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zero zero zero i maryam namazie this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes from jakarta to ankara ongoing outrage over president trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. cost two suicide bombers attack a church in the pakistani city of cueto killing nine people. u.s. special counsel robert mother is accused of illegally obtaining e-mails by a lawyer from trump's transition team. and at least five the dead fifteen missing after a landslide in the country votes for its next president. announced on the hummus with all the sports news as a front man smashes the world record for sailing around the world that and more later in the program.

our top story on growing anger over u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital shows no sign of abating from ankara to jakarta to karate thousands are still rallying against it this was the scene in the turkish capital ankara earlier on where thousands took to the streets to vent their anger and stand in solidarity with the palestinians meanwhile turkish president. said he wants to open an embassy in occupied east jerusalem days after leading calls a summit muslim leaders to recognize it as a capital of palestine and the u.n. security council is considering a draft resolution submitted by egypt calling for the us jerusalem decision to be withdrawn well the egyptian resolution affirms that any decisions and actions which purport to of all to the characters status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem have no legal effect on not and void and must be rescinded in compliance with the. resolutions all the security council and name has more now from that protest and ankara. living there for more than an hour listening and

speeches in addition to all the turkish and palestinian flags there also carrying signs with a lot of anti-american sentiment such as the president i simply have heard one has emerged as a advocate for the palestinians and he's been rattling other air of from a country specifically to show their solidarity and the rebel against president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel won when they put on hosted a summit where the organization for its from cooperation because it's an 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 mutinously and is a violation of international law has always lot of support here on the turkish

street there has been a protest throughout the country. i am actually very glad of the trumpets a 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 are united i'm hopeful to jerusalem problem will be sorted. and other leaders are that east jerusalem the capital. of the city and state and that jerusalem is a red line considering that it's home to the third holiest site in islamabad to drive that point home earlier one is taking on this case the 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 hold the 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 of the geopolitical. well i was also anger on the streets of the indonesian capital jakarta where at least eighty thousand people protested against trump's decision a demonstration outside the u.s. embassy was the fourth and largest rally since the announcement was made two weeks ago jesse arian t. was there day came india defense of thousands with a clear message for the u.s. president reversed your decision declaring jerusalem as the capital of israel. protesters we've. brought those leaders for a boycott of american products. it was still are just demonstrations in indonesia since donald trump's controversial announcement earlier this month i hope. he will james what. he's made the decision he has to change it and give the free to do people of the palestinian the peaceful protest was held at

the national monument and outside the u.s. embassy in the capital jakarta. it was organized by several muslim groups and police estimate around eighty thousand took part while more than twenty thousand soldiers and other security forces were deployed. we are here with all our indonesian muslim brothers we convey our aspiration to our brothers in palestine are heard that they will have their freedom and god gives them power and patience or they can get their independence just like ause i. indonesia does not have to promote the ties with israel and has long been a strong supporter of palestinian aspirations for statehood president has condemned tom smoove calling it a fire lucian's of u.n. resolutions leaders in indonesia the largest muslim population have joined the global condemnations of trump's announcement saying that it is a blow to peace efforts and race sparking more violence trauma of fortune decades

of u.s. policy and a long standing international consensus that the fate of jerusalem be decided as part of the peace deal between israel and palestinians the status of the cd which is important to jews muslims and christian is one of the core of the feis if issues which is why for these protesters trump shouldn't be the one to decide its fate the . jakarta. well they've also been similar scenes taking place in two major pakistani cities thousands chanted anti trump slogans and wave banners denouncing the u.s. in karachi that bin holds for the biggest march in history to take place smaller protest also happened in the city of lahore all our other top story coming from pakistan two suicide bombers attacked a church in the south west of the country killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more gunmen wary explosive vest tried to storm the christian methodist

church in quite a sissy opening fire on the sunday worship as regions home minister says the attackers were intercepted at the entrance police shot one of them dead while the other exploded his suicide vest i still claim responsibility for the attack commodified as more from his all of us. and their tag on met their dish the city of. stone province leave the number of people are there many more are wounded now according to the security forces. and because there was heavy guard president to guard the warship was. now according to up to four hundred women and children and warship was while president inside the church however did get 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 hall however unable to penetrate inside and he do ordain gays 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 a watch again and mosque said read elsewhere at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed off to taliban fighters attacked at checkpoints and helmand province in southern afghanistan the assault on the two police posts in the provincial capital just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the group has a strong and growing presence in helmand meanwhile in neighboring kandahar province a car bombers attacked a nato convoy an afghan woman was killed and four other civilian bystanders wounded a spokesman for the nato mission said that the no injuries among troops in the convoy. eleven women have reportedly been killed off to as strikes hit a wedding procession east of the yemeni capital the strikes thought to be launched

by the saudi led coalition killed the woman as they walked to the village and margaret province there are reports that the bride was among the victims. come in says information from the cia's help the russian security services for the terror plot in st petersburg president has phone donald trump to thank him members of an eye silver cell were planning a suicide attack at the city's cathedral but the f.s.b. security service says it was able to stop it a rest seven people and seize homemade bombs or to mattick rifles and extremist literature the kremlin says putin told trump he would repay the favor or the man leading the investigation into whether russia meddled in the u.s. election is being accused of illegally obtaining e-mails the accusation against special counsel has been made by a lawyer from the trump team which was set up to help the president strands mission

into the white house but a spokesperson for the says that he and his team have done nothing wrong and the claims are an attempt to discredit the whole investigation is looking into whether the russian government helped donald trump win last year's presidential election so let's get more on this now from tom ackerman in washington what more do we know about the allegations leveled at lolla. well those complained that the team had illegally accessed these letters or emails thousands of e-mails from a government agency was what were directed at a house intelligence committee republican led committee and that will presumably further stoke the fire in those committees among congressional republicans who want to apparently curtail the investigation not only at the at the level of the special counsel's office but also within congress itself many democrats say they fear that

the that the republicans are just looking for further excuses to curtail the investigation the white house response to this complaint which came from a lawyer from the transition team was to say that well we don't expect this investigation to go on any longer because there's nothing to it so they're trying to minimize that but the white house lawyers will be. lawyers rather will be meeting with muller's team next week and we'll see how this develops further. and the other development out of washington is news that the cia tipped off the kremlin about an attack in the russian city of st petersburg which than russian security forces were able to prevent what is the reaction that likely to be to this is this standard protocol or will people think there is something unusual.

well it is not standard for an open admission by one one one government to thank another intelligence service it's also interesting that that's in juxtaposition to the time earlier in trump's administration where he welcomed the i'm the russian foreign minister and ambassador to say that and and conveyed to them some intelligence information that the united states had received from israel something that the russians were not happy about they're not happy about sources and methods revealed but in this case the fact that putin and trump are displaying this these mutual displays of public affection i think only serve to help trump convey with his political base here in the united states that there really is nothing to this investigation of collusion as alleged by many people who

suspect all of these ties amounting to a collusion during the election campaign so again we'll see the next development here the interesting thing is will the united states actually or will it will the russians actually announce the next time they provide information to the united states that will be interesting to see remember this is the eve of trump's national security message as mandated by congress on monday in which he is expected to make some sharp claims or sharp criticisms of russia which his national security advisor just laughs last week called a revisionist power which is abusing its its its power in this information and propaganda so it's an interesting combination of circumstances and rhetoric it is thank you very much tom ackerman and washington d.c. . and watching the news hour live from london much want to tell you about south

africa's ruling party congress formally nominates two candidates to lead them jacob zuma ex-wife and his deputy president also spain's prime minister makes a rag campaign stop in catalonia ahead of thursday's crucial regional polls and then in sport n.h.l. players brave below freezing temperatures in the canadian capital to celebrate one hundred years of the league's existence. now a state of emergency has been declared in the south and southern chile after a landslide devastated an entire village at least five people were killed and fifteen others a missing after dozens of homes were destroyed in via santa lucia and reports. of devastation as far as the eye can see to original greed triggered a landslide that tore through the village. on saturday thousands remain without

electricity rescue workers search for survivors. i had that uncles who went missing i have it on who died. part of the valley was engulfed by a huge amount of mud from surrounding mountains the villages around one thousand kilometers south of the capital city jago local media reported a usually heavy rain during the previous twenty four hours president michelle bachelet declared a state of emergency in the area. i have ordered rescue workers to put all the resources necessary towards protecting the people of vieques. dozens of people were airlifted to a neighboring town well rescue teams continue their search via santa lucie is near corcovado national park which is popular with tourists sports volcanoes the ords and boris the disaster happened on the eve of the runoff election to choose she lays next president if he has time. well in all the news there is now around

three hours of voting left in the presidential election that will determine if chile remains on its center left course or joins a tide of latin american nations turning to the right in recent years as a choosing between conservative billionaire and former president sebastian pinera and the center left candidate. economy is expected to weigh heavily on the minds of voters with g.d.p. forecast to expand just one point four percent this year this is the slowest pace in eight years. well pinero who served as president from twenty two thousand ten to twenty fourteen is a conservative billionaire who's proposing to cut taxes on business it was seen as the frontrunner and took thirty six percent of the vote in last month's first round poll but he faces a stronger than expected challenge from. the center left independent candidates the former t.v. presenter would continue present michelle bash plan to use corporate taxes to fund health care and education a poll twenty two percent in the first round but twenty percent went to

a radical left and cancer whose votes are expected to then switch to. well let's go to our latin america to d.c. and human she's been following all these developments from santiago to tell us more about what pinera and garrett been doing over the past few weeks to appeal to voters from across the political spectrum. but it's very interesting because stamping it out who is a conservative he's very much a man who believes in the free market and for competition to order to help citizens have what they need in health education and especially in pension funds but he's been forced to move now much more to the center to try to broaden his political base and win over some of those people who voted either for. or for the even more to the left a group that voted for out for his competitor now the media on his part has to do two things he's got to try to prove to chileans that he really is able to govern

that he has the ability to do so since he is a political outsider and he has very very little experience compared to india also has to try to convince the people on the left that he will make good on his promises to accelerate all these transformations all these social reforms that were started by president. but which are only just beginning to get underway especially the very thorny issue of free education all the way to do university level and the scrapping the current private pension fund system so those are the the the key issues here and there it's of the tightest race mariyam that we have had in in memory and decades certainly so nobody can really tell at this point who is going to win that's right and twenty eighteen is going to be a very busy year of elections in the region in latin america one of the key trends we might be watching for in chile that could emerge elsewhere.

well the interesting thing is that as you mentioned earlier latin america has been moving decidedly to the right in recent years in argentina and brazil in paraguayan colombia in brewer and chile was the sort of the last bastion along with why of a left wing government of of center left wing governments then of course we have the the extreme left wing more revolutionary governments like that of bolivia and venezuela which are not successful specially in the case of venezuela but if chile is able to continue with its center left model that might inspire others in the region in a year where there will be many many elections which will be key for the entire region all right well thank you very much alison human bring us all the latest from santiago thank you. and after a rocky start south africa's ruling party the african national congress has begun the process of choosing who will succeed jacob zuma as its leader the two front

runners current deputy presidents are all around the post and zuma is ex-wife and courses. have been formally nominated as candidates in this vote a decision is expected to be reached by monday whoever wins is likely to become the country's next president after elections in twenty nineteen but the battle for power has exposed deep divisions within a party that sharply lost public support over time. well the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hundred seventy six delegates will vote in the secret ballot in the past vote buying intimidation or acknowledged to have swayed leadership contest after years of seumas rule soaring unemployment and government corruption of left millions of poor black south africans frustrated with the a.n.c. deputy president cyril rama poso is a wealthy businessman is backed by the business community which believes he'll offer the best hope for the economy and then you have and see veteran and causes on a who is jacob zuma as ex-wife she is expected to deliver

a continuation of his policies and is seen as more likely to protect him from the seven hundred and eighty three corruption and fraud charges against him tanya page has more from that conference and janet like. all of the nominations for the top six positions in the african national congress have now been confirmed and as expected it is down to a two horse race between courses on a zoom or who is the outgoing president jacob zuma is preferred candidate and would be the first woman president of the n.c. if she succeeds pitted against jacob zuma as defeating president so will. they had been expected to be one vote to elect the top six and the other members of the national executive committee but they've decided to split the vote into there have already been long delays firstly because of legal action and see members who weren't happy with the processes at the grassroots level taking meds challenges into the country's courts and secondly here at the a.n.c.

elected conference they need to check all the credentials of all the delegates to decide who is and to isn't allowed to vote and that slated to be expulsion the disqualification of four hundred delegates delegates who are believed to have been in favor of. the so that may cost or if the race becomes really close in those final numbers are really tight the whole contest. the presidency is being framed as pitting the faction of reformers led by saul ram across or against affection of patronage led by lebanese and that is perceived to be a continuation of our current president jacob zuma style of leadership governance and politics who ever wins this hotly contested race for the presidency will have an enormous challenge to try and unite a deeply divided and see. a smile a guardian is a political commentator on south african affairs joins me now from port elizabeth

via skype thank you very much for taking the time to join us on this news hour how important is this leadership contest not just for the end say but for the country as a whole a lot has a lot hinges on this it's it is probably the most decisive call in the twenty two years of our democracy in the sense that the a.n.c. is finally. approach the point where they have accepted the the you know all the difficulties of transformation of transforming the economy because they're in many things have gone wrong least of all the rise in quality in poverty so i think being finally confronted with the huge task of democracy democracy is. run away with the mc and the a.n.c. has a lot of catching up to do and this is where they find themselves. this has been far

from a smooth process that have been disagreements over the procedures over the credentials of the delegates explained to us how we have seen existing party divisions that of play out in the process of electing a new leader. one of the problems that we've faced in the last few years increased judicial eyes ation of politics so when people are disgruntled when people are unhappy about political processes they would have to resort to the courts so you found the very many a.n.c. members ians branches when they sense that they weren't getting their way they they would go to the courts and what that has done is to drag down the political process is still to complete halt in very many ways the men on the other hand there have been very many. operational but the sort of failures on the part of the a.n.c. so it's a bit of both but in general i would say that the a.n.c.

. isn't cumbered by this traditional eyes ation of politics and by its old administration and operational difficulties and if we do see a challenge to whoever is elected following the result how much of a turning point could this be for the a.n.c. will we look back in a few years time and say this was the moment that perhaps the party split that perhaps the divisions we see now became entrenched and permanent. well we've already seen that and one car one you know we all have to find a teacher but this has been a very it so far has been a very decisive period. as for the potential splits there would there may be people peeling away from the n.c. to join the economic freedom fighters some would join the new splinter groups but this this will be decisive and one does not want to get too ahead of oneself but

this could be a make or break election for the a.n.c. they will also do all the can to consolidate power the key and the most to the decisive factor here is what happens to jacob zuma after this election. thank you very much appreciate your analysis on this story teller to smile a guardian thanks. now there's much more to bring you this hour including australia police charge a man accused of being a north korean agent after he tried to sell million dollar missile components on the black market. i'm wayne hay in the vietnamese capital hanoi we will tell you why motorbikes could soon be disappearing from the city streets. and a dramatic way turn to the slopes for an a limp a champion i have the details the son of a late. welcome

back as we take a look at the weather across the levant and western parts of asia so pretty quiet at the moment following conditions for the most part temperatures average slightly above back to their sunshine eleven degrees in the balance 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 dry and 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 the way down through the gulf 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 a 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 take time we should get away with some roads to be drawing 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. singapore is being accused of expanding its coast and illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business smuggling when they go take this there in the sand is our there you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so plentiful tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into

a global emergency sound was at this time on al jazeera one of the really special things that working crowd is here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would get what it is you know it's very challenging but in the particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. welcome back to the news out it's up to you on the top stories demonstrations are

continuing to take place across the muslim while the cancer as president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. two suicide bombers attacked a church in southwest pakistan killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more. and russia's president by timothy shin has telephoned his u.s. counterpart donald trump to thank him for a cia tipple to help him for a series of bombings instant. now strong winds are continuing to power a massive wildfire in the u.s. state of california the so-called thomas fire is now the third largest in the state's history has burned more than two hundred sixty seven thousand heck dess that's the same size as new york city nearly eight hundred thousand firefighters are battling the blaze which has destroyed more than a thousand structures and threatened eighteen thousand more homes the fire department says it's now forty percent contained. earlier this week i refer to this

fire is a beast and it's a monster we all recognize that but we will kill it the team behind me the middle women out the field i have no doubt they will take care of business and we will put this fire out. well people have been killed in landslides and flooding in the central philippines tropical storm made landfall on saturday lashing the islands of some are later more than eighty nine thousand people have been forced to flee to emergency shelters thousands of holiday travelers are stranded president order to go to territory said he would visit the affected areas. protesters have taken to the streets again in togo to demonstrate against president. anti-government marches that have been held across the country nearly every week since august a single day is in nigeria chairing a summit for the leaders of the economic community of west african states or testers are angry that togo's ongoing political crisis is not on the summit's

agenda they want to sing beta step down and a two term presidential mandate with a two and voting system to be introduced. there are about a million people on the streets they want to get the message across to the west african heads of state at the summit in the target was the only country in the sub region that has no presidential term limit so it has never experienced democratic free all fair elections since its independence and nine hundred sixty. six. million demonstration clearly shows how determined the total east people are they want to say loudly that they're fed up with a party that's been in power for about fifty years they're serious and will not stop unless the regime steps down all they want to say is the president is no longer able to rule this country. catalans will head to the polls on thursday to vote in an election that could decide if the province breaks away from spain

a spanish prime minister mariano rajoy made a rare campaign stop in catalonia his party stands little chance of winning the election but rai hopes that a coalition of unionist parties could stop catalonia from seceding call panel reports. with an awkward smile the spanish prime minister enters the political battleground mariano rajoy he was here to rouse loyalists from his people's party in the fight against the catalan separatist movement going to feel as part of the thank you for defending spain thank you for defending the constitution thank you for defending the law according to opinion polls roy's party has no chance of winning thursday snap the general election. the challenge is to form a majority bought with other anti secession parties and stop catalonia breaking away there's also a high possibility separatist parties could score a majority. there wouldn't be any problem if the independent parties fulfill the

law and the constitution after the spanish government ruled catalonia is october referendum illegal or thora he's arrested keys secessionist leaders on charges of rebellion and dissolve the catalan parliament officials were carefully orchestrating about his message allowing journalists only to record the arrival and departure at this point now event told the noises there are asking journalists and their cameras to leave the event from now on the speech will only be broadcast by official government cameras and official r.t.t. owners. party supporters liked what they heard. we must win to get rid of these radicals from catalonia we're fed up with these people we can't live with. across the road a small group of protesters calling for the release of their jailed separatist leaders they describe as political prisoners. a night

before in barcelona other activists rallied for the same demand cymbidium the situation in the festive season is we have always protesting peacefully but they cheat us right up starts in terrorists that's why these leaders have been jailed. the issue of capitalism independence plunge spain into its worst political crisis since the end of the ship fourteen years ago whatever the outcome this seems little chance the days election will help heal those deep political divisions called pinhole salute to spain. several hundred supporters of the former georgian president mikheil saakashvili have tried to storm a public building in the ukrainian capital kiev thousands of people turned out for saakashvili is latest anti-government rally calling for the impeachment of the ukrainian president petro poroshenko secretary was governor of ukraine's adesa region but resigned after accusing harsh and cold blocking his anticorruption

efforts he was detained earlier this month and accused of trying to stage a russia sponsored coup to topple par shango he denies the allegation is i was released on monday. to egypt has ordered al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussain to remain in prison for another forty five days he was arrested in egypt almost a year ago while visiting family it's now the tenth time his detention has been renewed al-jazeera continues to demand his release is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al-jazeera strongly deny mahmud has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. australian police have charged a man accused of acting as an agent for north korea fifty nine year old chan hunch oir was arrested in sydney after allegedly trying to sell millions of dollars worth of missile components and call on behalf of pyongyang on the global black market 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. north korea is a dangerous reckless criminal regime threatening the pace of the region it supports itself by breaching u.n. sanctions not simply by selling commodities like call and other goods but also by selling weapons by selling drugs by engaging in cyber crime it is vitally important that all nations work relentlessly to enforce those sanctions because the more economic pressure that can be brought on north korea the sooner will that regime will be brought to its senses under thomas has more on this now from sydney choi hand china is a naturalized australian citizen but police say he was working here as a loyal agent for north korea trying to earn money for the regime by selling missile components weapons expertise i'm told on behalf of the regime that's what

activity breaks united nations sanctions and australian sanctions it also breaks australian laws specifically designed to prevent the development or production of weapons of mass destruction is the first person ever to be charged under a lot of the weapons of mass destruction act passed by the parliament here back in one thousand nine hundred five will be alleging in court this man was brokering the zeile of missile component three and typical expertise from north korea to other international into teaching. we believe this may be too surprising discussions about siloed missile components reached from north korea to other entities abroad as another attempt to try and rise revenue for the government in north korea we don't know much about those other entities except that at least some of them are said to have been in indonesia and viet nam the place of not so they think any weaponry was actually moved anywhere nor do they think choice was trying to line up any customers here in australia but they do say that about half a million dollars was transferred between accounts and i think that if the trades

have gone ahead then it would have raised tens of millions of dollars for the north korean regime. well richard by now scares the form australian ambassador to south korea he says this case highlights pyongyang's economic desperation. we don't know who he is selling this equipment to or what kind of equipment it is it's all very hazy at this stage i must say of course the strange security forces justifiably pleased that they've caught someone like this and yes it does represent if true a proliferation hazard but who is he said selling the equipment to we simply don't know he's trying to so-called i think to vietnam and didn't measure as well but we're not sure where the nuclear components are going if you're going to put sanctions on a country like north korea or any any country they'll do what they can to sell what they have and what north korea does have with the courtesy of technology already bought from pakistan and other countries is missile technology and nuclear

technology now if there's a market out there for this material and these technologies they're going to sell it so i think in a sense you could say a desperate country is going to look wherever it can to sell what it can and i don't think we should be tough to moralistic about this because the largest weapons trader in the world as we know is the united states followed closely by russia and britain the french others are doing the same thing they're not selling nuclear technology as such but you know i think we have to be very careful about not imposing too strict a double standard on what the north koreans are trying to do thousands of people have been marking the sixtieth anniversary of the death of kim jong il in north korea's capital pyongyang formally died in two thousand and eleven and was replaced by his son kim jong il and laying flowers and bowing to statues and portraits of past eight as is

a ritual in north korea and on all major anniversaries and holidays. sixty million people in good drought in western india are waiting for the results from thursday's legislative assembly election which in g one monday the opposition congress party is making a comeback with a strong challenge to the wording bharatiya janata party it's been in power there for twenty two years but many will community say they've been left out as to vehicle power reports from good shot. government statisticians say less than fifteen percent of the students will graduate from secondary school. one hundred thirty five year old school was once one of the main education centers in the village of goods aria. now the government's boys' school competes with five modern private schools classes said the school had been reduced facilities are inadequate. and teachers who not long ago top students from also szell backgrounds now only have children from low income

families six on what these conditions give the children an inferiority complex they feel they're not with the of a good education so they don't need to study further or graduate. analysts say the school is just one of many institutions suffering from government neglect and the state's privatization drive but i read schools are given more place. and the public schools are starved of loneliness and even appointments our lord made similarly that things are very bad in case of has. this pie good job being one of india's top three states in terms of economic growth lags behind the rest of the country in many social indicators. including primary education infant mortality and women's health for years people in rural areas have been promised the benefits of development and economic reform but many now say they are losing patience with the government and since the rural population makes up more than half the electorate

it's seen as one of the biggest challenges to the ruling party in the state elections. frustration boiled over two years ago when a community called the party darst representing students traders and agricultural workers took to the streets it ended in a violent crackdown. part of patel says it's what's made his community reconsider their support for the ruling b j p the party dark community which makes up nearly fifteen percent of voters in gujarat say the government's economic initiatives only benefit major companies and have killed smaller industries. if congress comes in there would be a teens in industrial policy in the past they support the small industries and so clear to jokes i the b j p has ruled the state for the past twenty two years many here are considering what another two decades in power would mean for their children's future to be gopalan are. in many cities motorbikes are seen

as part of the solution to traffic congestion rather than the problem as in vietnam a bike means more than five million of them being ridden around the capital so now the government supplying the brakes with a ban on motorbikes aiming to achieve traffic jams and pollution buy in hey reports from hanoi. vietnam road to economic success is becoming clogged one of the costs of the communist governments embrace of capitalism is traffic congestion. 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 our culture our city i think is kind of an convenient. yeah there the last thing i think about is.

your line in vietnam using metal bikes is 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 blacks 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 and 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 be 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 a 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 that live here the government needs to prepared to guarantee the policy can be implemented for example the public buses dim 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. so add for this hour we're going to hear from lebanon's national hockey team which is begging for international recognition.

forced to flee from syria to lebanon many refugee mothers risked childbirth in terrible conditions delivery is very difficult here in the bin and it's costly i can't go back to syria now because of the war but one lebanese woman is committed to helping them. become friends with everyone. she is important to me this is there are a few g.'s midwife at this time on al-jazeera world. al-jazeera

. where ever you want. in a son now with bias or. thank you very much mary i'm a french sailor has smashed the world of records for the fastest a solo navigation of the girl. completed his around the world journey and less than forty three days a beating the previous best by more than six days s.p. to stem it appalls. the thirty four year old françois gabble was a man on a mission on november fourth the frenchman sits sail as he aimed to navigate around

the world faster than anyone had done before. the target was to beat the forty nine days and three hours record set by his fellow countryman thomas scoville last year he had to be back by december twenty third. gather wood zip around the world in his high tech thirty meter sailboat a maxi tri mare and one of the most technically advanced yachts around from the starting point between west on france and called will england he would sail around ends arctica and back along the way encountering rough seas and strong winds but he managed to find time along the journey to share updates on his twitter account and on sunday december seventeenth victoriously crossed the virtual finish line between northwest france and southwest england. and of course he tweeted about a two. hour becomes the fourth world record holder for sailing around the globe solo to the source of that if i was lucky i was. accessible maybe if i hadn't left

on november for if i had left three hours later i couldn't have had that there was luck and success but once there was a good mission the south atlantic had to keep it going. he's mammoth journey last of forty two days sixteen hours forty minutes and thirty five seconds and because clearly he has little in the way of limitations instead of taking a wrist he's already talking about flying around the world in record time peter stammered al-jazeera. a liverpool have hammered by almost four nails in the english premier league at manchester united one again to close the gap to eleven points on top of the table. for man city while this time united beat it was time to want. jesselyn god with the goals managers every year says his team will continue fighting for the title. every minute every match which. we try to win because if

you do that question it was and then you do the same question to go to the four to the field into the six. probably. they disappear probably they won't want to go on holiday we don't want to play if you're listening to brazilian football legend kaka has called time on his career the midfield playmaker has been playing at major league soccer team at the orlando magic during a distinguished career he represented ac milan a real madrid he won the champions league syria league a titles and with brazil he twice statists tasted success at the constellations cup he was also a young member of the squad that won the two thousand and two world cup. australia's cricketers are six wickets away from reclaiming the ashes a from england the hosts declared a massive score of six hundred sixty two for mine on day four of the third test in perth captain steve smith

a school two hundred thirty nine runs england one hundred thirty two for four when rain brought an early end to play so that means that they still trailed by hundred twenty seven runs that would just the six wickets remaining if australia win this test they'll take a three nil serious lead in the best of five series meaning the ashes urn will be returning down under. olympic. champion on the view has won her first world cup race in more than two years he twenty eight year old australia who has been struggling with injury since two thousand and fifteen won by almost half a second the advice in a frost she beat out. of and is. very also didn't have lindsey vonn to contend with the four time world champion pulled out of the race because of soreness in her knee. fellow astronaut must destroy the competition to win the giant slalom by one point seven seconds. but

it's the fifth year in a row he's won the race at the time the result this is the hearses third world cup race winner of the season forty eight over his career which puts him on track for wreck or the extending seventh overall cup title in. the national hockey league is officially one hundred years old the league celebrated by holding an outdoor game in the canadian capital auto the city had hosted the league's first ever game between the montreal canadiens and all to us senators they were two of six foundation teams when the n.h.l. was established in one hundred seventeen there are now thirty one and they produced a repeat performance in the n.h.l. one hundred classic the senators winning three nothing would. have been whole lot of enthusiasm and when the fact to be this was so organized this is really really enjoyable i had never lived before washing on t.v.

a few times but. at the ice level it was special it really was the n.h.l. everybody knew for team india and the city did an unbelievable job making this a real success at all levels. canada is the home of hockey and the country plays host to more than one national team the lebanese side is based in montreal. and there bidding for international recognition. getting ready to hit the ice team lebanon's players are all from canada where hockey is a national passion more than a sport. this is a team that plays and practices to win the coach's studied the game closely and teaches them complex plays combining the speed and strength that hockey is known for just being behind a bench of the eleven on already it's. it's a dream come true. every day i have to pinch myself and say this is what i'm doing

these years do you think you should. 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 heads 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 going for is going tree 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 children's. villages zero montreal. and that's a financial back to my every thank you very much santa on the world steepest finnick in a railway has opened in switzerland it took fourteen years to build and is being hailed as a significant achievement for european technology the futuristic looking train climbs seven hundred forty meters up the mountain from sheets in central switzerland to the alpine village of shadows a barrel shaped carriages have special tilting flaws so passengers can stay upright even as they speed up gradients of nearly fifty degrees and

a second christmas delivery is on his way to the international space station the engine start to roar. and liftoff. a three man crew blasted off from kazakhstan on the fourth and final manned launch of the year the astronauts from the u.s. japan and russia followed an unmanned cargo capsule which was sent into orbit on saturday both are due to dock at the space station on tuesday let's hear from myself this news out of my colleague julie mcdonald will be here in a moment with much more of the day's news stay with us.

facing realities if a piece of machinery goes role is there a chance of litigation true which we can bring a legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we need of the wall but some of my producers just to hear their story on talk to how does iraq at this time. we understand the differences and the similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call home al-jazeera will bring in the news and current affairs that matter to . al-jazeera. united by getting something for. its first season of excess this is made in china. of the one all american family i challenge. the sucks life without the wilds

factory we don't make anything what is our economic christmas without china a witness documentary this time. our war on terror begins right now but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of saddam hussein this is a regime that has something to hide they had prepared a significant propaganda machine and guess what not one w m d shite was found in iraq since one thousand nine hundred ninety one iraq a deadly deception at this time on al jazeera. global protests over u.s. policy on jerusalem as the u.n. prepares to vote on a call.