life without the wilds we don't make anything what is our second christmas without china a witness documentary this time. and the war on terror begins with but it does not in there no terrorist state poses a greater or more immediate threat than the regime of saddam hussein and 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 for the decision so we withdraw. now

that i'm julie macdonald this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. unfolds chum to thank him for cia information which helped boil i saw attacks in russia. suicide bombers attack a church inside pakistan killing nine people and injuring dozens more are on the former president hoping to return to power in chile with just a few hours to go at the polls. hello everyone welcome to the program the u.n. security council will vote on monday on a draft resolution the submitted by egypt calling for the withdrawal of u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel the egyptian resolution of firms quotes that any decisions and actions which purport to have altered the characters

status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem have no legal effects are now and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the security council. well it was some other day of protests in several countries in support of the palestinians natasha going to reports from ancora. the turks have always been passionate about the palestinian cause despite the chil protesters spent three hours listening to music and speeches and they waved turkish and palestinian flags and a fair amount of anti-american signs using all of this is i'm going to take is a majority muslim country that acts unified and should lead in the muslim world if muslims are united i'm hopeful that your person in problem will be sought it. since u.s. president donald trump broke with decades of american policy and recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel the turkish street has been vocal and president read. and

has emerged as a potent advocate for palestinians he's pushing for leaders to take their condemnation and transform it into action. murder one is taking this case out of the heart and security council where he says he hopes to quote an old transit decision and it's unlikely he'll get much traction given that the united states holds a veto power but he says barring success there he'll move on to the u.n. general assembly it's clear turkey plans on going to new and to persist and hardliner this issue to the home of the deodorant old age. i am actually very glad of the trumpets a decision as it serves to unite the muslim world and get them into action. in the most populous muslim country and estimated eighty thousand indonesians marched to the american embassy in jakarta muslim clerics are calling for

a boycott of american and israeli products until truck reverses his decision saying in a time. i want all muslims to unite and to usher president of america to reconsider his decision for the good of all of humanity. that's unlikely considering that trump says this is a recognition of reality that it's in the best in. chris of the u.s. in the israeli palestinian peace process but protesters don't see it that way in karate thousands showed up for what was called the holy city million march almost two weeks after trump's announcement people continue to show their solidarity for palestinians and in doing so of also revived global attention to their plight natasha going to al-jazeera. well let's get more on that u.n. resolution on jerusalem to be discussed on monday mike hanna joins us from new york hi there mike so what are the details do you have then on this particular

resolution. well let's be very clear the set the stage is a draft resolution which has been circulating around the united nations it's largely been drawn up by egypt it appears the palestinians were insistent that the u.s. be mentioned by name in the document however this in terms of the draft that we've seen is not the case egypt along with the u.k. are intent on getting some measure into the security council that may avoid the u.s. veto perhaps a vain hope there but the document actually does state that it deeply regards regrets recent decisions regarding the status of jerusalem and then what it does is basically outlines what is the fundamental u.n. policy on jerusalem as outlined through decades of resolutions of both the security council and the general assembly the most recent of the general assembly being in of them but it which it said any actions taken unilaterally into roussillon must be

regarded as null and void exactly the same phrasing that is using in the drug used in the draft resolution we've seen so that is the situation the vote is expected to be taking place tomorrow that's a draft may change in some shape or form but also awaiting the draft is of course the possibility or probability of a u.s. veto and mike do you think this resolution at this stage is likely to have much impact. well it is that certainly the intention of those supporting or who will support the resolution to continue to publicize what is regarded as an illegal and unilateral action by the u.s. in recognizing theresa lim israel of course is completely rejected this draft resolution saying in its words at jerusalem was is and always will be the undisputed capital of israel in saying that the palestinians are attempting to

reinvent history this despite the fact as i said that the resolution only contains decades of resolutions by the un itself on the status of jerusalem if the u.s. does exercise its veto or the palestinians and indeed turkey who is also involved in the draft for a resolution intent on taking it to the general assembly they really are attempting to keep a full weight of public view on the anger and the resistance to the unilateral move by the u.s. i must mention two very quickly the resolution also calls on all u.n. member states not to move their diplomatic missions to jerusalem this in the fear that the u.s. move might be followed by some of the other few who do support the u.s. position within the u.n. general assembly mike hammer there with the latest from new york mike thank you.

thank. president vladimir putin has phoned his u.s. counterpart donald trump to thank him for an intelligence tip off from the cia that's believed to have foiled a series of islip tags russia's security services say they've arrested seven suspects i saw members who were planning attacks on targets including cazan cathedral inside petersburg putin said he would return the favor if russia's security services learned of any planned attacks on the u.s. well it comes as robert moog or the leader of the investigation into whether russia meddled with the u.s. election has been accused of illegally obtaining e-mails by a lawyer working with the trial team let's get more from tom ackerman now in washington hi there tom so just how unusual is it then for the russian president to pull the u.s. president on something like this. well it's certainly unusual for this public exchange about an intelligence matter we're still waiting for the

white house which is already confirmed that the call did in fact take place we're waiting for for details from this end of the call but you may recall that early in the troubled ministration when the president who was intent on actually fired just a just after firing the head of the f.b.i. james komi he brought in the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador and told them or passed on information intelligence and information relating to isel activity that he had been obtained from israeli sources which embarrassed the israelis they were not very happy with having that divulged but so it's clear that this probably is not the only time that two american heads of america and russia have exchanged this kind of information for their mutual benefit but the fact that it's been made public and particularly at

a time when the president is about to issue his national security assessment which it was supposed to have some harsh words about russia and indeed about their subversion of the election of the electoral process that comes out tomorrow so be interesting to see whether they'll be any revisions or softening of the language i don't want more than is known about the allegations against special counsel. well the complaint comes from lawyers for the transition seen trump's transition team who say that they improperly allowed access to thousands of e-mails of the transition team members twelve of them in fact four of them senior members without their permission these were stored on a government server and at the general services administration which provided the facilities for them to be stored the response of the. team is that they did nothing

that was not either with the permission of the e-mail accounts owners or through criminal process ordinary criminal process and in fact the g.s.a. that agencies as that they did not require any specific permission to release this information especially if it came through a court order but beyond that the fact that this was this was conveyed to a house committee which is led by republicans who are intent on curtailing the investigation at least at least at the congressional level shows that this is another piece of of ammunition that the supporters of president trump are trying to use it order to stoke their argument that the from that the rather the moeller investigators are hopelessly biased tomei come in there from washington d.c. tom thanks to suicide bombers have attacked

a church in southwest pakistan killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more gunman wearing those a vest tried to storm the christian methodist church in quezon city opening fire on sunday were suppressed the region's home minister says the attackers were intercepted at the entrance one of them dead while the other exploded his suicide vest eisel has claimed responsibility for the attack will come ohio has more now from islamabad. and there tag on a metro dish in the city of the provincial capital of baluchistan province leave the number of people dead many more wounded now according to the security forces had come under attack a few years ago and because of the heavy guard present to guard the warship was pregnant sunday mass now according to up to four hundred women and children and warship was while president inside the church however did want the timely action by

the security guard 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 aidid to warding gauge and blew himself up so indeed a deadly attack once again on a time when it crossed our country there was a red alert because of the christmas holidays and also the fact that there have been attacks in the pause again shrines and mosques says red at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed after taliban fighters attacked their choice checkpoints in helmand province in southern afghanistan the assaults on the two preschools in the provincial capital that. are just the latest in a series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the armed group has a strong and growing presence in helmand. meanwhile in neighboring kandahar province a car bomber has attacked a nato convoy an afghan woman was killed and four other civilian bystanders were

also wounded a spokesman for the nato mission said there had been no injuries amongst the troops in that convoy. so they come here on al-jazeera to contend is hoping to succeed jacob zuma as the a.n.c. decides the new leader plus. time wayne hay in the vietnamese capital hanoi where we'll tell you why motorbikes could soon be disappearing from the city's streets. welcome back as we look at the weather across europe there remains pretty cold in many areas you can see this circulation of low pressure giving some heavy snowfall across ukraine and into western parts of russia further south of course the belief flows attempt it's not too bad for athens but we've got more snow over the alpine region and as we move on through into choose

a still snow sign of it warming up across germany or poland those are my some time which of course and they have all sorts no pushing down in towards the balkans but the weather really i suppose across the iberian peninsula we've got high pressure sitting over the top of the region for the north temperatures nothing special for london and paris at eight and seven degrees respectively on the other side of the mediterranean sea it's quite a bit of cloud around and it's not particularly warm algiers cina struck in that temperature thirteen further towards the east we've got quite a bit of cloud but it should generate stay drawee here but temperatures struggling for tripoli and benghazi but it should turn to be quite a decent day in karo with a maximum of twenty five degrees celsius as you head down into central parts of africa we have showers for the board once again the congo and towards angola but general cross much the region is looking draw and find we should see plenty of sunshine in both lagos nigeria and accra in ghana where we're expecting a high of thirty.

once welcome and now fear. and dividing a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world i feel more judgment on syria. oh much money does a richer get north paper and put up think that it's been bought one german and i'm not the new germans at this time on al-jazeera. our minds of our top stories here on al jazeera global protests continue over u.s.

policy on jerusalem the united nations is to vote on monday on a draft resolution condemning president trump's decision. russia's president vladimir putin has phoned his u.s. counterpart on a charm to thank him for cia to part the help file a series of suspected islip tax on simply to spark. to suicide bombers have attacked the church in southwest pakistan killing at least eight people and injuring dozens more. the polls close in a few hours in the run off presidential election that will determine if chill a remains on its center left course or joins a tide of latin american nations turning to the right in recent years voters are choosing between conservative billionaire and former president sebastian pinera and center left counter that. they're now the economy is expected to weigh heavy on voters' minds with g.d.p. forecast to expand just one point four percent this year that's the slowest pace in eight years so let's go to our latin american city see

a new man who's in santiago hi there lou so just how tight is this race. this is a very tight race and because of that it is so tight. every single vote will count to now you're not seeing many people behind me now most people have already cast their ballot it's very very quick but this wasn't expected to be a tight election all and it turns out now that they save a stamp in yet of the former president has had to adjust his program significantly more to moderated more into the center now to take into account the very large number of chileans who are demanding more social change who want public health public education better pensions the sorts of things that the current government has already started reforming and while they are unhappy as you mentioned about the slow pace of economic growth they don't want to give up what they believe are are things that are only to do to a young democracy that is supposed to be. the picture postcard for latin america

the latin american economic success story but that's not working for everybody julie and this is counting the result be challenged. well normally they are not but as i say this is such a tight election and in fact it could be decided by as little as thirty thousand votes that now something has just happened that could really put a spider in the works there have been reports by at least twelve people of marked ballots previously marked ballots this has been it's being investigated by the electoral authority they say to keep calm only twelve so far it's not certain whether it was a question of the printing machine or whether somebody has been tampering with ballots but either way with such a tight election this could effectively add to the tension already as the polls are near to a close in an hour and a half from now the scene newman there joining me live from santiago to see

a thank you. now eleven women have reportedly been killed after airstrikes hit a wedding procession east of the yemeni capital the strikes thought to be launched by the side they led coalition killed the women as they walked to a village in modern province there are reports the bride was among the victims it's a tradition in rural yemen for the bride's friends and relatives to scored her to the wedding ceremony where the groom is waiting strong winds are continuing to power a massive wildfire in the u.s. state of california the so-called thomas far is now the third largest in the state's history and has burned more than two hundred sixty seven thousand hectares the same area of new york city nearly eight thousand five hundred firefighters have back in the glade which has destroyed more than one thousand structures and threatened eighteen thousand more fire department says it's now forty percent contained. earlier this week i referred 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 men and women out in the field i have no doubt they will take care of business and we will put this fire out. south africa's ruling party the african national congress has begun the process to choose who will succeed president jacob zuma as leader two front runners businessman and current deputy president sibal and soon as ex-wife is on a double meaning have been formally nominated as candidates to leave the a.n.c. posse decisions expected to be reached by monday the battle for power has exposed deep divisions within a party that shot the last public support over time with tanya pages more from the conference in johannesburg. 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 honored lamine exuma who is the outgoing president

jacob zuma as preferred candidate and would be the first woman president of the a.n.c. if she succeeds pitted against jacob zuma as defeated 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 have decided to split the vote in truth 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 isn't allowed to vote and that's led to the expulsion the disqualification of four hundred delegates delegates who are believed to have been in favor of meanies in the so that may cost or if the race becomes really close in

those final numbers are really tight the whole contest for the presidency is being framed as pitting the faction of reformers live for us all run across a against affection of patronage led by meanies zuma is perceived to be a continuation of our current president jacob zuma style of leadership governance and politics who wins this hotly contested race for the presidency will have an enormous challenge to try and unite a deeply divided and see protests is a taking to the streets again in total to demonstrate against president ford nothing big and to get in the marshes have been held across the country nearly eight should week since august. is in nigeria chairing a summit the leaders of the economic community of west african states. protesters are angry that togo's ongoing political crisis is not on the summit's agenda they want to step down and the two term presidential mandate with

a two run voting system to introduce. those old resupplied don't mean the world as it is 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 budget togo is the only country in the sub region that has no presidential term limit it has never experienced democratic free all fair elections since its independence nine hundred sixty more than thirty people have been killed in landslides and flooding in the central philippines tropical storm cried tak made landfall along side so they crash in the islands of samarra and take more than eighty one thousand people have been forced to flee to emergency shelters. catalans will head to the polls on thursday to vote in the election that could decide if their province breaks away from spain earliest the prime minister mariano rajoy made aware campaign stop in catalonia is far to sounds a little chance of winning the election but hopes that a coalition of the unionist parties could stop catalonia from seceding hall reports

now from salute. 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 like 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 are said to me for suggesting this we have always protest peacefully but they cheat us right

up starts in terror that's why these leaders have been jailed. the issue of cattle and independents plunged spain into its worst political crisis since the end of the ship fourteen years ago whatever the outcome there seems little chance the days election will help heal those deep political divisions call pinhole sallu spain. so many cities motorbikes are seen as part of the solution to traffic congestion a problem a case of two wheels good for wheels bad but the bike boom in vietnam means more than five million of them are being ridden around the capital so now the government supplying the brakes with the battle motorbikes immune to reduce traffic jams and pollution when he reports from hanoi. 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 our culture actually i think it's kind of an convenience. yeah that must make. your life in vietnam using metta bikes is like a tradition for people but i think traffic is getting worse so if the government does this i think will 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 bikes 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 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 live here the government needs to prepare thorough lead 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 of 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's streets wayne hay al jazeera hanoi the second christmas delivery is on its way to the international space station three currier blasted off from kazakhstan on the fourth and final man the launch of this year the astronauts from the u.s. japan and russia follow an unmanned cargo capsule which was sent into orbit on saturday both the juice to dock at the space station and choose day. we can find out much more about the stories we're following on our web site for that head to debbie debbie debbie dot al-jazeera dot com.

let's have another quick look at the top stories making the news here on out to zero the un security council will vote on monday on a draft resolution submitted my egypt calling for the withdrawal of u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel it comes as demonstrations have been taking place across the world against the decision by president donald trump attacks are going to in reports from the turkish pull. in addition to all the turns . you're also hearing signing a lot of entire bill consent to such as the president and i certainly have heard one has emerged as a advocate for the palestinians has been rallying other iraq and run the country. to show their solidarity in rio against president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel russian president vladimir putin has phoned u.s. president donald trump thanking him for the cia's help in foiling a terror plot incent petersburg russia security services say they have arrested

seven suspected i saw members who were coming attacks on targets including cazan cathedral in st petersburg where the polls close in a few hours in chile and the presidential election runoff voters in the south american nation are choosing between conservative billionaire and former president sebastian pinera and center left candidate gary. two suicide bombers have attacked a church in southwest pakistan killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more gunman wearing explosive vest tries to storm the methodist christian church in queta city opening fire on the sunday worshippers i saw claimed responsibility at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed after taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in lashkar gah the capital of helmand province is also the two pre-schools of the latest in a series of deadly attacks on security forces claimed by the time a bomb eleven women have reportedly been killed after airstrikes hit

a wedding procession east of the yemeni capital sama the strikes thought to be launched by the saudi led coalition killed the women as they walked to a village in a province like the current headlines talked to al jazeera speaks to russian activists about her upbringing in the nuclear age we'll see you later. who. in the world. sees. the miami gloms in the southern euros birthplace of the salvi.