each item is taken apart the parts then are sold back to israel but its valuable materials such as copper wire deductables profitable. a good chunk of this waste gets burnt illegally because it's simply cheaper and easier to extract comp and this way usually happens on the hill surrounding the town but this is agriculture love a look at what's left behind ashes and that those guys missed back is furious which each fire more of his crops are destroyed. it's like a cancer that no one can walk here anymore yes suffocating even the sheep can to be here they're not breathing anymore look at them i only had to use isn't that a sheet. after legal hiccups in the delays south africa's ruling party meets to replace

jacob zuma. and i'm jane dutton this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up funerals are being held for a disabled activist and three other palestinians killed in protests against president trumps jerusalem. why are migrants opting for an old landru to enter greece even though it is just as dangerous as the sea. foetus transgender and diversity the three words banned by the white house for use by america's leading public health agency. the watershed meeting to elect a new leader for south africa's ruling party the african national congress has begun after hours of delay due to legal challenges we're looking at live pictures coming to us from johannesburg the successor to jacob zuma tainted by corruption

allegations will lead the a.n.c. into the next presidential election in two thousand and nineteen the party is deeply divided over who should take over a bitter campaign has threatened to split the movement and i mean is zuma the south african president's ex-wife is his preferred candidate she's campaigned hard against racial inequality and for improving the prospects of the black majority the other main contender is civil remedy pose a supporters say his business background makes him the best option to turn around south africa's flagging economy it's bring in tanya page she's live for us in johannesburg i'm just wondering what the feeling is there the atmosphere and how much tension surrounding this. will be so much at stake in this very hotly contested race to be leader of the. not only the presidency of the party up for grabs if you like but all of the top

one hundred also positions so we are talking about quite a procedure and that's why there's been so much attention paid to it and so many because they have so much at stake really getting involved in legal battles as well as kids all of this crucial and see election we saw some scenes. branch level that's the grass roots party level which have been unprecedented in some video camera footage we saw and see members throwing chairs at one another chaotic scenes arguing pushing and shoving allegations of fraud intimidation and vote rigging and vote buying so that's why we saw some legal challenges and we know now from the top leadership of the a.n.c. that some particular branch level results so that's basically the decision means made at the branch level those delegates will not be able to vote and depending on how close the race is that may be enough to perhaps swing the vote in one direction

will be are obviously the sort of articulating new leaders but it seems to be equally about the outgoing president jacob zuma doesn't it. yes absolutely and is really one major reason for president jacob zuma has seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges hanging over him these are charges that go way back to a multi million dollar arms procurement deal was at the beginning of the governance it's alleged that the president was involved in some level and so these seven hundred eighty three corruption charges have been coming back to haunt him the main opposition the democratic alliance has won a court ruling that says those charges should be reinstated the president has fought it vehemently ended nice those allegations in the courts but potentially if someone is elected as n.c. president who is not going to try and protect him from those charges we could see

jacob zuma former president in court at some point in the future so an enormous amount at stake for him which is why he's been trying to influence this process. thank you for that let's take a closer look at the two main contenders and causes on a zoom is an a.n.c. veteran belongs to the dominant zulu tribe and is one of the president's ex-wives she's served as a minister and every leader since the end of apartheid greeny zuma is pledging what she calls a radical economic transfer mation to redistribute wealth to the black majority her rival sixty five year old cyril ramaphosa was seen as a potential successor to nelson mandela in the late one nine hundred ninety s. but he was overlooked and quit politics to become a successful businessman he's promising to fight corruption and revive south africa's ailing economy is an independent political analyst activist and writer she says this is a make or break election for the a.n.c. . if the a.n.c.

doesn't vote what the country sees as the right way what the electorate sees as the right way there's a very real possibility that come twenty nineteen the a.n.c. may well find itself not in power anymore or at the very least with a hung parliament that is becoming an increasingly real possibility so it's crucial for the a.n.c. it's also crucial for the country there are going to be implications for the economy which is already dire with growth of less than one percent at present loads of unemployment many sectors currently shedding jobs so you have a situation where the economy is nosediving where there is the possibility in the very near future of a further ratings downgrade we're already at junk status. it's a really a make or break election for the a.n.c. in that sense. funerals are being held for the four palestinians killed by israeli forces in the latest protests in gaza and the occupied west bank they were rallying

against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital it. was one of those men shot in gaza he was in a wheelchair protesting when he was reportedly hit by a sniper bullet. was an activist who lost his legs during an israeli air strike in two thousand and eight hundreds of other people were also injured in the confrontations now hamas leader ismail haniya spoke at the funeral. let it be known that we will not give up jerusalem i did not mean east jerusalem but a unified jerusalem the east nor west of jerusalem alan fischer as more from the funeral procession in gaza. thousands on the street for the funeral of bring in the rear he was killed during clashes with these release at the border with gaza on friday the twenty nine year old most both legs during the war in gaza in two thousand and eight and became an unlikely figure of palestinian resistance and defiance he would often leave his wheelchair home unattended rallies and protests

around gaza city just carrying his palestinian flag he was carrying that's why when he shot by the israelis on friday there were several key points of protest along the border between gaza and israel on friday faces one in four young palestinian men targeting israeli positions with stones the usually shoes live bullets and tear gas trying to force the crowds of thousands of we don't like the palestinian health authority to tell us that hundreds were injured two people were killed there will be another funeral in gaza on saturday ismail haniyeh the leader of hamas spoke at the funeral he said the death of ibrahim three i'm sure too that there were people who were willing to die for the idea of jerusalem being the capital of a palestinian state something he said the donald trump didn't understand and with other groups and factions here and gaza. calling for more protests the people here are bracing themselves for more funerals in the days and weeks to come refugees are

increasingly attempting a new route into europe with deadly consequences fewer are taking the old route across the aegean sea to the greek islands of less boss and chose ones on the islands many of them have to endure di conditions now thousands are heading north to cross the land border from turkey into northeastern greece but that means crossing the ever us river which has proved fatal for hundreds of refugees lansley has us exclusive report and a warning that you may find some of the images distressing if you want to see how dangerous it is to be a refugee this hospital morgue is a good starting point is boredom with. that because two months ago. pub loss is parts hospital dr paul's detective the bodies are usually discovered home naked they've been in the water for weeks on the river or the fish take their clothes sometimes the riposte melissa facts

a clue to someone's mind says this syrian woman drowned along with her son she was identified by another son already in europe but usually they remain unidentified silent witnesses to the horror of the refugees journey is very good to go through that is because we'll hear that woman will have a little boy gable's will have been sealed with all the farm in rural didn't. he had a government by that and there was poor farm the law saying yes it's very difficult. sometimes the bodies are found by police on patrol sometimes they discovered by fishermen in the shallows. more died hypothermia frozen from leaking boats discovered in outbuildings half eaten by wild dogs

others still killed by trains sleeping on the railway is afghan says he crossed the river six times before dodging the police by that time he left behind three of his friends dead on the border. there with three of my best friends we were out in the open it was so dangerous so cold we didn't have any food or clothes where the river winds into turkey a fence becomes the border paid for by the european union to keep the refugees out by the side of turkish and greek troops refugees have been blown up by land mines here in the united nations says this year twenty thousand have been stopped on the turkish side it's becoming a favored route for refugees to avoid the greek islands what expense does is to force the refugees into the river either in the hands of illegal smuggling gangs or by themselves it's really dangerous are the way and yet again exposes the lack of

safe routes at the edges of the european union for refugees well away from the fence and the watching troops the motorway is used by the smugglers they camp out here after crossing the river into greece the greek government says a thousand people a month of being caught it is unclear how many get through but they have nothing. which is a this is a medical no from a charity it's from december last year he says could this person please be referred to a psychiatrist. the hospital doctors believe the river contains many more bodies it will soon give up and at their impoverished hospital they should is the new addition from the red cross a huge fridge they've run out of room for the bodies lawrence lee al jazeera on the greece turkey border. protesters have surrounded the u.s.

embassy in honduras they angry after waiting three weeks for definitive results in the presidential election demonstrators accuse diplomats of meddling in last month's vote which both candidates say they won. reports. main roads are blocked in. the capital of honduras through the thick smoke of tear gas last men and women battled the police. the supporters of t.v. host and bullet ition salvadoran astronomer the party did the same one last month's election. we want them to recognize salvador nasrallah now as our president he is our president we elected him as our president because he's the best we have he'll be a change for this country the turmoil on the streets highlight the country's last political crisis in a decade the current president who want to hernandez and a strong vote city won more than two weeks since votes were counted no clear result

has been announced. and initial count but not ahead of his conservative opponent but that tally was later reversed. a slim. international observers and those fourteen irregularities when opposition supporters accuse the u.s. of meddling. thousands protested outside the u.s. embassy. and this u.s. embassy is interfering into the internal affairs of our country it has said that the november twenty sixth election last month was transparent when the enduring people know the entire world knows if there was fraud and they want to steal our victory. the honduran constitution limits presidents to want to two years ago the supreme court dominated by judges appointed to hang on this group at the cost issue commission doesn't apply to him opponents accuse her of being a dictator i feel for the women that i have two kids i have

a two year old girl and a one year old boy i want a future for them i don't want them in the future to have this dictator as a president i'm fighting for a superior public education for my children. the president is appealing for calm the two weeks of post-election protests have killed at least sixteen people including two police officers mr international others accuse the government as security forces of human rights abuse the crisis is hurting the economy too with daily losses estimated at fifty million dollars and there's a deadline set foot in a tour tribunal to declare a winner it has only ten days left to do that. still ahead on al-jazeera. us to defend what. we have from a cattle and political prisoner what's at stake in next week's election fear of mexico's minute tree is raising doubts over security you know coming up.

hello there it's rather cold for some of us in china at the moment the winds are firing down from the north so maximum just a five degrees they shanghai feeling very cool for many of us here the temperatures eventually begin to recover there as we head through monday this time to nine degrees and then also be recovering force in hong kong will get to around eighteen for the south though this blob of cloud over the philippines that's all part of our tropical storm we're seeing takis gradually making its way across us and for the central part of the philippines we're expecting widespread flooding if you head out to the west for many of us across india it's fine and dry you can see a little bit of cloud there over parts of sri lanka that's bringing one or two showers but also quite a bit of cloud in the far west in parts of i'm up there making its way up through

parts of pakistan and into if afghanistan as well is not really any significant rain out of that though looks like most of us will get away with a dry day on sunday that it breaks up altogether really as we head into monday then all the excitement is a bit further towards the west where there's some rain around for the arabian peninsula we could see a few more showers here in doha on sunday or even monday and this looks like there's looking to be some heavier rain over parts of the u.a.e. and into i man some of the show is here are likely to be very heavy. just looking for. people or not most of them shoulder and the other countries of managed to solve this problem are you worried that this conflict could erupt into a right. that's the sort of security issue where the people who paid the price

clearly the right top been prejudiced setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. again you're watching al-jazeera the top stories this hour south africa's ruling party the african national congress is meeting in johannesburg right now to elect its new leader president jacob zuma successor as party chief is expected to be elected in the next presidential election in two thousand and nineteen. funerals have been held for the four palestinians killed by israeli forces in the latest protests in gaza and the occupied west bank one of the main shot by

a sniper in the confrontations with activist put him through he lost his legs during an israeli air strike in two thousand and eight. u.s. embassy in honduras has been surrounded by protesters angry at waiting three weeks for a definitive result in the presidential election demonstrators accuse the u.s. of interfering in last month's vote which both candidates say they won the trumpet ministration has provided a list of words and phrases to the nation's largest public health agency the center for disease control to be banned from using any official budget documents the words include vulnerable entitlement diversity. transgender and fetus the phrase is evidence based and science faced are also banned from use tom ackerman has the story from washington d.c. tom i'm just wondering why what this actually means for the c.d.c. . well these these instructions are certainly in line with the

views of senior officials that the president has appointed in the department of health and human services people who not only are opposed to abortion but also opposed to family planning in many cases in one case one of the directors of the programs that in charge of funding for family planning said that she doesn't believe that birth control works they have talking about the redefinition of life in the languages and one of them is instead of saying life serving and the programs which should be dedicated to preserving and preventing americans at every stage of life beginning at conception and that's also in line with many of their views that rather than talking about fetuses you should talk about pre-born children or unborn children so this does is in line with an

ideological strain of the director of a gender surgery's center in chicago responded by saying that these these changes in in their language. seems the ultimate rationale to be trying to or a certain types of people off the map sort of like the thought police and so there will be definitely a alas backed by by groups that certainly want to see retained retain made of certain policies by the previous administrations not only the obama administration but also the george bush administration even though they were had a different view about abortion john let's leave it that tom thank you. government forces in southern yemen have regained control of the town after a three year battle with hooty fighters military sources told al jazeera the yemeni army finally managed to drive the rebels from. the towns in an important oil and

gas producing region and province it is one of the last he strongholds in the south of yemen two mass graves have been found in northern iraq near mosul they contain the remains of iran one thousand members of the minority killed by eisel after they invaded the area in two thousand and fourteen most of them were women and children authorities have begun d.n.a. testing to identify the victims aster is about to become the only country in western europe with a far right party in government the winner of october's parliamentary elections the conservative people's party has reached a coalition deal with the anti immigration freedom party thirty one year old sebastian kurtz who leads the conservatives will now become europe's youngest leader both parties have campaigned for tougher immigration rules and the deportation of asylum seekers one of the government ministers in catalonia who faces thirty years in prison if convicted of rebellion against the spanish government has been speaking to al jazeera about their fight for independence

leaders of spain's government in madrid imposed direct rule after secession referendum in october catalans go back to the polls in five days time to determine the balance of power called panel has more. yellow ribbons a sign that the jailed independence leaders are not forgotten they visit this quarter bossa load road rallying to form so-called committees to defend the republic the three bow our heads that bill just stubbornness and crushes we must hold our heads high. in the wake of october secession referendum spanish authorities imposed our great imprisoned separatist politicians. just one of those cattle and government ministers who spanish prosecutors arrested on charges of rebellion. is free on bail after a month in prison he recalls every moment. specially the noise

of the of the doors closing it and forget of all nice sterile means that you are not free demonstrations in support of the secession referendum will last peaceful yet rule and his fellow ministers were held in a cell block with convicted murderers and drug traffickers we where political prisons prisoners and now there are political prisoners in the spanish chains because if there is no violence they jailed us only to defend our i.d.'s until his trial rule is free to run for reelection on december the twenty first. there on the campaign trail mr griffin taking care of these things is that our thinking that things are independent narrative and spiting to self-determination against a heavy handed central state. cautious when describing what tactics might persuade

spain and catalonia to break away dialogue dialogue them across their workers in the one percent those rebellion charges are still hanging over him if convicted he could spend thirty years in prison this is three year eight year old sons growing up. every day my two little children every day everyday. because they don't know what will happen in x. future saw a face life in a different way. with catalonia in turmoil politics comes with a heavy personal price cult pennell while just zero while other spring is a funerals been held for the former king of roumania tens of thousands in the capital book arrest paid their final respects to king michael he died aged ninety six earlier this month in switzerland where he lived in exile after the communist

revolution the king was credited with saving thousands of lives during the second world war but switching support from and of hitler to british forces and their allies the whole gandhi has taken over from his mother sagna as president of india's main opposition party the congress party lost popularity over the past three years since defeat in the general election by the b j p gandhi's recently talk of a political revival with an aggressive regional election campaign in gujarat that's the home state of the prime minister narendra modi a six point five magnitude earthquake in indonesia is most populous island of java has killed at least two people and damaged several towns and cities the quake struck on friday night local time java is home to almost one hundred fifty million people and sits on the pacific ring of fire where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. in mexico soldiers are

about to take over from police in the long running war against drug cartels if the president gives his seal of approval congress approved the controversial security law despite objections from the un and human rights groups. as. mexico two thousand and seventeen as its most violent year on record peace more staggering murder rate mexican lawmakers are pushing for a new and what's become a controversial nationals. curity law one that would normalize a military presence across the country senator in the us says this action however drastic is desperately needed to curb back the violence in pre-medical they list. is that the number one commitment and mexican government is to guarantee security to the population and maintain their personal safety and this is what we intend to do in three interior security along with. other mexican lawmakers like senator one

catalyst a middle hicks don't agree with this is sussman because it goes against human rights at the right give legal certainty and also there are many issues from civil society than being the result. of one such issue as 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 to mow 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 are 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 mounting allegations of human

rights violations prompted the 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. i'll just say to mexico city really it's as of crew members from the missing arts. submarine are demanding the international search operation continues until the vessel is found contact with the sun the horn was lost in mid november argentina's navy ended its search two weeks ago after an explosion was detected near the subs last known location aircraft and ships from eighteen countries had been looking for the submarine and its forty four crew members in the southern atlantic that egypt has ordered al jazeera journalist mahmud hossain 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 detention has been renewed al-jazeera continues to demand his released he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny saying has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. causing the cost of space travel has taken not just one but two giant leaps forward for the first time the u.s. company space x. is launched then landed a rocket which has been used before and in another first the falcon nine rocket carried a cargo capsule previously used on a nasa resupply mission the robotic dragon capsule is due to dock with the international space station sunday just in time to deliver christmas presents to the crew. itself these are the top stories south africa's reeling party the african national congress is meeting in johannesburg right now to elect its new leader president

jacob zuma successor that's him talking now. as party chief is expected to be elected in the next presidential election in two thousand and twenty pages more. many south africans beyond these walls beyond the security tight security ring here are watching with a great deal of focus and attention we already know based on the last local election last year that the n c's slipped in support by about ten percent of the voting population who i have to say still in the vast majority of numbers supports the a.n.c. it was largely believed that referendum was vote was something of a referendum on president zuma as leadership are so people may be waiting to see exactly which direction the n.c. takes with its new president funerals are being held for the four palestinians killed by israeli forces in the latest protests in gaza and the occupied west bank where the main shot by

a sniper in the confrontations was activist to him. he lost his legs during an israeli air strike in two thousand and eight. the u.s. embassy in honduras has been surrounded by protesters angry at waiting for three weeks for a definitive result in the presidential election demonstrators accuse the us of interfering in last month's vote which both candidates say they won government forces in southern yemen of regain control of a town following three years of fighting with two thousand fighters but just sources told al-jazeera the yemeni army finally managed to drive the rebels from. the towns in an important oil and gas producing region in a province is one of the last two things strongholds in the south of yemen well gandhi has taken over from his mother sagna as president of india's main opposition party the congress party lost popularity over the past three years since defeat in the general election by the b j p oster is about to become the only country in

western europe with a far right party in government the winner of october's parliamentary elections the conservative people's party has reached a coalition deal with the anti immigration freedom party. as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera but first let's turn to up front. facing reality if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chance of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we need of the what some of my producers just did hear their story on talk to how does it at this time. when the right to free speech conflicts with protecting minorities how should democracies respond and do muslim communities have a particular problem with the principle of free expression or has islam been unfairly targeted the debate over free speech and i'm from special.