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welcome to the news hour live from our headquarters in doha fully back to bill coming up in the next sixty minutes at a city called summit muslim leaders declare east jerusalem palestine's capital and call on the world to join them but critics question what impact the meeting will actually have north korea and trade relations are on the agenda as south korean president mourn j. in homes talks with chinese president xi jinping. seoul this hour conservative m.p.'s hands theresa may a defeat one that promises to make the break to negotiations even more complicated and tough fight on home turf why indian prime minister narendra modi's been forced to play the lead role in a regional election campaign. thank

you for joining as the organization of islamic cooperation has declared east jerusalem as the capital of palestine and is asking all countries to follow suit their leaders and represent system fifty seven muslim countries condemned president donald trump's official recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital after a meeting in turkey but while the summit was full of strong statements it fell short of any actions against the united states for its unilateral decision saudi arabia's king didn't attend the meeting but he addressed the issue in riyadh calling for a political solution and backing the rights of palestinians over easter will see them activists get the protests going on the streets in the occupied palestinian territories at least one hundred twenty people were wounded across the west bank what is really forces fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets into the crowds are. reports on the oh i see meeting in istanbul of the hastily convened meting the organization of islamic cooperation and members of the

palestinian street with occupy it is jerusalem as its capital there was strong could the mission's too 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 since donald trump's announcement abbas called the move a kind of odd to the u. and to take on the peace process we didn't want that 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 and on

a self-proclaimed champion of the palestinian calls heloise dood. starman 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 we are palestinian brothers and sisters protesting the latest decision of the united states and the ones hopes of uniting muslim leaders behind a top final statement from the meeting was awarded in the end the organization of islamic countries also adopted the palestinian course and status of jerusalem as its core mission also at the meeting walking up the love jordan the lebanese president michel on the middle of qatar shipped to mean been home adult any and there any in president hassan rouhani they called on muslim nations to unite to

defend the rights of palestinians i mean. his regime isn't call mother given up to the art when you reach rock bottom of the only way you can go is trumps declaration 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 debbie and egypt were presented a terror literally junior level and took a back seat in the proceedings in comments seem to be aimed at soda iranian president hassan rouhani said the only reason tom dad recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel was because some in the region was seeking to establish ties to israel then all songs announcement last week prompted a massive all pouring off in the muslim world tens of thousands of people flock to those fits denounce israel and express their solidarity with the palestinians muslim leaders today he a humble opportunity to do the same but everything from here on in depends on how

the agreement. they reach here gets implemented mohamed at the wall does it all stumble. i mean people across the palestinian territories continue to take to those three star denounce president decision hold on to him he has the latest from ramallah in the occupied west bank well certainly the anger. disappointment disillusion and this is really a lack of hope that anything will get better any time soon now if you ask 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 indeed they start that any time soon they feared 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 but i really i spoke to saif donna who's a professor of sociology any studies at the university of wisconsin parkside and he told me the outcome of the oh i see some it was not what many arabs and muslims had hoped for. on the street actually this statement is seen as a very disappointing actually if not frustrating and to many people actually highly

insulting to many muslims and arabs who counted on the summit actually to conclude with some practical measures because it's actually a whole statement amounts to nothing more than a condemnation there are no practical measures actually and they call only for some . some some symbolic gestures like you know to cognizing the palestinian state but by the very admission of mr r. bass himself in his speech today more more countries recognize the palestinian state of israel actually and that does not change anything on the ground recognizing that and u.s. is no longer an acceptable broker for the palestinians is a big deal this may be a small step but it is a step nonetheless isn't it. i think the key issue is. the idea that commitment to peace through negotiations towards

a two state settlement after twenty five years of the theme course that proved it broke a few tile if not counterproductive is seen by most people as deception actually and not changing the course on the other side that statement was made on the grounds that they were calling for the u.n. to establish mechanisms to resolve to resolve the conflict on one side and to establish the palestinian state such such a call without a central role for the u.s. is again another deception because of the central role in the for the u.s. in the u.n. and the security council on the international community as a major international power. in other world news softcore is president mungy in is in beijing for talks with his chinese counterpart xi jinping morn is hoping to get the relationship back on track after u.s. deployment of an anti-missile system china have increasing threat from north korea will be high on the agenda kathy novak reports from seoul. it's

a decades old relationship that hit a bumpy patch and says his first visit to china as president will be an opportunity to mend fences results generally the biggest go and focus of my visit this time will be rebuilding mutual trust between south korea and china. china is south korea's largest trading partner and some businesses recently got a taste of what happens when chinese customers a stop spending. as north korea ramped up its nuclear weapon and missile program seoul went ahead with the installation of the u.s. missile defense system known as stad and china got extremely angry seeing the system's powerful radars as a security threat it retaliated with an unofficial boycott against tourism and businesses it was a very rude a wake up call for a major corporations in south korea. to work. on china's economy is specially

tourism with china will not be a long term solution some have begun diversifying this traditional korean restaurant expanded its selection to include hollow meat attracting visitors from southeast asia and the middle east. we get customers from all over the world including africa and south america many of my customers are business people looking for a whole lot of food the south korean government wants to expand cooperation with southeast asian countries but china is unlikely to be replaced anytime soon but china will remain for a long long time south korea's lifeline. but this is hardly a one way relationship south korea is one of china's top three trading partners in october the two countries put their differences over thad aside effectively agreeing to disagree going some way to restoring relations and allowing them to

better address other common issues. mainly the threat from north korea the other issue likely to be high on the agenda during moon's visit south korea wants china to impose harsher sanctions against the government in pyongyang china prefers a proposal that would see south korea and the united states scaling back joint military exercises in exchange for north korea agreeing to freeze its nuclear weapons development it will likely take much more than this summit to find agreement on that and kathy joins us now to live from seoul south korea's capital kathy as we heard there this trip is very much about repairing the relationship which is very important business when it comes to working together on the north korean issue. absolutely the relationship was frayed overthe south korea says that the installation of that missile defense system is precisely to protect against any potential attack from north korea but china had security

concerns and there are real hopes that this meeting will see the leaders moving past that dispute so that they can all work together on north korea both of these countries have a border with north korea and both of these countries do not want to see another war on the korean peninsula particularly when you hear at times from the united states that military options remain on the table and we heard from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson saying that china is putting preparations in place for a potential influx of refugees from north korea so that topic will certainly be high on the agenda with these two leaders talking and they will both be talking about wanting to promote stability and peacefully and trade also likely to be high on the agenda kathi what are the two countries hoping to achieve economically well to give you an idea of just how important trade from china is to south korea the president is being accompanied by the largest ever delegation of business leaders

to accompany a president on an overseas trip that dispute over thirty. eight ripple effects on tourism here in south korea when china cut off group tours and also it had effects on businesses the major south korean company. was involved in the land that was given to the government for the system and in response to that china started imposing strict regulations on law to inside china which saw some stores closing so south korean business is definitely one to move past that dispute and in addition these leaders may be discussing expanding the free trade agreement that went into effect in two thousand and fifteen kathy novak in seoul thank you very much for that. twenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including transpired a west african force a combat arms groups in the south have leaching blasts a loss for donald trump and the republican party in the u.s. state of alabama but what does it say about america's political landscape and in

sport where i'm adrift long horns with a trap on just here at the club world cup will be here to tell us why it's. at least thirty people have been killed in a saudi led as strike in yemen as capital some many others were injured in the raids where shock a rebel military police camp is sought around one hundred eighty people were being held inside who the t.v. says all those who died were prisoners the sound he led coalition backed by yemen's government has been fighting the iran back to the rebels since twenty fifteen members of yemen's former president ali abdullah saleh his party have held talks with a senior who is the leader in sanaa as saw the who fees are trying to make a new alliance with saddam is general people's congress after their fighters killed him last week meanwhile in riyadh the crown prince of saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have met with the leaders of yemen's party

a political force opposing the hoof these. france's president promising joint military action against. early next year. with five african nations. and mauritania general has more. 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. need to win the war against terrorism in the. 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 by march in its infancy though the force remains short of troops and funding. as far as we are concerned 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. u.n. 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. are far reaching and deserve their attention. al-jazeera. british prime minister theresa me has suffered a major blow to her authority after m.p.'s voted in favor of a bracks it measure she strongly oppose a dozen government m.p. sided with the opposition to require a parliamentary vote on the u.k. spinal rex's deal with the european union may have promised parliament what she called a meaningful vote on breaks it but opposed most to make that votes binding the amendments passed by four votes and is likely to complicate may's efforts to negotiate britain's departure from the e.u. our u.k. correspondent bonamy phillips took the bold east out of london to gauge the mood in what could be a pivotal week for the brics it negotiations. winter on the essex riviera east of london this is brics it country so do they feel everything is stuck or flowing

smoothly in the right direction like many fishermen jack smith wanted breck's it so that he would be allowed to catch more of a bigger quota of fillers if he could have at least going to be quicker certainly could but it's worth owning a bit more money with a bit more coaches never think. it just takes as long as it takes the looking. for his customers and remain as one of the if to resume a has taken on board and she can handle it work for you looks back at spiritually which she does she retires because see it is a fight it is taking forever exactly but i'm not surprised really because you've got britain standing on its own now against the rest of the year and narrowed into one by you want and you know we're going to become very small fry again one and a half years off to the brics that vote 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 times this is good news people who voted to leave the 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 remain we were going to crash out without a deal we are going to go 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 is that you know 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 bracks it seems to be moving forward although he expects storms ahead final destination far from certain barnaby phillips al-jazeera essex. hundreds of people have demonstrated in brussels calling for a new e.u. migration policy protesters and human rights groups are accusing the bloc of aggravating the suffering of refugees on the southern shore of the mediterranean they want e.u. members to open doors for migraines for them to try to seek asylum in europe. now around thirty thousand refugees from the english speaking region of cameral unearthly to nigeria to escape fighting between separatists and francophone

dominated government forces thousands of people have been killed in violence over the past year. trees has more for major areas cross rivers state next to the border with caroline. cameroonian refugees who had to flee their homes because of ongoing military activity in soudan and in one particular camp there are more than ten thousand refugees like this as we've been told by relief workers there all arrived with their stories sad stories in fact we've met all friends who lost their father who sold their father shot by the military income rule and then the mother died a few days later leaving them at the mercy of community members and government and nongovernmental organizations in the nigeria side of the border we also met a woman who tried three long days to arrive the nigerian side and a few days later she delivered a boy now what they're saying is that they are not willing to go back home now because of the tense situation where they need assurances before they go back

because they hear that the continuing military operations in southern cameroon is still happening and they want reassurance there's before they go back home now this particular camp in this particular camp we heard stories of depreciation people needing health health assistance food and shelter the non-governmental organizations there are trying to help out as much as we can but they are not enough evidently. staying with africa the united nations is. warning more than four hundred thousand children under the age of five in the democratic republic of congo could die within months without an emergency intervention eighteen months of violence and the displacement of one point four million people in the cost region has led to severe food shortages the u.n. says three quarters of a million children there are acutely now norrish it's urging the international community should get behind an emergency response to the crisis or risk a human catastrophe in twenty eighteen. it's five years since

a man massacred twenty six people including twenty schoolchildren in the u.s. state of connecticut since that attack at sandy hook elementary school several national have taken place in the u.s. but there's been no congressional action on restricting guns she looks at the ongoing debate over gun ownership. just what is the national rifle association saying here they use their media to assassinate real news they use their schools to teach children that their president is another hitler they used their movie stars and singers and comedy shows in award shows to repeat their narrative over and over again to many it seemed like a cool for violence civil war or perhaps it was a sign that the n.r.a. was worried about historical trends until the it is true that more guns are purchased often during democratic ministrations sales soared under president obama under president trump gun manufacturers have reported large drops in revenues you

are the true friend and share in the white house so although that may be so. presidency has been bad for business which may explain the n.r.a. switch from gun advocacy to a far right wing agitator but this is ministration congress all potentially good for the n.r.a. legislative goals it's already spent more this year than it did in all of twenty sixteen lobbying congress some four point one million dollars its key aims are to convince legislators to deregulate the sale of silences and make sure all states recognize each other's concealed carry licenses the right of a gun owner to carry their weapon covertly in public but the n.r.a. faces a complex demographic challenge the polls show consistent majorities for gun control and safety measures nonetheless gun ownership house held steady for years at around a quarter of adults. it's young people who are a particular challenge for the n.r.a. . all of the polls show they support concealed weapons under sold weapons sales

their least likely to own a gun they support sales restrictions and a national gun registry and have the least regard for the n.r.a. what else have different beliefs about guns and have often been the case they've lived in a world with concealed carry for their place in their entire life throughout most of the nation and they also live in a world with a lot of mass shootings defining guns rather than violence really the inner cities as we talked a lot about in the eighty's in the early ninety's. the n.r.a. however appears to have decided it's best course is to appeal to the extreme right wing nationalistic and socially conservative impulses all people go to safety advocates hope this is precisely the wrong strategy to win over a new generation of gun owners. she ever turns the al-jazeera to the head on the news hour no end to the long lines of basic necessities in venezuela as a cash strapped government turns to tell care and sees the challenges on the ground

that could trip that donald trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and a british cycling champion is in trouble after failing a drug test on that story coming up in sports with peter. by the skyline of asian harbor or off the coast of the italian riviera. welcome back as we look at the weather across central and southern parts of china and taiwan we've got a weather front which is becoming more active cross this region so shanghai may see some rain just in london fuzhou this rain hong kong to probably dry enough to get very far away before we start to see some rain developing a few showers for vietnam but annoying not too bad eighteen and largely dry now as we head through into friday we should see some break in that frontal system and temperatures on the rise hong kong back up to twenty four just

a few days ago we're looking at highs of eighteen so certainly warming up here annoyed looking generally fine across the rest of indo china our weather conditions are all looking pretty good much as you would expect heading into southeastern parts of asia we've got a potential cycling development to the east of the philippines are the way we're going to see a lot of heavy showers here over the next twenty four to forty eight hours forty or nothing special a few showers around but a lot of fine weather looking pretty wet for java you had some flooding here in recent days and still looking pretty wet but as we move through them in a plane for singapore kuala lumpur gerri not looking too bad and much of thailand across southern portions of cambodia and into southern vietnam looking dry and fine so we head across into south asia largely fine picture here we still got wanted to share a surfeit in parts of show lanka. the weather sponsored by cattle and raise. the obstacles to being a female for dog and find kenya simply made the challenge more appealing to barb and i'm leaning. now with

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welcome back our top stories on this object here in news hour the world's largest group of muslim countries has declared east jerusalem as the capital of palestine the organization of islamic cooperation met in a summit called by turkey's president in response to donald trump's decision to recognize them as israel's capital south korea's president moon gene is in beijing told talks with his chinese counterpart xi jinping the threat from north korea will be high on the agenda moon is looking to repair relations after the u.s. deployment of an anti-missile system china and the british prime minister theresa may has suffered a major blow to her breck's it plans up to and b.'s not only voted in favor of an amendment she had strongly opposed it ensures padma and gets to vote on the final

breck's a deal struck with the european union further complicating efforts to sever ties. we're now on our top story and the world's muslim leaders condemning president thomas official recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital washington insists it continues to support a two state solution and will work as mediator in the palestinian israeli conflict as you all well know the president is committed to this peace process as committed as he has ever been and that has not changed that type of rhetoric that we heard has prevented peace in the past and it's not necessarily surprising to us that those types of things would be said we remain hard at work in putting together our plan we believe that that will benefit both the israeli and the palestinian people on the israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has said the oh i see declaration has left him unimpressed. it would be best for the palestinians to recognize

reality and act for the sake of peace and not for the sake of extremism and to recognize another fact when it comes to jerusalem not just that it is the capital of israel we also preserve freedom of worship in jerusalem for all religions and we are the ones who preserved the safe god in the middle east in a manner that no one else preserves it and which others have also failed sometimes miserably therefore all of these declarations do not impress us the truth will come out and many countries will yet recognize drew islam as a capital of israel and move their embassies. president trump's decision to relocate the american embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is without precedent. does not recognize a contested city as israel's capital and as alan fischer reports from western will send the latest u.s. ban might also face difficulties on the ground i which is no more than a barren piece of land in west jerusalem but this could be the site of the

controversial new american embassy it was earmarked in the last days of the reagan administration and one thousand nine year lease was signed for rent of one dollar a year under the last few days what has been going on here to the americans insist this is not guaranteed to be the home of the controversial embassy. since the u.s. embassy bombings in east africa in one thousand nine hundred the security rules where u.s. embassies can be placed of change significantly if this was to be the site in jerusalem roads would have to be closed or diverted parks would have to because other lines would have to be acquired making other sites potentially much more attractive. then there is the difficult question of ownership several palestinian families say the land in west jerusalem is theirs they have the documents to prove it and they still hope they will get it back the politely refused their requests to speak on camera one expert says the u.s. simply doesn't care about legalities i don't know if they are looking for a right or not in that so it's

a poll. and they don't care if they have the right that they have it's illegal or not legal i don't think they are because what they are doing here is. the u.s. has a significant presence in jerusalem already it has a large modern administrative building high on a hill in west jerusalem and there's the existing consulate itself also in west jerusalem either could simply be renamed as an embassy but it seems the u.s. is reluctant to do that a coup pieing land or confiscating land has been ongoing but now by the americans they come here. to tell you i would confiscate iron to do control i am told to make thoughtful in other words or your own to this is the end for all this is that the human eye is asia and. the state department says it could take years for a final state to be identified for what to start for america to open its embassy plowing through the objection of many across the world and here to alan fischer i'll just you know. how mass one of the main palestinian factions called for an

uprising against his or our soon after trams announcement on jerusalem the palestinian political party with an armed wing was formed thirty years ago as every sponsor israel as illegal occupation of the west bank and gaza strip then a smith chart the history of the group. hamas was born out of the first palestinian uprising or intifada in one nine hundred eighty seven its founder and spiritual leader was shaken seen almost blinding quadriplegic you seen was a hero to palestinians frustrated with the peace process israel blamed him for a series of suicide bombings and rocket attacks in two thousand and four they killed a scene with a missile strike near his home in gaza a month later another missile killed his successor abdul aziz on t.c. . next came khalid mashal already a survivor of a botched israeli poisoning attempt in one nine hundred ninety seven. under mashal

hamas capitalized on his popularity and scored a surprise victory in two thousand and six palestinian elections. heightened tensions with the fatah faction of the palestinian authority the violent confrontations followed. a rival government in gaza but faced with international condemnation they struggle to govern effectively it's not easy for a movement like hamas as it is distance movement they believe the only way to. to anybody palestine is to continue with the military is that i get. when you start to think to change then the whole war closed the door in front of you. in the eleven years how much ram gaza have been three wars with israel more than two thousand seven hundred palestinians have been killed by israeli security forces israel has sealed off the territory unemployment

is around forty three percent the highest rate in the world according to the world bank. hamas is famous slogan has islam as a solution but people didn't buy it must fail to fix problems of health care education and lanman they can amee they got money one way or another but used it for employing that assistance and ignored the obligation of the government that's what bore down employment increased under its new political chief a smile had the air on the left here who took over from howard mashal on the right how mass is giving political control of gaza back to the palestinian authority in the end a move prompted by pressure from the p.a. and egypt which then resulted in a reconciliation deal in october these are some of the people getting ready for the first three celebrations hamas has even changed charset to accept the idea of a provisional palestinian state within three nine hundred sixty seven and it should try. the group's image but still no mention of israel by implication has to be

another state on the other side of. hamas is long time opposition to the oslo accords paid off in the wake of the us president's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the polls taken just after donald trump's announcement suggest. it would win the palestinian presidential election but it's with al-jazeera gaza. al-jazeera continues to demand the release of its journalist mahmoud hussein has been accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail he was arrested on the twentieth of december last year on visiting his family now to india and it's say prestige battle for prime minister narendra modi as voters in his home state of gujarat cast ballots in the second phase of voting there the regional election is taking place in

a state where modi's forty the b j p has been in power for the past twenty two years but the opposition congress then is state around gandhi have mounted a surprisingly strong challenge let's speak to al jazeera is the vehicle polland who joins us live from ahmedabad de vere good your right is the home state of the prime minister a b j p stronghold why is this election so contentious. absolutely foley say you hit the nail on the head everyone thought it was a foregone conclusion for the b j p but before we go into that let me set the scene here voting has just started and phase two of the elections were in front of one of the voting polling booths here people have started trickling in voting will take place over the day it's the second phase of voting where people are going to cast their ballots the first phase was in december ninth what we will see today is a contest for about half the c one hundred eighty two seats in the legislative

assembly there will be people from rural and urban areas casting their ballot to choose those representatives and as he said this should have been an easy win for the b j p but certainly congress seems to have been posing quite a challenge and many people say that this should have been seen by the b j p over the past year there have been rumblings of discontent particularly from the rural areas which will represent about half the vote bank from the rural areas from people in small to medium enterprises and small time traders there has been there are big protests agitations against the b j p now this has been most apparent in face one of the votes on december ninth where everyone expected a really strong turnout from the committed b j p voters but that did not come to fruition so suddenly congress has a chance here something that was basically unheard of over a year ago and what congress has done right are two main things one it's newly

crowned leader raul gandhi has. led a campaign that resonated with much of the public and to he's managed to cobble together some of the key political groups that had been showing discontent and that are now a large part of the vote bank tell us more about what cent stake give us for both sides here why is the whole of india watching this election so close. this is seen as two very key battles one at c.n.n. setting the stage for the twenty nine hundred president sorry prime ministerial elections which we'll see in a spitting role will gun the against narendra modi for modi it's his popularity at stake this is home state he was chief minister here for thirteen years it's also seen as giving support to his recent policies which many people have said may have

fallen by the wayside a win here would just validate him and his economic policies for roll gandhi he was just this week around the president a president of the congress party this will give them credit him credibility this will validate his position and if he can win those this will give him confidence or the could nation confidence in a seat or ship keep a close eye on that important election then go on and thank you very much for that yes and donald trump has distanced himself from roy moore after the controversial republicans historic defeat in alabama the loss also narrows the republican majority in the senate which could complicate trump's future legislative plans ross enjoyed 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 trump says he knew couldn't win a lot of republicans feel differently than very happy with the way it turned out but i would have as the leader of the party i would like to have to see we've been . put in no hole there's 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 for more 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 doug 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 long lines and shortages of basic items have become normal in venezuela i want to present a. launch a new crypto currency the petrol which he says will solve the country's economic problems for some kind yes. some of these people have been queuing since three am not always sure what is available or what it will cost they're hoping to find basics like rice powdered milk and toilet paper to get a look at where you take what you can but there's not much variety one day the might of any be flour or rice oil or toothpaste. prices rise almost daily inflation

in the vendor was nearly fifty seven percent the accumulated rise this year is one thousand three hundred seventy percent this coffee cost fifteen thousand body about is four and a half dollars at the official exchange rate which almost no venezuelans can afford to use or about fifteen cents on the black market which almost everybody is forced to use if they can find enough of these almost worthless banknotes. they're in short supply russian by the bank machines which emits only enough the small purchases those venice whalers with bank accounts use plastic cards but the fragile infrastructure means the system is often down some use because then there's this you can honestly on the petro i'm going to call it the petro venezuela's own crypto currency it would boost been as well as economic sovereignty and help defeat the economic blockade against us. on our streets of venice wailin big coin the

president said it'll be backed by his country's ample oil gas gold and diamond but the economists say such a system is the confidence of investors and even on the streets there's not much of that about it the day. it's very sad it's even more sad when you lived well and reached my age and you've got nothing and no way of solving anything. thousands have left the country and thousands more are planning to be. if weather is lucky or with the power of its citizens it. could recharge its economy and limit the damage in the next few years but if this process continues it's. generations to come. but we risk.

to eat and. paying for it.

welcome back the u.s. says it's close to regularly deploying cyber soldiers into battle the goal is to be able to disable adversaries in the field in real time. has

a story charlie victor coming soon to the front lines of combat u.s. cyber soldiers armed with keyboards codes and electromagnetic tools to support traditional military operations we are talking about today our ability. to provide a cyber capability to a command or at the tactical level cyber soldiers are now integrating with traditional troops in training the goal is to make on the ground cyber units regular elements of a battle plan unleashing weapons like the so-called cyber bombs that the u.s. dropped last year on ice all the weapons essentially hacks disrupted isis communications and operations weakening the group prepare for total war not limited war one fine of progress is the shrinking size of battlefield equipment used by cyber units this is only one small piece of the larger dishes used traditionally

and they have shrank to these compressed kits now used on the battlefield. cyber war though is not confined to a combat zone the biggest threats are state sponsored hackers looming in cyberspace so it's oftentimes referred to as that is the last form of warfare power is the last war as far as a subsidy is concerned it's very important to have your military at least a strong understanding of the various threats are out there and have a component that component of that is on par with the various adversaries analysts fear the u.s. is already behind the curve russian hackers famously still e-mails from the us democratic national committee last year and chinese hackers are accused of regularly stealing secrets from u.s. industry the internet is a seemingly boundless new theatre of combat spurring the cyber arms race across the globe castro al-jazeera washington time for sports peter. thank you very much twelve times european champions real madrid have reached the

final of the fee for club world cup in the united arab emirates but the spanish giants didn't have it all their own way in the semifinal against a local side al-jazeera on wednesday as helen gleason reports. with the likes of christiane are right now they are in the starting line up if you were predicting anything other than our bell madrid victory as they took to the failed against algis there on the defending champion suddenly made a bright start they had five attempts on goal in the first twelve minutes i finally thought they'd broken through in the twenty fourth minute but carrying bend that had a was disallowed for a foul by rinaldo in the build up the only after the cafe mero then had his effort disallowed as benton that was off site was and eleven minutes later it was their parents who took a shot cleat through their brazilian striker brown merino was

it could have been to nail but al-jazeera also had a gold with a lot of peroxide and that's where that challenge all but ended outs were not of a time for him early in the state to equalize and become the all time top scorer in the competition history. with bale then came off the bench to only his second appearance since suffering a cough injury in september and quickly made up for lost time was two one was the final school bell will now face brazil's gremio in fact today's final and we will take them level with spanish rivals bus alone and her record amounts of tournament weight. than al-jazeera top of the table manchester city have extended the record winning streak in the english premier league to fifteen matches with a win of the bottom side swanzy so another big win by pape's main advantage stays that he live in points so the manchester united off the baby born with one. they were also wins for everton leicester and tottenham but there were frustrating

outings for liverpool and arsenal who were both held to scola straws for time tour de france cycling champion chris froome is being investigated by the sport's governing body after returning an adverse drug test result a urine sample taken during the tour of spain on september seventh returned at double the allowed levels of the legal as my drug cell buthe mole the thirty two year old says he increased his dosage of the medication on the advice of his doctor as he's asthma symptoms got worse during the race he insists it was within legal limits the u.c.i. is seeking more information and froome has not been suspended at this stage the briton continued to train in new york or with his team on wednesday in a statement from said i take my leadership position in my small very seriously the u.c.i. is absolutely right to examine test results and together with the team i will provide whatever information it requires for our most we earlier spoke to michelle veronica

new from sporting integrity she's also the former boss of anti doping at u.k. sport. we shouldn't be surprised the use of inhalers is somewhat controversial and very difficult for the anti doping authorities to police in many respects because many athletes who take part in sport they actually provoke us and so exercise induced asthma is a very well known phenomenon and so therefore we would expect athletes to need to use their inhalers for the or thora to use an anti doping try to put limits on the levels that are allowable because we're saying if you have an asthma attack of caution as you should haleigh but what we're trying to make sure is that everybody using that inhaler has a genuine therapeutic justification well a concern about bt to agnes's that they do have. if you like some anabolic type

properties in very high doses so there were previously some types of b. to two agonists that were considered you know completely banned for sport because of the the possibility they may be used to enhance performance to try and maintain good body tissue by their anabolic properties it's somewhat of a challenge for any athlete to be able to explain and to justify their use of these substances because of course with an aspirin hailer it's difficult to know how much but don't use one takes in all of them need to doses you know the number of times that you actually use the inhaler would be something that he'd have to recollect for that particular day on which he was tested is really going to bring forward that evidence to show that the level found in his you're in could be justified by the use of an inhaler former world number one tennis player

victoria as a ring currencies through is excited to return to a favorite tournament the australian open of the getting a wild card to play in b. . event of the belorussian has twice won the title in melbourne but is currently running two hundred one in the world having played just two tournaments in the last nineteen months following the birth of her son she pulled out of the us open and fed cup because of a custody dispute. australia isn't a country normally associated with winter sports but the country may have found itself a medal contender in snowboarding for the upcoming winter olympics in pyongyang chuang australian adam lambert earned his first podium finish at the snowboard cross world cup event in the children in france on wednesday the twenty year old competing in just the seventh race at this level finish just behind germany's paul berg in second place meanwhile the women's race was won by two thousand and six olympic silver slope cross medalist lindsey jakob ellis of the usa. well there are now less than sixty days to go until the winter games begin and the

olympic torch is fast making its way across south korea on wednesday it reached the city of sea jungle where it made its way across the world's largest rooftop garden the torch began its journey at the start of november and will travel two thousand and eighteen kilometers before the opening so you're not impugning chang on february ninth. and that's all the sport for me another update coming up again later here thank you that's it for this news hour on al-jazeera from me for me back to the whole team thank you for watching so rahman is with the next. and then reported world on i j z right u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to form

a dry riverbed like place one five years on the syrians still feel battered her even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to escape the war. witness documentaries that open your eyes. at this time on al-jazeera. until now the coverage of latin america most of the world was a cover included taz tragedies quakes and that was it but not how people feel how they look how they think and that's what we do we go anyway five and a half months of demanding it when it's

a case in system that was introduced to. latin america al-jazeera has come to fill a void that needed to be sealed. in the corner. of a hastily called summit muslim leaders the club of east jerusalem is promised.