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one of them telling me it's all this is the knees are live from london coming up global protests over u.s. policy on jerusalem as the u.n. prepares to vote on a call for the decision to be with strong. curtain falls trying to thank him for cia information but boy i still attacks in russia. the former president hoping to return to power in chile as polls close and vote counting tickets so aside almost attack a church in southwest pakistan killing nine people and injuring dozens more. than wish with all the day's sport as a front runner smashes the world drug court for sailing around the world that and more later in the program. hello there a very warm welcome to the news hour the u.n. security council will vote on monday on

a draft resolution submitted by egypt calling for the withdrawal of u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel egyptian resolution affirms that any decisions and actions which purport to have altered the character status the demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem have no legal effect a null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions the security council well it was another day of protests in several countries in support of the palestinians al-jazeera natasha going to reports from. the turks have always been passionate about the palestinian cause despite the ankara chill protesters spent three hours listening to music and speeches they weave turkish and palestinian flags at a fair amount of anti-american signs reasonable that turkey is a majority muslim country that x. unified and together should lead in the muslim world if muslims are united i'm hopeful that your recent problem will be sorted. 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 on this case and security council where he says he hopes to quote an old trunks and decision and 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 u.n. general assembly it's clear turkey plans on going to new into president hardliner this issue to the home of the deodorant old age. old women and 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 an 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 it is not going to happen i want all muslims to unite and to the 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 and it's in the best interests of the us 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 have also revived global attention to their plight natasha going to al-jazeera. well let's get more on the u.n.

resolution itself which is being discussed on monday mike hammer and joins us live from new york hi there mike so what other details do you have. well this is a draft resolution that's been doing the rounds of the united nations this week and drawn up by egypt with input from some of the other un security council members it may change in format before getting to the security council for a vote but as it stands at present what it is is a restatement of the un's position on the status of jerusalem now i understand from some palestinian delegates that there's a degree of anger that the u.s. is not mentioned by name in the strap resolution however it's understood that countries like the u.k. as well as egypt wanted to leave any direct reference to the u. s. out of this particular resolution to try and get or try and avoid a u.s. veto in the security council but that being said the resolution does say it regrets

recent decisions regarding the status of jerusalem this appointed comment at the u.s. decision to recognize drusilla's the capital of israel israel itself well it has rejected the resolution saying that it is the palestinians attempting to reinvent history this despite the fact that the resolution is actually simply asking for all previous u.n. resolutions on the status of jerusalem to be re affirmed it's nothing new in the resolution it is a statement of existing the u.n. position on the status of the holy city and mike is this resolution likely to have any impact on. well it does appear that the palestinians egypt is drawing the sop turkey who's urging the push in pushing the resolution from the sidelines one to keep food public focus on the u.s. decision now what is also being done in this is the palestinians in particular

attempting to prevent any nations from following the u.s. lead and moving their capital to jerusalem moving their embassies to jerusalem and in fact this resolution specifically calls on all nations all member states of the u.n. not to move their diplomatic missions to jerusalem so there is that they do want to keep the public eye on the eve unilateral and in terms of the u.n. illegal u.s. decision to change the status of jerusalem unilaterally and they also want to continue to get the u.n. nations in anger in up in arms against this particular decision now what we understand too and what we heard from that report from ankara as well is that should the u.s. wield the veto in the security council monday then there is going to be a move to push the whole motion to the general assembly where there is no u.s.

veto in wait mike hanna is joining me live from new york mike thank you. russian president vladimir putin has phoned his u.s. came to pont donald trump to thank him for an intelligence tip off from the cia that's believed to have foiled a series of islip tax russia's security services say they've arrested seven suspected eisel members who were planning attacks on targets including cousin cathedral instead petersburg goodson said he would return the favor if russia security services of a learned of any planned attacks on the u.s. it comes of 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 the trumpets he will die an estimate is in washington for us hi there diane how unusual is it for the russian president to form the u.s. president on something like this. wired really it is a bit unusual now these two countries do share some information some intelligence

about terrorism and and president trump said today that this is a demonstrate this sort of demonstrates how these two countries who've been adversaries can actually work together but what is unusual is this is the second phone call from president putin to president trump in the last few days president putin called a few days ago to congratulate president trump on the economy and then called him today to thank him about this intelligence about this terrorism plot over in russia but again as you mentioned this all comes during this in the heat of this investigation by the special prosecutor robert mueller looking into whether looking into russian meddling into last year's presidential election and whether there was collusion within the trunk campaigns so the optics make this a little unusual and it is raising some eyebrows here in washington and throughout the united states i am what more do we know then about the allegations against

special counsel robert mueller. well what these allegations stem from are. thousands of e-mails that he was able to obtain from about the president's transition team last year and these were e-mails that were being held on a see it from a c. on a server from a separate federal agency the general services administration now the general services administration says that these e-mails could have been subject to audit and they could have turned them over to law enforcement which is apparently what they have done so it sounds like miller maybe didn't do anything wrong but despite that an attorney for president trump's transition teams is taking this to a congressional committee wants them to look into it says that there is something that was underhanded that was going on that these e-mails were obtained in an unauthorized way and again this is just part of it could be part of the president's

effort to derail this investigation that he calls a witch hunt sanest but there joining me live from washington d.c. dan thanks. coming up on this news hour the two contenders hoping to succeed jacob zuma as the a.n.c. decides on unita. spain's prime minister makes a rare campaign stop in catalonia ahead of thursday's regional polls. and in sport n.h.l. players brave brave below freezing temperatures in the canadian capital to celebrate one hundred years of the existing. to the poles of closed in vote counting is underway in chile's presidential election voters were choosing between conservative billionaire sebastian pinera and the center left candidate l. a hundred air the results will determine if chile were men remains on its center left course or joins the tide of latin american nations turning to the right in

recent years more let's go to an america editor lucien human who's at chile's largest polling station in some tiago hi there lucy so any indication so far of have the votes in scar. hi julie well the polls just closed and they are the results are being read out one by one ballot by ballot out loud behind me they're about to start doing exactly that i asked my cameraman to pan over there for just a moment what we're hearing so far is that at least in this polling station there are more or less tied but it's very difficult to tell this is expected to be an extremely tight presidential election very difficult to read it so far going to be fought vote by vote at least according to the campaigns on both sides it's about the only thing that they really can agree on now joining me to discuss this election and the turnout which is actually very significant because the more people

that vote the better chance. of the center left government can do that will have unless people vote the more that say of us jumping out of the former president would have. a political analyst from the university of joins me now to discuss just that just in what we don't know exactly how many people have voted but it is true what we're hearing that in some of the poorer neighborhoods the turnout was rather poor unlike here what how do you explain that i think it can be explained by the fact that the poor neighborhoods really voted in the first round of this election by betty santas a more left wing candidates and. they are from a coalition that's very fragmented there's no party discipline behind it that coalition didn't. decisively support the candidacy of year so it's anybody's guess really first of all whether they will turn out to vote and secondly whether they will actually vote for it this is the most unpredictable

election i've ever seen. but there were a lot of scare tactics on both sides weren't there yes in fact there was a very very significant. terror campaign run by the right through social media basically saying that if one then two. it would become like venezuela that everything would go downhill the economy would tank etc so there's been an awful lot of scaremongering more scare mongering more than i've ever seen again in chile ultimately what are the main what is the main decisive reason why somebody could buy why most chileans will vote one way or the other because the platforms or both say they're going to improve social services health care education pensions clearly their methods would be very different but what is it the chileans really will what do you think will make them decide well i think one of the big problems for both candidates is that nobody really believes what the candidates say anymore there's been a tremendous lack of trust in politicians and in politics so on the right really

what is motivating the voters is concern for the economy based think that if the left impeded does not win this election the economy will not grow sufficiently that there will not be enough investment flowing into chile whereas on the left wing on the left hand side of the political spectrum people are. just generally distract us ride with politics in general and again not really very motivated by this candidate early hundred a year and so on the left hand side really it's a case of ambivalence that's basically not taking people to the polls christian symbol thank you very much for sharing your thoughts with us indeed we also have been hearing a lot it's a case of voting for the the least bad candidate but we will know probably in about three hours if if if it's not as close as some have predicted who the next president of chile will be and of course we will have those results as soon as they come in from drastically see have looked forward to thanks to c.f.

. to suicide bombers have attacked a church in south west pakistan killing at least nine people and injuring dozens more gunman wearing explosive vest tried to storm the christian methodist church in queta city opening fire on the sunday worship christ the region's home minister says the attackers were intercepted at the entrance the shot one of them dead while the other exploded his best isis claimed responsibility for that attack come on high to has more now from islamabad. and their own method they. don't leave the number of people are there many more wounded now according to the security forces there's. a goal and because of the heavy guard the guard the warship was. sunday mass now according to view is up to four hundred women and children and wash your blood while pregnant inside the church however to

the time of the 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 i do warding gauge and blew himself obstacle indeed a deadly attack once again on a dime wearing across the country there was a red alert because of the christmas holidays and also the. watch again shrines and mosque. reporting there now at least eleven afghan police officers have been killed after taliban fighters attacked their checkpoints in helmand province that's in southern afghanistan this also the two preschools in the provincial capital lashkar gah are just the latest in the series of deadly attacks on afghan security forces claimed by the taliban the army 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 of

a civilian bystanders wouldn't it a spokesman for the nato mission said there had been no injuries amongst the troops in the convoy. 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 runner runners a businessman and current deputy president several polls and soon as ex-wife. have been formally nominated as can. d.n.c. party decisions expected to be reached by monday but the battle for power has exposed deep divisions within a party that sharp 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 for buying and intimidation are acknowledged to have swayed leadership contest after years of seumas rule soaring unemployment government corruption have left millions of poor black south africans frustrated with the

a.n.c. the candidates to replace him are deputy president civil pulsar he's a wealthy businessman and is backed by the business community which but he says he offers the best for the economy and the a.n.c. veteran. is jacob zuma ex-wife she's 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 covered against him tanya page has more from the conference itself 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 on a zoom or who is the outgoing president jacob zuma as preferred candidate and would be the first woman president of the n.c.a.a. if she succeeds pitted against jacob zuma is defeated president so. 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 into there have already been long delays firstly because of legal action a.n.c. members who weren't happy with the processes at the grassroots level taking their 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's led to the expulsion the disqualification of four hundred delegates delegates who are believed to have been in favor of in causes and let me resume this or 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 in for a small room across a against affection of patronage led by meanies whom he's 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. well set him barely in the he is a lecturer in international relations and south african politics at the university of pretoria and she joins us via skype from johannesburg as it's a barely a very warm welcome to the program good to have you along with us and it's today is day two of the conference itself where do you think it's looking more likely to win this contest. well look the one sins announced earlier this evening. of course i received the most number of nominations from different branches across the country so he does had a slight lead in terms of the branch some nations. saw the tradition of christ in far more than god says and that's i mean is a mess so in that way in that case i think that he does have very good chances of

becoming the christ and of course the thing that we don't know is because is that to put it branches have got different numbers of candidates of delegates that are going to be don't think this evening and so if brunches awaited more in terms of having a higher number of delegates that could sinkings to her side so either way it's going to be a very close election and a very tight race and i don't think that either candidate is going to win by a very large margin and what does either candidate have to offer a what will these candidates mean for the future of the potty which i guess has to be reunited and also for the country. well look you know glen of the things i think that i'm opposed to when we do that is that it would go some way in restoring business confidence and be good to the economy i mean we've already seen this evening the rand strengthening had

a great team since the announcement got made his nomination i think that just points to how match the markets and how much business thinks of him as a capable cosen to steer the economy is especially in light of the current economic downturn to tell africa and i think that what she has got to suggest a long history in the in the party she's held several cabinet positions and drain in terms of the experience of government she has the most experience kind of the big concern of course is everybody that comes with that she has been supported by many people the ex-husband supporters and who it appears would want to maintain the kind of current systems that has been cold state kept in in south african disclosed good rate each maintaining a system of corruption and of things being dental posts or in richmond rather than to deal with the very many problems that the country's currency facing what about

the party itself if they can see a terminal decline or can it save itself. well i think the beings he is going through this saying that mainly african liberation movements have gone through where a few years twenty or so years after they've come into power they really begin to do the same to that kept them together but they also begin to lose a sense of why the party exists and what they're actually fighting for i think the risk also for those kinds of politics is that once you are in power the trappings of state power and patronage really change the reason that people join politics and can eventually lead to the destruction of the part of said i think that the a.n.c. is very different from other liberation movements that have become political parties or even some of the dominant parties in countries as diverse as india and

want to paddle mexico and i think that we are seeing that take process of detroit and that there has to be expected taking place and we've seen that the agency's vote share of the vote has declined of the times and certainly over the last ten years and i think we can only expect that to take place as well in the next national election in twenty nineteen regard to that of who is in charge of the party was it who wins this week and i think that what we will see is the a.n.c. gradually losing its share of the votes especially as the electorate is getting younger and the people that are going to be voting the majority of people voting in the next elections and certainly the election after the people that. born often one thousand nine hundred four who don't remember the legacy of nelson mandela who don't remember the a.n.c. as this new age of liberation movement and so i think that the aims who's to is stoppable with of course it's going to be terminal or not is yet to be seen

september but take joining me there on skype thanks very much. here. clans will head to the polls on thursday to vote in an election that could decide if their province breaks away from spain earlier spanish prime minister mariano rajoy made a rare campaign stop in catalonia itself it's party stands the chance of winning the election but roy hopes that a coalition of the unionist parties could stop the loan you're from seceding copper and all sorts not 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 they could see dushan after the spanish government ruled catalonia october referendum illegal or thora he's arrested keys secessionist leaders on charges of rebellion and dissolve the catalan parliament officials were carefully orchestrating the whole his message allowing journalists only to record the arrival and departure at this point now event told the noises there are skiing 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. testers calling for the release of their jailed separatist leaders they describe as political prisoners. a night before in barcelona other activists rallied for the second demand seem to be mostly children in the first fifteen years we have always protesting peacefully but they cheat us right up starts in terror that's why these leaders have been jailed. the the issue of catalan independence plunged spain into its worst political crisis since the end of dictatorship forty years ago whatever the outcome there seems little chance those days election will help heal those deep political divisions call pen hole salloum spain still to come on the al-jazeera news. man

accused of being a north korean agent after he tried to sell million dollar missile components on the black market we met rural indians here hoping good jurat state poll results will finally give them a voice in politics and a dramatic return to the slopes for now limpid champion details coming up at summer . welcome back as we look at the weather across europe it 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 for the surface of the leaf los attempt is not too bad for our fins but we've got more snow over the alpine region and as we move on through into chews they still snow sign of it warming up across germany or poland those of mice and temperatures of course and they've all sorts no

pushing down in towards the balkans best 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 is quite a bit of cloud around and it's not particularly warm algiers cina struggling there temperature thirteen further towards the east we've got quite a bit of cloud but it should it jerry stay dry here but temperatures struggling for tripoli and benghazi but it should turn to be quite a decent day in cairo with a maximum of twenty five degrees celsius as you head down into central parts of africa we have showers for the bond once again to your congo and towards angola but general cross much the region is looking dry and fine we should see plenty of sunshine in both lagos nigeria and ghana where we're expecting a high of thirty. i have found and by this date social collectors are occupying space is among the

people a military architects working on the edge of little. in the first episode of travelogue detect some of the adults seem to have chosen al-jazeera into the realm of self building in space. you really can't say at this time on al-jazeera. sometimes for when really looking into the hearts and the souls of those directly involved in the friends taking place very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who've been affected you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a generation past that can often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from.

our minds of our top stories current here on al-jazeera global test continue over u.s. policy on jerusalem the united nations is to vote on monday on a draft resolution condemning president trump decision. russia's president vladimir putin has spoken to u.s. counterpart donald trump to thank him for cia to park that help for a series of suspected i still a tax on this. account is on the way in chile is presidential runoff election where polls have just closed. plus the kind. of the i'm joined from santiago by my. slow he's a staff the station for our two analysis company at their warm welcome to the

program funks very much for your company how much is voter turnout going to affect who wins. here it's one of the most important thing about this election the first question these about participation is normally decreasing. you know in the last election if the turnout failed by one million in second row but the another difference such a belief to go with defeat the candidate of the right you know people know that she she will defeat she will defeat in this time we come up closer to election and we don't know really what what will be the result and make well your of you is it looking more likely that the former president sebastian pinera is looking more likely to win. if that turns out if the turnout falls down to six

million there were nothing erase expected in the other hand if the turnout remains a stable or gross or from more than six point six million year cover more chances to win you know. at this time he is in fact two hours before both candidates are calling to the people to vote you know and the day election. was we will be results about the vote dissipation and what about the turnout goes in this second term. oddity the electoral challenges that each candidate is is facing yet in india is part of the analysis determined for vote of similar in the case of piniella took up her the extreme right voters of course antonio cause without loosing their voters of the center right like philippe gust of the center console about the like also undone and the other challenge is to take the vote of center

left but the likely still democracy that a lot of tension with the extreme left rolled from for example. there joining me on the line from skype well thank you thank you very much you really and we are looking about what what will be the result thanks. a state of emergency has been declared in southern chile after a landslide devastated an entire village and these five people were killed and fifteen people are still missing after dozens of homes were destroyed in. the story . of devastation as far as the eye can see rain triggered a landslide that tore through the village of something you see on saturday thousands remain without electricity while rescue workers search for survivors. of a half uncles who went missing on what. 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 santiago local media reported a usually heavy rain during the previous twenty four hours president michelle 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 rescue teams continue their search to lucy is near corcovado national park which is popular with tourists principal cato's and boris the disaster happened on the eve of the runoff election to choose she lays next president in two years' time. 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 or led coalition killed the women as they walked to a village in the arab province there are reports that the bright was amongst the victims it's a tradition in yemen for the bride's friends and relatives to this quarter the wedding ceremony where the groom is waiting. to libya where thousands of people have taken part in rallies across the country in support of renegade general. they're calling on him to take charge after two year un backed mandate expired on sunday but the u.n. maintains that its mandate for the libyan government remains in effect until a new one is introduced. the seventeenth of december has arrived and go through it with the end of what is the so-called sure curates agreement therefore all institutions created by this agreement of void these institutions have not obtained full legitimacy since the first day they started working in the water and as of today libyans feel that they have lost

patience and that the promised period of peace and stability has become a way dream up of the peace inside iraq be a have a release that subhi all mussed of a palestinian billionaire who heads up one of the biggest banks in the middle east almost who was detained last tuesday as part of an anti-corruption drive by crime prince mohammed bin solomon he's built a side the in jordanian citizen and chairman of the arab bank which is the largest lender in jordan a musri says he was treated with respect whilst in detention and is expected to return to jordan soon. egypt sorted al jazeera journalist with his aim to remain imprisoned for another forty five days he was arrested in egypt almost a year ago was visiting family it's now the tenth time his detentions been renewed al-jazeera continues to demand his release he's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny it has repeatedly complained

of mistreatment in jail. in place of charge the man accused of acting as an agent for north korea fifty nine year old chum hunch oil was arrested in sydney after allegedly trying to sell millions of dollars worth of missile components and call on behalf of can yank on the global black market north korea's cash flow has been severely restricted by un sanctions aimed at pressuring the government to stop its missile program is 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 tsunami will that regime will be brought to its senses under thomas has more now from sydney to join hands 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 pro on the heart of the regime that's what activity breaks united nations sanctions and australian sanctions it also breaks australian laws specifically designed to prohibit the development or production of weapons of mass destruction is the first person ever to be charged under a law the weapons of mass destruction act passed by the parliament here back in one thousand nine hundred five will be alleging in court this name 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 so i would miss to componentry from north korea to other entities abroad as another routine 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 of going ahead then it would have raised tens of millions of dollars for the north korean regime sixty million people in western india waiting to hear who their leaders will be results from thursday's legislative assembly election and good you are due to be announced on monday the opposition congress party is making a comeback with a strong challenge to the ruling. party been in power there for twenty two years and they just have been highlighting the state's growth and economic reforms but many will community say they've been left out as to vehicle pile and reports that.

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 villages aria. now the government's boys' school competes with five modern private schools classes said this school had been reduced facilities are inadequate. teachers are not long ago top students from also szell backgrounds now only have children from low income families six one of 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 would schools argue in 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. despite good drugs 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're 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 their 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 into power there will be a change in industrial policy in the past they support the small industries and so clear to jokes. 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. strong winds are continuing to power a massive wildfire in the u.s. state of california so-called thomas fire is now the third largest in the state's history and has burned more than two hundred sixty seven thousand hot tears as the same area. new york city and eight thousand five hundred firefighters have battling the blaze which just destroyed more than a thousand structures and threats in the eighteen i was more the 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. still to come on the al-jazeera news hour. from wayne hay in the vietnamese capital hanoi way will tell you why much of bikes could soon be disappearing from the city's streets. in sport we'll hear from lebanon's national hockey team which is bidding for him to march the recognition. with a new era in television news. it doesn't say that he's a tall stu do things in secret that are a little we had actual victims who had survived torture or detention and saying

this was the calls on my arrest if you could. just stay the fuck would you have stood by this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of talent but it if you can give them the opportunity to a wonderful thing stop. looking at the actual distance there's at least twenty thousand for him to refugees who live here we badly need at this moment leadership until president hosni mubarak has resigned. is going to be the next president we tell you should we bank how do you guys go back she's very kind of citizen gas subsidies i believe that has to prove it to be if you're getting any way to skip record that. he achieved something that never happened before.

let's get all the discourse to stand here. thank you very much julia all french sailor has smashed the world record for the fastest sotto navigation of the globe possibly completed his round the world journey in leicester forty three days beating the previous at best by more than six days as peter stan it of course. not big thirty four year old francois gabble was a man on a mission on november fourth the frenchman six 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 spello countryman thomas scoville last year he had to be back by december twenty third. you have all would zip around the world in

his high tech thirty meter sailboat a maxi tri mare and one of the most technically advanced yachts around but from the starting point between wes on france and called will england he would sail around and on 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 north west france and southwest england. and of course he tweeted about the two. becomes the fourth world record holder for sailing around the globe solo. i think i was lucky i was successful 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 i had to keep it going he's mammoth journey last had forty two days sixteen hours forty minutes and fifty five seconds and because

clearly he has little in the way of limitations instead of taking a wrist he is already talking about flying around the world in record time peter al-jazeera by just saying i had one again and to close the gap to eleven points on top of the english premier league city this time united it beat to a west brom to one. and with the goals a manager says his team will continue fighting for the title every man should go every match we try we try to win because if you do that question it was and then you do the same question to go into the fourth into the field into the sixth you know probably they disappear probably they want they want to go on holidays we don't want to play until this match is on the other a match to liverpool a smashed up on the a by four goals

a nail there up to fourth right now and you can see day and night a trailing city up by eleven points. brazilian football legend kaka has called time on his career the midfielder 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 titles and with brazil he twice tasted success at the constellations cup he was also a young member of the squad that won the two thousand and two world cup. lympics super g. champion on a visit to has won her first world cup race in more than two years the twenty eight year old austrian know who has been struggling with injury since two thousand and fifteen one by almost a half a second. in france and he read out to tina. and it's only

sophia. also didn't have lindsey vonn to contend with the four time world champion pulled out of the race because of the soreness in her. fellow austrian. destroy the competition that to win the dies by one point seven seconds out. is a fifth year in a row he's won the race at the italian result this is her third cup race with of the season in the forty eighth of his career which puts him on track for a record of extending seventh overall cup title in a row. the national hockey league is officially one hundred years old the league celebrated by holding an outdoor game in the kid a capital ottawa the city had hosted the league's first ever game between the montreal canadiens and auto asenath as there were two of six foundation teams that won the n.h.l. was established in the seventeen there are now thirty one and they produced

a repeat performance in the n.h.l. one hundred classic the senators and their fans survived a minus ten degrees temperatures of four winning three thing of just being a 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 i think the n.h.l. never buddy you know for a team in there in the city did an unbelievable job making this a real success at all levels. on the game show that canada is the home of hockey and the country plays host to more than one national team lebanese side is based in montreal and the bidding for international recognition daniella reports. 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 coaches 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 better than 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 dhabi 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 a pride for me but i think when i see my dad is reaction of me playing for his country that's the best gift i can give my. 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 archaeologist zero montreal. that's it for me back to chile summer and keep now in many cities motorbikes are seen as part of the solution to

traffic congestion rather than the problem a case of two wheels good for wheels not so much but the bike boom in vietnam means more than five million them are being written around the capital and now the government supplying the brakes the ban on water like saving to reduce traffic jams and pollution when he reports now from hanoi. vietnam's road to economic success is becoming clogged 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 i think it's kind of an convenient. yeah that was made.

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 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 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. 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 streets when hey al-jazeera hanoi the world's steepest finnick killer railways opened in switzerland and it's being hailed as a significant achievement for the european technology futuristic looking train climb seven hundred forty three meters up the mountain from chivvy in central

switzerland to the alpine village of toast at the barrel shaped carriages have special tilting floors so passengers can stay upright even as they speed up gradients of nearly fifty degrees it took fourteen years to build and this developers say it's not just a tourist attraction it will help to connect rule communities as well. very impressed that you can find out much more on our website about the stories we're following take a look there you can see our central story right in the middle of a page loads of video on demand right there at al-jazeera dot com c.n.n. with the headlines.

quote. we here to jerusalem bureau covered israeli policy for four years we cover this story with a lot of intent to recover includes that we don't dip in and out of the story we have a presence here all the time apart from being a cameraman it's also very important to be a journalist to know the story very well before going into the fields covering the united nations and global the policy for al-jazeera english is pretty incredible this is where talks happen and what happens here matters.

images from the niger delta through the unflinching eyes of a look up photographer. an artist on a mission to demonstrates the good on that bad to his beloved homeland documents the effects of the black gold feeds and disfigured. and showcases the traditional monarchs caught between a modern wild and a tribal culture the new african photographer this time on the al-jazeera.