to hold the power. there's this radical transformation. i mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people at this time on al-jazeera. it's impossible to underestimate the size and scale of the economic crisis it's not just about the billion trillion dollar debt it's not just about the banks it's not just about the government to buy real. christian leaders in the holy land come out strongly against the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital.

this is al jazeera live from london also coming up at least two hundred dead and more than seventy thousand people made homeless as tropical storm tembin sweeps across the southern philippines. north korea calls the latest round of u.n. sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear program an act of war. and more employee thank you yes with the latest series on intelligence in the years to come will be doing your job. and i palestinian christian leaders have rejected the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital calling it dangerous and an insult to christians and muslims alike a declaration. well as weeks of palestinian protests across the occupied territory

since president trump's announcement at least fifteen palestinian protesters have been killed in the violence what happened he made his life first in bethlehem so what's the response been to that declaration. certainly a certain level of satisfaction because ever since that dualism declaration the palestinians have been very adamant of showing a united face when it comes to muslims and christians and they view about. east jerusalem so certainly the words of the came out of the church really goes along with everything else that has been said here ever since that declaration after also underlined the fact that the head of the roman catholic church in the holy land and in the middle east has add also this is a very strong remarks that archbishop here but the step it's about laws italian was

actually presiding over the celebrations here in bethlehem today he had very strong words he said that it was no unilateral decision that can be taken over jerusalem and he said that beyond the issues of sovereignty border and politics jerusalem is a universal symbol for billions of people around the world and that should be taken into any case into consideration before making any decision and he also one photo just say that if indeed vice president mike pence comes here. next month in january well he won't be won't come as an official visit to any of the question of only sides. whether it is a holy sepulcher or anyone else and that's really very much in june which what we have been hearing among palestinians for the past three weeks and if you recall mike pence was supposed to come here to bethlehem. and the people of that lab said

that he wouldn't be woke up. at come to his on this trip and to give him the last of the tension of the stations of jerusalem in the past few weeks what's the mood there for christmas. well there's certainly a certain mood of defiance people wanting to show that regardless of all the problems they will come here and celebrate but look around this square is quite empty compared to other years we've seen a handful of tourists know many and we spoke around the shop owners and other business owners and they said that it's going down by at least one third if not hundreds of the reservations they had before that some declaration and then you have to look at the background to all of that was celebrations are going on here there were clashes and protests today across the occupied west bank they are these continued this wave of detentions by the israelis more than five hundred so far

more than three thousand wounded just fifteen dead so certainly a very heavy a bittersweet atmosphere even though people are still remaining defiant as sin want to continue life as if things were normal and but in the back of their heads there is worry about what could come next certainly they are worried about any further political developments on them to hamid thank you very much indeed. well there are about tougher million palestinian christians but many of them live in other parts of the world just over a thousand remain in the gaza strip where small christmas celebrations are planned welcome web reports. this is all of rosetta sires extended family that's what gallo this christmas it's a son went to the occupied west bank three years ago and never came back he took his two sons worried for their future hearing gaza one of her daughters moved to

canada six years ago a family that bad other life is very difficult in gaza we live under siege and we cannot move anywhere gaza has become a big prison we've witnessed many was during the bombing we had to sleep in the church for safety the the story of rosettes family is typical among as a small community of christians the gather in just three churches congregations are shrinking. populations just over a thousand it was more than double that ten years ago when the blockade by israel in egypt began they suffer the same daily struggles as the muslim majority of sociologists a christian families tend to have more means to get out of family. usually has. hardly socio economic level. and i think the more the human being has options and the more has money and you look to

the to live and good life and this is good life is not available in gaza even your money in gaza but you can have your life. adding to the strife is the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. here in this community center christians are holding a vigil in solidarity for jerusalem as palestine's capital the feeling among christian communities very much the same as it is among the muslim majority everyone we've spoken to see here is it off position to the u.s. move and they say it only adds to the frustrations of life here. there are many muslims here too the communities carry exist. it's a somber runs the center he says they do everything they can to try and provide support for young people. to do what they need to do what they must do in their lives as the younger you can do what your can see

a lot of them who want to leave and i know that you believe this is more secure more comfortable for them to come for sure many young people here say they like gaza just that on the seat there are no opportunities here almost anyone who can leave and so this small christian community is getting smaller malcolm web al jazeera in gaza. which in a special program on the tension over the status of jewish in this christmas eve watch the holy land at twenty one thirty g.m.t. on sunday here i'm just here. two hundred people a dead and many more are missing after a tropical storm devastated the southern philippines tens of thousands have been forced from their homes and a state of emergency has been declared in several areas in just tayyab reports.

digging through the devastation caused by tropical storm tembin these rescue workers use whatever they can to find survivors but hope quickly turns to anguish as one of the youngest casualties is pulled from the mud. hours after unleashing flooding and landslides that has left dozens dead on the southern island of mindanao tendon slammed into another set of philippine islands late on saturday officials say people living in the area ignored warnings to leave and were swept away. by the flood was already close and the people were not able to get out of their homes the thought was so strong that it swept away houses emergency responders say rocks and boulders some as biggest cars were washed down from the mountains and buried scores of homes in the town of. more than seventy thousand people have been displaced in a region already ravaged by the government's fight against groups aid organizations

have criticised the government's response and it is something that is not shouldn't be a surprise to the philippine government and. so it is also very questionable when a government is not prepared to give relief and to give help to the people then this things happen because they should be right. tropical storm tendin is the latest to hit the philippines which is battered by around twenty major storms each year they can get one of the world's most disaster prone countries and while the storm is now heading out over the south china sea towards vietnam the devastation it's caused will continue to cause misery in al-jazeera. which included in the philippine red cross says aid is needed in some of mindanao as most remote areas well it's pretty bad that you consider. hundreds of them and. makes the house just about where almost any sort of areas that are hard to beach that's why these are basically the rural areas i mean to get the urban centers but i think that the

poorest obvious is an arm or you know of arms that you know listen to now. we have a hundred seventy thousand people in fact that. we have a house that people with no hope at the moment. i'm sure that world. we are just in wonder i wish that water tankers were a dusty. hopes that people were trying to provide great example of contracts by tomorrow. will bring the cash directly there for five hundred families and the next state about that it was a five hundred. start so that when they won by north korea has described the latest round of u.n. sanctions imposed on the country as an act of war its state news agency says a stronger new can to terence problem program is the any way to frustrate the u.s.

and also sent all the countries who are supporting the sanctions will pay a heavy price here in imposed extra measures on coming out on friday following its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test first news following the story from seoul. north korea called the latest round of un security council sanctions imposed on it as a threat as a violation of its sovereignty as well as an act that would violate peace and stability in the region it also seemed to direct much of its anger at the u.s. who led drafted and negotiated this latest round of sanctions now one interesting thing however is north korea seems to acknowledge that these latest sanctions are the toughest ever that it's facing it called it tantamount to a complete economic blockade as not only a significant cap on petrol supplies the sanctions also call for the repatriation of north korean foreign labor as within the next twenty four months hitting an

important income source for the isolated country it also calls for an ban on north korean exports including machinery and lumber again hitting north korea's income source there isn't however any indication in the statement that north korea will change its behavior in fact the tone is one of defiance but this is very much in line with previous statements in reaction to past sanctions many analysts have come to believe that the world is running out of sanctions options when it comes to dealing with north korea now the hope however is that these sanctions will have the effect of making it more difficult for north korea to carry out further tests. still to come russia's opposition leader says he's got the backing needed to take on preachin in next year's presidential election. we hope for good changes we hope for the better for a better country and a moment after a new president emerson and god was sworn in we find out what life is like inside

the new zimbabwe. hello there we've got quite a quiet spell of weather over the southeastern parts of china at the moment when they're aiming down from the north though so it is feeling quite cool with all maximum temperature in shanghai probably struggling to eight or nine degrees as we head through into choose day though i think the temperatures will be rising this time at least into double figures think we'll get to around twelve in shanghai and further south we'll see more in the way of time just be pushing its way northward say more of us here will see some great weather maybe just the old outbreak of rain at times if we head towards the west well here for many of us in india it's also generally quite quiet weather wise at the moment to twenty one of them a new delhi still a problem with the i call to him for the south we're looking at twenty eight in

cheyenne i for sure langkow quite a few showers around a were expecting more of those as we head through chews day some of them likely to be very heavy particularly in the east now here in doha no major changes for us over the next few days so we're looking at around twenty seven degrees as our maximum on monday to the north of us you can see this area of cloud is stretching all the way up into parts of iran that may just squeeze out the old shower certainly making things rather great for us in kuwait and gradually that'll be sinking its way south was for choose day a few showers making their way into way around behind it. from toxic milk to fake meat food scandals continue to rock china as the world turns to it for its foods one east goes undercover to expose the hidden harm in a system geared for profit one east at this time on al jazeera.

al-jazeera. and for your. money the top stories here on jazeera just in christian leaders have rejected the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital calling it dangerous and an insult . more than two hundred people a dead and many more missing not a tropical storm devastated the southern philippines tens of thousands have been forced from their homes and a state of emergency has been declared in several areas. north korea's called and i just round of un sanctions an act of war it says countries which supported the

fresh measures would pay a quote heavy price. russian opposition leader he says he's gathered enough nominations to challenge but to me approach in the presidential election speaking at a rally in moscow on sunday a politician lashed out at putin labeling him a bad president. vladimir putin who turned our country into a source of personal enrichment for yourself your family and your friends that is why you should not be president any more you are a bad president you don't have a positive program you don't know how to rule country and we defy you in these elections and we are set to win. for each other as has been following events from moscow. alexei navalny who is perhaps the most popular and charismatic leader of the opposition in russia has been trying to clear one of the administrative hurdles to being allowed to run for president next year now what you have to do as an

independent candidate is gather at least five hundred people in one place so that they can endorse you as their candidate and so he has been setting up twenty such meetings in cities across the country thinking that the authorities were going to be shutting most of these down in moscow he has been refused most of the venues he's applied for so what he did was set up a tents a large tent on a river beach in a leafy part outside the city seven hundred people turned up and indorsed him so he has cleared parts of this administrative process however it's unlikely still that the kremlin is going to allow allow him to run they see him as a threat it's unlikely he would ever actually beat. in a head to head race but he is still a political threat to the russian system and the kremlin says that his fraud conviction which the valley insists was always politically motivated well the kremlin says of that bars him from running there is another event that's going on

later in the day organized by a different opposition figure yashin who says that his new position as the head of municipal district in moscow allows him to set up demonstrations that's what he's been trying to do but the police have been tearing down the stage this is today they've been sealing off the area and yashin has backed off a bit saying that his supporters although they still should come down should not bring any political banners they should bring only flowers instead to avoid arrest all this i think shows that as we head into the election period it's in march two thousand and eighteen that the tussle between russia's opposition movements and the earth or a tease is only going to heat up. more than two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been sacked over alleged links to what the country is calling terror organizations soldiers teachers and bureaucrats have been dismissed as part of the latest emergency rule decree ordered by president. in total one hundred fifty

thousand have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs since the failed coup in july last year by one couple and is the director of policy analysis at the doha institute he says president added one is using the attempted coup as a pretext to crackdown on dissent. i think at the very beginning his the action was fully understood because that was an attempt on the life of the president and an attempt actually to overthrow a democratically democratically elected government but i think after that he went too far by using that as a pretext in order to belch not only the military in which he actually used. in fact he seized on that called an opportunity for him in order to bring the army under his control because for the past fifteen years of rule actually the military has been in the past of secularism in turkey and it was very much the party which has resisted so many reforms that the president has suggested in

order to bring the whole state. under his so i took that opportunity actually to bring the army and the pontiff but as i said he will too far when he actually there is also the state bureaucracy he fire out hundreds of university professors i know for sure that some colleges in turkish university don't have teachers actually to teach the courses he built also the judiciary so he went after almost all those he was suspecting of opposing him whether actually they had links to the movement. or or not. it's been a month since amisom one god was sworn in as zimbabwe's new president inherited a bankrupt economy and high unemployment from long time needed robert mugabe who stepped down after military intervention how much us are reports from harare and what progress has been made since the change of power. prices of basic commodities

have gone up since president amos and when i took over last month people seem to prefer shopping in the store because it's a little bit cheaper than others but it's still frustrating we are supposed to buy groceries for. twenty dollars and i mean the so-called sixty or seventy dollars to three times for things and so much. when i was new administration has promised to end crippling cash shortages this hasn't happened yet some economists blame what they call business owners indiscipline coming from the ground of companies trying to make as much fortune as possible before prices stabilizes but shop owners say the shortage of foreign currency is to blame some have to buy dollars on the black market at a premium to remain viable they insist they have to hike prices the government accuses some business owners and politicians are breaking the exchange control law by illegally stashing money abroad and not depositing it in local banks the

president says he has a list of individuals who have money overseas some of it stolen and smuggled out of the country one of prison and that was first was to order a three month amnesty for the return of stolen money to the country people have until march to do so or they will be arrested despite the huge economic challenges they have been more positive developments since when i became president the government says civil servants will be paid on time this month some eighty games are now giving us dollars that had not happened for months the new administration is also trying to mend strained relations with some in the international community which will ensure the sanctity and security of your investment and. all agreements with. including. investment of women's. in terms of the law the right to property

shaaban started many zimbabweans hope when their god while will turn around the economy re a positive we trying to be positive we hope for good changes we hope for the better for a better country the bobbins know it will take time for the situation to improve but until the new president's promises become reality long lines outside banks and rising food prices will likely continue. al-jazeera had only. every christmas season colombia witnesses a tropical lashon of black friday but as i was under n.p.r. to reports there's tension this time around due to face competition from chinese says. buyers crawl underneath the door of this whole sale mall and run they are resellers trying to get the most desired garments to stock their shops the model gone or great early rise is colombia's version of black friday which repeats itself every night at two am during the christmas season good little

a little bit old it's very hard but it's worth the effort christmases when people buy the most we don't have a life but we make good money reselling these jeans notes during the day some big downtown boulder is overwhelmed by buyers informal ban there's mixed with merchants of locally made shoes and clothes moving four million u.s. dollars per day. but sellers say they have been facing unfair competition from recently arrived chinese traders who pay up to treat times for their shops imported legally and sell products at half the price to some basic of course in the last sixty five percent of our sales last year and i had to cut sixty percent of the employees at our factory it was impossible to compete with them merchants took to the streets as tensions rose then in october the police shut down fifty chinese stores for contraband none would speak on camera but one representative of the

growing chinese community told us they're facing racial discrimination the manager of the grandson mall rejects such accusations so you know nothing about how to cannot live just call them if they come and work legally and follow the rules they are welcome in the world but if they are doing a list of activities we will fight them but we've been hitting on colombians who contraband as well and this was thanks to the chinese invasion all of. what's happening saturday thirty you know is only a good shape up. the iceberg in the last decade chinese imports and commerce has reduced by almost twenty times going from five hundred billion u.s. dollars a year martin family believes it will go soon economy smadi rayna says colombian merchants need to learn how to compete. noise from the mine colombia is no longer a country of cheap labor we have a perk capita income of around seven thousand dollars river believes we can compete

making cheap or take styles shoes or clothing at this point it's hopeless these sellers feel they have to win their protection use battle but it's unclear for how long they'll remain in business in an increasingly globalized world i listen to them. now a quiet revolution in the way we work is happening all around us but some leading thinkers say governments are failing to keep the public informed automation and artificial intelligence creating a new world where millions of jobs will simply disappear in the first of a five part series on ai mostly examines which jobs could be most under threat. and you play music who understand and. in the future is likely many people will have one of these in their home. after all it will sing songs and dance for your kids or tell you how to cook a meal. will teach math this could be

a classroom assistant exactly but what interests business about these robots is that they can be put in the supermarkets and tell you whether your kitties will go into the lobby of an office block and tell you where to meet your contact we're speaking to large blue chip companies who want to use them in their offices we're speaking to cab home providers we're speaking to hotels commonly factories to use in the showrooms. a whole variety financial organizations banks retail supermarkets quite a large sector businesses are extremely cagey about talking about their interest in artificial intelligence not surprising given that robots or algorithms could replace humans in any number of ways jobs insurance the law financial services other clerical roles are already being lost entire professions are projected to disappear. and if a robot can be designed to build a house in

a couple of days and the movement of goods will be performed without humans then it's clear that in rich countries vast numbers of jobs in all pay grades could be at risk in agriculture designers are working on a robot which can distinguish between leaves and stalks to pick fruit very little appears outside the imagination something like anybody asking what jobs there might be less first humans actually to do and one answer seems to be things with our hands because robots don't have motor skills so things perhaps like working with food all cutting hair or gardening but clearly much of this is monotonous and it's not very well paid. so who will give us money or pay for things if we no longer work or raise taxes increasingly it's being suggested that the so-called universal income may be the answer being paid not to work today suddenly universal

basic income is a serious policy option there's lots of experiments going on as to how hard can be done what effect does it have it's moved much more into the mainstream and that i think is the consequence of all the changes that we have seen going on to provide the united states of america every six states of america with a decent basic income one thing they're using it. would cost a quarter of the military so it's not feasible but the biggest question of all is whether it would make us happy or could it be that technology offers us the option of having almost all time to ourselves and if so is it a dream come true or would we get bored cautiously the world of business is asking where the boundaries are and what we are prepared to accept lawrence leigh al-jazeera london. any time on our website that is al-jazeera dot com.

one of the headlines on al-jazeera palestinian christian leaders have rejected the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital calling it dangerous and an insult if it is weeks of demonstrations across the occupied palestinian territory over the decision leaving at least fifteen people dead or to have been hamid has more from bethlehem. certainly a certain level of satisfaction because ever since that day was a declaration palestinians have been very adamant of showing a united face when it comes to muslims and christians and they view about. east jerusalem so certainly the words of that came out of the church really goes along with everything else that has been said here ever since that declaration more than two hundred people are dead and many more missing after a tropical storm devastated the southern philippines tens of thousands have been

forced from their homes and a state of emergency has been declared in several areas the storm arrived on friday and floodwaters rose very quickly leaving people little time to escape. north korea has called the latest round of un sanctions an act of war and state news agency says a stronger nuclear deterrent program is the only way to frustrate the u.s. it also said other countries which supported the sanctions would pay a heavy price the u.n. imposed extra measures on coming out on friday following its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test. russian opposition leader unexplainable nay says he's gathered enough nominations to challenge the timea putin in the march presidential election his supporters gathered in twenty cities across russia securing signatures to get his name on the presidential ballot vonnie has been banned from running due to a criminal conviction. then a three thousand people in turkey have been sacked over alleged links to what the

country is calling terror organizations soldiers teachers and bureaucrats have been dismissed as part of turkey's emergency rule decree accused of acting against national security in total one hundred fifty thousand to be dismissed or suspended from their jobs since the failed coup in july last year is that on the stage they would see if you can zero one zero one east is next. if there was ever a quintessential chinese conference the one time noodle soup would be it. once a meal reserved for emperors and describes a small clouds today it served a normal.