to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things but mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is a part of life it's culture the world's largest humanitarian crisis millions caught up in civil war all ages the real world examines the roots of the conflict in yemen and the complex history that drew a country into perpetual time. separation on. the north and the so these dualisms are a part of history. yemen the north south divide this time. protests across the occupied palestinian territories. in istanbul to discuss the

u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital and there can be no state of palestine without jerusalem being its capital. the palestinian president rejects donald trump as jerusalem saying the u.s. can have no future role in middle east negotiations. hello i'm citizen this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a blow for trump in the u.s. the democrats win the u.s. senate seat of alabama for the first time in twenty five years. tory m.p.'s rebel on a key bricks it vote inflicting any feats on terrorism anti-government. at least one hundred twenty people have been injured in violent confrontations

across the occupied palestinian territories it comes as muslim leaders staged an extraordinary summit in istanbul to discuss u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel a draft communique from the summit named east jerusalem the capital of a future palestinian state countering chum's declaration in bethlehem in the occupied west bank israeli forces trying to disperse palestinian protesters by firing tear gas on them demonstrators threw stones and but tires in the street a checkpoint between the city and jerusalem fighting has also broken out in the city of ramallah palestinians rallying in the streets had to take cover from rubber coated steel bullets fired by israeli forces on the cover of offices or the abdel-hamid reports from ramallah. well certainly the anger. disappointment disillusion and this really a lack of hope that anything will get better any time soon now if you asked people

how they felt about the speech of mahmoud abbas earlier today they said it was the strongest they heard to him. since a while but they were also disappointed that the final communique thinking that that did not go far enough that there's no concrete steps now people are feeling is that. they fear that eventually despite all the efforts of mahmoud abbas to go to the u.n. to go to the i.c.c. to exclude the u.s. from any future peace negotiations they start at any time soon they fear that they would be pressure at some point and that he might have to backtrack people say the words are all good but we've heard so many good words in the past so many promises so many. agreements signed and so many times where peace was

hailed as big as being there coming soon well none of that happened twenty five years of efforts have gone down the drain so at the moment they don't really believe in anything. at that summit attended by fifty seven muslim world leaders palestine's president said the u.s. can no longer mediate the peace process mohammed has more from a stumble. of the hastily convened mitten of the organization of islamic cooperation is tumble members recognize the palestinian state with occupied is jerusalem as its capital there was thronged could have missions to for both the u.s. and israel the palestinian president mahmoud abbas declared that palestinians will no longer accept the u.s. as a mediator in the middle east peace process in his strongest statement yet says donald trump's amongst them and abbas called the move a client of the u. and to take over the peace process. the united states chose to lose its role in

eligibility as a mediator and not to have a role in the political process we will not accept any american role in the political process from now on the u.s. is biased to israel that is our position this is a major crime that requires us to come out with decisive decisions that protect the identity of jerusalem until we end the israeli occupation of the state of palestine the summit was convened by the turkish president through egypt taib it on a self proclaimed champion of the palestinian calls. stubborn killer although i would like to call all nations around the globe to respect international law to rise up and recognize jerusalem as the occupied capital city of the state of palestine we will never give up on our demand for a free and sovereign palestinian state the capital of which is jerusalem and as islamic countries we condemn the violence of israeli soldiers our palestinian brothers and sisters protesting the latest decision of the united states and the

ones hopes of uniting muslim leaders behind a top finals from the mid it was awarded in the end the organization of islamic countries also adopted the palestinian state as of dinner cinemas it's. also at the meeting walking up the love jordan the lebanese president michel on the middle of qatar ship to mean been home adult. and the iranian president hassan rouhani they called on muslim nations to unite to defend the rights of palestinians honey dean is it called mother. or when you reach rock bottom of the only way you can go is. stickler ation might be what the palestinian cause needed to come back into the limelight i see hope in the future. in a sign of cracks in the unity of the muslim world so did it be an egypt were presented a junior level and took a box it in the proceedings in common seem to be aimed at soda iranian president

hassan rouhani said the only reason to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel was because some in the region was seeking to establish ties to israel donald trump some also going through last week prompted a massive all courting off in the muslim world tens of thousands of people flocked to the streets to denounce israel and express their solidarity with the palestinians muslim leaders today hear how the opportunity to do the same but everything from here on in depends on how the agreement they reach here gets implemented mohammed at the wall just stumbled. u.k. prime minister to resign may have suffered a major blow to her bracks it plans after m.p.'s voted in favor of an amendment she has strongly opposed and means that pays will now have a vote on any bricks it do with the european union before the agreement is

finalized the parliament voted three hundred nine to three hundred five in favor of an amendment which could complicate may's efforts to sever ties with you a political commentator says the government's defeat in this vote will not have any practical effect on the united kingdom eventually needing european union. it's a symbolic vote because it's not one that's going to be able to overturn breck's it because article fifty which is the use formal exit clause that that says that the u.k. will leave the e.u. by march twenty one thousand it's already been triggered and that would only be overturned if there was another referendum here where the public voted to stay and that's not going to happen so this is largely a symbolic acts although more than symbolic in the sense that parliament is saying we want to have scrutiny over the bracks that process therefore it's important nonetheless it is not a vote that's going to overturn the actual decision to vote so ultimately what we're facing is either parliament vote to accept the terms of that as they are

delivered or you would crash if they voted against it you'd basically crash out with no deal so the hardest bracks it's an aria and i don't think that parliamentarians be in favor of that so again this is a very very important symbolic stand about parliamentary sovereignty rather than overturning burke's itself our u.k. correspondent barnaby philips took to the road east out of london to gauge the mood in what could be a pivotal week for the brics and negotiations. winter on the essex riviera east of london this is bret's hit country so they feel everything is stuck or flowing smoothly in the right direction like many fisherman jack smith wanted breck's it so that he would be allowed to catch more of a bigger quota or feel as if it couldn't be quicker. than in a bit more money with no think. it just takes as long as it takes you to

please his customers and remain as if to resume a has taken on board that she can handle. the looks that could spiritually which she does she. is taking forever in a day but i'm not surprised really because you've got britain standing on its own now against the rest of the year and they're all going to walk by you want and you know we're going to become very small fry again one and a half years after the bricks in the country is still divided roughly down the middle opinion polls show that very few people regret their decision that still vote exactly the same way today somehow the prime minister has to bring a divided country together statement the prime minister she believes she's doing that securing last week's deal on britain's withdrawal tabs this is good news today

people who say she had to leave to a war it that we were so bogged down in the negotiations torturous negotiations it was never going to happen it's good news for people who voted remained a bit worried we were going to crash out without a deal we are going to need but we're going to do so in a smooth and orderly way. for now progress it and peace are ready to trust the prime minister even as they grumble about the tens of billions of dollars britain will have to pay as it is the. what i will not have been agree to is any kind of money being used as a as a bribe you know we don't we're a big enough country not to feel that we have to bribe anybody but i do think we should pay the commitments that we have made certainly up until the time we leave. european leaders are likely to agree to start talks about a future relationship with britain it's slow but brics it seems to be moving forward although expects storms ahead final destination far from certain phillips

al-jazeera essex. u.s. president donald trump has distanced himself from roy moore with a series of tweets after the republicans suffer the historic defeat for the party in conservative alabama the loss also narrows the republican majority in the senate to fifty want to forty nine which could complicate chum's future legislative towns also in jordan reports from the white house. this wasn't the image white house staffers thought they'd see on t.v. tuesday night a democrat winning a senate seat in a predominantly republican state still president donald trump sent a congratulatory tweet a win is a win. but a few hours later trump tried to distance himself from a man he campaigned for saying that he backed roy moore even though he knew the judge was a flawed candidate who says he knew couldn't win

a lot of republicans feel differently the very happy with the way it turned out but i would have as the leader of the party i would have liked to have had to see we've been. put in no hole there is rampant speculation about whom the president would blame for moore's loss the candidate himself in light of charges he sexually abused teenage girls or steve benen long time political call the doctor who campaigned vigorously home war regardless of who gets the blame analysts say trump faces a very real problem maintaining republican control of congress after the two thousand and eighteen elections historically speaking the country votes against the president's party in the midterm election so you add that to. a president who is not popular and doesn't have a transferable brand you might have some real serious losses taken by the republican party understandably democrats are getting because black latino and

women voters turned out to vote for judge jones but they also think republicans are weekend by their party's own problems including racism fascism and general infighting the division this that that was caused within the republican party by banner and all the sort of by all that comes out of the administration that this is just and i know the majority of the members of the senate republican side in addition people they know they're not comfortable with this territory it would be easy to think that president donald trump and the republicans are now on the defensive and that democrats are going to successfully use voter discontent to retake control of congress in next year's elections but not so fast eleven months is an eternity in u.s. politics and who knows what challenges will arise to keep both the republicans and the democrats on their proverbial toes in the coming year rosalyn jordan al-jazeera

the white house. still to come the threat of armed groups across the sahara african leaders gather to discuss the new joining forces created to combat them in north and west africa and war on press freedom the world's biggest offenders for jailing journalists revealed. hello and welcome back let's start by looking at weather conditions across australia temperatures very much up and move from melbourne twenty five still very warm and tea for sydney at thirty seven degrees and this heat across much of the interior there alice thirty seven degrees but across western australia pleasant twenty four now as we head on through into friday will see sydney dropping back quite considerably otherwise fine conditions for adelaide through towards melbourne

let's head across into new zealand where weather conditions across the north island area looking fine south are going to see him plenty of sunshine at least during thursday as we head through into friday will find this a frontal system pushing across the south on a system rain working its way further towards the north but well into should be dry and it should be fine across the north island with sunshine expected in oakland the highs of twenty two degrees as you head up into northeastern parts of asia as cold but not quite as cold as it has been temperatures actually not too bad for tokyo double figures sapporo just above freezing a little bit or there mongolia at maximum minus eighteen minimum about minus twenty seven or so cold and cloudy weather across beijing the air pollution levels on the rise further towards the south remains subzero across the korean peninsula minus two is a nice one in seoul. under

serious skies a bomb shattered monument to wars destructive power yet amid the ruins the defiant still resist and somehow survived. people in power investigates how the suburb of damascus has refused to crumble under the might of assaults on the job one of two at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back to remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera protests have erupted across the palestinian occupied territories as muslim leaders staged an

extraordinary summit in istanbul to discuss u.s. president decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. leaders at the meeting of the international community to recognize east jerusalem as the palestinian capital listing the president mahmoud abbas told the summit the u.s. no longer has a role in the middle east peace process. and u.k. prime minister to resign may have suffered a major blow to have breakfast plans to end these voted in favor of an amendment she has strongly opposed it will now get a vote on a final deal. french president is promising joint military action against armed groups in the us a hell region of africa next year in aspen came as a summit he's hosting of the g. five nations mali chad the kinna fast so i'm mauritania there's a whole region is a large area of a seven sahara desert swagg groups like eisel and al qaida are increasingly active

journal. five years after french soldiers were deployed to confront al qaeda linked fighters in mali the threat has spread. at a conference in paris french president emmanuel was joined by german chancellor angela merkel calling on regional and international leaders to support the so-called g five course in a four game lead to win the war against terrorism in this the house and it's in full swing there are attacks every day there are states that are today threatened and there is a real presence of terrorists as. the g five force was launched in bamako mali in july intended to deal with new armed groups organized crime and human trafficking but it has struggled to become a viable force. made up of soldiers from mali booking a fast mauritania and chad the force will concentrate initially on some shared border regions it's intended to grow to

a five thousand strong army by march in its infancy though the force remains short of troops and funding. as far as we are concerned of the g five said we know that time is running out we realize that with everything that has happened in the middle east and the end of the war in syria there will be an influx of isis fighters towards us and we don't want that the. un peacekeepers and regional armies have been the target of recent attacks in the vast hard to navigate region where french forces remain in significant numbers saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have pledged financial support the french president hopes to convince others that the problems of the hell are far reaching and deserve their attention. al-jazeera. at least thirty people have been killed in a saudi led ass strike in the yemeni capital sana'a many others were injured in the

raid which struck a rebel military police camp its force around one hundred eighty people were being held inside the camp who think t.v. says all those who died were prisoners. the united nations says five hundred people are in urgent need of medical attention needed to be evacuated from the syrian suburb of eastern ghouta meanwhile diplomatic efforts to find a solution to the six year war and un brokered talks in geneva are also stalling because of the government delegations refusal to engage in direct talks with the opposition. reports from geneva. it's the eighth round of negotiations of the syrian delegations have still not met face to face at the same table after nearly seven years of war and deaths numbered in the hundreds of thousands of peace appears no closer than. the syrian government's team of negotiators in geneva refused to go into direct talks while the opposition is calling for a syria without president bashar al assad. the bombs are still falling on the

besieged damascus suburb of eastern goten it's a so-called deescalation zone held by rebels four hundred thousand civilians are trapped beneath the bombardment the united nations say they're facing a complete catastrophe. syria's opposition arranged a skype call to a mother and her children inside the enclave with delegates from press in the swiss capital on wednesday the video link was far from perfect so the message was powerful. it's unfair and unjust for us to have to store once instead of bread we beg you to break this news. i look through the window and i see the bombings in front of me i see the fire that is being showered down of the water disappointment what frustration what a shock what a tragedy what a catastrophe we're living today in the twenty first century i asked the family if

they had a message for the delegates in geneva and the outside world. we are calling for peace but we will not concede we will not give up the sacrifices we have made with the blood of our martyrs the russian president vladimir putin announced mission accomplished in syria this week and the partial withdrawal of his troops but millions of refugees cannot think of returning to a country whose government is starving its own children to death. david chaytor al jazeera. and six years of war in syria means it will take massive construction efforts to rebuild cities that have been reduced to rubble one of the towns that was recaptured from isis fighters last year is now receiving help from neighboring turkey as on a binge of aid a star what a jobless in northern syria. jamal

arrived a few hours ago and he's already making his family very happy but he's born in a country in ruins far from his parents' home in aleppo who now live in a tent in jobless the sense of loss and doubts about the future linger even during happy moments alas that may god help him i don't know what he face if god fixes the situation he might have a better life and home a former girls' school has been converted into the town's only hospital syrians here say they have a relative sense of safety because they no longer fear airstrikes are bombings like most things in the town the hospital under turkish administration non-government organizations from turkey are providing help many don't see turkey as an occupying force and welcome its influence to help rebuild their lives was without that assistance this school would be able to provide education to his twelve hundred students and schools bursting at the seams start rooms have been turned into

process to accommodate an additional five hundred students was the. children are happy to finally resume regular studies after six years of war but there isn't a salary system for staff in the four schools in jobless teachers working with limited resources say they're using social media to help bring children up to speed with their learning well that's something they've been out of school for five years we have to begin with the basics as if they're in first grade alphabets words numbers everything. security is a big attraction and the town is booming and around four hundred new buildings are under construction the population of jobless has increased from twenty five to seventy thousand a local council runs education health and sanitation services the most important task is security and to keep the peace between various groups of fighters with turkey providing training and money the town has its own police force now just the police which has five hundred members to scare off security with help of the free

syrian army. i full control jobless for two years before turkish soldiers and syrian fighters recaptured the town last year since then they have cleared the rubble and removed all i feel fine from buildings but the scars of the fighting both on walls and people will take time to heal compared with other towns and cities and this is an exceptional place which bows but it was only able to do so because its infrastructure was largely intact and it continues to get support from the turkish government some of the job it al-jazeera jobless and syria. the u.s. secretary of state is offering to begin direct talks with north korea without preconditions rex tillerson backed away from a king u.s. demand that pyongyang must disarm before any talks can be held but despite the listeners call for dialogue the white house says president trumps views on north korea and what changed it says now negotiations cannot begin until it fundamentally improves its behavior. well and there has released

a report as part of its investigation into whether front spares any responsibility and there are one genocide in the report rwanda says french officials facilitated the flow of weapons into a wonder in the build up to the genocide it alleges france allowed those responsible for the genocide to me at the french embassy and gully where they began to form the interim government which presided over the country during the genocide and it says french authorities refused to declassify and release documents and that the french parliamentary commission's investigation was neither transparent no complete. what we want to rwanda the government is truth and accountability. we have. even after the genocide in gave france to. genocide suspect it in front of the prosecutor that this is not being done.

but what we want now is the government for our people and for front it is truth and accountability for those who committed genocide in rwanda and were so dude tried to visuals were genocide the number of journalists imprisoned around the world has hit another record high and they're on your way because they committed to protect journalists says turkey egypt and china are the worst offenders the committee is calling for more pressure from the international community and the galley reports. guilty of doing no more than the jobs according to the committee to protect journalists at least two hundred sixty two reporters across the world behind bars it's a record high and for the second year in a row the worst offenders have been named as china egypt and turkey those three countries alone account for more than half of the journalists currently detained turkey remains the worst jailor was seventy three reporters locked up according to

the c.p.g. census close to ninety percent of those jailed globally cover political news those in power want to control the information environment and so one great way to do that is to try to control and restrict the message and throw journalists independent journalists critical journalists into jail so that they're no longer you know publishing those annoying articles about corruption or about environmental degradation or about whatever the issues are that those in power would prefer not to have uncovered. among those named in the report is al-jazeera as mahmoud hussain he was arrested and detained almost a year ago after visiting his family in egypt among the charges he faces a broadcasting false news al-jazeera rejects the allegations and continues to call for his release the report's authors say this is the first year that so-called falls or fake news has played such a prominent role in the jailing of journalists it's a phrase donald trump championed as both candidate and as president of the c.b.

jerry say he setting a bad example one that has serious consequences globally thank yous a freight train the president's litany of insults towards u.s. journalists may be popular with his base but the c.p.g. say the effect is chilling last year our senses showed that there were nine journalists behind bars on fox news channel charges this year that's more than doubled to twenty one journalists behind bars and we've heard it in the rhetoric of repressive leaders around the world from cambodia to russia to egypt that there. are using this as an excuse to deal of journalists the c.p.g. calling for more international pressure on countries that have julie jailed journalists so the moral authority may now rest with europe they say the u.s. is no longer the beacon of press freedom that it once was and we got across washington.

the headlines on al-jazeera there have been protests across the palestinian occupied territories as muslim leaders staged an extraordinary summit in istanbul to discuss u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and bethlehem in the occupied west bank israeli forces tried to disperse the stadium protesters by firing tear gas at them demonstrators threw stones and but tires in the street near a checkpoint between the city and jerusalem leaders gathered in istanbul loads the international community to recognize east jerusalem as the palestinian capital palestinian president for the vast tell the summit the u.s. no longer has a role in the middle east peace process in rejecting president chum's move calling it the greatest crime. do you know did states chose to lose its rule in eligibility years a mediator and not to have a role in the political process we will not accept any american role in the

political process from now on the u.s. is biased to israel that is our position this is a major crime that requires us to come out with decisive decisions that protect the identity of jerusalem until we end the israeli occupation of the state of palestine . democratic candidate doug jones as one the alabama senate race the first democrat victory in the safe in twenty five years jones has defeated roy moore a controversial republican accused of sexual misconduct by several women while he was in his thirty's and they were teenagers by the defeat could cause problems for president trying to get legislation passed. u.k. prime minister to resign may have suffered a major blow to her breakfast it plans with m.p.'s voting in favor of an amendment she has strongly opposed it means m.p.'s will now have a vote on any threats it deals with the european union before the agreement is finalized. the u.s.

secretary of state is offering to direct bring to begin direct talks with north korea without preconditions next to listen back to way from a key u.s. demand that pyongyang must disarm before any talks to be held but the white house says president trauma's views on north korea have not changed those are the hard lines but stay with us people in power is coming up next. head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed a satisfied for the state of their economy this is easily a study his 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. the bomb shattered buildings of the damascus suburb of jobar sits just a few kilometers.