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this is. a. plan fully back to go this is the news hour live from my headquarters in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. i'm deeply concerned by the risk of military confrontation including as a result of an intended escalation of miscalculation warnings of a risk of nuclear conflict at a special u.n. security council session on north korea. demonstrations against the u.s. recognition of jerusalem turned deadly at least four palestinians are killed by israeli forces in gaza and the west bank also this hour the international criminal court orders a warlord from the democratic republic of congo to pay reparations to former child soldiers and a controversial law that allows mexico's military to help fight the war on drugs is passed by congress.

thank you for joining us north korea has defiantly defended its ballistic missile program at the united nations security council the public session was called off to pyongyang tested what is believed to be its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile in november but the meeting which was attended by the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson failed to come up with any new steps to curb north korea's actions mike hanna reports from the united nations. the red scarf a reflection of the chilly weather outside and little warmth displayed in the chamber towards north korea is representative listened to condemnation from speaker off to speak with what appeared to be studied. the situation on the korean peninsula is the most thems and dangerous peace and security issue in the world

today publicly at least the council has been united in imposing an extensive series of sanctions but the u.s. secretary of state questions the commitment of russia and china continuing to allow north korean laborers to toil in slave like conditions inside russia in exchange for wages used to fund to clear weapons programs calls into questions russia's dedication as a partner for peace. similarly as chinese crude oil flows to north korean refineries the united states questions china's commitment to solving an issue that has serious implications for the security of its own citizens these charges rejected by china and russia which insisted that the ongoing joint military exercises by the u.s. and south korea made any dialogue all but impossible in music you should mean so is that only two months of quiet by north korea and said by washington with unprecedented military exercises and the listing on

a terrifying list that leads us to question the sincerity of statements that there is a preference for a peaceful solution to the crisis with. and with all eyes on him the north korean representative the period nervous his hands shaking but also unapologetic arguing that his country has a sovereign right to protect itself against what he called us aggression our position of the nuclear phone records of individuals the third with defense even meijers up with the prince. and the right of resistance and development from the us the meeting ended with agreement on the desirability of dialogue but division as to how to achieve it the u.s. adamant that there has to be a unilateral freeze on nuclear testing by north korea before any talks can be possible mike hanna al-jazeera united nations. joining us now is mark fitzpatrick who is director of the nonproliferation program at the international institute for

strategic studies he is live from one that north korea needs to do something first the something is not entirely clear but he spoke about a period of non-provocative behavior how much you think this undermines because it's a bit embarrassing isn't it for x. to listen how much is this undermine the u.s. position because of the north korea. well i think it shows that it's not clear what the u.s. position is when different very different positions have come out of washington of course the white house does poll that call the shots and and their position has been rather consistent. dialogue. comes with a price you have to pay a price to come in and that's not the way most nations in the world see it mark fitzpatrick as you wrote yourself diplomacy doesn't seem to be working in reining in north korea's nuclear ambitions the sanctions haven't worked either what options

are left you know nothing is worked all kinds of diplomacy various patterns of talks sanctions of every sort but there are many sanctions left to be applied there is much pressure united states is talking about cutting north korea completely off from the international financial system completely cutting off its trade with all countries that's not going to be possible because some countries will still engage in trade there's more military pressure i think in the works not attacks on north korea i hope but that could happen if north korea were to do something like an atomic weapon. and of course engagement is always a possibility but. it's not clear that either side wants in gauge went north korea hasn't been too eager to talk without preconditions and now the white house is showing that it isn't either you say more sanctions could be applied we saw a wreck citizen point the finger at russia and china at the u.n.

today calling on russia and china to cut their economic pipeline to north korea he wants to isolate north korea both diplomatically and economically but by by getting more countries to fully implement these sanctions but the russians and the chinese don't seem to be on board what is it going to take you think for them to fully implement to force north korea on the sanctions. i think the united states is playing a pressure game talking very tough. talking about a potential preventive strike on north korean facilities maybe a small strike and by taught that i'm not going to do that i'm going to go out scare that's not going to go well with the chinese if it well i i don't think so but but it is a possible i mean this is the theory that if you if china should be more worried about war on its border maybe it would take further steps to restrict oil and the.

other money flowing to north korea i mean it is a possibility but i think you're right i don't think china is going to go along with it and it has russia on its side so. there's not a lot of daylight here markets patrick very good to talk to thank you for sharing your views with us mike fitzpatrick is with the international institute for strategic studies he was joining us there from washington thank you you're welcome . in other world news israeli forces have killed four palestinians including a disabled man in the latest wave of protests the karst the occupied territories and gaza more than one hundred eighty people were injured in friday's demonstrations against donald trump's decision to recognize them as israel's capital harry fosset reports on the day's developments from occupied east jerusalem . on the outskirts of ramallah in the occupied west bank israeli forces are filmed confronting a palestinian man before shooting him three times the last as he sat on the street

as they approach the troops appear to see something and move quickly away the man was apparently wearing a suicide bomb belt it's unclear whether it was a genuine device or a fake israeli police say he had just stabbed a member of its border force paramedics took him away. they were further clashes after friday prayers in gaza as palestinians again protested against the u.s. president's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel the cross border confrontation bringing more palestinian deaths. earlier tens of thousands had taken to the strips main north south road to march in protest. there was she the palestinian people are expressing that they reject strums decision and they are holding on to all of jerusalem as the historical capital of the palestinian people . at the heart of occupied east jerusalem tens of thousands prayed then protested at the al aqsa mosque. through the old city and i had damascus gate exit israeli

forces were waiting for them they barricaded off the square preventing a repeat of last friday's protests where hundreds gathered on the steps still some tried to stay here and chant but most were pushed quickly away israeli forces have been trying to prevent a repeat of the protests that took place after friday prayers here in the square outside damascus gate last week they've barricaded off there was a group of largely middle aged and some elderly women who'd been a chance in for some time they're now being forcefully cleared. several arrests were made in these limited scuffles again the protests much smaller here than in gaza and the occupied west bank. our public or out in the al aqsa mosque compound and here at the mosque is gate but the occupation has a large force as well as private and undercover units israeli forces are certainly doing all they can to quell this reaction to the trunk declaration but the anger is deeply felt and the protests go on are a force it occupied east jerusalem they were also violent confrontations between

palestinian protesters and israeli forces along the israel gaza border alan fischer was at that demonstration. the ambulance is evidenced by all afternoon ready to treat the injured and the wounded and there have been a number of them you can see the clashes that been going on down close to the border about two hundred meters from where i'm standing the thick smoke is no just clearing that's tires that were set alight to stop the israelis targeting people on the side of the border and the scene has been repeated in seven spots across the gaza strip. we've seen the palestinians throw stones over the border the israelis well they have used bullets and they have used tear gas we've seen several volleys of tear gas come into this field people had to be treated for both for the gunshots and for the tear gas in fact one man i saw being carried into an ambulance and a bullet wound to the neck i suspect he will be in a critical condition. we saw a massive rally in gaza how i said call for

a million man rally on one street the length of gaza north to south fifty five kilometers long and thousands and thousands of people attended out we saw them from hamas and fatah from a number of political groups and organizations that. ismail haniyeh said that prove that don't trump a united the palestinians over such a controversial decision to say that jerusalem was israel's capital we're expecting the clashes to go on for some time into the night as well and just now i can feel and taste the tear gas which is being fired that's why people are moving away you can actually taste the tear gas is beginning to by my side without i think we're going to move back as well. and demonstrations continued across the world against announcement on jerusalem oh. the. this was the scene in jordan where thousands gathered on friday the jordanian king as

a close u.s. ally condemned from suspicion as dangerous and a violation of international law king and deny is the custodian of muslim holy sites in jerusalem and his country hosts millions of palestinians refugees and they were solidarity marches in germany's capital berlin chancellor i'm going to merkel has been echoing the sentiments of several european leaders who oppose trump's uni natural decision on jerusalem. meanwhile the israeli prime minister spent the morning on friday being interviewed by police they arrived at benjamin netanyahu has residents to question him about corruption allegations this is the seventh time he's been interviewed after police said they suspected him of being involved in bribery and fraud it's alleged netanyahu received gifts from hollywood and business vegas there's also another investigation into alleged secret talks with an israeli newspaper it's now denies any wrongdoing. a six point five magnitude earthquake

in indonesia is most populous island of java has killed at least one person and damage several towns and cities the quake struck late friday nights local time java is home to almost one hundred fifty million people and sits in the ring of fire where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions ok are. lots more ahead on the al-jazeera news hour including. these very sad when you look at those documents. how they've done that is really really very. friend or foe u.s. president donald trump steps up his criticism of the f.b.i. last moving forwards prexy negotiations enter a new stage will tell you what's next and in a given time and plan to stop the one way the media is on saturday people be here to tell you what they aim to do in sports.

the u.s. president has address new graduates of the federal bureau of investigation the f.b.i. in his speech at the national academy donald trump said he is a true friend of the f.b.i. a stock contrast to months of attacks against the agency can be whole kits reports from washington. after months of disparaging america's top law enforcement agency donald trump told an audience of newly graduated f.b.i. agents with me as your president america's police will have a true friend and loyal champion in the white house but two weeks earlier on social media the u.s. president criticized the f.b.i. saying its reputation is in tatters his criticism is largely fueled by his belief the f.b.i. did not charge his twenty sixteen presidential opponent hillary clinton with misuse of classified information which used

a private e-mail server will secretary of state but many believe his attacks are driven by a desire to discredit the agency vesta gating his campaign's alleged ties to russia during the election he should resign immediately tonight i have filed the resolution to have bob dole recuse himself. many trump supporters have been calling for a special prosecutor robert muller the man in charge of the russia probe to be fired they point to a newly released batch of text messages from two f.b.i. agents as evidence the f.b.i. officials worked on the clinton investigation. and the probe into whether trump's twenty sixteen campaign colluded with russia in the messages turned over to congress by the department of justice agents show preference toward clinton winning the white house and refer to trump repeatedly as an idiot this is not just political opinions this is just gusting on accountable bias and there's no

way that could not affect a person's work the agents have been removed or are no longer investigating russian meddling or potential obstruction of justice by trump speaking recently on capitol hill the deputy attorney general told lawmakers there's nothing inappropriate about f.b.i. officials holding political opinions so long as it doesn't affect their work trump disagrees it is very sad when you look at those documents and. how they've done that is really really very the deputy attorney general has resisted any calls to fire robert mueller has said that there is no person better qualified to lead the investigation can really help get al-jazeera washington. a russian court has sentenced a former economy minister to eighty is in prison. guilty of corruption for accepting a two million dollar bribe from the state oil giant rosneft sonia gago has more

from moscow. he was once russia's economy minister now alexy all you kyra have is an ex politician with a conviction for bribery and his fall from grace has been a stark reminder that not even government officials can escape the unpredictable nature of the country's justice system we have was sent to prison for eight years and fined for accepting a two million dollars bribe to go through. the sentence which was announced today is a representation of the supremacy of the law and the inevitability of punishment for any individual who violates the law irrespective of their position it was last november when problems began during a meeting with the c.e.o. of russia's main state oil company he was presented with a heavy bag he was arrested shortly after and accused of accepting a cash bribe of two million dollars said he believed at the back contained bottles of wine and accused such an of setting him up the case has generated

a lot of interest in just how much influence mr putin's inner circle has for example mr surgeon is not only the head of russia's old dry grass where he's headquarters are situated just over but he's also a long time close ally of mr proves in the direct line to the kremlin and apparently not about to cross such an oar summoned as a witness in the case four times but he failed to show up saying he was an able because of work commitments a legal irregularity but not one that seem to bother the president. as far as i understand it i have of course paid some attention because i saw the public reaction to it and there was no violation of law in that case and according to investigation there was enough material gathered with you pleading test least bisection himself but i agree with you that searching could have come to the court about it he would repeat everything that he said during the preliminary

investigation and questioning the target the staunch. should be such a high ranking official this is a signal to civil servants in russia are all trolls or rules or informal rules no longer work in the way he can feel secure mr all you can i have says he intends to appeal against the verdict he had maintained his innocence throughout the trial but this case also exposed the infighting in russia's elites as well as the strength of putin's allies. moscow. a turkish banker keys of plotting to help iran evade u.s. sanctions has taken the witness stand in a new york court. denies being involved in a scheme to launder iranian money a tailor was an executive at a large state owned turkish bank that prosecutors say is at the center of the plot he also denies he conspired with turkish uranium gold trader razors a rob who pleaded guilty to similar charges. i wallowed in the democratic republic

of congo has been ordered to pay ten million dollars in compensation to child soldiers thomas lubanga was convicted of war crimes five years ago but the international criminal court has only not put a figure on it it's not clear though whether the victims will receive the compensation andrew symonds has more thomas lubanga was jailed for fourteen years at the international criminal court in twenty twelve convicted of abducting children and forcing them to join his militia with a fourteen year jail sentence came a ruling that lew bangle was personally liable for compensating his victims it's taken five years to put some sort of the you on the trauma and suffering along with the loss of childhoods and education. the judges identified four hundred twenty five child victims all under fifteen years old but the presiding judge said there were hundreds possibly thousands of additional victims many of the girls were

forced repeatedly to have sex with their captors and faced stigmatise ation and rejection when they finally returned home but lou banga says he has no money at all so how will his victims get compensation but we're looking at huge numbers so money will always be a shortfall and what will be important is what kind of support what kind of reparations are we giving these collective preparations that will be the main issue to look at and it needs to be can stay can take shelley and adapted it needs to be based on what the skilled are in their communities some of them who are adults now what they need now this is the type of collective compensation plan and here a rehabilitation center for former child soldiers the independent trust fund for victims which will administer i.c.c. reparations wants to go much further than this project it has a three year plan that would include schooling for all ages along with medical and

psychological treatments it's meant to be funded by one a quarter million dollars set aside in the low banga case but it's likely the i.c.c. will be looking to its member states for much of the funding and lou bangar may appeal against the compensation award his lawyer says his client is becoming a scapegoat for all child soldiers and drew simmons al-jazeera. the u.n. commission for human rights says some civilians in south sudan a being targeted for murder and rape based on their ethnic missy thousands of people have been killed and millions force from their homes since fighting began shortly after the country gained independence in twenty thirteen morgan visited one un camp and has this report from juba. a few cloths and cooking pots are all violent only has other displaced people at the u.n. camp in juba donated them when she arrived in september after fleeing her hometown

one of our i won't i'll go into our house was burnt my husband was inside we came here with only the clothes on our back we had no way to go but this un camp the soldiers burnt our houses her mother in law who was injured escaping her burning home fled with her that was when everyone was running to the bush i was injured when i was trying to flee when the house was on fire i came here with my daughter because we needed shelter and i needed treatment fighting started in december twenty third team less than three years after independence was gained from sudan sudan's president salva kiir accused his former vice president riek machar of plotting a coup to oust him since then fighting has largely been across ethnic lines and spread to the capital last year when a peace agreement failed four years of war has not only resulted in the deaths of thousands of south sudanese almost four million of the twelve million population have been displaced from their homes and the un says all warring sides have

committed grave atrocities in nearly every part of the country the un also says that sexual violence targeted killing and displacement and control of how it is delivered is being used to hurt civilians the head of the un's commission of human rights in south sudan says many attacks could amount to work rhymes and crimes against humanity you have a particular way of beginning to look at whether or not something constitutes a war crime or a crime against humanity but on the face of it yes these crimes seem to have taken place in south sudan government leaders in south sudan say they are not linked to potential war crimes those who do attack civilians will be held accountable we have . that. think happened. but they happened with the individual taking the law into their own name and that's when i was there comes to you know to the. southwest they are all raised you know taken to book. for viola pani no amount of

accountability will bring back her husband or their burnt out home but she says justice will bring her some closure so she can move on with her life and raise her kids. juba. still ahead on al-jazeera zimbabwe's ruling party confirms. finalizing the departure of robert mugabe their sam they want to make america great again this is not making america great. anger in the southern us un special rapporteur war on extreme poverty finds major issues with housing and sanitation and go face set for an important role change any activity excludes t.v. viewers at home. sports coming to stay with us.

wins is certainly showed its hand across almost all of the us but more recently he's consolidated self to the real cold air being of this talk it out looks worse than it is this rain coming up into texas i think in the next day or so slow movements that school should be a warming trend but the real drop in temperatures has been for when he pegged through terria and just to the lakes and is to great lakes so i think which is a bit more snow here you also see behind me the cold front over the currently of the pacific will bring snow to the cascades then the rockies i think over the next day or so and possibly a bit further south denver's ten eventually drops to walk but we have to get to sunday first and we're still talking about five in chicago here's the rain is going up through well east texas after having that sort of area and it'll keep probably moving this general direction so it's cold there's no more significant snow to come but for middle of lake effect snow in the northeast moving sas again is a bit more subtle than it has been of late is almost

a cloud above my head. that's the end of that front bringing rain to northern mexico asked the sheriff's spokesman if you can they're very light and they say going to be any atoll they're probably going to be blown through western cuba until they hit yucatan or maybe honduras passing showers. singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline and illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business smuggling sample and they will take the same very filling the sand is our fair game you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls at this time on al jazeera. al-jazeera

. that's. where every. you're watching the news on al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories north korea has defiantly defended its ballistic missile program at the u.n. security council the session was called off to pyongyang test at what is believed

to be its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile last month but the u.n. meeting failed to come up with any new steps on how to curb north korea's actions the us president donald trump has addressed see f.b.i. as new graduates in his speech at the national academy trump said he is a true friend of the agency a strong contrast to months of attacks against severe zero zero zero zero zero zero and israeli forces have killed four palestinians including a disabled man during a wave of protests across the occupied territories and gaza more than one hundred eighty people were injured in friday's demonstrations against u.s. presence and donald trump's decision to recognize israel's capital. for more on that story and they've been daily street protests in bethlehem in the occupied west bank against president tom's decision al-jazeera as hoda abdel-hamid reports. it's

been another day of confrontation and clashes and many of the so-called friction points across the occupied west bank here in bethlehem several several hours of clashes ongoing between the israeli army and palestinian news just in the street behind me and we palestinians have been throwing rocks and marbles at these really soldiers the retaliation has been tear gas stun grenades rubber coated bullets and in some places also live ammunition there's been similar scenes in ramallah in hebron and in jericho now this has been going on every single day since drums announcement on jerusalem it hasn't increased in scope however there is widespread anger among the palestinians they want certainly their leadership to do something but you do get a sense really that the deciduous could explode at any moment and you have

a sense when you look at the israeli soldiers operating on the ground that there is a certain level of restraint at this stage maybe an order not to have the situation escalate that said this is a tinderbox and anything really could aggravate the situation very quickly. well for more on this let's speak to how temba xian who's co-founder of zeitoun a college and lecturer at the university of california berkeley he's via skype from stockholm in sweden thank you very much for being with us the protests against donald trump's decision that we've seen in the past week are not likely to achieve much are they so which direction do you think palestinian leaders should go next to find recourse for an independent palestinian territory. well i think there are a number of steps that the palestinian leadership and the palestinian political

elites should take and i would put them in a succession of priority i think it would be important right now for the p.l.o. as well as the palestinian authority the current leadership will want. to call for an emergency session or to postpone national council to empower as well as to really get a new round of the election that will include palestinians from inside palestine as well as. apologies we seem to have lost talkin next with our guest there. is he still with us ok we've lost him apologies for that hopefully we'll be able to get him back on later on al-jazeera. moving on in egypt has ordered al-jazeera journalist mahmoud was saying to remain in prison for another forty five days he was arrested in egypt a year ago while visiting family is now the tenth time his attention has been

renewed al-jazeera continues to demand his release he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and strongly deny hussein has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. zimbabwe's ruling party has sealed to former president robert mugabe's fall from grace formally endorsing m.s.n. agogo as candidate for next year's presidential election said he seven year old ended last month after a military coup says the interests of black zimbabweans will be protected. has more from harare. after weeks of people wondering with his a new government with scrap some of black economic empowerment policies president made his position clear on land reform a policy that saul and c. strong white farmers and given to black zimbabweans. could not. resist.

men and women. that. promise promising to tackle corruption create jobs improve cash shortages increase productivity of farms and encourage foreign direct investment by making government policies more investor friendly probably has to be very democratic. leadership style and approach from his predecessor and it definitely has to be an economic performer if you want to win the election in the ruling party has been and what is their presidential candidates in next year's election zimbabwe's leader says next year's elections will be credible free peaceful and transparent are

skeptical things are going to change they say the only thing different about. is no longer in charge but the same faces are still around president. is under pressure to prove his critics wrong. the international community to lift all political and economic sanctions unconditionally sanctions were imposed in the early two thousand placed human rights abuses some ins on the p.f. accused the main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai pushing for sanctions to stay an allegation opposition members deny the m.d.c. is not calling for the imposition of sanctions on zimbabwe are calling for these conditions of electoral reforms that will enable the holding of free and free elections in about six or eight months time from now when the no one symbol wins to be patient as government and the ruling party try to improve the struggling economy

. al-jazeera. waves reestablish our connection with. co-founder of zeitoun a college we were discussing just a few minutes ago the options palestinian leaders now have after donald trump's decision to recognize him as the capital of israel have been protests throughout this past week with at least four people killed on friday in demonstrations in the occupied west bank and gaza as well. and we were talking about the options that you think the palestinian leaders should now take to basically find recourse for an independent palestinian territory what should they be doing in your view. well i think we need to take the initiative one is called the p. and c. into a decision that will include a broad representation of the palestinians inside the territories as well as in the rough and ready to get the body politic with the palestinians to be unified such

a critical period in the history of the palestinians but more importantly i think it is important for the palestinians to take initiative but actually forming a government in exile and stablish in this government on the basis of establishing a palestinian state in accordance to resolution one it's one of the united nations of one nine hundred forty seven and affirming resolution one ninety four and therefore what we will be will be a government in exile that had its land being occupied and i think this is will change the initiative and will the initiative on the palestinian side building on the all i see statement of recognizing east jerusalem as the capital of palestine under occupation and we should immediately but this in front of the fifty seven member of the i.c. directly denies this government in exile we did a very strong statement from the oh i see just a few days ago but they have been various reports. about president abbas being told

when he unexpectedly traveled to riyadh in november of proposed maybe spline which is backed by saudi arabia's crown prince that would offer palestinians limited sovereignty and no east jerusalem as to capital do you think arab countries would actually agree to such a deal. well again some arab countries might agree to this because they're working on their own deal not on the palestinian deal and i think it here is not surprising but there is an alignment that has been under work in the region that basically sees israel as an ally in still stalking a confrontation with iran and i think though i see statement of two days ago it's very important that resent palestine the palestinian cause as the central issue for the fifty seven all i see members and remember in the noisy itself was form paused

august twenty first one hundred sixty nine when the a lot some was were so it's very important that we have a shift that it's taken place and i think it's important for the palestinian leadership to actually jump ahead and take initiative by declaring a government in exile right which means that structurally the palestinian authority have to undo itself and begin to think in representation of the palestinians both inside palestine and outside and i think that will be a very powerful step to actually change the rules of the games that have been set people sort for palestinians do not have the status of a state even though we have given we've been given the u.n. observer status so that's an important step that we need to take third issue that would also would recommend for the period to stop all cooperation civilian and military security cooperation with israeli occupying force and to begin to shift

those were lation ship on a fundamental right so. let me just ask you something you've talked about the political options that you think could work. we've seen daily demonstrations since decision to recognize true islam we've heard tom ask for a new intifada do you think you know this recognition. and will be the match that lights the fire in the region or is this outrage that we've seen in the condemnation would it subside and will it all go quietly and arabs and muslims will eventually accept this or are we really at a turning point here in this crisis. well i don't want to foresee what might happen in terms of the palestinians but let me say that it depends on all on actions collectively both in the in palestine and across the arab and muslim world or what we would make with this important juncture i do believe palestinian activism and

engagement across the globe has made the quality of shift while it in a change in how palestine is seen i don't want to say that the protest by itself will make a transform ation what we need is a political decision political more polite zation using all or collective civil society agencies bought inside and outside to make this decision trump has made something that will bring about some fundamental change to how palestine is looking at it within the broader global ok it gets me into what the palestinians pounced in an authority in the p.l.o. would invited them to join the b.d.s. movement the boycott and the less and sanctioned movement in a better way and bust way and to actually utilize or effect their work across the world to try to put more pressure on israel rather than seeing seeing the p.d.s. as something that they negotiate away with israel or the united states so i think in here the protests that is taking place in the streets and we're seeing protests

also today and tomorrow in many parts i know that organizations in the u.s. and mobilizing participated in protest in france in different places in london so i think we are ready to morrow has continued to hold the pressure but we need a political agenda that specifically makes particular demands on the international community as well as in the arab and muslim world that is sustainable and meaningful that will take the protests in the street and translated into actual gains rather than negotiated these gains once again for but is small. benefits that again for individuals or sectors or pollack thank you so very much for sharing your perspective with us and co-founder as i turn to college joining us advise skype from sweden thank you for your time you're welcome thank you. that xico is congress has approved a controversial security law despite objections from the un and human rights groups it allows the military to take over police functions in the long running war

against drug cartels critics say it will encourage abuses but as a man you have no recourse the last still needs the president's scene of approval. mexico will close out two thousand and seventeen as its most violent year on record piecework staggering murder rate mexican lawmakers are pushing for a new and what's become a controversial national security law one that would normalize the military presence across the country senator. says this action however drastic is desperately needed to curb back the violence. the list. is that the number one commitment and mix in government is to guarantee security to the population and maintain their personal safety and this is what we intend to do in the interior security law. other mexican lawmakers like senator one catalyst committal hicks don't agree with this is sussman because it goes against human

rights it does not give legal certainty and also there are many issues from civil society the not being resolved. one such issue is a general lack of confidence in state and federal police forces the proposed legislation could result in less funding and less training for local law enforcement. however the bill has faced widespread criticisms in mexico you learn the more down is one of those voices her son went missing eight years ago six members of the military were eventually charged in connection with his disappearance the city must i mean. we're still afraid the people are still afraid there is still kidnappings by the military we don't feel safer because of the militarization would pose a danger to the population. over the years mexican military forces have been implicated in a number of murders and disappearances last year melting allegations of human rights violations prompted head of mexico's armed forces to publicly apologize.

most lawmakers in mexico will agree that rising levels of violence must be met with new policies but critics say the current proposal normalizes a military presence on city streets instead of assessing the impact of more than ten years of failed security strategy madrid up a low. mexico city. papua new guinea's supreme court has ruled in favor of refugees in a prison camp on manna silent that only means refugees who were held in the australian run facility can claim hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation the country's top court has also rule there there's been a violation of human rights of all those who were sent to the offshore prison camp more than nine hundred refugees warehouse their. elite is have given the go ahead for breaks it talks to move on to the next stage of negotiations they say they will now focus on trade after making enough progress on citizens' rights the irish

border and how much he u.k. has to pay to leave the e.u. to be phillips's in brussels where he's been following the negotiations she left early job it hasn't been easy but europe's leaders say it's time to start talking about the future relationship with britain after it leaves the e.u. in twenty nineteen but don't expect any dramatic early progress if there's no time for internal you twenty seven tribulations and explore the root contacts with the u.k. to get more clarity on the vision. on that basis we should. start negotiations next year none of the other e.u. twenty seven countries wanted breaks it still hoped that it can be reversed somehow but they all want a final agreement and so the talks do go on but if on bret's it there is unanimity on the other issues the e.u. remains badly divided. on migration europe is

a continent divided poland the czech republic slovakia and hungry will not accept the bodice refugee quotas that the e.u. agreed back in twenty fifteen the talks went on into the early hours to no avail do you think you should hold off either politically it was a type of political close calm but good news is that we agreed on the so-called external issues of migration protecting our borders and stopping the migrants outside them the bad news is that we still disagree on resettlement and immigration there are still many large forces who don't want to stop migration but want to bring migrants into europe and afterwards distribute them on a compulsory basis. other leaders are furious not least the one who risked her political future by admitting close to a million refugees to her country in twenty fifty. two it is a democracy i made very clear that i'm not satisfied with the fact that the rules we have are not working solidarity cannot just apply externally but also must be

internal on this we have lots of work to do the positions have not changed plan to continue to work on this until june of next year. all they can agree on for now is to spend more money securing europe's borders keeping refugees out at this summit some of the most difficult issues confronting the continent were discussed but ultimately deferred battery phillips al-jazeera brussels. australia is on course to become the only western european country with a far right party at the helm that can say that event nationalist parties have reached a deal to form a new coalition government the deal comes just two months after palm entry elections were held thirty one year old sebastian coats. said that if people's party won those elections and will now become the europe's youngest leader still ahead in sports the world's best know borders are fine tuning their preparations for the winter olympics will tell you how they getting along in school.

and this horse has peter thank you very much madge is the city you're currently on a record breaking fifteen match winning streak in the english premier league but manager pep guardiola has played down the idea that they could go the entire season without losing a match city go into the clash with top of heart upon saturday with an eleven point lead at the top of the standings but despite the side success guardiola has ruled out a repeat of arsenal's unbeaten season in two thousand and four which led to them being

labelled the invincibles that belongs to us and they get it it's amazing arsenal and two thousand we're going to be brutal. today is completely different densities a lot of games that is going to have. so now what happens is the exception so he's opponents tottenham have enjoyed a good run of form of late to winning on their last three outings in all competitions but even if. side were to inflict a first league defeat of the season on thirty they'd still be fifteen points behind them in the standings i thin we are going to play for me. the best team. today in europe normally in england in this in because it's in. the best form and of course it always is so exciting you must challenge these disabled challenged that you want always to do to have the

pursuit to do to tough there are seven premier league games in total on saturday third place chelsea host southampton surprise team of the season burnley are currently in sixth place in the table and they travel to brighton while arsenal will be looking to make a point on the top six when they play struggling newcastle. the fee for world cup is some six months away and one of its previous winners and biggest names spain are potentially in danger of missing out the spanish football federation are preparing for presidential elections this month but people are unhappy at the spanish government's national sports council making contact with the football federation over the lection fever has a very low tolerance for political meddling in their sport and spain's place at russia twenty eighteen could come up for debate. gulf is introducing an important rule change that will prevent television views from calling in to report violations back in april lexi thompson was penalized four strokes off the view was spotted an

infringement it all comes ultimately cost to the chance to win that tournament earlier i spoke to thomas paygo he's the senior director of the rules of golf at the u.s. golf association he says it's all about simplifying the game started back in the early the late eighty's you'd have situations where players would be on the golf course playing that they were unsure that they breached a rule we don't have referees following every group so the referees had no idea that a player had breached the rule but somebody at home saw it and when you have a game that you have a field of players all playing against each other really at a fairness the committee has to go back in and out that penalties at the end of the tournaments you can compare scores across the field so again it was unintentional but it's something that's been happening for several decades forseen was really and an uncomfortable trend where this was happening more and more and you know you can you can. have you can see that as a result of technology at the at home your experience continued to increase people were able to see things at home that frankly you couldn't see on the golf course

and so we've announced a number of changes over the last year and the changes this week where we've said no more of your call ins is really the next step and it was leadership of our organizations coming together and saying we need to eliminate these distractions and really ensure that the plane of the competition the outcome of the competition is put back in the hands of the players and those responsible for running the event golf is such a great game i mean it's a game that's enjoyed by millions of players throughout the world at all levels and we all play by a single set of rules so when you're playing the game you're expected to know the rules and what we're finding is that over time as we had gone in and revised rules they had really become way too complex and so back in march we announced what we call a rule modernization initiative where we're going to go in and we're going to simplify the rules we're going to make them easier to understand and easier to apply for golfers everywhere. just ten days after russia was banned from the upcoming winter games for state sponsored doping a russian athlete has controversially claimed the european skeleton title in november russia's elinor nicotine was stripped of her bronze medal from sochi and

received a lifetime ban from the international olympic committee but skeletons governing body have a lot of nicotine to continue competing leading to her victory in him spoke on friday she's one of twenty two russians appealing the i.o.c. bans through the court of arbitration for sport only clean russian athletes can compete at the upcoming winter olympics as neutrals the winter sports season really is in full swing ahead of pyong chang twenty eighteen and for their fleet there is double the preparations ahead is building to become the first athlete to compete in both snowboarding and skiing at the olympics well the czech snowboarding form continued to impress on friday as she won a parallel giant slalom world cup event in italy despite very foggy conditions to contend with on the slopes let it beat selena you're in the final of her second victory you know as many days she now leads the german by nearly one thousand

points in the world cup standings the men's competition was won by austria's alexander pioneer. i feel great he was a great race a really enjoyed every run. i have to say that my team had also make you are some job today especially right to go with the board because it was very fast and the flats in there it's what i needed today and it was a nice race i really enjoyed. just across the mountains it was skiing taking center stage and this super g. race was for the hampered by the bog us a first still got the better of the weather to become the first german skier to win a world cup speed events in thirteen years the race was then called off after only thirty eight of the eighty competitors had completed the course but first all were still awarded the women. and that's all the sport for me for now another update coming up again later peter thank you very much do stay with us on al-jazeera plenty more wealth news coming up after this very short break.

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