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we're following their trip along with the hash tag brick refugees connected us but their own hash tag aging it's been. turning over the news grid live on air streaming online through you true but facebook life and at al-jazeera dot com eleven days after the u.s. officially recognized through slim as israel's capital global condemnation is getting louder now the united nations security council is considering a draw for resolutions seeking to nullify the u.s. decision and vote on the resolution could happen this week israel's ambassador to the united nations has strongly condemned the draft saying that no vote or discussion can change the clear reality me while protests have been held in cities across the world in a show of solidarity with the palestinians the biggest demonstration was in tunisia where tens of thousands of people poured into the streets of jakarta for this and he donald trump rally pakistan's major islamic party is. also organize

a protest rally thousands of demonstrators gathering in the pakistani city of karachi and this was the scene just a short while ago in the turkish capital of ankara demonstrators raising turkish and palestinian flags chanting jerusalem is ours and will remain so let's hear now from the talks are going to name who's in ankara and sent us this report. more than an hour. into all the turkish flags there also carrying signs with a lot of entire american sentiment such as the president. has emerged as a advocate for the palestinians and he's been rattling other arab countries specifically to show their solidarity and have the elegance president donald trump . jerusalem as the capital. on. when they turned on her said

a summit for the organization for islam the cooperation organization with fifty seven members during that summit he said that this decision was indeed a read on he called israel quote a terrorist state and said this is not ignition language a mystery and is a violation of international law has all a lot of support here on the turkish street your has been a protest throughout the morning. i am actually very glad of the trumpets decision as it serves to unite the muslim world and get them into action. turkey is a majority muslim country that acts unified and should lead in the muslim world if muslims they unite i'm hopeful that your recent improper mopey sources. and other leaders are saying that east jerusalem for the capital. city and state and that jerusalem is a red line considering that it's home to the third holiest site in islamabad to

drive the point home earlier one is taking this case and security council where he says he hopes to quote an old transit decision it's unlikely he'll get much traction given that the united states holds veto power but he says barring success there he'll move on to the general assembly it's clear turkey plans on going to new york to persist and highlight this issue only to go. well let's get back to that point about the draft resolution is coming up at the u.n. at some point in the coming week we can speak now to give them he's the al-jazeera as middle east analysts this resolution that's coming forward will have the support of almost all member states apart from one which is the united states when israel of course and that u.s. veto is just going to scupper it isn't it yes definitely i believe let's talk about

two two issues here i mean the resolution presented by egypt forwarded by egypt which comes in line was was all a long reach of international resolutions including resolutions passed by the security council not just the security council all the specialize in agencies of the united nations they have passed resolutions that you know prohibits israel from changing the demography and the geography and most importantly the legal status of jerusalem eco's simply it was consider in the basically and two two four two which is the united nations or israel security council resolution passed right after the occupation it's part and parcel of the occupied west bank so. the united nations and other organizations they prohibit israel from changing anything about the eastern part of jerusalem so in in in that sense the

egyptian resolution presented to the united nations security council comes on line of all this literature. however if we if we want to talk about the practicality and availability of getting a resolution passed as far as this decision by the united states i believe it is next to impossible so it's dead in the water so then the question is why do it why why pasta i believe it or not i hope i'm wrong because that e.g. . it has done that on behalf of many of them muslim countries in order to keep the appearances and to save face of all these countries and let me put it that way to save face those three g. you know which rule those countries or it was saving face is one thing is that when they actually want to get something done they want to change things on the ground they know that that route isn't going to do it so it is posturing so my next question is what happens next what is the next possibility well the two things two

ways here the way that is supposed to be and the way that is going to happen the way the supposed to be for my view. the first thing the palestinian authority has to disband itself and to go back to where it was before or slow agreements and accords in in that sense the palestinian authority should go back to the p.l.o. basis and also to include hamas as a resistance movement within piolo this is a long awaited step that is overdue now and also they have to give back the whole responsibility to israel as an occupying force let's not play. i'm talking about the arabs of i wish these top this silly game of see come hide it's an occupation force and litter be known to the whole

world as an occupation force so these are the true initial steps that should be taken in late some other steps could be made to in order to stop this this attempts these attempts by israel to change the realities on the ground while there are repercussions of this movie going to be keep on being felt and it will go on well into next year i will have to leave being thanks very much indeed for joining us here in the studio now we have a continually updated page on this story lists all the casual. these you can see the casualties and injuries and the arrests and also as you scroll down all the latest developments and it's taking you back all the way through to the start of this whole thing two or three weeks ago and if you just click on any link that you fancy it'll take you to that story al jazeera dot com. is where you will find that now to let us know what you think about this story and all the stories we're

covering in the tweet us at a.j. english or facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup or indeed what zappa's plus nine seven four five one triple one four nine and of course a.j. news grid is the hash tag ok in saudi arabia's conservative culture there are currently no cinemas or music concerts some turn to video games for entertainment well now the country's official newspaper has published what's being called a propaganda film in the form of video games in arabic english and persian it simulates saudi arabia's occupation of iran and the destruction of its military bases. you can see the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan overlooking the military operation the video also shows european made aircraft carrying saudi flags saudi arabia launches raids and destroys their owns bush a nuclear power plant as well as several of its military sites the video ends with

the occupation of the iranian capital tehran where last week iran's foreign minister accused saudi arabia of engaging in wars of aggression and regional. when it speak about this to treat a policy who's the director of the national iranian american council he's also the author of losing an enemy bomb iran and the triumph of diplomacy joins us now from reston in virginia in the united states thanks very much indeed for joining us what do you make of this this video some according to a propaganda film. well it's certainly comes across as a propaganda film but i don't know if the fully understand of the inadvertent message that this video is sending is that it is the aggressor and that it's going to go all the way of you know occupying iran through a land invasion only to be later greeted by the iranian people as liberators i mean this is beyond fantasy and it's actually very worrisome because if the saudis have

that understanding of reality such a. bizarre understanding of reality that the risk that the will actually commit a series of mistakes that actually could trigger a war is quite significant because it is simply not understanding the situation as if it were true it would you think the motivation for it is what are the saudis what is the saudi newspaper trying to do by releasing it well with the saudis have been doing for quite some years right now is that they have been seeking to try to trap the united states into a more or less permanent confrontation with iran because the balance of power in the region has shifted in a way that they find to be detrimental to their interests they are incapable of shifting it back on their own and they're incapable of adjusting to their or unwilling to adjust to the real new reality the only way they can shift it back is if they can trap the united states in the war and use the us as military power in order to be able to defeat the iranians and go back to

a balance that existed prior to the invasion of iraq the difficulty what it is that the challenge you're facing is that while that may lie in the interest of saudi arabia at least if you look at it from a strict military perspective it does not lie in the interest of the united states to fight this war on behalf of saudi arabia. should iran be concerned about the potential of a saudi attack and who would have the superior forces in that situation. i think at the end of the day the saudis know very well i mean two and a half three years into the yemen war to have failed to defeat the hooty so if they think they can do and land invasion of iran of course this is propaganda and i would be shocked if anyone is salary of a truly believe this but i think there is a risk that they will trigger a war in the hope that they will drag the united states into it and so far it seems to me that the iranians have been very cautious understanding that what the saudis

are trying to do is to create a pretext for a much larger war and would invite the united states into that all right great to get your perspective on this important story thanks very much and they treat us policy that speaking to us from the united states. and a quick follow up on a story we told you about yesterday police in saudi arabia have no releases about a palestinian billionaire who's the head of one of the biggest banks in the middle east a measure he was detained on choose as part of a last tuesday as part of an anti corruption drive by crown prince mohammed bin solomon and that's what we're talking about yesterday but now he's been released is a saudi and jewel dainian citizen and chairman of the arab bank the largest in jordan ok well let's stay on the subject of saudi arabia in the crown prince there right we're going to focus on his spending in saudi arabia and royalty have been in the news a lot lately and according to the new york times the crown prince is overflowing with the finer things they report that the crown prince mohammed bin solomon is the

owner of for starters this french mansion chateau dewey the fourteenth which has been called the world's most expensive home raking in more than three hundred million dollars another one of his personal toys is this yacht allegedly allegedly bought from a russian businessmen for five hundred million dollars and this leonardo da vinci painting the most expensive art piece ever sold in an auction it cost four hundred and fifty million dollars all three were allegedly bought by muhammad been sold man that's according to that's causing a total of one point two billion dollars that's more than many countries g.d.p. now we say allegedly because the purchases have been tied to the prints through third party investment companies law firms and associates of the saudi leader now much of the online reaction has been snarky to say the least sarah leah whitson she's from the human rights watch she says that i'm sure m.p.'s work for every dime to pay for this home and his ear years of employment before becoming the saudi

minister now mohamed bin some months with rise to power has been a major topic this year he is the son of king solomon and was appointed minister. of defense when his father took the throne back in two thousand and fifteen now soon after he became the deputy crown prince and earlier this year became the heir to the throne in november m.p.'s launched a high profile anti-corruption campaign which is another reason why his yacht mansion and our purchases have generated so much conversation professor. jabril here she accuses m.p.'s of arresting other royals for corruption and stealing than forcing them to pay for his lavish lifestyle but in spite of that m.p.'s does have his supporters we found a new she says that he gives her hope despite his outrageous spending and then this senior advisor to the saudi embassy in washington d.c.

he says the new york times report on the crown prince of spending could be biased reporting because of the quote aggressive approach towards the kingdom and then hubby he's the he's of the arabia foundation he says that it's understandable that a crown prince would have this kind of wealth to spend but we want to know what you think as always do you think his spending is justified what how do you take this you can connect with us as always with our hash tag right there hash tag eighteen is great nick we have thanks very much for the thank you now to south africa and the afghan national congress is holding a closed door meeting to formally nominate candidates who want to lead south africa's ruling party well the bunch of power is exposed deep divisions within the polity that's been losing public support let's go straight to johannesburg where tanya paige is standing by for us and tanya tell us what's been happening sounds like it's been a bit a horse trading afoot. yes most definitely i mean this is after all a political elective conference so a lot of horse trading

a lot of maneuvering a lot of strategy involved now in theory the main candidates vying for the office of president of the a.n.c. don't run with a running mate they don't have slates if you like but obviously there are some pretty defined groupings over we would expect to see some alterations and some strategic voting along the way in order for you know whoever wins the presidency to at least try and be represented by by choosing or having people in their top six leadership positions who are from different parts of the country from different provinces and different branches to try and kind of pacify any potential challenges the a may be so it's been close stations all day they have reached an agreement on the credentials of all the delegates who are allowed to vote about four hundred has been disqualified which could be the difference between winning or not depending on

how close the final result is and at the moment i just opening the doors up to the media for one of the only open stations which we expect to be the finalization of the nominations for all of the positions because it isn't just the job of president it's up for grabs we were told don't think tell you where we are you know. know it most certainly isn't because as i said it isn't just the president's job that's up for grabs and we did have a very lengthy delay on saturday with legal challenges being dealt with in the in the checking of credentials who can and can't vote many hours as well so and once the voting is underway that also will take several hours because the people who are allowed to vote there are about four thousand eight hundred of them they will be voting for. between eighty to ninety. so not just the presidency but the deputy presidency secretary general and all of the members whole make up the top

branch of the decision making body at the national executive committee so it's going to take several hours of voting and then of course the vote has to be ratified so now the a.n.c. is telling us we should have a result on monday. telling a thanks very much like we will be talking to you on monday then tell you page in johannesburg now the world's youngest leader will be sworn into office on monday just thirty one years old sebastian curds is set to become the new chancellor of austria because his new coalition government along with the far right freedom party is expected to make immigration and tax reform top priorities is paul brennan with more. he's been nicknamed c or wizkid now he'll be known as chancellor sebastian kurtz led the overpay people's party to a thirty two percent winning share of the votes in the general election two months ago but to govern he needed a coalition and the far right f.p.o. is his chosen partner this is good this. we have

a good strong team concerning my party the people's party that we women and two thirds of our team are experts who bring a lot of knowledge to the political leadership regarding the freedom party and mr struck his team he's also put forward his suggestions so that the kids are going to follow this is about responsibility for our wonderful republic of australia and it is about ensuring good cooperation for the future to it can be difficult to tell them apart cuts in his conservative people's party bills itself a center right but its policies borrow freely from far right ideas in january curt's demanded a ban on public sector workers wearing headscarves he was instrumental in having full face veils banned in austria too and his anti migrant policies slammed the door on syrian refugees trying to reach europe via the so-called balkan route it's not the first time far right politicians have been government ministers in austria

it happened seventeen years ago e.u. states reacted then by downgrading bilateral contacts the prospects in this coalition of the far right in charge of austria's foreign interior and defense ministries is likely to create concern in other european capitals. yes center for them party will get a lot of barry or. i have to add to the three things that so specially was respected in foreign ministry it women who is supposed to become the ministry is not a party member of. and what is more in court in the european perspective all the european policy agendas will transfer from the foreign ministry huge chancellorship now the cuts not straka have detailed the new government's approach to european policy cuts says he is pro european but the far right has traditionally

euro skeptic don't forget austria will hold the e.u. rotating presidency in the second half of next year paul brennan al-jazeera well let's take this on we can speak to foreign hard lebanese electorate to understand a university in the specialist on the rise of the far right in europe he joins us now from in germany close to the austrian border for him good to see you there tell us what's driven the success and and all people in austria concerned about the new chances in experience he's thirty one years old yes most or most successful politician in your only thirty nine years old and he basically took over their winning formula if they're fighting populist. he turns from the people so far with a new label and also wish to stick to a line today make racial make nation police right given that he's thirty one and

given that he is clearly inexperienced but he's obviously done extremely well in this election what is it that has driven people to vote for him what is it in austria that has led to this happening. first of all austria is experienced being right being populist and the government and also the counters of the big four lieschen need to be in their social democrats and the center where it's and there was always a grounds for the white being populist but if we don't party let's just remember that in the year two thousand already this party was part of the government for the right and this moved to the far right how much of a concern is this it's a change a shift or less i'm going to america more the best includes our more stiction in terms of for me patient migration policy so all of us able to form a new government seen and heard germany will still miss the deal and to call to

form this new government against the populace and so there's a new york conflict line in new york in their make ration but for two people who see also there was one of the leaders so that you would just say that there's no chance but this because there are fifty so all of them a question for biggest ongoing but there are many seen again see it is the first in the part of the freedom party is drawing to join the government back in two thousand then austria was was ostracised pretty much by its you partner is going to be a similar situation this time because you are going to have members of the freedom party in control of the defense the interior and the foreign ministries what's it going to mean. yes first of all it's automatic change so normally sation of police and in european politics i still remember in two thousand there was a big debate of all tips or steer got sanctions from the other european countries people went to the streets all over you will build or especially those in austin to

be in are now after trump backseats lead paint they serve trend of normal situation so actually it's kind of the first silent adoption to divide been populous art for and appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much different part of speaking to us there from close to the border with austria in germany thank you very much there we go if you go to our news page or you can find that very often a story you will find several more things besides including iraq hand panel they're linking you to more far right stories and then as you go scroll down the or find another from there it which is short on sabbatical at who is a basket just over a minute long that one and a little bit further down the very recent inside story which looks at the whole issue of austria's turn to the right.

voting in the second round of its presidential election and its no tools race the front runner in the first round. already govern the country already govern the country from two thousand and ten to two thousand and fourteen in second place on hunger. has the backing of the current socialist president. it's being closely watched to see if it results in another loss for left wing parties in latin america that speak to america and new in his life for. a two man race how close will it be. this is a very very. first round. in this round they are running really neck and neck and that's because. who's now been a senator for years has really been able. to really gather momentum

and bring over to his side the left wing voters as well as the center left wingers who backed the current government. backed by the conservative party coalition and even an extreme right wing group they're going neck and neck according to both campaigns in fact the difference could be as little as thirty thousand votes would be historic. so what will be going through people's minds. which way to. right now we have a lot of those people right now they're voting here i'm at the national stadium this is. what the key the key issues here are health education pensions which candidate and which system will guarantee. jobs. is a billionaire is even richer than. trump he has a reputation for knowing for being strong on economics unlike. but he is

a conservative who believes that the market has to regulate these sorts of things and they're right while the central left says that it's the government that has to guarantee a public health public pensions and public education is the way to go something like canada and the scandinavian countries so that is what they're trying to decide which of the two can do a better job of giving trillions something that they feel that democracy is long overdue in guaranteeing. leave there for the moment as a latin america. speaks to us from santiago ok more of a look at the battle lines in chile are right how tight it is the current discontent and at the new political force emerging well worth a read is all away from the stable of the old error of the center left as lucy i was just describing coming out for a facebook audience. is used to free imprisoned american.

news group a secret u.s. program dedicated to you and we'll tell you about its funding and why this video is everybody's attention. welcome back as we take a look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia so pretty quiet at the moment fine conditions for the most part temperatures average slightly above back to their sunshine eleven degrees on the banks the caspian sea where wise by dad coming in at nineteen degrees and it's looking fine around the eastern side of the mediterranean certainly for beirut despite variable amounts of cloud and it stays largely drive fine as we head on through into tuesday so let's head down into the arabian peninsula now as i speak we have got showers working their way down through the gulf running very close to qatar so the rest of the gulf states are at

risk of some heavy showers and thunderstorms are likely across the rest of the region while looking fine and twenty eight degrees and fine across on the other side of the peninsula thirty three for mecca you'll notice later on choose the risk of showers clears right through the gulf all together so let's now head down into southern portions of africa where we've got some pretty heavy rain at the moment affecting more eastern parts of south africa that's like to continue in the forecast but for cape town we should get away with some relatively dry weather conditions highs of twenty one heavy showers then across parts of through zambia towards angola but as you come southwards through namibia and into botswana should all remain largely dry and fine. counting the cost the mouse wins over the faults we'll look at disney's acquisition of twenty first century fox an impact on media landscape also net neutrality and

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a strange metal debris in his. news reports at the time said it was a flying saucer but the military maintains it was just a crash where the body and one hundred fifty one dozens of people in lubbock in texas saw lights in the sky flying at high speed investigators said it was birds reflecting light from the town streetlamps but many locals do not believe this saying the lights were traveling too fast and they had nineteen ninety seven thousands of people reported seeing large triangular objects moving over phoenix in arizona explanations for this a range from planes to military fleda's to yes alien spacecraft well let's bring in our guests every police say we have the right joe who's a former u.s. astronaut and a former commander of the international space station joins me live now from houston in texas leroy great to see that thanks so much for joining us here on the news grid first of all i just want to ask you about a specific experience that you have had i believe you were on a space walk tell us about it briefly if you would and the upshot of it was. sure

several astronauts have seen odd things in space during their missions and i've seen a few different things but they've all been explained as either natural phenomenon or manmade in the case you are talking about i was on a space walk and i was in that twilight period when we were just coming into center rise when you really can't see much of anything it's just kind of a light colored fog and so i didn't know if i was looking at the earth or off into deep space and i saw what looked like four or five lights in a line seeming to fly past us and i called out to my crew mate hey did you see those lights and of course instantly you know that was the story was that i had seen these u.f.o.'s now at the time i thought maybe it was a constellation of satellites something like that but then just as quickly as the claim that i had seen you oppose it turned out because they knew exactly what time i made that transmission people knew exactly where the international space station was and so they figured out that what i had seen was

a line of fishing boats off the coast of south america using very bright lights to attract squid and the rotation of the earth in our orbital speed made it appear that those lights were flying by zero that's an example of how you can be fooled by something like six and label and make the points in the house not knowing the origin of an object does not mean a u.f.o. so this program that we're talking about it's seems extraordinary in this day and age that actually millions and millions of dollars was spent on us. yes this is this really strikes me as a taxpayer that twenty two million dollars was spent on this program that's just surprising to me in this day and age of fiscal responsibility and belt tightening you know to law makers maybe twenty two million doesn't seem like a lot of money but to a taxpayer it sure seems like a lot of money to me yeah however having said that it's not to say that there's nothing out there and that's what your view will not. right i you know i believe

that there is other life out in the universe than the universe for all practical purposes is infinite and so you can argue that there are countably infinite number of planets that could support life as we understand it but my issue with with this is i don't think we've been visited i think the distances are way too vast if you just look at how far away is the nearest star that might have a planet that could support life you're talking light years and who knows maybe hundreds of million of letters of light years you know before you come across a planet that could support life as we know it so i think it's extremely unlikely we've been visited so this kind of funding how how should it be spent if it's if your view is that there's potential life out there how how can we direct that kind of money to try and find it well i mean we do have a number of different programs searching for extraterrestrial intelligence you know the whole seti project listening across different radio spectrums to try to tease

out any kind of signals that could be coming from an artificial source not coming from the earth and so i think you know that is probably the best chance we have of detecting something but you know i don't want nothing has come of that yet in this program it's been going on for quite a while and so you know for a signal to reach us from you know hundreds of light years away and that would obviously take a hundreds hundreds of years and so you know we may not be in the right time span to be receiving those signals most signals may not reach us for a long long time leroy just great talking to thanks so much for your time and for what come on to the international space station this thanks very much my pleasure thank you ok let's move across the london see what else is going on in the world his normalcy. hi than a yes two suicide bombers have attacked a church in southwest pakistan killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more gunman wearing explosive vest tried to storm the christian methodist church in

quite a city opening fire on the sunday worship as the region's home minister says the attackers were intercepted at the entrance and he shot one of them dead while the other exploded his suicide vest i still has claimed responsibility for the attack come on hyder is following the story from islamabad and there tag on a metro dish in the city of the provincial capital of baluchistan province leave the number of people are dead many more are wounded now according to the security forces had come under attack a few years ago because there was heavy guard present to guard the warship was a well bred into sunday now according to be up to four hundred women and children and warfare birds will present inside the church however it was the timely action by the security guards that killed at least one of the big eight the other one was able to get close to the hole however unable to penetrate inside aidid to warding

gauge and blew himself up so indeed a deadly attack once again on a dime or in a cross country there was a red alert because of the christmas holidays and also the fact that there have been attacks in the pause again rhymes and mosque. at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed off to taliban fighters attacked the checkpoints in helmand province in southern afghanistan isolde's on the to police posts in the provincial capital lashkar gah just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the militant group has a strong and growing presence and helmer. police in australia have charged a man with acting as an agent of the north korea by trying to sell missile components and cole on the global black market fifty nine year old chan hand choi was arrested in sydney after allegedly trying to make sales on behalf of pyongyang worth millions of dollars north korea's cash flows been severely restricted by un

sanctions aimed at pressuring the government to stop its missile program australia's prime minister says north korea is trying to support itself by selling illegal goods politicians in catalonia are holding final rallies before thursday's regional election it was called off the spanish government imposed a right rule in october in response to the catalan secession referendum but it's called pennell reports from barcelona against independence also determined to make their voices heard. she's emerging as the great hope of the anti independent schools. are you feeling i was i. a. to catalogue you from southern spain a decade ago. as regional leader of the citizens party she's promising a catalonian spring. to defeat politicians pushing for separation.

but it was time to vote for the citizens party is a vote to reform spain but not to break it up. she wants to reform tax laws and tackle corruption but as a party catalonia must remain part of spain and the european union in the latest opinion polls the citizens party is running neck and neck with the biggest for independence party but if you need a mother's hope to control the kaplan parliament they'll have to build a coalition thank you ari mother says prosper message points already echoing this crowd. fed up of seventy separatists and the separatist movement you can't break up spain that's impossible. there are many more of us who are opposed to independence but we kept our mouths shut at the time is here and they can no longer keep us silent draped in spanish these school friends are too young to vote

program to take part in. knowing i think we have more doors open to the world of catalonia as part of spain and that way we have access to the rest of europe. government leaders in madrid of extra security to protect unionist candidates from opposing separatist groups in the campaign for the election on december twenty first for now at a mother seems relaxed. surrounded by her loyalists confident she can pull in the vote. count penalizes iraq despite. finding more than thirty people have been killed in landslides and flooding in the central philippines tropical storm made landfall on saturday lashing the major islands of samar and then eighty more than eighty nine thousand people have been forced to flee to emergency shelters whilst thousands of holiday travelers are stranded president wondering going to taste said he would visit the affected areas i'll see you in about fifty minutes

time with much more from london now back to nic mari very very much david for to see a little bit later got a couple tweets coming in to us about the story millions of pounds many dollars i should say being spent on u.f.o. research richard from the united kingdom says so how many children would go to sleep with full bellies instead of hungry if we didn't waste money when this project it's a name tweet this one that you kind of feel that if a u.f.o. really wanted to come to us we'd know about it and until then a show in trouble myself since and so i think that priyanka. is that what you think about all the stories we're covering through that one that's why it is a facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid or indeed what's plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and a.j. newsgroup is the hash tag and now we're going of there yes to me in march so there are hendra crisis as we've covered here multiple times it's a hard story to tell and it's almost even harder to get people to care this year though you and h.c.r. that's the refugee wing of the u.n.

they had a goal to raise four hundred thirty four million dollars to help refugees but then in october of this year it started a campaign specifically to help the row hengist they want to trace eighty three million dollars now they are still working on this goal the story has been going on for years there the images are terrifying and it's harder and harder to get journalists inside their villages so the u.n. h.c.r. is trying another tactic to raise. funds and awareness they're sending five social media stars to bangladesh this team made up of five prominent online influencers are all from the arab world and part of the deal for their visit was that they would post about it to their thousands of followers online just. she's a lawyer supermodel and t.v. host and she posted this video to her instagram. well everyone had cell phone and you christmas holidays with family and friends it's so important to remember the essence of this season as part of the world cries i personally feel the need to be

elsewhere i wanted official mission to support the u.n. hedged operation in bangladesh are we going to come today and tomorrow or are we doing a car ride to get to could to pile on cash with the remainder refugees are currently here with the ring get people and why are the refugees in bangladesh the ring of people are the most persecuted minority in the world what they leave behind is nothing short of a hell on the mind my military and others i think you can be cleansing the regime good people and systematically persecuting them a crime against humanity honestly i am ashamed to look these people in the eye tomorrow when i know that i get to fly back home to safety the next day show her he was also on the trip he's pictured there in the middle earlier we spoke to him he's an author he also happens to have three hundred forty thousand followers on twitter . they're having a crisis is the fastest growing refugee crisis i think in the world over six

hundred fifty thousand people have fled since august twenty fifth two thousand and seventeen today we visited kept up on the camp on the borders of thank god s. and the situation is the only time to women children heading their own families or face people lost their family members and the world to sign and we need to do something collectively as humanity another person on the trip as she's a pilot and a businesswoman she captioned this instagram post to her account saying quote these faces taught me more about life than all of the textbooks in the world these eyes are the epitome of hope for the hosts hopeless linked to donations via u.n.h.c.r. in my bio now the goal of course as we said before was to raise more funds and awareness to help through him as the crisis there continues you can follow along with their stories by following the hash tag with refugees and as always you can connect with us and the story with our hash tag aging is great nick or our defense

very much well you could say it's the end of the road for motorbikes in vietnam the most popular way to travel around the capital with more than five million motorcycles and scooters in hanoi but there are plans to get rid of them by twenty thirty to dry and reduce congestion and pollution when hey hey. vietnam's road to economic success is becoming clocked one of the costs of the communist governments embrace of capitalism is traffic congestion and. narrow streets of hanoi can't cope with the influx of cars and motorbikes so government leaders in the capital have decided that after a gradual phase out motorbikes will be completely banned from the city center by two thousand and thirty. it'll be a major change for vietnamese so reliant on two will transport alfalfa i said i think it's kind of an convenient. yeah i think that that's what they think about if

. you live in vietnam using metta bikes it's like a tradition for people but i think traffic is getting worse so if the government does this i think you'll be good to reduce traffic jams. even some who have benefited from the motorbike boom think it change won't be so bad. the number of bucks coming here to be repaired it may go down but it won't affect me too much because maybe i can focus on quality rather than quantity. as recently as the late ninety's the roads were significantly quieter more people rode pushbikes which is something today's government also wants to revive and this is a big part of the motivation a construction boom combined with the increase in vehicles has resulted in falling a quality the fact the government is even considering this law is perhaps a sign that vietnam is becoming a victim of its own success it has one of the best performing economies in the world and while there are still big problems with poverty wages are rising and with

that comes an increase in purchasing power. but not everyone can afford a car and if they could get in the congestion and pollution problems would get a lot worse so if the government's plan is to work public transport will need to play a big part but construction of the rail network in the capital has ground to a halt because of funding problems experts say all forms of public transport will have to be overhauled. the government needs to prepare to guarantee the policy can be implemented for example the public bus system needs to be improved to meet increased demand before the new law can be introduced city leaders in hanoi have already done the easy part by passing the law now the hard work begins to try to put it in practice and free up the city streets wayne hay al-jazeera hanoi the effort to clean up hanoi ok center is coming up with a look at sport pretty interesting one to you wouldn't often see the words ice

hockey and lebanon in the same sentence but will be meeting their national team that's. a new era in television news. because it's agencies are tasked to do things in secret we had actual victims who had survived torture detention and saying this was the cause of my arrest if you could. just stay with us still. i think this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir i'm going to tell the people give them the opportunity one thing stop. looking at the exit distance there's at least twenty thousand for him to refugees really we badly need at this moment leadership and so there's an interesting part i was resigned tony trump is going to be the next president mitterrand should we ban handguns. if you think this is again something that i think the media has to be if you're getting in the way it's good because that.

he achieved something that never happened before. or lose whatever people talk about in sports goes on is right here thank you very much to the national hockey league has been celebrating one hundred years of the league's existence and when you think ice hockey a lot of us would think canada so it's fitting that it's capital auto who was the site of the anniversary game known as the n.h.l. one hundred classic it was a minus ten degrees for this outside the game between the montreal canadiens and

also less than it is those teams that played on the opening day of the first ever season and nineteen seventeen and similarly cold temperatures and for the record the senate says that at this time with three nil when is maybe when it isn't the right word for the fans including canadian pm justin trudeau who braved that weather. well there was no such thing as a twitter facebook instagram and snap chat in one hundred seventeen but the n.h.l. is official social media accounts decided they would try the a co-op to cover the game as if it was well take a look at this fixture list from saturday's game in the n.h.l. just a little different and we quite like these it team sheets at two in the formal handwriting also here go here he is again canadian pm doesn't through the whole also got the black and white treatment as he interacted with fans you don't need the color to

see how cold he looks over there and now and there's the final match report as well the klang all tell us victorious and my peer as it was at the game he tweeted i thank our friends from the white north home on this day one hundred years ago gave us one of the most exciting sports leagues in the world has that n.h.l. nine hundred seventeen hash tag and they tell one hundred and this is what the senate had to say about the whole occasion to just being a whole lot of enthusiasm and in the fact that the this was so organized this is really really enjoyable i had never lived before watching on t.v. a few times but. at the ice level it was special it really was i think the n.h.l. and everybody from our team and here in the city did an unbelievable job making this a real success at all levels. well that game show that canada is the home of hockey and the country plays host to more than one national team the lebanese side is

based in one sale and their bidding for international recognition daniela has this report. getting ready to hit the ice team levanon players are all from canada for hockey is a national passion more than a sport. this is a team that plays and practices to win the coaches studied the game closely and teaches them complex plays combining the speed and strength but hockey is known for . just being behind a bench a team already it's. it's a dream come true. every day i have to pinch myself and say this is what i'm doing this year do you think you should go to the tonight they face the philippines flyers another team of canadians with roots in a warmer climate most of the crowd supports lebanon and that's a good thing as play goes on lebanon scores again and again it's a proud moment for people who remember

a country's troubled history of political different religious differences. would put everything at the door and we just focus on playing hockey we just want to carry things out and progress as a unit the team has won all the games it's played in canada so far but at an international tournament in abu dabi last month lebanon lost tough matches to germany and bella reuss among others that's one reason they're looking to canadian born players on u.s. university teams like carlisle mere who adds muscle and speed to an already fleet footed attack he's delighted to take some time to play for his ancestral land. it's upright for me but i think when i see my that is reaction of me playing for his country that's the best gift i can give my dad. lebanon's been completely dominant in this match but this is a young team that knows where it needs to improve as it carries the hopes and

dreams of a community and the country on a childers daniel acknowledges era montreal. as you want to share with us it at santa eight underscore sport i'll be back with more at eighteen g.m.t. but for now hand you back to nick santa we will see you then look forward to that but that will do it for the news group remember keep in touch with us on social media the hashtag of course the as ever is a.j. news great all the other way see things right there we'll see you again here in studio fourteen at fifteen hundred g.m.t. on monday.

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