrated it's very sad that they don't get a chance. the night before we walked the streets together in the bavarian town of by reut he refused extra money on offer by the german government for anyone who returns home voluntarily they offered me a thousand euros to go back i said account go back a fin away twenty years from my country i didn't come here for money i came here because europe is safe he fears if he took more money home it would make him more of a target in the eyes of the taliban with no relatives or friends in afghanistan he will be alone there i'm not a criminal i'm not an islamist i'm not a terrorist for twenty six years i've been living in fear not knowing what's going to happen my life is just over the german government won't comment on individual

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nobel peace prize will be awarded on december the tenets of the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons or i can it's a group dedicated to creating a world without nuclear weapons it's been seventy two years since the devastating power of nuclear weapons was first used on a civilian population millions of people can remember a time when the threats of nuclear armageddon overshadowed their daily lives and the threat has steadily diminished since the end of the cold war but with the rise of north korea's nuclear weapons weapons capability will that fear return reynolds reports. nuclear annihilation films urged children to keep an eye out for soviet planes and

to head for shelter when the air raid siren boomed you were warned right the flash that's the first thing they'll be get away from windows get under a desk you had the sense that it was going to be incredibly destructive and that we would be just tiny pawns pieces of debris we had to hide in every crevice we could find. hollywood's response to this visceral fear was to produce a parade of nuclear spawn monsters giant ants emerged from the site of a nuclear bomb tests to attack society as did giant radioactive spiders and humans bathed in terrifying radiation gruen like enormous looming symbols of destruction the terror peaked in one nine hundred sixty two when the cuban missile crisis brought the u.s. and soviet union to the brink it is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out it receded as the

superpowers negotiated a reduction of tensions and nuclear arsenals but under the hawkish ronald reagan fear of mutually assured destruction came roaring back it flares again the nuclear fear in the early eighty's when ronald reagan started building star wars and next missiles before the reform started in the soviet union we were again at the brink this time popular culture delivered not giant insects but a realistic and powerful depiction of nuclear war in the widely watched television film called the day after when the soviet union collapsed most americans readily pass their nuclear nightmares away now a new threat has emerged but so. or at least the fear as not it's kind of surprising now isn't it that we seem to be very perilous times with north korea but it doesn't resonate the way nuclear crises did in the past it's too early perhaps for popular culture to absorb the north korean threat and decide how to respond

robert oulds al jazeera los angeles and you can watch an exclusive interview with this year's nobel prize peace of state that again nobel peace prize laureate beatrice finn from i can will be speaking to us right here on al-jazeera that's on sunday the tenth of december at sixteen hundred iris g.m.t. that let's get all the day's sports news over to talk to you in doha. thank you very much carol madrid star striker christiana rinaldo has become the first player in champions league history to score in all six group stage games the portuguese made history with the second goal against dortmund he scored in every single champions league game this campaign with a total of nine strikes so far madrid were already through to the knockout stage but for good measure run out a three two win over what a student napoli were arguably the biggest casualties on wednesday the serie a club

went down to one of final and while shocked adoniah speak manchester city to advance city were through anyway liverpool join them thanks to a big win over spartak moscow f.c. porter also through well thursday sees the awarding of the door separate from the fee for player of the year award even though there was once a partnership that combines the awards that's no longer the case though there were thirty players nominated including the world's most expensive player at neymar but in the eyes of the fans there were really only two realm of cristiana ronaldo led to his club to a second champions league title in a row in the last year he's also the current bond or holder has rival in all messi of barcelona was the leading goalscorer in the spanish league or last season messi netted thirty seven goals during that campaign and veteran italian goalkeeper genuity bouffant is an outside bet that's mostly because this award almost goes to

ways to forwards the event will take place in paris the eiffel tower will feed for has lifted kuwait's ban from international football the suspension had been in place since october twenty fifth because of government interference in the running of the game is yet to be announced if that means q eight will compete in this month's gold cup in doha but president jonny in frontino is in kuwait where he made the announcement on twitter earlier on. mr president like it's one of those because especially. with the first. suspension of the quake the first solution is. thank you very much thank you. the fee for club world cup has kicked off although the big teams will only enter the semifinal stage in the meantime the tournament began with a playoff to get into the second round there out of the united arab emirates the host nation defeated i was saying they are champions oakland city of one nil her marino scored the goal and goalkeeper pulled off a string of saves al-jazeera will play asian champions the are red diamonds in the

second round for the right to meet around madrid in the semifinals. russian president vladimir putin says his country will not boycott the twenty eighteen winter olympic games in china on tuesday the international olympic committee chose to suspend russia from the games for doping violations but they did leave the door open for clean athletes to compete as neutrals when we see some new i know many of the athletes personally and they have been preparing for these competitions their whole lives it wasn't only a couple of years of preparation they've been preparing their whole careers and for them it's very important so we won't bend anything to anyone block create conditions that would make participation impossible now while russia are officially banned from the winter olympics in almost bizarre fashion the russian athletes could be present in official team russia uniforms at the closing ceremony the possibility still exists that the i.o.c.

could lift the suspension on the russians during the actual and lympics in time for them to a pair and official colors right at the end. and there are the closing ceremony. then the signal that. there are russia and. then accepted and respected sanction and then and you were beginning is possible and we can look into the future of. russia australia's cricketers have taken a two nothing lead over england in the ashes series after winning in adelaide england began the day needing one hundred seventy eight runs to win in a would have been a record chase for them they lost wickets quickly captain john reid was out on sixty seven having failed to add any runs on day five mitchell starc ripped through

the batting order taking five wickets for eighty eight until england were all out australia winning by one hundred twenty runs the test on the path on december the fourteenth and if australia win that the win back the ashes and australia's captain as braving a five relief yet has has been a pretty tough twenty four hours from being honest. you know it's so hard and being captain of a country you have to make difficult decisions and sometimes you know make the wrong decision and you know it's all part of any experience and i think i can learn something from this game. sri lanka's cricket board has complained to the sport's governing body the i.c.c. about the poor air quality in delhi during the team's test match with india which wrapped up earlier players were forced to wear face masks while filming and four of them vomited from the effects of the small because the air reached twelve times the world health organization safe limits the i.c.c.

say it will take the necessary steps with a match of self and in a draw sri lanka were unable to reach the victory target of four hundred ten and the indians could not bowl them out either india win the series one nil. and that's all the sport for now is back to julie in london such telephone cute now rock n roll fans in france are in mourning following the death of music legend johnny holiday now holiday who was soft and compared to elvis presley died from lung cancer at the age of seventy four looks back at his career. he was france's rock n roll superstar the nation's elvis with his pacing blue eyes blond quick and charisma johnny hallyday dominated the stage and captivated fans for decades thanks chris van daly sixty years he sold more than one hundred million records produced more than seventy albums and toured relentlessly.

i always try to do shows that are a little bit different compared to he wants what i did before but yes i do try and do things that are out of the ordinary was nice lights and special effects. and of things that can make people dream is fame transcended music he was a national icon but outside of the french speaking world many people were baffled by the popularity of the leather clad rocker they couldn't understand how he managed to appeal to fans of all ages and from all walks of life whether you were on the right or on the left he was a bit like getting the know him bodied from not an elite fronts but the one of ordinary people and the dreams the ones that went to his concerts in many ways johnny was from. halliday's personal story of rags to riches added to the myth he was born john phillips met during the second world war in paris his parents abandoned him leaving him to be brought up by his aunt and her american husband

named lee halliday both were dancers when elvis presley broke through in the u.s. in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven johnny found his idol and a template for his own career he hit the road as a teenage singer fast becoming a sensation soon he was france's highest earning music star. as well as music there was acting starred in films by top french directors including including louche. his personal life wasn't without controversy he was married five times and left france with switzerland to avoid paying high taxes. in his last years he battled illness but refused to stop working he'll be remembered as an artist to the end as a star will simply as his fans always called him johnny the al-jazeera paris so that said for me julian which all for this news hour be back in just

a moment there with much more of the day's news see in a bit thanks for your company by. if you were in beijing looking out the pacific ocean you'd see american warships when mess was that somehow time as aiming to replace america and hanging around the world well the chinese are not that stupid these guys want to dominate a huge chunk of the planet this sounds like a preparation for our first president george washington said if you want peace

prepare for war the coming war on china at this time on a just see it. this month the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons will receive the nobel peace prize but what he's the real threat in a series of special reports al-jazeera examines the state of nuclear proliferation around the world. ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed judgment just a satisfied for the state of their economy this is easily a study as biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera.

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