as communities are destroyed and thousands suffer from toxic fumes and what lies behind this human and environmental disaster. people empower the burning city at this time on al-jazeera. more than one hundred people feared killed by mudslides and flooding in the southern philippines.

no i'm in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up. in a rush a response to a u.s. decision to provide saying it could lead to new bloodshed in the war torn east. footballer of the stages a major campaign rallies events to become liberia's next president. and diplomatic relations with the u.s. turned sour this cuban dance company is taking a lack of american tourists and it's trying to. come to the program our top story more than one hundred people are feared dead in the philippines from flooding and landslides caused by tropical storm tembin most

of the casualties were on the island of mindanao thousands of people is still missing. reports flash floods and mudslides brought on by tropical storm the tons of to go on mindanao island the philippines second largest have been devastated dozens of homes are destroyed and rescue workers fear the number of casualties will rise. we really want to go straight now every day to figure it out we can get we have so many people that are really there a day at the height of the storm winds of up to eighty kilometers an hour uprooted trees and triggered torrents of mud and rock from a nearby mountain volunteers are digging with whatever they can to try and recover bodies power cuts and the loss of communication lines have hampered rescue efforts and the three they said hey they're out there not iraq and the areas pretty wide it's not just in one province but in several provinces show we're having

a hard time getting them to communicate why there are areas that may have been affected last week forty six people were killed in the central philippines in a similar storm the philippines is hit by around two dozen major cyclons each year on average many of them deadly but mindanao island home to twenty million people is rarely hit the region is still recovering from type which killed more than seven thousand people and affected millions in two thousand and thirteen while the worst of the storm tendon has passed it will take a long time before this area recovers indios a disease. russia as well in the u.s. is encouraging new bloodshed in eastern ukraine by providing weapons to can have the u.s. says it will give kevin hans defensive capabilities to defend against pro russian separatists the conflict in eastern ukraine is more than ten thousand lives since two thousand and fourteen tom ackerman reports from washington d.c. the. missile strikes hit a small town in eastern ukraine damaging homes

a school and medical clinic in ukraine blame the attack this week on pro russian separatists civilians caught in the middle of a three year long conflict. the u.s. says strongly opposed what he calls russian aggression in eastern ukraine blaming the moscow government for violence that has claimed more than ten thousand lives and displaced one point seven million people. now it will provide weapons to help ukraine defend itself the state department announcing the u.s. has decided to provide ukraine and hants defensive capabilities as part of our effort to help ukraine build its long term defense capacity to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity and to deter further aggression the forty seven million dollar weapons package which congress is expected to approve includes more than two hundred antitank missiles and thirty five launchers as well as light

arms. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said russia's occupation of crimea which the u.s. wants to return to your grain is a major stumbling block in relations between moscow and washington the issue that stands in the way is ukraine. we can have differences in other arenas in syria we can have differences in other areas but when one country invades another that is a different set it's hard to look past. or to reconcile it with a this clear to russia for the very beginning that we must address ukraine it say it stands as a single most difficult obstacle to renormalizing a relationship with russia which we badly would like to do he blamed russia for continuing violence in the done yet region the drop administration decision marking a reversal from barack obama's resistance to supplying lethal equipment deal planes i think it's not logical and size zero. zero zero.

zero zero zero zero zero zero zero. zero zero segments of the public. was used. and both of russia's response a warning that the u.s. decision will embolden key have in the conflict and only increased the use of force tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. well the russian president vladimir putin says moscow isn't seeking conflict with anyone but will stand up for its interests who spoke at a conference of the ruling united russia party which has pledged that support in next year's presidential election commission has registered as an independent candidate is expected to win a fourth term as president. on our other top stories protesters have fought with israeli security forces in the town of bethlehem just two days before christmas

their angry at u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital israeli forces fired tear gas to try and disperse the crowd some of whom were dressed as santa claus human rights groups have called for the israeli authorities to stop using what it describing as excessive force all three palestinians have now died in the past two days after being shot by israeli forces a total of fourteen palestinians have been killed since the protests began over two weeks ago michael ware has more from gaza. this the fear. i'm a bass in was old was the latest people to die in the. declaration on the sixth of the same by the jerusalem will be recognized by the west was because they say. he was among the protesters who put three fridays in the way it was going through the release of the friends in

the woods around. to demonstrate that trying to pounce palestinian flags throw stuff. at the price just as each friday i've been met with some gunfire a little tear gas cry backed by the israelis. the stuff in the jerusalem deserves a second phase from our people and we confirm that it's our eternal capital and that neither traveller or anyone else can change that our people will continue fighting for our rights until we stablish our independent state of palestine with jerusalem as the capital of photos and they also mccook to show that. it's no move for the political factions and o m wings to sponsor the funerals of the people that are being killed in the protests this one sponsored by the armed wing of the no opportunities lost to make a political statement at a show of strength. the ministry about says mood in ten people are being killed since the onrush began oh and no need is the opposed to any infractions of crude

for the price s. to continue speaking just a short while ago here in gaza the leader of hamas. was of the palestinian resistance in the right. side so there's no sign of any political factions getting up anytime soon. as president donald trump is praising the united nations security council for imposing tough new sanctions on know. korea the latest attempt to force north korea to abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programs resolution includes measures to cut most of pyongyang special imports in a tweet mr trump said the vote prove that the world wants peace not death north korea is already under u.s. u.n. and e.u. sanctions after several nuclear and missile tests this year well the new sanctions are aimed at cutting deliveries of refined petrol products by nearly ninety percent all north koreans working abroad will have to return home within two years and they

won't be able to send any foreign currency back home either they'll be a ban on exports of north korean goods like machinery and electrical equipment and that also be a crackdown on ships smuggling banned goods things aimed at preventing the transport of coal and oil to vehicle pollan in hong kong has been monitoring the response from china while the fact that china has agreed to that level of could cuts and will be transparent about how much oil it's sending north korea is seen as a major change in stance but china's top sort of halting all field supplies beijing's concern that will lead to a collapse in the regime and as tensions even further something not want here's the chinese ambassador to the u.n. team here on new york he has continued to conduct nuclear tests and missile launches in defiance of the universal opposition by the international community on the parties concerned have continued to expand military exercises and scale up their own shows of force the escalation of tension on the peninsula which has

reached a point of risking spiraling out of control is not in the interests of any party. china's compliance with all these sanctions is possibly the biggest blow to north korea most of the north korean labor outside of the country it's in china the hard currency they send back supports pyongyang's nuclear ambitions and after the last round of sanctions in september all north korean companies and china will have to close in the next few days now with this round of sanctions on north korean workers will have to leave too though they'll have a longer time line pyongyang used to notify beijing in advance before it launched a missile or conducted a nuclear test now not anymore analysts say beijing no longer has the sway it once had over north korea. now liberia's presidential candidate george ware is held a campaign rally ahead of tuesday's ronnell vote where a former world footballer of the year let the first round of polling in october with thirty eight percent of the vote his main challenger is the current vice

president joseph because i want to vote has been delayed because of a court challenge by the third place can't it the winner will replace president ellen johnson sirleaf who has led liberia now for twelve years i'm going to do reports from monrovia. come to dates invited beauteous round of presidential elections in a last minute hunt for votes here at the some old bull stadium in monrovia supporters of george weah form a in time national football our hearts go but they see him as a man who can bring hope and change to this country one of the poorest in the world told well hostile himself as a man whose probe poor honest promise the people of liberia so many things from infrastructure development to improvement in the question on health care yes the can a former wife also exclude all these countries charles taylor dewalt taylor as his running mate perhaps to get the votes off

a section of liberians who still goes for charles taylor his phrase think yourself more kind of the current vice president the man who was up on the ellen johnson sirleaf the first elected female president in africa just of work is currently complaining in brutal liberia and the styles themselves as the country date of transition the month most thoroughly fight to take over from president ellen johnson sirleaf however the for outgoing president also has not given how backing to have vice president biden instead chosen to back georgia where this elections are crucial to liberia it will be the first time in forty four years but there will be some full transfer of power. and without is there much want to tell you about agonizing wait for unions we need a year's eve the family stranded in greece who spent years apart from their loved ones in germany. and growing greens in one of the most and hospitable places on

scientists claim a breakthrough that could help north american communities. welcome back as we take a look at weather across the levant and western parts of asia you see a lot of cloud heading in across the mediterranean through across into turkey so some snow across eastern areas and really quite cold conditions we've got southwest of the ahead of this system most of the snow dies away but there's a lot of cloud around the region it generationally come as a bit of a surprise to iran though still getting eighteen degrees temperature wise now here in the arabian peninsula we've got folks around the gulf states at the moment as we often get at this time of the year water temperatures cooling so twenty seven and how once the mist info clears but a gloomy start today possible in places on the other side of the pinchers looking

fine from mecca there at thirty four degrees as we head into monday some cloud across more northern parts of the potential of that so let's now head across into southern parts of africa where we've got some pretty heavy rain affecting parts of zambia particularly zimbabwe's harare will see some big downpour some showers on the eastern side of madagascar a fine across much of the and south africa should be a decent thing cape town and here are expecting a high of twenty degrees. back

watching al-jazeera let's update you on the stories making headlines more than one hundred people are feared dead in the philippines from flooding and landslides caused by tropical storm tembin most of the casualties are on the island of mindanao. russia says the u.s. is encouraging new bloodshed in eastern ukraine by providing weapons to kiev. and protests flared up in bethlehem over the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital at least three palestinians have been killed in the last two days. all in all the stories are following the

united nations are flying african refugees stranded in libya to italy more than one hundred sixty arrived on friday night as an airbase close to rome human rights groups have condemned the conditions in libyan detention centers describing them as inhumane while flights are expected to follow. for the next year used to resettle their drugs or. the details of. the countries which the drug was it of late you could be guilty of for places where they were. twenty seventeen is approaching it's and will be looking back at some of the biggest stories through the eyes of five families caught up in them in the first episode we talk to a family of refugees waiting to reunite with their relatives in germany aren't seeing reports from the camp in northern greece. compared to the squalor of the camps on the greek islands refugee life on the edge of this lake in north increase

looks bearable because al is desperate with worry lives here with her youngest son and her husband her oldest boy mahmoud is in germany with his nine year old brother . hasn't seen them for two years and the best she can do you see their faces on her phone my son every time he get away with their with phone when he talked with me he got a mom when did you come to germany. but it's very difficult. because i'll fly in iraq four years ago but it was overrun by i still and a family has been on the move the since two years of camps in turkey before she got to the greek islands then it was athens it to many on the macedonian border the notorious petra camp on mount olympus and now here mahmud had left them and has begun to build his own life in germany both he and his brother are in school but as he says he's having to be a parent as well as a brother because it has all the papers she needs to be in germany as well but she

isn't and is tormenting her it's not the right for the government government jet money it's not right there where the where there where did that in. humans where i we do we don't see the tilted in every if it it didn't get i would say that if you start but i don't know why why don't you stop it. so this is where the new german politics has collided with the legal rights of refugees under pressure from the far right germany clamped down hard on his previously liberal policy of reunifying families during coalition negotiations right wing parties were demanding big caps on refugee numbers refugee aid groups say people had been promised they could leave greece and now not sure if they ever will i have the cases also fathers with children and the mother is in germany and

the girls are with teenagers and they really need their mothers and they cannot go and the father really puts great they're forced to support the children but still it's not enough because art isn't alone in her camp there are more than a hundred years e.g. women and children all with families already in germany if berlin wanted to be efficient tickets to the mall on a plane tomorrow but politics he has given the way. he was using their pull in iraq e.g. company increase on sunday in our one year five family series we'll look at how the economic crisis in venezuela has hit families there so don't miss that story coming up tomorrow. now twenty five people have been killed by a strikes in yemen according to the country's state news agency or plays reportedly targeted a protest rally in the district of our head north of the capital sana'a thought some of the dead were pro hoofy tribal fighters who'd organized the demonstration.

football's governing body fever says it will take all necessary steps to recover money it lost in a south american corruption scandal a u.s. jury found two former officials guilty in a case that helped expose a culture of bribery and racketeering within pfieffer gabriel elizondo reports from new york. joe same idea but in brazil one and hill not a part of why each was a top football official in their country and each has been found guilty of racketeering conspiracy and other charges for their roles in what prosecutors described as schemes where sports marketing companies funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes to dozens of football officials it's been called the deep a trial because both men were powerful figures aligned with football's governing body newt was a former head of the south american football federation and was found guilty on three counts but not guilty on two other counts who are disappointed with the

verdict as you can expect it is mr not put isn't a concern if i don't. express our options our children are going to be a better answer than expected or all very disillusioning. might in the former head of the brazilian football federation was found guilty of six of the seven charges against him the fact they weren't found guilty on all the charges indicates the jury at least partially believed the defense arguments that the corruption was part of a larger scheme that men were not fully involved with. both nineteen and a puta claimed their innocence and they were the first defendants to stand trial here in new york two years after an early morning hotel raid in switzerland revealed that the u.s. justice department had been investigating widespread corruption within feet more than forty people have been charged in total more than half have pleaded guilty. to trial has implicated major media outlets accused of paying bribes to taint

broadcasting rights charges they denied one former official says a corruption drama highlights how widespread the culture of corruption is it and the ongoing need for reform the culture that the things that he's still the same one that. those instances of corruption and that allowed those people to have the positions of power that the old. prosecutors clearly feel that justice was served this was a complex trial that lasted nearly a month and it took jurors six days of deliberations to reach their verdict but it's not completely over yet the third person men will berger the former head of the proven football federation the jury was unable to reach a verdict on him so they'll be back on tuesday to continue their deliberations gabriels on the al-jazeera new york. catalonians exiled leader has called on the

spanish government to allow him to return home in time for the opening of the catalan parliament card has pushed him on faces a rest if you returns to spain for his role in catalonia as declaration of independence after october as referendum he's currently in a self-imposed exile in belgium to mount says he's ready to listen to any offer from prime minister mariano rajoy to resolve the current crisis that. now business is in cuber a feeling the effects of the country's faltering relationship with the united states a dance company and have ana has had to cancel its tours after washington stopped issuing travel visas from its embassy in cuba but as our latin america and italy c.n.n. reports the show must go on. it's difficult to put a label on. it's a dance company with very obvious spanish influence. but it's not flamenco. it's much more the in the provocative movements the facial expressions something

that is in fact very caribbean. this is the least of cuba dance company a work of art and love that began as an experiment in the opinion that miley i learned to dance ballet spanish dance in flamenco and popular cuban dances cha cha cha folklore kong and so on which i adore and the african union dances they have their own specific music and style. and we going down the rivers i wanted to fuse all that into one result a fusion of all those types of dances into one that's what we are a mixture of all this. this fusion style has been receiving brave reviews at home and of performances in more than twenty countries it's the first cuban company in fact to appear in the latin grammys but it's been a struggle getting the call do lending your own when i feel that because of the way we started as an independent company many people who control the cuban state

institutions don't like it because it's a message that you can flourish in your own. eventually cuba's culture ministry agreed to provide the company a large building. it's allowed of to expand her other key project a dance school for nearly fifteen hundred children and adolescents the next generation of police cell phones and dancers the waiting list is long these eight year olds practice outside before going into their class knowing they're among the lucky ones. since i was small i wanted to be a dancer i would say mom mom i want to dance let's upon so dance cuba school has two years ago. the school receives the international spotlight award from former u.s. first lady michelle obama. but as always there are challenges the least of which are the handmade costumes in a way these costumes tell the twenty six year old history of this company and that

includes political obstacles for example the trumpet ministrations recent decision to stop issuing visas from its embassy here in havana has forced the company to cancel planned tours to the united states. alfonso and her husband juan carlos the company's manager take it in stride as they go through their paces prepared to take the rest of the world by storm. to sea and human are just sita. the high cost of fresh food is one of the many challenges for those living in canada's remote far north cold temperatures a lack of sunlight and poor soil means that vegetables and fruit have to be imported from thousands of kilometers away daniel lak reports from churchill manitoba on a scheme to make it chief cheap and even profitable for communities to grow their food. on the rocky shores of canada's hudson bay what is essentially an indoor farm with one crucial difference and turtle we don't have soil into

greenhouses bill ericson and his wife diane have been growing vegetables for forty years some inexpensive imported soil others in water pipes full of fertilizer. passive renos we do peace being carers broccoli cauliflower we don't market them and between october and may it's simply too cold for fresh produce to survive. down at the tamarac grocery store government subsidies are the only way that local people can afford fresh fruit and vegetables it's more expensive than down south because you know simply because of the freight costs just about everything is subsidized i guess other than the dry goods which is still something that people are paying quite a bit more than they do don't so one hundred seedlings and eight hundred mature plant nearby in a heated shipping container known as a sikh and a start up called the grocer is working on

a project using hydroponics chemical nutrient solutions pumped over the plant's roots it arrived by ship in late october and will be up and growing before the end of the year to have it in this means that it can easily be taken to places that are maybe only accessed by ship words or is the case for many northern communities. our can be put on a train or could be you know put on the back of a truck and taken by a winter road not just portable but productive twenty four hours a day twelve months a year the container could potentially grow as much as it to heck terror plot of land it's estimated that could earn up to forty thousand dollars a year in profit in a part of canada where mel nutrition is more prevalent than anywhere else year round access to fresh green vegetables could literally change lives then your lack al-jazeera churchill manitoba alice space x. rocket has lifted off on a mission to upgrade the wilds launch

a satellite network falcon nine providence from california's vandenberg base on friday carrying ten new satellites space x. says it's one of the biggest upgrades in history but it was this site in the skies over california and arizona that really got people talking iraq it created a light show is it sped through the earth's atmosphere with many star gazers taking a social media speculating that this was an alien spaceship or perhaps even a missile fired from korea. or yet more in everything we're covering right here al jazeera dot com for all the latest headlines out of course analysis that takes you behind all of our top stories get video on demand there as well. because headlines now more than a hundred people are feared dead in the philippines from flooding and landslides caused by tropical storm tembin most of the casualties are on the southern island

of mindanao at the height of the storm winds reached up to eighty kilometers an hour many more people are still missing and rescue workers fear the number of casualties will rise we really aren't they straight every day to figure out. what help it will be so many people that are really they. say the wrath they're going to rush the areas the way they said yes in one province but in several now russia has won the u.s. is encouraging new bloodshed in eastern ukraine by providing weapons to kiev the u.s. says it will give here of enhanced defensive capabilities to defend against pro russian separatists the conflict in eastern ukraine has claimed more than ten thousand life since two thousand and fourteen. were test as a fault with israeli security forces in the west bank town of bethlehem they're angry at the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital israeli forces fired tear gas to trying disperse the crowds three palestinians have now been killed in the past two days of violence. u.s.

president donald trump has been praising the united nations security council from posing tough new sanctions on north korea resolution includes measures to cut most of pyongyang's petrol imports the latest attempt to force north korea to abandon its nuclear missile program in a tweet trump said the vote proved the world wants peace not death. the un has begun flying african refugees stranded in libya to italy more than one hundred sixty arrived on friday night at an air base close to the capital rome human rights groups have condemned the conditions in libya detention centers describing them as inhumane the u.n. says it plans to move between five and ten thousand refugees out of libya. and the space x. rocket has lifted off on a mission to upgrade the world's largest satellite network the falcon nine from california's vandenberg air base on friday carrying ten new satellites the site of

the rocket of a california arizona led some people to say that they might have seen an alien spaceship or perhaps even a missile from north korea. lines inside stories next i'll see you in half an hour's time. the u.s. issues another strong warning to pakistan saying it's hiding what it calls terrorist groups pakistan denies that and these andree relations between the two countries hit a new low so where does this go from here.