time in punchbowl and this time on al-jazeera alpha this is the opportunity to understand a very different where where there. is a little. my name is in some people saying that my feelings are only programmed that they're not real but if i think the real then they are real don't you think south america was designed to be the world's most advanced autonomous android which is one of the more advanced robots in the world can or about feel that's a philosophical question it's not a lot of what you do socially connect on a subconscious level we are creating this new kind of entity techno this toy all knowledge is ear. the united states who's no longer a credible mediator in the peace process the palestinian president who rejects any

u.s. efforts to broker a middle east peace deal. and hundreds of palestinian staged protests against president all its on its decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. hello long see to us on this is and is there a long way from london also coming up spain's prime minister rejects a call from catalonia ousted leader to meet to separatist parties retained a slim majority in the state's regional election. and peruse president survives an impeachment vote over corruption allegations. palestine's president says his country won't accept any u.s. backed middle east peace plan mahmoud abbas was reinforcing his position off to the

u.n. rejected president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem israel's capital about also urged fronts and europe to step up and play a bigger role in peace efforts after meeting the french president in paris that has more from. it was no surprise that the palestinian leader greeted the french president warmly as he arrived at the elise a palace emanuel mark karr has been a staunch critic of the united states' decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel after talks on the crisis mahmoud abbas's said the palestinians could no longer accept a u.s. peace plan. the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties and failing and because of this violation of international law. macro has stepped up efforts to mediate in the crisis meeting

with the king of jordan and israel's prime minister earlier this month he wants to try and help revive talks but he has ruled out unilaterally recognizing palestine is the state saying it would be unhelpful at this time he's only just what the americans have marginalized themselves and i'm trying not to do the same thing that i think france's credibility lies in taking a position as we have today where we can talk to everyone emanuel michael says he's using france's position as a country that has good relations with all sides to try and help and with the palestinians no longer considering the u.s. as an honest broker it could leave the door open for france to play a greater role. for what we've seen as a manual macro getting really involved even of this is a very sensitive to. stay france's position it is difficult but macron to really looking to restore iran's once ahead and put it on a national day of change. the decision by the u.s.

on driessen continues to draw international condemnation thursday more than one hundred twenty countries including france back to u.n. resolution demanding washington withdraw its decision and across the world politicians continue to voice their concerns. supports the position that the conflict between israel and palestine should be resolved between them including the sharing of the final status of jerusalem. great importance to the palestine issue because with things palestinians to retry it's to establish their own country. lazer the prime minister led a protest in the administrative capital putrajaya on the. mackerel says he has no plans for a french peace initiative he says he's waiting to see what the u.s. has to offer but with the palestinians ruling out washington's unfoldment france and the european union could be called upon to fill the gap. al-jazeera paris.

or president trump had threatened to cut hay to countries who voted against the u.s. during the u.n. general assembly vote now it has invited countries who voted with it or abstain from voting to with thank you reception. from washington d.c. troubled ministration officials are not expressing any misgivings about the decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital following the un general assembly vote un ambassador nikki haley announced that she's an extended invitations to sixty four countries those that voted either against the resolution abstained or did not vote at all to a thank you reception early in the new year and vice president mike pence says that now that this issue is off the table we can move on to other issues the vice president was scheduled to visit the middle east israel the palestinian territories

and egypt this week that was postponed now it's rescheduled to sometime in january the vice president says he will be be visiting those countries but a christian leaders in egypt and in bethlehem say that they're not interested in meeting him at all not to mention of course the palestinian authority. well that's been more violence in the palestinian territories between protesters and israeli security forces at least two people have been killed. the forces used live ammunition to disperse demonstrators protesters have gathered there after friday prayers welcome what has more from those protests nic gaza's border with israel. was just a couple of hundred meters from the edge of gaza city which is over there and then one hundred meters over here is the border with israel you might be able to. hold up the mikes more gunfire they've been firing at the protesters hundreds of protesters gathered at this point trying to get as close to the fence as they can

trying to plan palestinian flags throwing stones in one place they did actually get up to the fence and we were told they managed to damage one of the israeli security cameras the israelis have been returning with some gunfire and volleys of tear gas masses of tear gas the plumes the white smoke that you might be able to see over there is tear gas and then the plumes of black smoke from tires which the demonstrators have set on fire volley after volley of tear gas has been fired at them but they persisted sometimes the crowd breaks up and it always regard as a team has breathed a lot of this tear gas today may be able to fire quite long range so they can get people even quite far away from the fence but that doesn't seem to put off the crowd here. scaurus prime minister mariano rajoy has rejected an immediate ousted catalan president first of all for the two of them to meet following thursday's election in

the region but he has left the door open to possible future discussions that alone is three pro independence party one seventy. five seat parliament but the prose spain citizens party won the highest number of seats with thirty seven it means a slim majority for the pro independence party as paul brennan reports from muscle and. when all sides claim victory who actually wins it's a question catalans are asking themselves today. getting thirty seven problem entry seats that's running as biggest single party is now the citizens proxy progun it's the leader in this i don't mind us. but the three main secessionist parties together one seventy seats and so they hold the parliamentary majority catalonia is pro independence colace preached celebrated in brussels where he fled to avoid

arrest on sedition charges and he's made a new offer to the government in madrid and i get sent leadership. that i'm willing to meet a prime minister avoid brussels or any other european state that is in spain about brazil obvious reasons i'm willing to do it so that we can address this new political era starting in catalonia spain and europe it is an era presided over by political solutions not by common repression that we find ourselves in by now. the response today from the spanish government suggests dialogue might just be possible given that the person i would need to sit down with is the winner of the election and that's mr. i will make an effort to maintain a dialogue with whatever government comes out of these elections but as i've said before i will also ensure that we follow the law. on polling day voters of all sides spoke to us about wanting a return to normality with the results now in

a straw poll of bass alone a citizens found dissatisfaction with the outcome. without favoring one side or another i think they've hurt catalonia a lot with this independence it's you know been so good. i think that the citizens party which one doesn't represent the majority of catalans i think the majority of people favor the probably independence party. i don't think it's a good result the lift just parties have been marginalized and i don't see a solution for the differences between two clear blocks. so for now the spotlight appears to be on the attitude of the new catalan government i would say they will slide least that but this doesn't mean that they will wait and renounce today independence more but they will i think they got softer approach first because they were slightly less than fifty percent of the balls and they think that's important

because they're hardline by the chinese government and this elections are produced a rather messy outcome with both sides able to take positives from the results but neither side able to land the kind of knockout blow that they might have hoped for everything now depends on the session this block and whether they will choose confrontation with madrid or compromise. on al-jazeera barcelona. russia iran and turkey have announced sales covering president exchanges. syria. talks have been held in kazakhstan russia and they were wrong the syrian government in the civil war turkey supports rebel groups have agreed to meet again in the russian city of sochi on january the twenty ninth the aim of bringing both the syrian government and the opposition to the negotiating table one year on from the syrian military victory in aleppo little has been done to put syria on the road to

peace zain honda has the aftermath of a battle which left found dead and many more with no home to go back to. 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. and we always thought that aleppo was but we were forced to live 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 an end the opposition surrendered its last stronghold people were under siege for months or 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. all more how

libby did just lose his home aleppo was the heart of their revolution young men like how to be were hopeful where the rebels captured the east of the city of two thousand and twelve. as a journalist who documented the conflict that followed now he says the years of sacrifice is about to to nothing. they kill their families how can i return to an area under their control i would rather die elsewhere just as long as it is. that young boy who never. and the regime can. of. unity or. just another battle it changed the balance of power in the governments favor and gave it political leverage. it was a strategic game for the syrian government since then it has shown no sign that it is ready to compromise or share power with its opponents was where the so-called

moderate rebels made their last stand in their defeat that weakened their voice in any political settlement. position the beginning of their at. the end of the revolution for me. to live in dignity i mean they 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 them. so to come on the program. overcrowded. conditions plus. a between.

russia. should be which has been the case in turkey recently this stream you have you see where it comes from the. west. has been doing for days so we've got a temperature regime which despite being. white. the temp has gone up twenty five in beirut seventeen in aleppo twenty four in baghdad another reason these are all several degrees above the average this time you know what is it will change things turkey sees winter weather come through aleppo first feeling of chill starts to rain in northern syria snow up in the mountains of turkey but the warmth does

spread further east herons a lot warmer in the forecast i don't but even kuwait city these are cloudy skies not wet skies it's just the wind direction making the difference as it will do the next day or so increasingly in northern realities of twenty nine is a nice warm twenty six in their home that's the most unusual part of the weather in arabian peninsula otherwise it's doing what it should do. done through tropical to southern africa this carrico a wet season this summer and summer showers have been fifty sixty millimeters showers in cozumel in the tao but there once again drifting away to give a loss to dry picture for saturday. they would call

a robin hood in reverse. to cut taxes for the rich little for the poor the link between electric cars cobalt. prices names for the economy the cost of. welcome back or mind of the tell the story of. one tech sept any us backed off to the un rejected president recognized as israel's capital at least two palestinians protesting the jerusalem and. killed with security forces. and spanish prime of.

president. to discuss catalonia political crisis the region again backed independence from spain in the election. purse president has survived on the votes in congress over corruption allegations pedro pablo kaczynski is accused of receiving payments from the construction giant rushed a company that's been at the center of a bribery scandal across latin america. reports from lima. an unprecedented outcome that is president. held onto his job nearly a week a time majority of legislators passed a motion to impeach him when it came to the vote congress failed to get the necessary numbers to oust him. flanked by his lawyer could be faced congress he

said with the conviction of his innocence and the intention to show it. but i come today at your request ready to defend myself against of false and all minnes all accusations that can only be understood in the context of an unconstitutional desire to separate me from power. the congressional majority accuse the seventy nine year old of being part of the largest corruption scandal a latin america they said he lied about receiving payments from brazilian giant all the money the company and the president say are legal but the political opposition didn't believe him. mr kaczynski as lawyers turned out to be state lawyers and that all the evidence that he was in charge of the presidency is not incapacity to continue serving as president yes. in a thirty minute address to congress who cheese key said he's never received a bribe that he's honest and transparent his supporters said legislators didn't

give him enough time to prove his innocence. the president hasn't had a chance for the phantom still not even the worst criminals are treated like the president being treated analysts at the impeachment put at stake not only the presidency but the mark received in the country. outside congress demonstrator said they were afraid this was a coup in the making work it gave him what he thought more the fujimori party wants to control the government like in the past years and do whatever they want and we won't accept this because if i. against dictatorship has been hard. critics legislators try to remove the preceded without clear evidence of a crime for final result of the so-called carwash investigation now he says it's time for a new phase for reconciliation to start my day an aside just. us

president donald trump has signed his government's tax reform bill into law the one point five trillion dollars tax reform bill was approved by congress a wednesday making it the biggest overhaul for the u.s. tax system in thirty years it will repeal some parts of obamacare and offers a big tax cuts for businesses is trying his first major legislative victory of his first sheriff's office. south sudan's government and opposition forces have signed a cease fire deal allowing humanitarian access to civilians the deal agreed after talks in ethiopian capital addis ababa is the latest attempt to end a four year long conflict the truce comes into effect on sunday just christmas eve it aims to revive a twenty fifteen peace deal that collapsed last year after heavy fighting broke out in south sudan's capital juba. more than four million people have been displaced in south sudan's conflict hundreds of thousands have fled to rule in kenya katherine

sawyer reports from a refugee camp in kakuma. mall of south sudan's displaced people have made their way to this transit center in nothing kenya with that's really nothing to call their own helen good arrived recently both her husband and brother were killed in the fighting she now has to take care of her brother's eight children as well as five of her own she has a family back home a good lunch she tells us no more going out on the line and it's very hard for me i'm the only person now to take care of these children i don't know whether peace will come or not i'm not hopeful any more there are about a thousand refugees in this reception center all have arrived in the last few weeks this year alone more than twenty two thousand mostly from south sudan have come for help the comp is already hosting close to two hundred thousand. been given talk that will enable them to get space in the constable top shelters will soon meet

their new neighbors some of whom have been in power since another civil war with the north but ended twelve years ago. people like park peter he's a head teacher and those schools have closed he wants to ensure the library he students enjoy is ready for when they return he escaped in two thousand and four to avoid being recruited as a child soldier the very reason many boys he stitching now have fled south sudan and he knows exactly who to blame the president and his former vice president whose forces are fighting each other. so. yes. someone. poured into. his country. this is one of khan's students who run the fuck eighteen years old but still in primary school. he's talking to his on tues at

a comp for displaced people. home he's not seen ha his mother or four sisters since he left three years ago. and. i'm learning. south sudan has been in conflict for four years it's one of the worst humanitarian crisis in the world attempts at peace overseen by regional mediators have often filled and with no end in sight this refugees continue to wait out a crisis they say has destroyed their lives catherine saw al jazeera. and not in kenya. british foreign secretary boris johnson says there is abundant evidence of russian interference in elections across europe and the us he made the accusations jaring talks in moscow with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov and meeting was

aimed at improving strained relations between the two countries lavrov denied the allegations. the un's refugee agency is urging greece to work faster to move asylum seekers from overcrowded counts on the channel islands before winter conditions worsen the cams were built to receive five and a half thousand people but they count the house twice john psaropoulos reports marylander son was. osama has waited for this moment for five months but as he finally boards a ferry for athens and a future far from his native palestine he almost seems to regret it he's one of one hundred ten refugees sailing for the mainland many have been here longer. came here fourteen months ago after i saw the fighters destroyed his house in mosul it's like a dream for everyone here because they spent long time i learned they weren't allowed to leave until they finish their procedures so i takes time sometimes but

now you know they feel like they are really free when they got the audience under the e.u. turkey agreement refugees arriving on greece's eastern region islands have to stay there until their asylum case is a hood but the government may move people with disabilities families children and single women. that leaves a lot of single men behind for them boredom and overcrowding create a toxic mix some us volunteers a self organizing group raised money to create a day center for them here refugees can feel human relax socialize learn languages and burnish their resumes in english and soon they'll be able to wash their clothes this face in the can be so very natural in there's no space where someone can do any anything physically any activity so having a place like this really takes their mind away from from all the tension and having

as there the government has offered to build a second camp here but officials in some most like on the other islands have refused so the existing camp built for seven hundred currently hosts fifteen hundred half of them are women and children there's a scarcity of medicine clothes water and hygiene but things were even worse before the evacuation until the beginning of december this terrorist all of grove was a tent city. some seven hundred people lived trenches dug around the tents in an effort to divert rainwater still visible the government's concerted push to shelter refugees ahead of the deep winter means that the most vulnerable populations have now been moved to the mainland. more people arrive each week the difficulty of reaching athens sends them a message that europe is lifting the drawbridge to war torn lands and that this millennia old migration route across the aegean may in future have fewer happy

endings jumpstart ople us. a class action lawsuit has been found in the us against tech giant apple. deliberately slowing down on fans. it's a tactic to force customers to buy new developed since challenged ballots or false . ten years of apple i phones and in mr may should one point two billion souls the i thought has become a household name but when the i phone eight released in september customers complained the old phones slow down in the next three months google searches for the keywords i phone slow jumped about fifty percent users speculated apple had slowed their phones to push them to upgrade on wednesday ethyl admitted it has deliberately slowed old i phones explaining that as i phone batteries age and degrades they can overload and unexpectedly shut down slowing the phone said the company stops the overloading it affects the i phone six success and seven models

our goal is to deliver the best experience for customers which includes overall performance and prolonging the life of the devices last year we released a feature to smooth out the instantaneous current page only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down it was a perfectly legitimate software fix but the problem was they didn't tell anybody they do have a stunningly good reputation for many things but open this isn't really one of them in the tourist links the critics and then the core section began to law students in california filed a class action lawsuit then people from four different states filed in a chicago court more are expected they say they may have a can seem to allow apple to slow their i phones and the demanding replacement phones and compensation if a nationwide class action gets the go ahead would apply to all people in the u.s.

with i phones older than an eight if you have software floors and try and avoid them or those things then security research is like the one who found this and. will find it and they will publicize it and this. already a lawsuit in the states you know this is within a day of it being confirmed and i'm sure to be others around the world the eye for a new system a should to be the most profitable piece of technology to hit the market if apple continues to benefit it may depend on whether they come out of this saga unscathed shallop bellus al-jazeera. remind you now of the main stories making news herald is there a palestine as president mark what about says his country won't accept any u.s. backed peace plan following president charles decision to recognize jerusalem as

israel's capital when abbas was reinforcing his position at a meeting with french president emmanuel macro in paris. the united states is no longer a credible mediator in the peace process we will not accept any plan on the part of the us because of the parties really because of this violation of international law protests against president thomas decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem continue to flare up around the world at least two palestinian protesters have been killed in fighting with security forces in gaza demonstrators were also hit with rubber bullets in bethlehem. spanish prime minister mariano rajoy has rejected an immediate offer by ousted catalan president carlos predictable for the two of them to meet following thursday's election in the region but he's left the door open to possible future discussions. russia iran and turkey have announced deals covering prisoner exchanges and team mining in syria after

talks in kazakhstan russia and iran bought me syrian government where while turkey supports some major rebel groups have agreed to meet again in the russian city of sochi on jan river twenty ninth. perris president asked survived an impingement vote in congress over corruption allegations pedro pablo kaczynski is accused of receiving illegal payments from the brazilian construction giant brush a company that's been at the center of a massive bribery scandal across latin america the u.s. president has signed his government's tax reform bill into law the one point five trillion dollar bill was approved by congress on wednesday making it the biggest overhaul of the u.s. tax system in fessing is its charms first major legislative victory of his first year in office and from a chief strategist steve allen has been asked to testify at a congressional investigation into russian meddling in last year's election about

the full news hour in just over twenty five minutes now inside story. for washington from both. series with the un's vote on jerusalem the u.s. president nations who didn't support him over as well the vast majority didn't so what if past will this have on diplomacy.