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the u.n. security council has unanimously passed new sanctions against north korea the aim this time to severely restrict pyongyang's energy supplies well the new sanctions will cap the deliveries of natural products at five hundred thousand barrels a year and crude oil at four million barrels a year. well u.s. president or trump has welcomed the resolution tweeting the world wants peace not death or this is the tenth security council resolution imposing sanctions on north korea naaman have convince kim jong un to abandon his nuclear program but diplomats hope that this resolution current bring about talks. i can have more from the united nations in new york but what has been a sometimes divided year for the security council draws to an end with a display of unity the resolution on north korea tightening sanctions passed unanimously and tighten the sanctions it does there's

a massive reduction in the amount of refining the fuel that is north korea would be allowed to import also a trouble barrel an asset freeze on a number of individuals and one entity the north korean army well this resolution followed intense talks between the united states russia and china to ensure that all we're in agreement with the text today for the tenth time this council stand united against a north korean regime that rejects the pursuit of peace the camera's gene continues to defy the resolutions of this council the norms of civilized behavior and the patience of the international community their arrogance and hostility to anything productive has set their country on a destructive path the resolution also did not rule out dialogue committing members to pursuing the six party talks north korea south korea japan the u.s. russia and china coming together in some form of dialogue the u.s.

still insisting though that there must be a sustained to say shit of north korean missile development before discussions can commence russia and china for their part within the meeting insisting that there should be some kind of quid pro quo shown by south korea and the u.s. perhaps suspending their ongoing joint military exercises nonetheless the security council coming to agreement a unanimous vote at the end of the year. well our reporters have of course been covering the story there gopalan will be joining us from hong kong in just a mother but first let's go to the south korean capital florence louis is live for us there what has what's been the reaction in the south laws to these new sanctions while the south korean ministry defense ministry has said it welcomes and supports this latest round of sanctions from the u.n. but it also said that the emphasis has to be made on dialogue and says these

sanctions show or are other are an indication that the world will never accept and acknowledge a north korea's nuclear and missile development program but in line with the president when jay in small liberal stance there is an emphasis on dialogue now in south korea is also in a rather difficult position it has to relations between the two koreas are at its lowest point in decades but it's made more complicated by the fact that the. winter olympics of two thousand and eighteen are coming up in the being hosted by south korea to south korea's very keen to maintain good relations there is an emphasis on dialogue with north korea as a means to persuading north korea to come back to the negotiating table take a listen to what the south korean ambassador to the u.n. had to say things are not an end in themselves but an effective means to bring those green back on that for peaceful diplomatic and political solutions

or we will narrow and bumpy in may be the lord to world peace. through dialogue is still open and available. also in the past sanctions haven't really worked against north korea and in fact north korea has said that these punitive economic measures will only accelerate to north korea's nuclear and missile development program let's take a look at its past actions when sanctions were passed by the u.n. security council in august north korea responded with a missile test in september when sanctions were passed in september it was funded with a missile test and a hydrogen bomb test in september itself in november i beg your pardon in november and that missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile that experts said flew the highest in north korea's history of missile tests now we haven't had any

official reaction from pyongyang as yet normally takes about a day or two before there is an official statement put out on state media but we can expect to hear from the north korean leader kim jong il in a couple of days now he's taken to delivering a new year's day speech an address ever since he came into power earlier this year he said his country was in the final stages of developing an intercontinental ballistic missile and at the last test in november appears that north korea the north korean leader has kept his word it is a test it was a missile an intercontinental ballistic missile that x. that think it's capable of reaching the east coast of the united states so we can expect north korean leader to outline what his policy what his stance will be in a couple of days lawrence thank you very much for that for now that's florence that way joining us live from salt let's go to the vehicle pilot she's monitoring the reaction from hong kong so as we've been saying the via these sanctions passed

unanimously at the security council importantly you know without china using its veto power just how significant is that. elizabeth it's so significant in many ways not just in the vote in the u.n. security council or general assembly but it's also significant because china is north korea's largest ally and for so long they've been north korea's biggest benefactor and the fact that they've been so in a way supporting north korea both financially and diplomatically so for now china too without questions agree on these sanctions given that the u.s. had negotiated these sanctions with china before putting them on the table but the fact that they're going ahead with it particularly with the sanctions on crude oil china since twenty thirteen has not been openly telling the rest of the world or recording how much crude oil they've been giving north korea so now them agreeing

to be open and transparent about how much fuel they're supplying north korea is a big step not one of the more interesting things in this is the fact that china now is ratcheting iraq shipping up the diplomatic to gets north korea because they actually fear that there will be some kind of a conflict that north korea is capable of escalating the situation now that particularly significant from the u.n. ambassador to. china as u.n. ambassador here's what he had to say. in here on the d.p. r. k. is continuing to conduct nuclear tests and missile launches in defiance of the universal opposition by the international community the parties concerned have continued to expand military exercises and scale up their own shows of force. deescalation of tension on the peninsula which has reached the point of risking spiralling out of control is not in the interest of any party. not supported to note that china does not receive much from north korea in fact two

years ago north korea had only a contributed about seventy thousand u.s. dollars in investments to china the reason china now is turning its back on it would we say turning its back on north korea or perhaps taking a step back is because it feels slighted by north korea just last month it had sent its highest envoy to north korea for talks there and kim jong un refused to see him that is a slap in the face to china china has always been a had a paternalistic relationship with north korea had always received a lot of respect for north korea and had presented to the rest of the world that it could control this nation to the north and now the fact that north korea seems to be undermining china has made china quite angry and in turn made it stand with the rest of the world is also worried that if there is conflict there will be a flood of refugees into china and also china would be facing the biggest effects

of those conflict in the in that its border is highly porous and that's what's going to be affected the most. thank you very much for that is the vehicle and joining us live from hong kong we're going to get more on this knowledge one by analyst gordon chang. via skype he's the author of nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world with a chance always good to talk with you on al-jazeera just how much we are seeing sanctions yet again they have not worked so far how much of the effectiveness of sanctions is june to how much china implements them and do you see them do you see china. implementing them more seriously because of the things the circumstances we've heard from our correspondent there via. i think that china will be a bit more serious and it will mean these sanctions but not serious enough we know that in the last two or three weeks the chinese have been violating the oil

sanctions they allowed a north korean tanker which was under u.n. sanctions to go to a port in shanghai were close to put on high so the chinese will never allow sanctions that will severely affect the north korean regime now allow the pressure to be ramped up a little bit but not so much as to really affect north korea's decision making process and you know united states we go to the u.n. and ask for sanctions got ten cents since two thousand and six. set of sanctions helps but really doesn't help enough and so what is the point then off of continuing down the same path that as you mentioned well being on for more years now if it's not having that decide effect if it's not going to tell the north koreans from pursuing this u.k. a program. well you know sanctions in the u.n. you know as i mentioned you know there are a step forward but not enough what really has to happen is the united states

imposing some sanctions on china. behavior including supplying the north koreans with ballistic missile technology and with the missile launchers and with components equipment and all sorts of materials for north korea's nuclear weapons program and the united states can do a number of things to china so for instance we could sanction china's for the specs for money laundering for the north koreans we haven't done that also the other thing is the president trying to implement his return for twenty one sanctions this executive order which was essentially said fairly restrictive with china these things would have a material effect on china and actually would move beijing in the right direction because you know sanctions right now are just intended to bring north korea to the party table they're not really intended to stop the nuclear weapons program and so we really have to have a new sanctions program for her to get much more seriously why do you think the u.s. has taken the measures that you say what help. to move this along well

i think there's always been a lot that we should try to bring the chinese along and also there are a number of forces in the business community among diplomats in washington who don't want to severely pressure the chinese to rupture the relationship they've always felt that long term it's more important to integrate china into the international system than it is to disarm north korea i think that that approach really the wrong it's been misguided and that's allowed the north koreans to make the substantial advances that they have given recent years so i think that we should be looking at a new way of dealing with not only the chinese but also the russians some other some factors of the north koreans just going on the south. well i mr chang thank you very much for your time your perspective on those threats and joining us live from toronto thank you thank you there are plenty more ahead on the news hour including the prospects for the u.s.

economy as the trumpet ministration signs major tax cuts and to. unjoin hold with brazil we're proposing that you should get it right the women's rights to an abortion under any circumstances and the sports people will be here with the details of a fee for corruption trial that sort of verdict delivered in new york on friday. president has declared he will no longer accept the united states as a mediator in the middle east peace process mahmoud abbas was speaking in french president emanuel the palestinian leader called for europe to play a bigger role than peace efforts and reports from paris. 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. from 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. mccraw 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 as the state saying it would be unhelpful at this time these americans and the americans have marginalized themselves and i'm trying not to do the same thing 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. so what we've seen as a manual macron getting really involved even of this is a very sensitive situation is much at stake france's position is difficult but macron really looking to restore the opposition runs once ahead and put it on the national stage 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 concern. japan supports the position that the conflict between israel and palestine should be resolved between them including the issue of the final status of jerusalem. great importance to the palestine issue

because with things palestinians also absolute rights to establish their own country. lazer the prime minister led a protest in the administrative capital putrajaya on the. macro 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 but at least two palestinian protesters have been killed by israeli forces and more violence over the us decision the third five day of protests in palestinian territories welcome webb has more from gaza. after friday prayers hundreds gathered it to street rallies here in the gaza strip this one leaders of the islamic jihad faction told supporters who buys days motion

at the u.n. general assembly denouncing trumps recognition of jerusalem the capital of israel was a partial victory god whatever the victory shows how much the international community hates us americans and injustice it was important but we should not be deceived and the movement should continue to be the father because the u.s. decision has not and dump the decision of trump. and so for the third friday in a row protesters then gathered at the israeli border miles of wall and friends that surround gaza. there are dozens of protesters gathered at this point trying to get as close as they can to the border to plant palestinian flags and throw stones isn't watched israeli soldiers in just there are in some military vehicles driving up and down the track along the border firing some live rounds and volleys of tear gas. it just kept coming but so

did the demonstrators. and after years of failed peace process is people here bothered about the diplomatic details of what happened at the u.n. this week all of them of the. the u.n. and arab league who don't care about them you only care about jerusalem history will repeat itself jerusalem will be freed by the hands of the palestinian youth those who you can see here at the border and in the west bank no more defeats it is time for victory. in the west bank is a similar story. town of bethlehem was one of the trouble spots just days ahead of christmas celebrations. dozens were injured. and back in gaza so i korea a foreigner was among those added to a growing number killed in the on rest coming here to demonstrate isn't safe. but people here are deeply angered by president trump's announcement and they say

they won't stop malcolm webb al jazeera in gaza. the palestinian solidarity rallies have been held around the world protesters on the streets of jordan called for a boycott of both the united states and israel. alison and out of the tennesseean capital tunis. and malaysia politicians join protest is calling on trump to ascend has to session. while the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has invited members of the countries who voted with or abstained on those days to risk their meditation to thank you for a section that follows the trumpet ministrations threat to foreign aid cause to countries which sided with palestine tom ackerman has more from washington d.c. troubled ministration officials are not expressing any misgivings about the decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital following the u.n.

general assembly vote u.n. 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 or the palestinian territories and egypt is 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. now as in the gaza strip has put three lion cubs up for sale fearing that it won't be able to afford to feed them this is on

a says he hasn't had any interest in the two month old cubs despite continued appeals is hoping the sale will help pay to feed the remaining animals animal welfare groups have helped the monkeys and lions from gaza because of israeli shelling or mistreatment or border restrictions from egypt and israel's blockade of gaza have led to poverty unemployment and constant power shortages on the strip. but to spain now were promised a money at a whore has rejected an offer by alstad castellan president collins pitched amount to meet the following thursday as region election or catalonia three pro independence party has won seventy seats in the one hundred and thirty five seat parliament a setback for a whole called the snap election but the anti independence citizens' party won the highest number of seats with thirty seven the result means a slim and reduced majority for the pro independence party's poll when reports from barcelona. when all sides claim victory who actually wins it's

a question catalans are asking themselves today winning thirty seven parliamentary seats gets lonely is biggest single party is now the citizens party of crude unity leader in the us i don't mind us. but the three main secession is parties together one seventy seats and so they hold the parliamentary majority canceller me is deposed president carlos preached the more celebrated in brussels where he'd fled to avoid arrest on sedition charges and he's made a new offer to the government in madrid and i get sent legal such. that i'm willing to meet prime minister in brussels or any other european state that is in spain 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 right now the response today from the spanish government suggests dialogue might just be possible that. the person i would need to sit down with is the winner of the election and that's. what 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 barcelona citizens found dissatisfaction with the outcome. without favoring one side or another i think they've hurt catalonia a lot with this independence issue. i think that the citizens party which one doesn't represent the majority of catalans i think the majority of people favor the

pro independence party. i don't think it's a good result the lift us parties have been marginalized and i don't see a solution for the differences between two clear blocks. so 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 way to the announced today independence mall but they will i think they got softer approach first because they were slightly less than fifty percent of the the balls and they think that's important segment because they're hard line by the money the government in these 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 secessionist bloc on whether they will choose confrontation with madrid or compromise. al-jazeera barcelona.

now russia iran and turkey have announced a deal is covering the exchange of prisoners and mine clearing in syria a gleam and when made during talks held in kazakhstan russia and iran back the syrian government in the civil war while turkey support some of the biggest rebel groups the countries have agreed to meet again in the russian city of sochi on the twenty ninth of january the talks so aimed at bringing both the syrian government ten opposition to the negotiating table sign a guy ago has more from moscow. friday's talks dealt with looking at the practicalities of how to make headway on the ground in syria matters such as demining areas including the nascar heritage areas were discussed as well as prisoner exchanges as well as repatriating bodies of the dead and those who had been captured and abducted peoples but also it was a chance to agree on holding

a meeting throwing forward to january of next year russia turkey and iran will meet one week ahead of the syrian national dialogue congress talks the syrian government will attend and an invitation has been given to opposition groups the russian defense minister sergei showgirls said that. groups of different ethnic groups different religious groups as well as opposition groups were invited to come to the meeting as well that there has been a tentative agreement by the opposition groups saying that there would be an agreement to wait as long as there was an agreement to abiding by the geneva resolutions which of course paves the way for a political. advancement of this and that includes elections as well not to the star cathedrals in the syrian city of rocco will be declared free of

explosives just in time for christmas but after years of devastation throughout the city church officials say a lot of traditional christmas services will be held rocker had been isis main stronghold in serbia since two thousand and fourteen and mines were planted almost for the city the group was pushed out in october but years of fighting has left most of rocker including its mosques and churches real ones. violence has flared between separatist protesters and police and administered kashmir that happened during a demonstration against the killing of three civilians earlier this week by security forces police said the victims were caught in the crossfire during an army operation but protesters say they were deliberately targeted. now british foreign secretary barres johnson has alleged there is abundant evidence of russian interference in elections across europe and the us johnson made the accusations during talks in moscow what has russian counterpart sergei lavrov. denied the

allegations and demanded proof that russia had been involved in action meddling the meeting was aimed at improving strange ties between the two countries over russian aggression and ukraine and syria. reporters without borders and amnesty international are calling for the immediate release of al jazeera journalist mahmoud hussain it's now been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt where human rights watch has condemned his imprisonment same's accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. so ahead on the news hour greece evacuees refugees from overcrowded islands but thousands remain trapped and it's one that conditions. and coming up a picture in support of the gulf cup kicks off in kuwait but there is disappointment for the hosts from the opening game.

from a fresh coast to breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. hello winter in shanghai is bit warm at the moment the temperature is about sixteen degrees in the forecast for saturday but the wind will turn and it will cool down and feel a bit fresher sunny afforded read droplets of humidity drop as well so you feel different it's still warm enough in showing do that you'd be surprised to see snow on the mountains to the west but they are there or it is there all the same quantas rather than but it's rather more active further south in the southern philippines tropical storm tembin has been moving slowly west was were running really in comparison this current tack it has left about one or two hundred millimeters of rain it's now battering the north of borneo but it's on its way and strengthening into the south china sea monti even briefly turn into a typhoon here in open water for it eventually ends up in southern vietnam the remains of cardstock are here so for singapore up towards the thai border the chances are to be pretty wet in the next couple of days in other words you are

meant it is quite possible coming out of that storm this is the active weather area then is an awful lot quieter nassar out india pakistan even after this cloud you do see is high in the sky indicates where the winds aloft not on the surface so still very still in stagnant very foggy in the morning for a good part of india barely a shower visible but what showers there will be a light to head south and hit sri lanka. the weather sponsored by cattle and race. stunning images from the niger delta through the unflinching eyes of a look up. george also to an artist on a mission to demonstrates the good on the bad of his beloved homeland documents the effects of the black. feeds and disfigure. and showcases the traditional monarchs caught between a modern world and the tribal culture the new dug outs this time on the al-jazeera

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united nations has unanimously backed news that actions on north korea that ban the ninety percent of refined petroleum product exports to pyongyang can john once regime is already on to here with u.n. and new sanctions to conducting several nuclear and missile tests the c.-a. palestinian president mahmoud abbas has urged european leaders to play a big overall pace efforts following the u.s. decision to recognize your book. limits israel's capital meanwhile to move hardest and protesters have been killed by israeli forces of the latest demonstrations over that decision. and spain's prime minister money on little boy has rejected calls for talks with the deposed scotland president following thursday's regional election tomorrow called for a meeting after three pro independence parties won a majority in caution on his parliament. u.s. president donald trump has signed his government's tax reform bill into law after it was approved by congress this week the one point five trillion dollars over one

of the us tax system is the biggest in thirty years that will repeal some parts of obamacare and offer a big tax cuts to businesses that's trump's first major legislative victory since coming to office. starting next year the law will give big cuts to corporations and wealthy americans as well as smaller reductions for average families will trump is telling the tax measure as a bill that has something for everyone but according to the congressional budget office it could add to the national debt over the next decade. miccolis economy to us as an economist and professor at new york university's stern school of business and he says the tax cuts will help corporations and wealthy americans but warns there may be other impacts to. first of all the corporate tax rate is cut to very significant it will do twenty one percent and.

barriers tax brackets are reduced a bit for individuals so everybody should be happy for though for those cuts the danger here is that if the growth coming out of the tax cuts does not materialize suddenly the u.s. . debt will increase significantly over a period of ten years so this is something to consider. economists disagree on whether the death will increase or not based on the tax cut but. i think that we should also consider the possibility that the debt will increase and if that does happen then we will see higher interest rates for u.s. government bonds which will also translate worldwide so if the u.s. government bonds become have have

a higher interest rate so will many financial instruments around the world. a government program that provides a vital health care support to millions of children from low income families in the u.s. has been given temporary of a pretty hot the most vulnerable families still face and the future kristen salumi has moved from new york. a last minute infusion of cash from congress will get providers like the ryan community health center in new york through the holiday season here seventy five percent of patients rely on some form of government subsidized health insurance money by medicaid covers the poorest families while the children's health insurance program provides affordable care for parents who make more money but still not enough for private insurance congress has not been able to agree on a long term funding plan for chip just one of many uncertainties hanging over parents not only do we have problems with chip we have problems with community

health centers not getting funded and that's that if we don't get the funding for that we know we're going to have to cut costs probably services as well the staff the umbilical hernia is getting smaller so i don't i don't think so a loss of services is a worry for sewall roll who works in retail and could purchase insurance through his employer but doesn't earn enough to cover his one year old son disappointed because if that happens what we're going to do. nationwide nine million children get their medical coverage through the children's health insurance program known as chip how the program is administered varies from state to state but one thing is universal and that is the need for affordable coverage it's an incredibly important program for you know families who are oftentimes in transition maybe they've lost a job or they've gained a new job or divorce death of a family all those sorts of things can cause the need for children to enroll in the

chip program and if the safety nets not there a lot of families just don't know what they'll do late night. host and father jimmy kimmel sprang into action when some states warned they'd have to end coverage in january i've had enough of this i don't know what could be more disgusting than putting a tax cut that mostly goes to rich people ahead of the lives of children in response to the public outcry congress provided a short term fix but with republicans and democrats still at odds about the future of health care in the united states the big decisions have been left for the new year christian salumi al jazeera new york. right to brazil now where abortion is illegal but exceptions are made in the case of rape or the pregnancy and danger is the mother's life now congressional committee has voted in favor of constitutional change that could remove those options as john holliman reports from received it would leave brazil with one of the most restrictive abortion laws and south america

. cool her emilia she suffered a double horror first rape and then discovering the child she carried was missing part of its brain. in her country brazil abortion is illegal but exceptions are made for extreme brain damage danger to the mother to life and in the case of sexual violence. that men emilia could terminate her pregnancy legally in a public health facility when i was really glad i found this place i was desperate i didn't know what to do here is more than the place for abortion is for women who suffered sexual violence they welcomed me not only with treatment but also with psychological help i'm still on the treatment because it's not at all easy. that could now be under threat brazil's influential bloc of evangelical congresspeople leading a push to amend the country's constitution they want to add that life begins at

conception it's a counterattack against a proposal put to the supreme court by politicians and public prosecutors to allow all abortion up to twelve weeks. for us including this line in the proposal is a preventative measure because those people will try to discuss legalizing abortion they can't stop talking about it. but the pro-life politicians are not just playing defense defining life as starting from conception could alter matic lee make any abortion illegal. at the moment there are units like this one at least in brazil cities which offer women the chance to get an abortion under a very exceptional set of circumstances but if the constitution is changed then even women who have been raped or his pregnancy is in danger in their own life might be out of options that has government health professionals the plea worried just as you are that if congress approves this changed. we foresee that women will

look to climb to start. increasing their chances of dying the number of deaths related to illegal abortion in brazil ohio already and if the cases that are now allowed in the country become illegal we're looking at an academic. the majority of brazilian simply don't see the issue that way it is deeply religious country many consider life as sacred under any circumstance so congress is due to vote on the proposed amendment to the constitution this february it will need a two thirds majority in both houses to pass those on both sides of the debate holding their breath for what comes next john holeman now does it or receive. other walls because cryptocurrency but quite has plunged in value down almost twenty five percent on the week after a long period of remarkable gains the losses the biggest weekly fall for that quiet since mid two thousand and thirteen

a single year it was worth thirty just under twelve thousand dollars at one point on friday despite having had highs of almost twenty thousand dollars as recently as just last sunday or trading in the currency has been suspended in some exchanges juicer the volatility at the start of this year one but quiet it was worth less than a thousand dollars. a class action lawsuit has been filed in the us against tech giant apple after it admitted to deliberately slowing down all the i phones or critics argue it's a tactic to force customers to buy new devices shallop balance reports. ten years yvette a life phones and a 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 phone slowed 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 older i phones explaining that as i phone batteries age and degrade they can overload and unexpectedly shut down slowing the phones if 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 their 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 then the touristic secretive and then the court action 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 researchers like the one who found this and. will find it and they will publicize it and this all. already a lawsuit in the states you know this is within a day of it being confirmed and i'm sure there will be others around the world the i phone is the estimated 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. the un's refugee agency

urgent dream is to work faster to move asylum seekers from all of a crowded cats before when to conditions deteriorate further well the caps on is between may and then greece and turkey were built to save five and a half hours and painful but currently they house twice that number even out of fall zones or moved out in the past month john psaropoulos reports now from the island of some us. 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 go to 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 most 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

is there. the government has offered to build a second camp here but officials in some 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 where some seven hundred people lived trenches dug around the tents in an effort to divert rainwater are 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 most. but still ahead on the new south as an ace

now i want to celebrate our time so while peter will be here but that just ahead in sport. we're living through a technological revolution but all the machines taking over if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring an ecosystem to bear oxford university as professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to all disease at this time. out. there.

witness documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. the sport now has peter. thank you very much to form a south american football officials have been convicted of corruption charges in new york on friday chosen maria marino of brazil and one. of paraguayan of the two men in question they have been convicted on record tearing conspiracy gabriel

elizondo is in new york with more. this was an incredibly complex trial that took over a month here at this federal courthouse in new york it took jurors six days of deliberations before they were able to reach this partial verdict the prosecution presented thousands of pages of evidence including bank records from numerous different countries airline tickets as well as videos and other things all presenting this case of what's been called the fifa trial against these three men these three powerful men for moral football the case was linking them to record tearing money laundering and fraud one and he'll numb put the former head of the south american football federation found guilty of three of the five charges against him was a media my team the former head of the brazilian football federation eighty five year old man he was found guilty of six of the seven charges against him including racketeering and money laundering the prosecution must feel pretty good about this

but the trial is not over yet at least not for the final person man will berger the former head of the peruvian football federation the jury was not able to reach a conclusion on the charges against him so the judge ordered the jury to come back on tuesday and continue their deliberations but overall this verdict at least a partial guilty of verdicts by these jurors is a real indication that they saw these men linked to corruption saudi arabia all up and running at the twenty seventeen gulf cup off a two one opening match win against host nation kuwait the saudis and amorality schools controversy on thursday when they walked out of the news. conference protesting the presence of qatari media houses and politics were not entirely absent from the opening game either as some reports. after weeks of uncertainty the twenty third edition of the gulf cup has finally kicked

off with a spectacular opening ceremony the presence of a very special guest fifa president john f. and tino and nearly sixty thousand fans that packed the algebra stadium great city way to fans have been counting down to this day ever since fifa lifted the ban few weeks ago they would not get to see their beloved national team taking on saudi arabia as expected the gulf crisis has spilled on to the pitch saudi team were bruised by the fans after the withdrawal from the media conference on thursday. after the game kicked off the saudis sina's the crowd with the first goal of the tournament coming from cell man and machine are in the thirteenth minute most don't have the o.l. and the two thousand and eighteen world cup qualifiers a saudi arabia doubled their advantage after the break was

great and he celebrated their return to international football with a goal to juice the deficit was abdullah but i could send in the crowd into a frenzy was final score saudi arabia to kuwait won the gold cup tournament is now up and running this by having just a few weeks to prepare the kuwaiti organizers can now be the siver live next up on saturday is defending champions qatar versus yemen sanna i was on this iraq kuwait city in front a second group a fixture also at the international stadium in kuwait city it was the united. arab emirates who emerged victorious by one goal to nil over oman they couldn't do it in open play though they needed a penalty in order to secure the victory and the action will continue on saturday as defending champions qatar kick off group b. against yemen iraq will meet bahrain in the days second fixture. over in spain

the countdown is on to one of the biggest games in club football with barcelona and real madrid preparing to do battle in el classico it's estimated six hundred fifty million people in one hundred eighty countries watch the last league encounter and with this one having an earlier kickoff of twelve g.m.t. on saturday the spanish league is hoping to better that heading into the two hundred and thirty sixth edition of the fixture on the pitch the pressure is all well and truly on rail they currently set just fourth in the league standings and trail leaders boss by eleven points the clash also pits two of the world's best footballers against each other in christiania rinaldo and lee and now messi rinaldo has struggled to find his form in the league this season he's needed just four times macey meanwhile has scored fourteen league olds for boss and they are unbeaten in twenty four games in all competitions momenta there's

a log in as well as an aspiration but it's a very important game and what we want is to seize that moment and play a good game we know how difficult it will be because we're playing a very powerful team but we'll see we have to play it to what i mean think is. most likely it's going to be the hardest game of the season because both teams barcelona and madrid are very beautiful teams and create difficult games but that is what we want the players to enjoy to play this kind of game that has been bad news for eleven more russian athletes who were banned for life on friday by the international olympic committee on doping offenses related to the twenty fourteen winter olympic games in sochi among them are four silver medalist from the softer games as well as speed skater ivan score but have who won two silver medals at the previous olympics in two thousand and ten all eleven have had their medals from sochi stripped and are banned from future olympic events russia has already been banned from two hundred eighteen in pyongyang chan by the i.o.c. on account of a state sponsored doping program that assisted athletes during the twenty fourteen

games. the build up to the winter olympics continued on friday with a snowboard cross world cup series in italy and it was a successful day for the home athletes ome of the sinton came from behind in a tightly contested men's final to train she's first world cup winner of the season michela moily then made a double gold for italy with her second consecutive world cup win beating three french royals to the mine in the women's final. yet today is an amazing day in vietnam era get the victory and yeah i hear i don't know what to say because he is amazing we this is the first the world cup in sylvania and there we were on saw it's a really really cool and i'm very happy proud of me proud of my team are really thanks to everybody in the ski cross world cup even sweden sandra naslund made for a third place finish on thursday with a victory on friday she takes the overall world cup lead with the win and in the men's competition mark of bishops' berger of switzerland extended he's leave at the

top of the standings as he made it back to back wins in italy. yeah could not be very two rings in a row it was again tough. i had to pay so i had to fight everyone's gets pretty good and in the finish i finished doing this race again and this just amazing and and i'm the leaders across the tour this also amazing and that's all the sport for me another update coming up again later. and that does it for the news hour thank you very much for watching. it was good on united flight getting something for through young people it's the season of excess this is made in china it has. been for one all american family a challenge. the sucks life without the wilds factory we don't make anything

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