it tells the story of what it's like to be lebanese and call australia home. once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al-jazeera. witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. more anger over president trump's jerusalem move with the outbreak spreading worldwide.

down to the south zero live from doha also coming up another controversial move venezuela's leader bans the opposition from next year's presidential vote. wildfires in southern california burn out of control as more people are told to evacuate plus. the end of nuclear weapons over the. national campaign to abolish nuclear weapons wins the nobel peace prize and calls on the world to see the light. bed of lebanon's hezbollah is calling for mass demonstrations on monday against u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital on sunday protests were held outside the u.s. embassy in beirut meanwhile the anger in occupied palestinian territories continues to grow more than

a hundred fifty people injured in clashes with israeli forces the palestinian leadership decision to snub vice president mike pence during his visit to the region has been described by the white house as unfortunate and binyamin netanyahu has reiterated trumps decision as merely the reality on the ground he's ready prime minister has met the french president in paris and on your macros to end construction of settlements which are illegal under international law what they know how to has more now on the protests outside the u.s. embassy in beirut. seventy security forces using the water cannon and tear gas to disperse the crowds several hundred people gathered outside the u.s. embassy in beirut to protest the u.s. decision to have ignited israel is the capital of zero three to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel palestinian of a newsgroup several hundred protesters stairs trying to reach the u.s. embassy compound but security forces have cordoned off the road that are venting

people from approaching further people being pushed back from the smell of the teargas people are angry there's defiance they're chanting but they're chanting words against arab leaders saying that they haven't done enough to to confront the u.s. decision that words are not enough they want action they want the peace process to be declared that they're calling for they're supporting a new intifada and calling on person immediately to stop talking and moving any dialogue with israel. people across three continents show their solidarity with the palestinians shelling has more that. for many this is not a geographical issue but a muslim one is stamboul transformed into a sea of turkish and palestinian flags i feel like i should defend palestine because i don't know any i don't know any other way to defend them so this is what i can do this is the least that i can do president ridge of typo no one has been one of the most vocal critics of trump's decision he's called for

a summit of islamic countries a wednesday. and in asia a different language but the same words get it down. please president trump use your brain to not push our anger beyond the limit we're patient enough america please go back withdraw yourself from jerusalem jakarta indonesia the capital of the world's most populous muslim country president george would order chordal muslim countries to unite and rejects trumps move indonesians voice their anger outside the u.s. embassy. and then rabbet the moroccan capital. they yell slurs against the u.s. president with banners that reads jerusalem is the capital of palestine in the crowd of government ministers and officials the an army of pro palestinian protesters rolled down cairo streets cell phones held high

the the muslim solidarity even spread to the embattled nations of yemen and syria was the summit live city to daraa where the syrian uprising began the global to seems against the u.s. embassy in jerusalem marched on charlotte dallas. natasha buckley has more on the meeting in paris between mark roll. the greetings were warm and friendly but this could not have been an easy meeting the french president and israeli prime minister are divided over the u.s. decision to recognize theresa as the capital of israel a move that has drawn international condemnation it often takes i have expressed to prime minister netanyahu my disapproval of the recent declarations of the president the united states france believed to be against international law and dangerous for peace in the micro called on israelis and palestinians to restart talks urging

netanyahu to freeze illegal settlement building as a gesture of the peace netanyahu said he was open to discussions but that there could be no question over jerusalem status and purposes the capital of france drusilla is the capital of israel and the capital of israel for three thousand years it's been the capital of the jewish state for seven years the israeli leader also hit out of the turkish president at a one had spoken by phone on saturday the two men reaffirming their condemnation of trump's announcement. and one is attacked is with. us what is my response i'm not used to receiving. lectures. about morality from a leader who bombs kurdish villagers in his native to palestinian leaders say but the united states could no longer be considered an honest broker in any future

peace talks and bad for a firm eggs both couldn't leave the door open for him. to take them made but not everyone here was pleased with my girls decision to host netanyahu on saturday hundreds of protesters gathered in central paris. jerusalem is not the capital of israel it's not only the palestinian capital it's the capital of all religions whether for muslims christians or jews macros recently mediated in the political crisis in lebanon he may be seeking a greater role in this one but if he was looking for encouraging signs there were few to be found here. al-jazeera paris venezuela's president nicolas maduro has banned the country's main opposition parties from taking part in the next year's presidential election he made the announcement just candidates of his party so the first minister election since twenty thirteen three of the four main

opposition parties boycotted the vote saying electoral system is biased as more from caracas. anybody from the government anyone who supports the government will say that the election results the results still coming in from the municipal elections are credible are bonafide the results there are elections of the popularity of president nicolas maduro who's been in power since two thousand and thirteen setting the scene as you mentioned a presidential election next year the vast numbers of opposition the people who are very much against nicolas maduro the government will say these elections were not credible that's why many of the opposition candidates chose not to participate saying that this is a flawed process and they wanted no part of it immediately afterward president my daughter has said that these are opposition parties he boycotted the elections are no longer on the political map and he will consolidate laws that back that up which is really setting the scene for a big fight i think in the years to come in the run up to those october

presidential elections next year when we're going to have to see just what part the opposition candidate is opposition parties will choose to play or not where they don't take part in the election how they will oppose nicolas maduro government's thousands of hondurans have spent another day protesting against what they call electoral fraud the main opposition party says it will respond with nationwide protests the current president has announced the winner of last month's elections opposition candidate and the president of both the clear so that when a president has the vote count by a small margin and some ballot box where we counted after irregularities the opposition says the process was manipulated. more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to spread a huge wildfire threatening coastal towns firefighters are warning that the thomas fire near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history reynolds

reports from carpentaria. california got no respite from fires burning out of control good canyons and rocky hillsides towers of flame twisted skyward firefighters dropped tons of water from helicopters but high winds and weather conditions were making their jobs extremely tough the brush here is tremendous very very thick it's bone dry there hasn't been a lot of rain out here in a long time so that coupled with the santa ana winds and single digits humidities has made this fire grow rapidly and it spots ahead of itself tremendously firefighters on the ground and in the air are doing everything they can to keep this fire from moving towards santa barbara city of more than ninety thousand people. officials could not guarantee that santa barbara is out of danger we can't say it's not there are some concerns of course there have been historic fires in this area so this area is not any stranger to large wildfires here fast clouds of

smoke and ash falling like snow made air quality extremely poor over a wide area of southern california hospitals reported a sharp increase in patients admitted for respiratory problems in a low income ventura neighborhood volunteers passed out donated face masks to residents activists say many impoverished spanish speaking residents make their living working on big fruit and vegetable farms in the area and they are particularly at risk of health problems from the smoke got thousands of farm workers making this horrific choice whether to lose the income they need to put put roof over their family's head or be exposed to the this dangerous toxic air some neighborhoods were almost entirely burned out but in others the fire showed a cruelly capricious quality destroying some family's homes but leaving next door

houses intact jim cole's house survived his neighbor's house did i feel guilty i houses almost untouched and my neighbors with whom i have a good relationship are overwhelmed they're in denial here in shock their can't even talk with no rain in the forecast and wind still whipping the fires to a frenzy it's nature who holds all the cards in california robert oulds al jazeera carpentaria california time for a short break here on al-jazeera on women as well just do not feel that he holds the same values that we have when we come back a controversial choice on election eve in america an accused in the deep south could be on the verge of heading to congress about. i'm turning a page reporting from south africa on a move to regulate religion and the fears of it's become commercialized.

had i read snowed quite substantially in the east and more especially maybe the south of the u.s. you've had snow or down to mexico actually but is to hit for example the south coast of texas and be run through georgia a bit of a surprise while the fronts that brought us of what's offshore now and there's nothing really i was over the contiguous landmass except for that one little cold front sitting through the dakotas behind that's where the cold air since so it's going to make progress in this general direction to make it even colder which is like to produce more lake effect snow but nothing else would be like effect snow running eastwards eventually towards new york state the temp has recovered a bit further south to live in atlanta only twenty in miami manji dallas beats you you can see this and that's the next two days and it's like a thick snow only

a lift at least inside of counters well further west big blue sky of course the question about the santa ana winds continues they are still strong in the weekend they ought to fade a little bit but i can guarantee that anyway there's no ratings in forecast that's for sure so that's the u.s. dropping down through the gulf of mexico to the caribbean we've got this line of cloud of really developing again from costa rica up through jamaica cuba that is the line once again i think of significant rain. going green bacteria in a. super heated gas escaping from. iceland this is really. based on the fact what happened to experiments both boring and. because how counter the impacts of climate change the science of capturing caught that. sap i am the guy in the car on the back i'm attained and why does happen and. this started on

all jazeera. welcome back a quick reminder of the top stories here al-jazeera violent protests have taken place in lebanon trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital security forces used tear gas and water talent to disperse crowds outside the u.s. embassy in beirut lebanon is home to almost four hundred fifty thousand understood . that is when president nicolas maduro has banned the country's main opposition party isn't taking part in next year's presidential election it's after three of the four main opposition parties boycotted sunday's vote claiming electoral system

is biased. more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts continue to spread a huge wildfire for coastal towns firefighters one of the thomas fire near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history. the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has received this year's nobel peace prize and the nobel committee praised i cam for drawing attention to the humanitarian consequences of using the deadly acts deadly weapons the group is nuclear powers to adopt and sign a u.n. treaty to ban their use all together johnny on the reports now from. i can has been the war did the no growth peace prize for twenty seventeen a prize for achieving a u.n. treaty banning nuclear weapons and for what i can hopes to achieve global nuclear

disarmament accepting the award as i can see executive directive it was finn and set sukkot thurlow who survived the u.s. bombing of hiroshima nine hundred forty five there were tears in the audience as she recounted the horrors of that day. when i was just thirteen year old girl trapped in the. rubble i kept pushing i kept moving toward the light and i survived our light now is a ban treaty to all in this whole and all listening around the world. those words that i heard in the routines of. don't give up keep pushing keep moving see the light. their speeches reminded the world of the extreme threat we will live under which

bitterest been reiterated june exclusive interview with al-jazeera after the ceremony we've been so close to catastrophe throughout the cold war we also had a war in iraq that was fueled by threats and weapons of mass destruction we have conflict with iran with kashmir and north korea right now look at this situation between north korea and the united states this does not feel safe past winners of the nobel peace prize are a diverse bunch from archbishop desmond tutu for his nonviolent campaign against apartheid in south africa to martti ahtisaari for resolving conflicts in kosovo proves that the path to peace are many but nothing threatens world peace more than the fifteen thousand nuclear weapons held by just nine countries and i can says that as long as they exist nuclear disaster is inevitable. the crisis in north korea means that threat is greater than it has been in decades i can doesn't expect nuclear states to sign the u.n.

treaty immediately but hopes to stigmatize the weapons like landmines chemical and biological weapons making their use and thinkable their opponent a powerful but so are the people that i can. of course the economic impacts that individual people can have so we have a major campaign called don't bank on the bomb and we're encouraging people to call their banks or their pension funds or other financial institutions and see if they have a policy to take the money away from nuclear weapon producing companies again with land mines and this is how to huge impact this incentivizing economic investment in these weapons and we expect that the same thing can happen with nuclear weapons. the prize is a victory for civil groups in a rare moment of celebration the behind the smiles a stark message it's either the end of nuclear weapons where the world faces a very uncertain future charlie engineer al jazeera. iraq has celebrated its

victory against isis with a military parade in baghdad. that follows the recapture of roa one of the last remaining towns held by the fighters last month since then iraqi forces have been fighting to retake small pockets in the border area that was still and i still control on sunday iraq's prime minister body declared the end of its war with the armed groups qatar has bought twenty four euro fighter typhoon jets from the british defense and aerospace company b. systems the six point seven billion dollars deal was signed by the british defense minister gavin williamson and the qatari minister of state for defense budgets are set to be delivered in late twenty's twenty two. in the u.s. three democratic senators are calling for president trump to step down in the allegations of sexual harassment in the past few months and a growing number of women are coming forward with their experiences of abuse by men in powerful positions it's forced the resignation of many entertainment media

politics most recently two democrats and one republican but during the election campaign more than a dozen women accused trump of sexual harassment well nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. was asked about the subject on c.b.s. is face the nation. how do you think people should assess the accusers of the president. well i mean you know the same thing as women who accuse anyone should be heard they should be heard and they should be dealt with and i think we heard from them prior to the election and i think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way they have every right to speak out on sexual harassment allegations have dominated the campaign ahead of tuesday's special election in alabama for the u.s. senate what attention was drawn to the contest the republican candidate roy moore was accused of molesting teenage girls while he was in his thirty's but more got the support of president trump and his party that many republican voters split should have

a chance. on sunday at churches across alabama christian evangelicals were weighing a dilemma could they put aside the allegation of child molestation that's been leveled at republican candidates drawing a vote for him or should they allow the possibility that a pro-choice democrat might assume the state's vacant senate seat if they don't the republican elizabeth bashir there's only one possible option a lot of people myself included feel that roy moore is just not an acceptable candidate he doesn't a spouse the views that are important to me are a lot of younger people as well lot of women as well just do not feel that he holds the same values that we do it's not just the allegations of sexual misconduct for years more has reveled in racism and discrimination but he often clicks in bible scripture recently he mused that life in the us had been better while slavery existed these thoughts often delight a call right wing evangelical base in alabama who feel that washington has allowed

the u.s. to descend into godlessness starting with allowing a woman reproductive rights more spoke at brian baptist church in late november and the past of this says there's no proof of child molestation the women should have due process and so should judge moore the problem is is the. because of the selection being so short we had don't have plenty of time for it so you're going to have to make a rush decision bashir says she feels some more voters are employing circular thinking i also think there's some self-delusion going on and some sectors in terms that well i couldn't support somebody who would do these things so there's no way he did those things because i support him this race is being defined in many different ways and referendum donald trump a key moment for the republican party so the movement where key demographics like younger people and women feel they have no choice but to split with the party's extremism even if they too are against abortion but despite the consternation

that's been expressed nationwide about moore's nostalgia for the us during slavery for example he does speak for a large section of alabamians there was that and so but there were certain certain principles of that ok that was a man's word was his was his bond so to speak we value human life better at that time as far as the white population. in some in some areas and if moore does win on tuesday night it's not as if he'll be the only republican in the u.s. senate who holds such views she ever turned see al-jazeera birmingham alabama several thousand people have marched through central kiev to protest against the detention of the ukrainian opposition figure mikhail saakashvili the former georgian president was arrested in camp on friday speeches using the persisting a criminal and organization charges he says were trumped up to undermine his political campaign against president petro poroshenko saw his feelings been stripped of his ukrainian georgian citizenship is now on hunger strike the united

nations has criticised the u.k. for not doing enough to support disabled people in its report that un highlighted the role government funding cuts have played in depriving them of their rights that he reports. mary ellen has been registered disabled for twenty three years she used to work as a nurse now she relies on her full time carer perna and she's constantly worrying about the future. i have. two years ago the government scrapped something called the independent living fund or i.l.f. and now her local council is cutting her care payments and since the laughs closed the council has been raking is tied to supposedly can intervene as much money to put a can into trying to cut those hours social. came in and said that they would be increasing mine dependence by providing me with

incontinence pads right in the case support her need to be able to use the time late because then i would be dependent on someone to take help me to go to the toilet having a carer also means mary ellen can go out to meet friends and protest for disabled people's rights five years ago a group of organizations lodged a formal complaint to the united nations that led to an in-depth investigation and some damning conclusions in its report earlier this year the un singled out what it called the u.k. government's failure to recognize the rights of disabled people to live independently in the community it also highlighted the growing numbers of disabled children being educated in segregated special schools calling for legislation to make sure mainstream schools provide for them and it called for urgent action to fight high levels of poverty which it said would you to multiple welfare reforms and cuts in benefits the u.k. government says the un's failed to reflect the progress it's made in empowering disabled people including getting them into work. but roger lewis part of

a lobby group that helped to get the un to investigate says changes in the government's access to work scheme a cutting things like the specialist computer software which allows him to hold down a job despite being blind he doesn't cost the their the country this is that this is the crazy thing that the access to work scheme for every pound they spend on me the treasury gets back between one pound forty one pounds seventy it's a generate income for the government bob in work up a national insurance i'm paying income tax i'm not on an unemployment benefits it's a net gain yet this game is under attack from mary ellen going into a care home would mean an end to her social life and possibly a slide back into the suicidal thoughts she's had in the past she's determined to do what she can to keep fighting the spending cuts that barbara al-jazeera london. south africa wants to regulate all places of worship the goal is to stop what it calls the commercialization of religion and other dangerous practices as it was

a ton of pages more from the torah. really improves on this woman has come to profit shifted the for how he takes her crutches and she walks on they consider this america. the congregants believe the holy spirit is channeled through prophet pushy and that sometimes they can feel it to up to thirty thousand people come to his unlighted christian gathering every sunday to be blessed with good health and succeeds i've been pregnant with my studies but because i didn't hear from twenty fifteen i thank my son take many of the people who come here want to take something home so there's a range of items for sale posters honey and little bottles of oil all of these things have been touched blessed by the prophet and so by taking the hot and people believe they're taking a little bit of his narcotics quite into these even a stall is selling tickets for a prophetic cruise and it's

a business side of bush it is church and others like it that have created debate the commission for the promotion and protection of the rights of cultural religious and linguistic communities known as c.r.l. for short says probable people are being taken advantage of by being promised blessings sometimes for price it wants all religious leaders to be registered to stop what it describes as the commercialization of religion and other dangerous practices in the past some religious leaders have feared congregants grass and snakes and sprayed insecticide in their faces this has nothing to do with the bible it has everything to do with the individual then division is no court. the individual is an individual christians in a particular. behave professionally. while some religious leaders are opposed to the idea of any other site support said as long as the new regulator isn't biased

he rejects the suggestion his church is a business you see this by a book i didn't get it for free. so if we see there's a question mark in the city. i hope but it has to be like. sitting in the bibles religion offers hope and a sense of community but it can also be used against people if it is the religious rights commission says it should be an incrementalist tinier page al-jazeera pretoria. now an italian performer has become the first person to cross the tiber river on a tightrope. slowly insta long a steel wire that linked the banks of italy's third longest river crowds gathered to watch lorraine he crossed the one hundred thirty five metre long cable suspended twenty meters above the water he said at the end the walk was more difficult than expected because the wind and rain.

remind of the top stories here as our violent protests have taken place in lebanon the donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital security forces used tear gas and water cannons to disperse crowds outside the u.s. embassy in beirut lebanon is home to almost four hundred fifty thousand palestinian refugees israel's prime minister insists president drum's decision on lucilla was merely a recognition of reality which palestinians must accept over for all to move toward peace. the sooner the problem students come to grips with this reality the sooner we will move towards peace and this is why i think president trump's announcement was so storch and so important for peace on the quest for peace there is a serious effort underway now by the united states and all i can say is i said related to president mccall i think if you'll pardon the expression you should give

peace a chance the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons has received this year's nobel peace prize and. the nobel committee praised i can for drawing attention to the humanitarian consequences of using the deadly weapons but as well in president nicolas maduro the country's main opposition parties and taking part in next year's presidential election it's after three of the four main parties boycotted sunday's vote claiming electoral system is biased thousands of hundreds of spent another day protesting against what they call electoral for a position he says it will respond with nationwide protests if the current president is announced as the winner of last month's election both candidates have to turn themselves victorious. in the u.s. more evacuation orders have been issued in southern california as wind gusts

continue to spread a huge wildfire threatening the coastline firefighters are warning the so-called thomas fire near santa barbara could become the worst in the state's history five other blazes in the area are now largely under control but those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after techno stage and that's a lot of. eagle hunters still roll mongolia's rugged mountains but how long can their culture survive the modern world one of those determined to save their ancient connection to the magnificent golden eagle at this time when al-jazeera. green bacteria in the tree in. super heated gas escaping. in iceland. two experiments both exploring and by did because how council tax climate change. text.