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russian president vladimir putin has ordered a partial withdrawal of us troops from syria he made that announcement during a surprise visit to syria where he held talks with president bashar al assad it was part of a whistle stop tour of russia's middle east allies which some are calling a quote victory tour well the first stop was the unshared job visit to the came in air base in syria's latakia province events led to cairo for planned talks with egyptian president fattah el-sisi before doubling back and heading north to uncorrupt for a meeting with char case richard. well we'll have more from there in just a sec but first entails tieup has this report. at a military base in western syria a visit by blood near putin it's the first time the russian president goes to syria since the start of the war nearly seven years ago he was greeted by senior officers

and warmly embraced by president bashar al assad putin's forces have been helping his troops since two thousand and fifteen when the syrian government was on the brink of collapse. in his speech putin declared victory over what he described as terrorists and announced the partial pullout of his soldiers from syria my general you don't know much about but he goes there to the general command i give the sort of russia's military presence in syria has come to an end the motherland awaits you friends safe journey i thank you this. also pledged to continue to support syria's military by keeping some of his forces on the ground before departing for the egyptian capital where he met with president of the fatah el-sisi the leaders have been strengthening ties in recent years has purchased billions of dollars worth of russian military hardware and has approved a draft agreement to allow russian jets to use egyptian military bases putin and c.c. also signed a deal under clear power. bickering ties between russia and egypt the second

largest recipient of u.s. military aid after israel could potentially strain relations between cairo and washington but is yet another sign of putin's attempts to grow russia's influence across the middle east putin's last stop before heading back to russia with turkey for you but with the president's budget ten out of one in ankara to discuss the situation in syria it is also part of his. his way actually to express himself and to exhibit maps of project power in the middle east by by by by visiting all u.s. allies we're talking here about egypt were talking also about about turkey and to actually has been closing has been has been drawing closer to russia over the past couple of years so he's trying to make he was. that difficult relationship the u.s. allies are having with their international pattern in order to present a project his influence in the region whatever the case it's clear of putin's

interest and influence in the region appears to be expanding into al-jazeera well the russian and turkish president spoke to the media after their meeting together though has more from what they said. well the two leaders spoke about the great corporation and increasing corporation between the two countries they talked about agriculture and how they. see trade as well as mutual energy projects but they also talk about the situation in the middle east particularly. decision by the us president global to recognize jerusalem as backup ecology is right present on hold with the responsible and say it was and how to think and also talk about the number of people killed in the demonstrations in the occupied territories. say that wasn't how approved

it was an affront to the peace process and said any progress will have to come through peace talks which he said must be restarted not on syria they talk about coalition and military only and more about talks with president putin announcing talks to be held in russia next. thousands of protesters have rallied in lebanon against u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel mass demonstrations were called by has. a was violent confrontation said they would on sunday between protesters and security forces near big u.s. embassy at the levee they. had we are all in this war we have all experienced our brothers in gaza any demonstrations no matter how big or small only give more resistance or make us feel that we are not alone the american israeli resolution which is supported by some arab countries the aim of it to clear the palestinian

cause that's the dangers that the palestinian people face we should confront the nation as a whole should confront this dangerous american project and try to impose a solution for the palestinian people. said honda has more now from beirut. trucks decision to recognize tourism is the capital of israel in one way or the other is serving hezbollah's interests why because hezbollah really has long championed the palestinian cause as its own ever since its inception three that's a huge three decades ago and as of late in the past few years it has come under a lot of criticism of the sauce a lot of support in the arab world and here in lebanon for militarily intervening in syria many people no longer regarded it as a resistance movement or that it that it became a sectarian militias and that it was serving iran's interests but now hezbollah saying that the fight against isis is driving down and outs of the so-called

resistance axis will now focus on jerusalem its main cause so in one way or another it the hezbollah is trying to regain a legitimacy in the eyes of many in the arab world in the struggle saying that you know arab states should support the palestinian intifada uprising he said that the so-called resistance axis what they call it is resistance axis that they should come together and come up with a strategy to confront israel but he stopped short of saying what action should be taken against israel because at the end of the day it will have a domestic backlash because it has opponents eleven on that it cannot take any decision to wage war or peace on its own so very carefully worded speech by but clearly hezbollah trying. again in one way or the other some sort of political capital from trump's decision israel's prime minister has are sure to follow washington's lead and recognize to receive them as his country's capital but human netanyahu is meeting e.u. foreign ministers in brussels where he faced was it synced to that suggestion and

came under pressure to restart middle east peace efforts to make a report staff in the belgian capital. a wintry monday morning greeted benjamin netanyahu in brussels but the chill in the air outside was seemingly absent inside as he met federica. her role as e.u. foreign policy chief is to seek compromise where possible but his message regarding the status of jerusalem was an ambiguous i believe everyone though we don't have an agreement that this is what will happen in the future i believe that all or most of the european countries will move their embassies to jerusalem recognize crucial in israel's work up little but many e.u. leaders disagree criticizing president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital as fanning the flames of protest for her part morgan any reiterated the e.u.'s official position we believe. that the only realistic

solution to the conflict between israel and palestine is based on two states which are those eleven as the capital of both the state of israel and the state of palestine along the sixty seven line. another element of netanyahu is visit was meeting the e.u.'s many foreign ministers around the table with him where the representatives of at least two governments have said they will recognize jerusalem as israel's capital which means although the e.u. tries to speak with one voice on this issue there are some dissenters and raising the question of how successful europe can be as an intermediary in the middle east the e.u. is not a victim of a lack of involvement the enrollment is still there it was never front line and what won't but was there it is a victim of the one sided position or president despite all the spin that we're hearing now but for the moment at least many here believe president trump's actions

have put the prospect of progress in the middle east in the deep freeze don't it came out zero brussels palestinian anger at the u.s. decision on jerusalem hasn't been directed at washington palestinian leaders are also facing growing criticism from their own people frustrated after decades of living under israeli occupation what abdel-hamid reports from the occupied west bank. he has witnessed every clash for the past three years as so many have erupted near the petrol station where he works he doesn't join in but understands the motivation especially after trump's declaration over jerusalem. it was a real bad feeling for everyone it's like an insult but i want to be able to do anything at all either has only been to dru's a limb twice that's how often israel has granted him permission still like every palestinian he considers it the only capital for

a future palestinian state this is the closest point to jerusalem many palestinians can reach even though the city is less than a half hour's drive from this checkpoint but to go through it they need special permission from the israelis and that's very difficult to come by. well cohen is from jerusalem he lived abroad for several years but decided to return home so his wife and children could get their residency twenty years later his daughter who is still waiting for hers. i don't have an id i don't have any proof that i'm a living human being i might not get my papers but i'm holding on to my rights best can't refute trump's decision he won't meet the american vice president but what else can he do the palestinian authority has come under criticism for being too lenient it was established after the oslo accords and many say it should be dissolved since they agree mint has gone nowhere it's easy to say throw it away

it's not something that you threw away this is an achievement the issue is you have to capitalise on it their issue is that you should not accept what is. this or thought it to be when i say a service provider i don't want this or thought to be a service provider only for the people that believe they can do that mahomet's abound there has travelled far and wide but never set foot in the holy city despite repeatedly applying for a permit he thinks that palestinians now need new blood and then you vision we have resistance movement in gaza the did nothing we have who believe in peace and they. did nothing for us that's mean we want to find a number of choices what is the tone and who's claim that he is leader for palestinians should find this choices perhaps for him as late as cartoons express better than words how palestinians feel these days the peace process was

a radius shipwreck trump killed it with the help of arab leaders who are a dimmer see of the united states and jerusalem was the ultimate christmas present what up to him meet al jazeera in the occupied west bank. coming up on this news hour from london. the opposition leader mcconnell saakashvili and his supporters celebrate in ukraine after a judge freeh sent from detention. where now for venezuela's opposition up to nicolas maduro bans them from running in next year's presidential election and in sport winter olympic organizers getting a helping hand in their effort to boost ticket sales. piece in new york have a rest of the bangladeshi man with a pipe bomb strapped to him which went off in the subway near times square the man has been identified as twenty seven year old. was injured in the blast which

happened at the height of the morning rush hour three other people suffered minor injuries new york's mayor says the suspect is believed to have acted alone let's be clear as new yorkers are large revolve around the subways when we hear of an attack on the subway is incredibly unsettling. and let's be also clear this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not achieve is ultimate goals. thank god our first responders were there so quickly to address the situation to make sure people were safe well kristen salumi has more now from manhattan. investigators say the suspect himself twenty seven year old i had suffered the worst injuries in this explosion with burns to his abdomen and hands three other people took themselves to the hospital with minor

injuries the explosion of the device they described as primitive it was held to him with velcro in plastic ties and the location that he said it often appears to be a carefully chosen was in a subway tunnel that connects the subway system to the port authority bus terminal the major bus terminal for new york city right in the times square area where there are thousands of commuters and tourists during rush hour it could have been a lot worse the mayor says and while they did not go into detail they did say that the suspect is speaking to investigators and reports are now coming out that he claimed to have done this in the name of ice so. as for the impact on the city traffic was shut down in times square for some time the transit system got back to normal in a matter of hours it was relatively minor impacts but has

a huge impact on the psyche of the city coming so close to the holiday season when so many tourists are in town and coming just weeks after that another deadly attack on the west side of a city where someone drove a vehicle into the dust rians and bikers on a bike path so the mayor is advising new yorkers to go about their business as usual but also to remain vigilant a massive wildfire threatening coastal towns in california and shows no sign of slowing down the fires already torched nearly eight hundred buildings and ninety three thousand hectares it's currently burning in ventura and santa barbara county about one hundred sixty kilometers northwest of los angeles five faces have been hindered by the my interest mountainous terrain and a five thousand eight hundred of them are working to try to contain the blaze reynolds has more now from long to cito in sense of barbara county california. we're at a firefighter staging area outside of monta seato that's in santa barbara county in

that you can see behind me the firefighters who have come from all over california and joining states are waiting for their orders being told where to go to fight this massive fire which is consumed hundreds of square kilometers so far the fires at the moment seem to be burning mostly in the hills deep in the back country although several coastal towns are still considered under threat firefighters have managed to beat back the most immediate threat to those communities we can hear overhead helicopters going into the back country carrying giant buckets of water which they drop on the fire it's really one of the only ways of fighting this because the terrain is so tough it's very very difficult for firefighters to get in on foot there's another factor here which i want to show you and that is the smoke which is pretty unbelievable at this moment it is as you can

see on the hill tops over here they're just cloaked in this blue thick acrid smoke it's it's very irritating to the lungs and to the throat and of course for the people who live here they really have no choice but to simply endure it there have been. a number of evacuations but a lot of people are still in place waiting to see what happens with this fire which is now burning into its second week well planned health reporting there now then is when us president nicolas maduro says all position parties that boycotted sunday's local elections will be barred from taking part in next year's presidential vote is you're looking socialist ponting said that one against ninety percent of the three hundred thirty five mayoral seats in the municipal pool the has more now from caucus. voting in venezuela is not obligatory but many still

put their faith in the electoral process however several opposition leaders boycotted the vote accusing the governments of manipulating the process to maintain its. power as you know he has been a plague nicolas maduro and his regime said he should go he should resign democratically so we can have elections and choose candidates at every level of society oh yes i am president that those parties that boycotted the municipal elections were no longer part of the political landscape if you look at your party the parties that did not participate today a boycotted the elections cannot participate anymore that's the criteria laid out legally by the considering assembly and as the head of states i support that. a move that will have repercussions on presidential elections scheduled for october next year these are municipal elections that's all the venezuela's problems and the government is hoping some of it solutions to a focus here

a country divided and then crisis with the whole process that some hope will provide some answers. the voting itself passed generally peacefully with only isolated reports of violence and there regularity is here the system isn't very advanced technical level but it's also very advanced the level of participation of the people of mobilization of the vote. to dissuade the remains in crisis with inflation rampant food and medicine scarce and crime rising tens of thousands of left the country and many of those who remain so they have little faith that elections alone will solve their problems some however are optimistic in. all countries have crises and they recover we learn from this and we move on we don't stay where we are our country is a valving. what is the president. like interference of venezuela's problems

despite his deep on popularity the opposition boycott an international criticism these municipal elections only seem to have tightened his grip on power. there al-jazeera caracas one of venice with one of the venezuelan government leading opponents says opposition parties will be believed as the taking part in the elections one may hear who leads the volunteer popular party described sunday's mayoral election results as a farce. it's very difficult for us to qualify the vote as an electoral event here in venezuela when there are processes there is usually talk of intellectual party and what we saw yesterday was not an electoral party it was an electoral farce and electoral farce that does not reflect in any way the will for change of a people that today wants things to be different in our country a result of a no way changes the reasons why we have been in the streets why we have been going

to right every corner of this country and the world tonight saying that there is no democracy in venezuela also michelle is a specialist in u.s. venezuelan relations and director of schott international consulting and she joins you know from washington very warm welcome to the program sonia wants your take on this threat to disqualify opposition leader. well actually with his carmen's as him though token fear where this in everybody's mind when it's so it's not there mockeries he any more menace will has become the day the sheep on the other hand pressed him as though to that drive there in a swell and. democratic means in order to choose a way through the crisis saw us you know a super already know the opposition is the buy that song members of the opposition they participate in this by us elections or there's no and this side that the go

home boy caught this election's so but this is going to be. us of a sort of we see that the president mother would a will try to remain in power since he also have an you know there is a way out of this situation and sagna is partly what's going on here that people are of course disillusioned many of them because of the economy are leaving the country but also is it because they don't believe in the opposition. yes this is true i remember a couple of months ago actually not long ago so many people in venice where they were they took this street stay marched a protest stay they asked for the democratic way out for early elections so many young people leave. their life for nothing and nothing has changed so the

people people in venezuela the cong venezuela is this illusion it is had disappointed not just solely with the gore a man but also with the opposition because the they don't see a clear message and that is a lack of leadership as they perceive sagna want to fight with duel himself he appears on undaunted by them i'm getting criticism so who can challenge him are actually it is a very good questions since the opposition was all naval really chewed two percent every year the child lynch do they go over them and and so the opposition is the right it saw us so we have seen some who are out of bro and some who are again to participate in the election and if the situation continuous i pray the that next year eve to proceed presidential elections will take place their results

will be the same us to the their government will remain of power not because people liked them to stay in power it is because they don't see the means in their ways to do see another way out to reach another solution to the crisis they're joining me live from washington d.c. sonia thank you. to ukraine now where a judge has freed opposition politician mikhail saakashvili from detention the former georgian president is accused of conspiring to topple ukraine's leader petro poroshenko earlier his supporters clashed with police outside the courts where his custody arrangements were being decided as more following large demonstrations on sunday supporters of opposition figure in ukraine mikhail saakashvili confronted police outside a courthouse in the capital kiev inside of

a plastic defendant's box the former president of georgia saakashvili responded to allegations that he conspired to topple ukraine's president the chocolate billionaire petro poroshenko there is room for various people over. there. we place own words are good for us. are fed up with our event are you ready once an ally of poroshenko saakashvili accuses him of failing to fulfill the anti corruption promise that was central to mass street protests in two thousand and fourteen against the then russian backed government. a prominent backer of the street uprising saakashvili had been rewarded with ukrainian citizenship and the governorship of the western odessa region now he and his supporters many of them soldiers return from the front lines in the country's east are demanding poroshenko zimm preachment on the way of ali when you get your way right there i think we have forty enough we don't want any more wars or bloodshed but if poroshenko does not do

what he is obliged to do and uses force against us then we will respond adequately the man who led former soviet georges rose revolution who then has george's leader fought an ill fated war with russia denies plotting with russian businessmen to overthrow poroshenko. the latest dramatic chapter in saakashvili his career saw him arrested on a clear rooftop last week before be free by supporters from a police van and then the rest are. released pending trial places a possible five years in jail job to hold. still to come this hour a tough choice for republicans in alabama where their candidate into say senate elections is accused of molesting teenage girls. as its value skyrockets bitcoin is traded on a major exchange for the first time but should buyers beware and sport football

legend diego maradona as you've never seen him before and it will have that story. hello there all storm ana is battering here up at the moment you can see a distinctive color on the satellite picture as that storm gradually edges its way eastwards and it was a round shower we saw some of the strongest of the winds over one hundred sixty kilometers per hour and that system is thundering its way across europe at the moment the winds are weakening now fortunately but it's still giving some very heavy rain and a lot of heavy snow there as we head through tuesday and loops back across the alps where again we're expecting some heavy snow the worst of the snow is likely to be on the southern part of the outs and further north where the winds have heated up

here looks like it's actually going to be fairly mild and we're having a problem with flooding as we're seeing a some of the snow already on the ground for that system and sweeps its way down into the southeast as we head through the day on wednesday and behind it it's cold again so a top temperature of vienna just a four and yet more cloud of rain there rolls in from the atlantic bringing northwest. of europe yet war wind and rain now some of all that unsettled weather is also making its way into the northern parts of africa it's already affected us in morocco now it's edging its way eastwards heavy rains over parts of geria that's edging its way eastwards for wednesday and tunisia will then see some sharp showers . in in the. besieged by violent crime and drugs. confronted by reese's and integration and now our i am outta syria traces the history of

a first generation lebanese australians exploring the conflicts. and the struggle for acceptance. once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is award winning programs to take you on a journey around the globe. expose analysis. it's all about who's in charge who controls the resources and documentaries that will be neuroses it's a technology story it's a business story it's a social story and it's a political story all wrapped into one it's unpredictable television that truly inspires only just.

a mind that odd top stories here on out you see are russia's president says the u.s. decision to recognize to receive them of israel's capital as a stable life the middle east that amir putin was in turkey he also announced that atia withdraw all of his troops from syria on a surprise visit. thousands of protesters have rallied in lebanon against the u.s. decision on jerusalem demonstrations were called by hezbollah's leader hassan nasrallah. and police in new york have arrested a man with a pipe bomb strapped to him which went off in the subway near times square the man was injured and three of us also suffered minor injuries. the philippine president is seeking to extend martial law cross parts of the country until the end of the year where do we go deterrents he says is needed to fight on groups in the southern mindanao region let you rule was first imposed in the area in may to stop

an uprising by eisel supporters in marly city on sunday demonstrators took to the streets to protest against what they call a looming dictatorship. bangladesh in myanmar working on a plan to send hundreds of thousands of or hinder refugees back to me in march but the u.n. and rights groups say the plan is flawed because it doesn't guarantee their protection when they go back there is charles stratford met one refugee has fled violence in the amar four times over the last seven decades this time he says he won't go home up to salaam says he is over one hundred years old his wife will stuff a big i'm going to the shelter in the coup to pile on refugee camp he says the first time he fled violence in what was then burma was when the british were fighting the japanese during world war two but he has fled military crackdowns on the ranger three times since then in one nine hundred seventy eight one thousand

nine hundred ninety two and two and a half months ago and this time he says he won't go back lug around i do whatever i feel bad for my home but i'm afraid to go back because they could you know like him says there's no point in sending us back to me a moment because there is no security force there. rights groups say the ranger have suffered systematic atrocities by the myanmar army and recent months hundreds of range of villages have been destroyed and burned to the ground and un says women have been gang raped by me and soldiers. it's estimated that hundreds of ranger men women and children have been killed. but the bangladeshi and myanmar government so already working on a plan to send back hundreds of thousands of refugees to me. they say it will be voluntary and is aimed to start in two months so what would the range of refugees

go back to inside me and the myanmar government doesn't recognise them as an ethnic group if we do their citizenship in one thousand nine hundred eighty two giving them limited access to education and health care and making them vulnerable to arbitrary arrest at the un says how can a people go back to a country in which they are still vulnerable to the kind of violence and persecution from which they fled. the un says the root causes of persecution such as lack of citizenship must be addressed first. may suffer more violence one of the things we need to really underscores we shouldn't rush into this conditions for a return need to be addressed and we're clear conditions today in myanmar are not right for refugees to go home of the salaam says his village like many others was burned down by the myanmar military he has nowhere to go back to roman law

they will not allow a single ranger to live there he says they will slaughter a school please don't send this bank as bait for the monster. the fear of a man who has fled for his life time and time again chance traffic are just zero could you prolong refugee camp bangladesh. al-jazeera is demanding the release of its journalist mahmud hussein who's been in egyptian prison for almost a year is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny what has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the twentieth of december off a sitting family. kenyan polls remain close ahead of cheese they special u.s. senate election in alabama that's despite the republican candidate more he accused of harassing and molesting teenage girls whilst he was in his thirty's still has the support of president trump is that many republican voters with what they see as

difficult choices she had reports from birmingham. on sunday at churches across alabama christian evangelicals were weighing a dynamic could they put aside the allegation of child molestation that's been leveled at republican candidates judge roy moore 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 for 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 overt racism and discrimination but he often clicks in bible scripture recently he mused that life in the u.s.

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 that says there's no proof of child molestation the women should have due process and so should judge moore the problem is 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 but she is as she feels some more voters are employing circular thinking i also think there are some self-delusion going on and some sectors in terms. 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 a referendum donald trump a key movement 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 was nostalgia for the us during slavery for example he does speak for a large section of alabamians there was that insider but there were certain certain principles of that top 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. it's 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 while three women have accused u.s. president donald trump of sexual misconduct are calling for a congressional investigation into his behavior they say given widespread inquiries into the actions of other politicians it can only be right that he be looked into as well. they've investigated other congress members so i think it only stands

fair he be investigated as well and i think also a nonpartisan investigation is very important not you know not just for him but for anybody that has allegations against them this isn't a partisan issue this is how women are treated every day this isn't a partisan issue the pentagon says transgender people will be alive too in this in the u.s. military despite president trump announcing a ban thompson's been on twitter in july contradicted recommendations made by the department of defense review in october a legal challenge by trans people already serving in the military prompted a partial block of jobs proposed ban now trans people have been told they will be able to sign up as of january first twenty eighteen. so the united states is going back to the moon that's according to president trump he made the announcement at

the white house in the last two hours surrounded by astronauts including buzz aldrin the second man to walk on the in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine signing the directive to the u.s. space agency nasa also said the ultimate goal was a man trip to mars and that's what's on the moon in one nine hundred seventy two in the last of nasa six missions this is a giant step toward that inspiring future toward reclaiming america's proud destiny in. space has so much to do with so many other applications including a military application so we are the leader and we're going to stay the leader and we're going to increase that many for well for more on this story let's speak to us than jordan who's in washington d.c. for us hi there also where were all this money come from then to pay for the space push. that's a really good question because the president is waiting to see whether members of congress can reconcile their two versions of

a major tax reform bill that would lead to a massive tax cut and so obviously without some of that additional revenue coming into the federal treasury one has to question where would the money come from to pay for the technology and for the training in order to get people not just to the moon but perhaps to mars or to other planets just in this solar system let's not forget the obama administration chose not to pursue an additional space strategy once it wound down the space shuttle program back in twenty alive and that was in large part because of the cost. doesn't this ignore the joint cooperation that the u.s. has been conducting with russia on running the international space station. well even though the white house paper that was put out in tandem with the president's announcement talked about working with other countries on further developing the

ability to go back to the moon and to perhaps visit other planets in the solar system in did not mention the ongoing cooperation with russia regarding the international space station even though the astronaut who just spent the most time aboard the sas was at the white house ceremony on monday afternoon in fact the u.s. has been relying on russia to basically get its astronauts up to the space station in order to carry out various scientific experiments as well as to operate the craft so it is curious that there wasn't any mention of this already long running by international cooperation in order to keep the space station in operation plus shorten their lives that with the latest on that story from washington d.c. ross thank you that increasingly popular digital currency bitcoin has made its debut on a major u.s.

exchange on sunday if you just shading of the virtual money started in the chicago board of exchange interest was so high that the voice web site crashed due to heavy traffic atika lame reports now from washington d.c. . we all know money we can see it touch it if you wanted to even smell it. and we know roughly its value the buying power of the dollar for example doesn't change all that much it's backed by the u.s. government because is the exact opposite it doesn't physically exist but lives virtually on a secretive computer system but now bit cloying can also be compared to corn even pigs. because it has been traded in the chicago board of exchange meaning just like the price of food traders can now legally place bets on whether the price will go up or down in the future for the most part the value of bitcoin is only going up and up and up again. what is becoming when bitcoin first unveiled in two thousand

and nine it was worth less than a penny for a few years one bitcoin could buy you a cup of coffee but since two thousand and sixteen a huge spike would it debuted on the exchange its value was listed at more than fifteen thousand dollars for one bitcoin meaning if you add up all the big callings out there it would be worth more than the economy of new zealand something the head banker there said in a local interview won't last long that looks remarkably like a bubble fall into my. way of saying them in the past over the centuries of saying bubbles on this appears to be a bit of a classic case right now because owners are limited in where they can use them there are some restaurants and online stores that will take them and there are few places to turn them into cash but those are few and far between and there is another risk besides the volatility even if you do time you're right we were still seen a number of large tax seventy million dollars was stolen from

a big point my last week and so security is still a concern volatilities concern and generally i would still advise people if you are going to bast only put into this what you are willing to lose meaning your. money can be stolen and there's no one to complain to and there are also concerns about the amount of energy the computers that run the bitcoin system use one report says it's as much as the entire country of denmark but even with that it's clear especially today the price of bitcoin will go way up and way down but it's not going away political hane al-jazeera washington still ahead this news hour a similar red revolution helped greece had its climate talks but broken promises opposing other homeowners investing. and a big match to join european heavyweight to stay in the running for the champions league we'll tell you. in sports.

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so in recent years the second fastest school in solar energy use in the developed world after the space the government now wants to pass a law that will make it easier for a city. but. not everyone trusts them. greece's solar revolution came from the countryside forty two thousand homes like this one turned their power bills into checks from the power company by selling electricity back to the grid to pension of. an extra nine thousand dollars

a year have made a difference they don't it's my pension all over again without it we'd be putting our pennies in this economy it means i can help my children my daughters in school my son is unemployed my wife doesn't have a pension over five years household installed three hundred and seventy five megawatts of generating capacity equivalent to a mid-sized power station and that's not counting farmers who turned over their land to larger scale production or industrial installations in solar and wind power both of which greece has in abundance but the government quashed this revolution in twenty fourteen strapped for cash it cuts the rate at which the grid bought power from homes from fifty five cents per kilowatt hour to under twelve cents but twenty fourteen law effectively removed households from the renewable energy market until then more than four thousand homes would install solar panels on their rooftops each year but in that year the number fell to just sixty three and it has never

recovered. a new bill now aims to bring the solar revolution to the cities where more than half the population lives by encouraging groups of five or more homeowners to install solar panels but the twenty fourteen rate cut still haunts people like. whose proceeds fell by. them as they are i'm not sure whether the broken promises of the past make it possible for investors to go forward today we're talking about an investment of about seventy thousand dollars the bill quotes a guarantee purchase price but there's also a clause allowing the environment minister to change that price can someone trust that after an entire solar economy collapsed because of a law greece still depends on fossil fuels for two thirds of its electricity that's because its power stations burn imported oil and lignite coal it's only abundant native fuel but lignite use has hove in the past ten years while renewables have doubled to thirty percent of the electricity supply if policy is consistent greeks

have shown they will reach for the sun jump zero plus al-jazeera. and here's and they would always. thank you so much julie what's the most watched and most lucrative competition in a club football unworn game in the last sixteen of the year payne champions league has underlined its blockbuster appeal. another eight. bodies and your money. is right there match christiane on all those reality ending for the first european cup trouble since bon munich did it forty two years ago l'oreal have won the title twelve times p.s.g. have invested heavily in new players to try and win this trophy for a first. well we played to two years ago decisions to go against them since then they strengthen their that in every summer

a very very good player so i think they're really very strong in every department feel. i think they have many many many qualities they have a lot of strength in quality players they have also we know that when they play a home they have a lot of offensive power but we have our all qualities we have our. players vision to continue in this competition so we were going to do everything we have a stuff that knows them very well from spain so i think we have all the qualities also to go through to the next round. after a five year gap asana will take on english champions chelsea again it seems have been involved in a series of controversial games in two thousand and nine bossa edged chelsea in the seventies for the outcome was reversed in twenty twelve with chelsea going on so lift the trophy qt. is that draw in for the games kicking off in the second week of february shakhtar donetsk will take on roma and it's by munich versus bush task

that series champions went undefeated on their way to winning their qualifying group a record five english teams progressed from the group stage this season tottenham will face italian champions eventis premier league leaders man city play switzerland f.c. bars or liverpool take on portugal's f.c. porto and man united they face legal side severe sports correspondent lee wellings looks at the draw could mean for spain's biggest two clubs. were madrid versus present in an absolutely fascinates me is this the time finally for the spanish giants ramadan barcelona not. they have dominated european football but of course the two clubs with the money in europe or paris and manchester city manchester city have had a rather attractive looking draw against basel switched in the would expect to be but come p.s.g. due to rome with which they filed to do a couple of years ago can you now do i remember of course i want you to go in for

free champions league in a row that hasn't been for forty years so what a huge march this is piers g.'s form in the group suggests that this is the time can i see it through can i get the job done that we playing at home second because they won their group i'm brown which it didn't chelsea barcelona now has a great history doesn't it twenty twelve chose he managed to get through despite all the pressure put on them they won the trophy that year but there have been controversial matches between those teams like two thousand and nine those two don't like each other that's for sure. well fans have been making a fuss of football's new m.l.s. champions in surround so they've turned out for a street parade to celebrate canada's first ever champions in the league's history . beating seattle soon know in the final they also want to support the shield for their regular season scoring sixty nine points a record for the m.l.s. . the new yankees are officially taken ownership of their three hundred million

dollar man a national league's most valuable player shankar stance and has arrived at the yankees as part of a trade with the miami marlins the twenty eight year old led baseball in home runs and all the ice in twenty seven saying the yankees are set to pay stance that two hundred and ninety five million dollars over the next decade. just wants to go in from a far seeing seeing their young dynamic group the way they flow together on the field . never give up never quit but if you're the story for the mean there's not. much you can say of why you wouldn't want to be there. and. where i want to be what has been a breakthrough when faith young indian goal for sure bankers sharma the twenty one year old winning the johannesburg open by three strokes has after bad weather so the title being decided on monday it's sharma's first venture on the european so i am guaranteed in a price and next year is going to challenge. lindsey vonn as preparations for the

upcoming winter olympics in south korea all it's going well with just a couple of months to go and so the games the twenty ten downhill champion is again struggling with injury the thirty three year old says she's doing all she can to be ready for could be her last olympics. everything that i've done has been in preparation for these one picks so right now i'm trying to stay healthy. going in so far it's not going very well but. you know i feel like i'm saving all of my luck for february and hopefully everything will work out the way it's supposed to all south korean organizers are doing over the counter boost ticket sales there a robot relay with the olympic torch is the latest innovation so for six hundred thousand secrets has been sold but that is barely half of the total number. and joining a proud list of footballers to have start shoes that only bear

a passing resemblance to their actual features diego maradona the argentinian legend is visiting india at the moment and that is the statue that will soon become a permanent fixture in kolkata the statue apparently captures the moments he and his team won the one thousand nine hundred six world cup. ok very good for now let's get back to julie in london. and they thank you now saudi arabia has said it will reopen commercial cinemas next year lifting a thirty five year long ban the ministry of culture and information says the first movie theaters will open in march next year spot of crime prince salman's reform plan for the kingdom the ministry expects three hundred cinemas to be opened by twenty first. nominations have been unveiled for the golden globe awards and leaving the field as a mexican filmmaker guillermo del toro's fantasy romance the shape of war so the film landed seven also including best drama best director and actress for britain's sally hawkins following closely with six nominations is the post steven spielberg

blockbuster about us newspaper the washington post starring meryl streep and tom hanks the highly acclaimed the coming of age love story call me by your name is nominated for best motion picture drama and in television h.b.o.'s mini series the fly's dominates nominations the golden globes is seen as a precursor to the all scots were in as will be announced at a ceremony in january that's it for me julie went on when the team for this news out the back in just a sec that with much more of the day's news go by. hard

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