security sure the people who paid the price clearly the right top been prejudiced setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al jazeera. seen as a holy city by the three major monotheistic religions jerusalem has been contested for centuries al-jazeera brings you a special program about the status of jerusalem and its importance with our correspondents across the palestinian territories and opinions from around the world we explore the reality on the ground and the impact the us is the intention to move its embassy to jerusalem or have on the peace process the holy land on al-jazeera. the united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in

the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation one hundred twenty eight countries reject america's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital in a defiant vote at the u.n. . watching al-jazeera lie from a headquarters and. also a heads peruse congress votes against impeaching the president over corruption allegations the ousted catalan president says his people have sent a message to the world after a separatist party's claimed victory in the regional election. a year since the end of fighting in the syrian city of aleppo we take a look at what it means for the country's six year war. fellow the united nations general assembly has voted by

a huge majority to the clear the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital void one hundred twenty eight states voted for the non-binding resolution with just nine against and thirty five abstentions countries that sided with america to vote against the resolution where israel guatemala honduras marshall islands micronesia now rue paolo and tokyo or the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. had warned she would be taking names of states which voted against washington stance mike hanna has more from the united nations in new york. the two thirds majority is comfortably reach this vote to a sweeping repudiation of president trump's unilateral action in recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel the result heralded by the apparent isolation of the u.s. delegation in the chamber and the enthusiastic welcome given to the palestinians. whose foreign minister addressed the assembly and insisted that jerusalem would be

the capital of a palestinian state mr merrill young we need today not because of any animosity towards the us but because of its decision which constitutes an aggression on the genuine a natural rights of the palestinian people to the city of jerusalem the israeli ambassador holding up a two thousand year old coin as evidence of israel's claim to the city it proves the ancient connection of the jewel to jerusalem and togo one dearest said guatemala join the six nations that had voted against a similar resolution affirming jerusalem status last month and a number of abstentions increased from nine to thirty five the special ops the result of the threats made by the us to retaliate financially against those who voted in favor this is bullying and this jumble will not bow to the duck it is unethical who think that works and dignity off member states are for sale

let me put it in these three we will not be intimidated you can be strong but if this doesn't make you right dismissive us reaction during the turkish foreign minister speech and the ambassador once again adopted a threatening tone in her response the united states will remember the stay in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world's largest contribution to the united nations. there are questions now about the future of u.s. led attempts to renew negotiations particularly as the palestinian leadership insists it will not talk to u.s. representatives in the light of president trump's decision the u.s. ambassador claimed the vote could determine the way in which u.s.

citizens view the united nations in reality though the result reflects a global condemnation of president trump his strategy and his policies mike hanna. united nations well the palestinian chief negotiator condemned what he described as intimidation by the u.s. but says the u.n. vote shows respect for the rule of law it's a day of shame to those who stood shoulder to shoulder with occupation settlements against international law and i do appreciate very much the majority of the international community decided in spite of the threats and intimidation of the state to stand tall and to stand shoulder to shoulder with was the farsightedness international law and the rule of law another rule of the jungle meanwhile benjamin netanyahu thanked president trump for supporting israel. israel completely rejects

posterous was a drusilla's our capital always was always will be but i do appreciate the fact that a growing number of countries refused to participate in this theater of the absurd so i appreciate that and especially i want to again express our thanks to president trump an investor only for their store defense of israel and there's goal difference of the truth well donald trump has already proposed deep cuts to u.s. foreign aid as part of his twenty eight thousand budget currently hipped is the biggest recipient of u.s. aid behind israel followed by jordan afghanistan and kenya all nine of the top recipients behind israel voted against the u.s. except for kenya would skip the meeting but the trumpet ministration could have a difficult time cutting foreign aid assistance as it warned some aid programs like the one to egypt are mandated by congress and any major withdrawal of u.s.

aid to african countries that took the side of the palestinians would further open the door to china which is competing for a greater influence on the confidence. of jordan has more from washington d.c. . it may warm the hearts of conservative republicans and christians here in the united states to hear the u.s. president donald trump and the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley's say that there will be financial and perhaps other diplomatic repr cautions for countries that voted for a resolution calling on the u.s. to resend its decision to put its embassy in jerusalem and recognize that city as the capital of israel the u.s. president has said that he is more than prepared to cut financial aid to other countries that have voted for this resolution and nikki haley has repeated a statement that she has been making since the beginning of her tenure as u.s. ambassador which is that she is going to be quote taking names in fact there is now

a rumor that she's going to be holding a reception for the countries that voted against the resolution for showing their support for the united states and by extension for israel but the practical point is this trying to decide not to spend money on foreign policy policy is something that has to go through congress the first attempt by the trumpet ministration to cut foreign affairs spending has already been rebuffed by members of congress both republican and democratic the other part of it is that some of the foreign aid that the u.s. spends every year is mandated by congress and it would take an act of congress to for example not provide military aid to jordan or egypt and that's something that probably members of congress are not going to be inclined to change or to resist giving more money to members of nato such as to turkey which also voted for this

resolution again this is something that congress would probably take a dim view of so this may be good political rhetoric at the end of a dairy very difficult political year for the trumpet ministration but it may not have the kind of paying off and it may be practically impossible for the trumpet ministration to make good on its threats. u.s. vice presidents mike pence has made a surprise visit to afghanistan he met with afghan leaders as well as u.s. troops stationed in the country and set the trump administration wants to take advantage of what he called new alignments in the region with the the rising threat of iran in the region you have many urban nations that are engaged in something that could be described as the beginning of a new alignment. and taking the opportunity this is stuart moment as the president did. at the summit but he attended that historic summit. to call on arab countries

to partner with us or against terrorism but also to call all the countries israel and arab countries to come together to achieve. peace that's been so elusive. you know you know between israel and the palestinians. congress has voted against removing president had a republic over corruption allegations it followed twelve hours of debates opponents wanted him impeached he's accused for saving illegal payments from the brazilian construction giant other brats the company has been at the center of a massive bribery scandal that's caused political upheaval across south america. peru's prime minister said it was time for the president's opponents in congress to move on you pick up you know but in yemen you are not the expectation of tomorrow is to start living in a national reconciliation in a space of peace for the good of our population every citizen wants to work

together but in a sense of joining us from the most so was this expected mariano. all right i'm afraid we're having marianna can you hear me. all right i can you can you don't get it was this expected. no during this was certainly not the expected outcome for four days now analysts have been saying all along that it was very possible that precedent is to see would be removed from office but the main promoter of this impeachment the popular force party did not get was eight votes short of the eighty seven balls needed to impeach a president that of our local teens is in part i think is because one faction of

the left wing party that had promoted the motion to impeach the president has changed. is had changed around the last few days and now they were saying that this was in fact check aggression those who against the president and the other reason i think for this unexpected outcome is that the part of the members of. the party of the popular force party led by people for humanity abstain from voting at least ten members of her party abstained from voting and this of course is more than i would should say. president who seems to be keeping or as much as important a christmas wish to see keeping the presidency this has been an incredible loss for a kid of an immense and incredible power in congress because she won an absolute

majority so since then she's been having a very strong fight against buttin ski and she's brought down five government government ministers has since then the cabinet and now she was asked was a precedent and one of the reasons that i am a loose explain how did this happen how didn't she just track and this is because there was a big fight between her and her brother came to within the party so this outcome. what it shows is that there's been a fracture within the footy body party ok bit of our local chines he the president has only come out of his house in the middle of the night to greet some of his followers who are in front of his home and he's only tweeted a. he's only tweeted sane that tomorrow is a new chapter for the country and he's chapter of reconstruction and reconciliation marianna sanchez thank you for that update from lima. spain's worst political

crisis in decades looks set to continue after a separatist party is won the most seats in catalonia snapp regional election it wasn't a resulting victory as a pro unity party became the biggest in the catalan parliament but the result is a blow to spanish prime minister mariano de hory who called the vote in the hope of defeating the independence movement from barcelona called pedal reports. celebrating victory but now this fight is far from over that is independent of the movement for independence or for republicans once again won the elections thanks. to win by catalan separatist parties risks stoking the confrontation with spain's central government. in another barcelona neighborhood another celebration. for the pros unionist citizens party which favors one main

part of spain thank god i am catalonia we won the election for the catalan parliament. citizens party won the most votes thank you it's a hollow victory this election was never about the biggest single party but much more about coalition building now this is what it's all about one hundred thirty five seats up for grabs in the chamber of the cattle and parliament the magic number sixty eight that's what either the separatist bloc or the unionist block will need to take majority control election day began for the telly cabinet as family like millions of other cast lands. just a few steps to the polling station. the couple voted for separatist candidates the ballot slips read more like a police most wanted list spanish prosecutors had arrested leading separatist

candidates on charges of rebellion some remain in jail some pled abroad and others are out on bail pending trial. across town brought somebody estrada headed to the polls it was her chance to cast a ballot for one of the parties vowing to stop the breakup of spain. as been following this story i'm hopeful because we needed a change after all these months of so much of the independence cause and hoping for change the outcome was a defeat for the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy he dissolved the catalan parliament in the wake of that october referendum. called for the elections hoping that he would gather some support for his own policies and it has completely backfired in the coming days process session parties will have to agree a joint strategy force madrid to negotiate or press ahead with plans for

a breakaway republic. al-jazeera ocelot. still ahead on al-jazeera the cholera epidemic in yemen reaches a one million cases in just nine months and zimbabwe's new leader calls on compatriots in south africa to return home and help rebuild the country. hello winter is taking a step back in this part of the world if anything drawing all that cloud out of north africa is coming from it's being driven by a southerly breeze near the surface so temperatures have been rising and they're still going to stay up twenty three to twenty five degrees is much warmer than it should be from jerusalem northwards even lepas seventy turkey is showing signs of a change in the weather six in ankara was right in stone with you know the next day

or so but the want to spread across to iraq twenty four is the forecast in baghdad and in kuwait city and even in terre you must sing start right for the season however that's how it sits in the moment to the science of that the changes haven't been that great we've seen the breeze die recently down through the gulf and so dusty skies and twenty five degrees a slight increase in the temperature and their authors too in mecca and we nearing the thirty mark in the suicide of a man once more pretty standard fare they were warmer than the last couple of weeks for many. dropping sas through the wet season and you can see from the forecast we'd expect the rain to be a little less heavy than it was in malawi zimbabwe and southern towns near it is still there and back to zaire and then this line that runs through north and then the namibia botswana to the eastern side of south africa it's a valid being some pretty heavy showers once again.

abandoned by the state social collectives are occupying space is among the people tend to text working on the edge of the moon. in the first episode architecture some. tools i'll just leave out into the realm of building in saying. at this time on just the. top stories on al-jazeera the united nations general assembly is decisively back to resolution that declares the u.s.

recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel know and for you one hundred twenty eight states voted for the non-binding resolution with just line against them thirty five abstentions us president donald trump had threatened to cut financial aid to countries that the resolution. congress has voted against removing presidents. over corruption allegations the prime minister says it's now time for kaczynski opponents to move on. spain's political crisis looks set to continue after supper says the party's won the most seats in catalonia regional election it's a blow to spain's prime minister mariano to call the vote in the hope of defeating the independence movements. of the united nations says at least sixteen people have died while waiting for medical evacuation in syria's besieged region the head of the un's humanitarian task force for syria says many more will die unless medical aid. it is allowed in yannick agnel and also said he hopes the latest talks in.

will help bring an end to the war. on the humanitarian workers doctors nurses we. see. military missions all those. going to force the government. so we're really lucky we might turn this facility. down it's not because the battle for the syrian city of aleppo began in twenty eight twelve fighting ended one year ago on friday when pro-government forces took control of the entire city the rebel held east was under siege and a final offensive force the opposition to agree to a surrender and a withdraw the government now has the upper hand on the ground but it didn't put syria on the road to peace. reports from neighboring lebanon on. thousands

were made homeless civilians fighters activists opponents of the government who were forced to leave aleppo city these syrians now live in rebel controlled province their suffering isn't over. we always thought that aleppo was ours but we were forced to leave they took it now we're living a very difficult life and no one is helping us. it's been a year since the battle for aleppo came to and the opposition surrendered its last stronghold people were under siege for months and trapped in a war zone the choice they had was to die or leave their home. the home of the most difficult moment was when i stepped onto the bus and said goodbye to my city i've had that i lost the part of me or hated the world. omar didn't just lose his home but was the heart of their revolution young men like the

were hopeful when the rebels captured the east of the city of two thousand and twelve. as a journalist to document the conflict that followed now he says the years of sacrifices amounted to nothing. they killed our families how can i return to an area under their control i would rather die elsewhere just as long as it is in liberated territory. pro-government forces always stressed the importance of the fight thousands of troops were used in the final push. and. who. can take over. the unity of. aleppo wasn't just another battle it changed the balance of power in the government's favor and gave it political leverage. it was

a strategic game for the syrian government has shown no sign that it is ready to compromise or share power with its opponents where the so-called moderate rebels made their last stand in their defeat at the weekend their voice in any political settlement of. losing aleppo was for many of the opposition the beginning of their and. it is the end of the revolution for me. to live in dignity i can never go back because i am wanted by the regime and they will kill me. or the government december twenty two marks liberation and the beginning of the end of the war the opposition doesn't see it that way for them just like much of their country no longer belongs to that. route. the international committee of the red cross says that the number of suspected cholera cases in yemen has reached one million the u.n.

says yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis that's also a name has more. more than twenty two hundred yemenis have died from cholera since late april the disease continues to spread in what the u.n. has called the world's worst cholera outbreak the international committee of the red cross says yemen now has one million cases. going to got even though it is figures that we deal with the u.s. one hundred twenty seven humans. are not that good an idea yet but no he's an outbreak of these d.v.d.'s why because children have not been vaccinated and we want to know what next more than eighty percent of yemenis can't get food or clean water and lack access to health care and fuel adding to their misery aid groups have struggled to deliver supplies since november that's when the saudi led coalition blocked all ports of entry saying it needed to halt the flow of weapons

to the rebel who thiis vowing to international pressure the coalition has allowed some aid in but the u.n. says it's still not at the level required to help the more than twenty million people in need a shortage of commercial goods is also driving up prices. the price hike will cost starvation of thousands of people many goods can't enter the market because of the closed airports and ports on the other hand we don't have enough money to buy things not only the people but the whole country struggling to survive more than two and a half years of war has battered the country's infrastructure making the water supply unreliable and yemenis are trapped in a dangerous cycle malnutrition compromises the immune system and cholera exacerbates malnutrition the majority of people can survive cholera if given fluids to rehydrate and antibiotics in extreme cases aid groups are trying to expand access to health care and clean water one giant obstacle remains the war

natasha going to al-jazeera. warring factions in south sudan have agreed to a ceasefire the truce is set to begin on sunday following days of talks in ethiopia fighting the world's youngest nation has entered its fifth year the agreement calls for the release of prisoners of war political prisoners and access to a humanitarian aide thousands of people have been killed in the civil war and over a million have left the country for more than a decade south africa has been home to thousands of zimbabweans who left the country under robert mugabe's rule now zimbabwe's president wants them to come back on thursday he went to protest and called on them to return home and help rebuild their country tanya page reports he called and they came crowding the streets around zimbabwe's embassy in pretoria with the luxury cars suits and heels the

queue at the gate another clue something big was happening. new president. has launched a charm offensive to woo investors from the d.s. power and beyond his country is desperate for cash his audience smelled opportunity and hope to get. the infrastructure we have the capacity. to bring it back to way it was karen tracy was born and now he works for a logistics company and sees the chance to expand. to manufacture enough to become a country but you know. you know. what i'm dog lot may have been part of the establishment to predict kate but he's being seen as a free share for his open door policy. because.

and. thanks. but the small group of protesters say looting bygones be bygones will never be an option for them it's alleged but i got what orchestrated the killings of thousands of independent people in the one nine hundred eighty s. i was. right. i don't mind when i go. on these people say before when i go comes to south africa and talks about institutional business we should confront accusation that he was involved in some way in the messages and much of they say he has blood on his hands. and i don't trust him to run a free and fair elections next year. i wonder. what.

they want they would want us again as the case trickled out of the embassy the protesters were a reminder that the man leading them into the future has a past with some it's a question remember the tiny page al-jazeera pretoria. australia's first naval submarine has been found more than one hundred years after it went missing the one and its thirty five member crew vanished off the coast of papa new guinea in one thousand and fourteen during the first world war it was the first submarine lost by the allies during the war. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the united nations general assembly has decisively back to a resolution that declares u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel and void one hundred twenty eight

states voted for the non-binding resolution would just nine against and thirty five abstentions u.s. president donald trump has threatened to cut financial aid to countries that backed the resolution. congress has voted against removing president pedre public over corruption allegations the prime minister says it's now time for opponents in congress to move on. denied receiving illegal payments from a brazilian construction firm at the center of a massive bribery scandal. spain's political crisis looks set to continue after separatist parties won the most seats in catalonia snap regional election it's a blow to the spanish prime minister who called the vote in the hope of defeating the independence movement the deposed president. who is in self-imposed exile said that movement is now stronger than ever. the spanish state has been

defeated the. last one has got a slap in the face from the citizens of catalonia today. the three parties. are not in any way behind the political party. with these results and the situation needs to be rectified to be fixed we want you to rectify all those people you have hurt the united nations says at least sixteen people have died while waiting for medical evacuation in syria's besieged mr an entire region the head of the un's humanitarian task force for syria says many more will die unless medical aid is allowed in. the red cross says the number of suspected cholera cases in yemen has reached one million more than two thousand people have died from the highly contagious infection since the outbreak began in april the warring factions in south sudan have agreed to a ceasefire the truce is set to begin on sunday following days of talks in ethiopia the agreements calls for the release of prisoners of war political prisoners and

access to humanitarian aid those are the headlines on al-jazeera rebel architecture is up next. forced to flee from syria to lebanon many refugee mothers risked childbirth in terrible conditions delivery is very difficult here in lebanon 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 every woman i attend. she is important to me. there are a few g.'s midwife at this time on al-jazeera world. architect has always defined the human.