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and owner and taylor this is the news hour live from london coming up. christian leaders in the holy land come out strongly against the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. at least two hundred dead and more than seventy thousand people made homeless as tropical storm tembin the sweeps across the southern philippines. north korea calls the latest round of u.n. sanctions aimed at curbing its nuclear program an active role. thank you yes with the latest in a series on also official intelligence in the years to come will this be doing your job. and i be disseminated oho with sports news as well straight here to go in search of a second straight home ashes whitewash over england. to this news hour.

sunni and 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 follows weeks of palestinian protests across the occupied territory since president trump's announcement at least fifteen palestinian protesters have been killed one hundred have made has more from bethlehem. the festive mood has been somehow dampened ever since the jerusalem declaration by chubb some three weeks ago now no archbishop did but the step is the highest roman castle legal authority not only in the holy land but also in the middle east has said that after the declaration that has been many cancellation pilgrims it was supposed to come and spend christmas eve at the church of their divinity well i have decided to stay away this year business down but only most fifty percent in this city

now r.g.p. should be set by the homes of one foot or he said that no one can take any actual decision when it comes to jerusalem without disturbing the fragile a fragile balance between the different communities he also said that if that if indeed vice president mike pence does come to the region next month to generate where he would not be woke up for any official visit at any of the christian holy sites he also was asked if he had any advice for my parents and he said well the vice president cheney listen to all christians that jesus is not the monopoly answer to the note only for the evangelicals so very stern words from the top roman catholic official in this region who will be presiding over the midnight

mass later on today. the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital has also come under fire from the vatican pope francis has been a staunch critic calling on donald trump to respect the status quo here to shop reports from the vatican ahead of the pope's christmas eve mass. on this one of the most holy days of the year some peter's square was starting to fill up a full twelve hours before pope francis will take christmas eve mass a traditional event taking place at a time of extraordinary up even at the vatican for many here the controversy surrounding jerusalem dates back decades and is centered on israel's illegal occupation. i think it's difficult for the pipe to intervene directly in politics but he is clever enough to persevere for free access to jerusalem for everyone. by the child and then. the pope speaks well jerusalem has to remain

a free and not before. the pope can talk to regular people as well as world leaders and say jerusalem belongs to everyone it's home for a number of different religions. they spoke with one voice the vatican's links with true islam go back centuries this is the church of the holy cross in jerusalem consecrated in rome in three hundred a.d. on a foundation of soil and relics taken from the very hill where christians believe jesus died a little sliver of wood said have been taken from the cross draws pilgrims every day to walk in this church is to walk in the holy land the pope's with response to what they're describing here as israel's land grab has been unprecedented. it is. a unique city holy to jews christians and muslims who worship in the city i pray to the lord that its identity will be preserved and strengthened for the benefits of

the holy land of the middle east and the entire world. the vatican may be the smallest city state in the world but that hasn't stopped it vigorously disputing what's seen here as israel's claim over jerusalem to be brought up at the united nations forums across europe and the message has always been the same uncompromising and wavering jerusalem belongs to no certain people it belongs to us all. in. the vatican historian familiar with its relations with jerusalem it is the global center of christianity especially for the catholics here because of the vatican and jerusalem it is the location of the holy places was sacred to the christians muslims and jews so this i seen this big similarity because it is it is an issue of identity whether the national identity prevails or the religious global events prevails for the worshippers from all over the world christmas in

some peter's square will be remembered not just for the religious experience but also for the grim reality that one of christianity's holiest cities remains under occupation peter shop al jazeera in rome. there are about half a 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 up web reports. this is all of rosetta sires extended family and to galleries christmas. her son went to the occupied west bank three years ago and never came back he took his two sons were 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 because they are in just three churches congregations are shrinking. the population is 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 sociologists a christian families tend to have more means to get out who sent family. usually has. hari socioeconomically of. and i think the more the human being has options and the more has money and you look to the to the to the life 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 care exist. it's a suburb 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 young do you have to walk 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. nations we can speak to harry force it who's at the church just outside the old city of jerusalem so harry missed all the recent tension what's the atmosphere like. well for christians the policy christians for the met many other christians who come to though the land at this time of year obviously things have to some extent been dampened by the political back and forth that we've seen over the last few weeks but still it is christmas eve and many people are preparing to celebrate that and to the market with prayer and so here at the not a damn church there is potentially the the most significant of the midnight masses at least in jerusalem which is due to take place little bit later on tonight hundreds of people are expected to attend be they local palestinian christians be

they visitors from abroad as for the other perhaps better known christian churches in the old city itself the church of the holy settle would be having a midnight mass really be the focus of christian attention at this time of year is on bethlehem the birthplace of jesus so that is where a lot of the major events are taking place but on the less those the distain here will be able to have their prayers here tonight as for the the general attitude towards this declaration well from the christian churches and it has been pretty strong the head of the orthodox patriarch it has been extremely strong in his condemnation of the move we were filming inside the holy settle to church the other day and one of the people who's been attached to that church pretty extreme a long time grown up with it the former secretary there he was telling us that really that that the wanted what the u.s. president had done was to make jerusalem a politically contestable and city again and take it away from the the the three

faiths and marking marking christmas in a way that would would allow the three faiths to have full. recognition and and not be in the middle of this political maelstrom not of jerusalem is ever very far from politics obviously and israel has come under a set amount of criticism what's been the response set from israeli cabinet which met any. that's right sunday morning is the usual cabinet meeting and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu was very strong in his condemnation in turn of mahmoud abbas the palestinian president who in paris on friday so that the u.s. had proved itself a dishonest mediator with this move on jerusalem and therefore he would reject any u.s. peace plan coming forward the israeli prime minister said that just meant that the palestinians in his praise already again were turning away from peace and were the ones at fault for doing so he also spoke about israel's attitude towards the un in

light of the un general assembly vote that took place earlier this week on thursday and he said that israel would speed through its its letter to divest itself from the unesco organization by the end of this week i by the end of this year which would mean that israel will be leaving unesco by the end of twenty eighteen harry fawcett thank you very much indeed and we're doing a special program on the tension over stations of jewish in this christmas eve watch the holy land at twenty one thirty g.m.t. on sunday here which is here 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 brian reports from the capital manila. 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. was after run leashing flooding and landslides that has left dozens dead on the southern island of mindanao tembin 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 big as cars were washed down from the mountains and buried schools and homes in the town different. more than seventy thousand people have been displaced in a region already ravaged by the government's fight with ice a linked groups aid organizations have criticised the government's response to something that is not shouldn't be

a surprise to the philippine government and. so it is also they questionable when and of 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 time bin is the latest to hit the philippines which is battered by about twenty major storms each year making it 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 bring misery. bridle jazeera manila richard gordon from the philippine red cross says aid is needed in some mindanao as most remote areas. well it's pretty bad that you consider. hundreds of them and. makes the house just about anywhere almost any certain areas that are hard to beach that's why these are basically the errors i mean to get the urban centers but

i think that the poorest offices and the army are you often see them flippant and now. we have a hundred seventy thousand people the fact that. we haven't was 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 dirty. opes the people were trying to provide pretty tadpoles contracts like tomorrow. will bring the cost of directly there for five hundred families and the next day about i don't know if i want it but you've got to start to look at what they want why elsewhere in the philippines five five to say there's no chance of finding survivors in a bent out shopping mall in the city of devout thirty seven people were trapped twenty five broke out on saturday if you let king in office on the top floor

president we're going to test his visit to the scene to talk to survive as and relatives of the missing. coming up on the news hour russia's opposition leader says he's got the backing needed to take next year's presidential election. a month after a new president was sworn in we find out what life is like inside the new zimbabwe . and in sport the gulf cup prepares for its second round of matches with the hosts already in. 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 nuclear deterrent program is the only way to frustrate the u.s. imposed extra measures on pyongyang on friday. intercontinental ballistic missile

test. 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 faithing 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 or new sanctions are aimed at cutting deliveries of refined petrol products by navy ninety percent all north koreans working abroad will have to return home within two years they won't be able to send for currency back home they'll be a ban on exports of north korean goods such as machinery and electrical equipment and then also be a crackdown on the ships smuggling banned goods and to preventing the transport of

coal and oil. in cheek bone is a research fellow for the institute for north korean studies at you and say university he says. or do whatever necessary to ensure the regime doesn't collapse and north korea's percivale nuclear weapons and into clinton missiles is to serve only one goal which is survival of the regime if north korea starts a war that would be and of the regime and the regime does not want their resolve north korea will engage in kind of peace office starting new year two thousand and eighteen because of it's a very important time for engaging in a different strategy is specially in the aftermath of south korea government's proposal of the postponing possible postponing of the joint military exercises between u.s. military and south korea and the korean military during their countdown winter olympic games i guess the north korea is going to take advantage of the proposal

and try to test the water before engaging another provoke ation the russian opposition leader aleksei novelli says he's gathered enough nominations to challenge glad to meet putin in the presidential election speaking at a rally in moscow on sunday a politician lashed out at putin labeling him a bad president. so what he said he gets you pull out of mere putin who turn our country into a source of personal richmond 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 a challenge has more from moscow. alexina valmy 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 tents and large tents on a river beach in a leafy part outside the city seven hundred people turned up and indorsed him so he has cleared part of this administrative process however it's unlikely still that the kremlin is going to laugh aloud him to run they see him as a threat it's unlikely he would ever actually beat them if in a head to head race but he is still a political threats to the russian system and the kremlin says that his fraud conviction which the valley insists was always politically motivated well the crimean says that that bars him from running there is another event is 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 or thorough is only going to heat up. reporters without borders and amnesty international are calling for the immediate release of their journalist mahmoud hussain it's now been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt human rights watch has condemned the imprisonment there when i say she says his detention shows egypt's deep rooted

intolerance for free expression would hussein is accused of broker asking false news to spread chaos which he and his era strongly deny he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail al-jazeera continues to demand his release egypt's interior ministry says police of shot dead nine people in a raid in shockey a province in the nile delta it says the suspects were using a farm as a hideout and training to carry out attacks in north sinai says the identity of the suspects is still being determined. when two thousand seven hundred people in turkey have been sacked over alleged links to what 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 column is the director of policy analysis at the doha institute he says president and one is using the attempted coup as a pretext to crackdown on dissent. but i think at the very beginning his the action was fully understood because that was an attempt on the life of the president 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 build 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. actually the military has been the bastion 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 control so i took that opportunity actually to bring the army and the contract but as i said he went too far when he actually there's 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 posing him whether he had links to the movement. in or or not. south sudan's armed opposition has accused the government of violating a cease fire just hours after it came into effect the peace agreement was brokered in the ethiopian capital addis ababa and was supposed to allow for humanitarian aid to get to civilians caught up in the fighting in a statement the opposition said government troops had assaulted opposition

positions in your county and launched an attack in cork on county more than two million people have been forced from their homes since the civil war broke out in twenty thirteen. or turkey's president which of her bedouin is in sudan where the two countries have agreed to set up a strategic cooperation council to strengthen economic ties sudan is the first stop on a historic three day trip that also includes chad and tunisia have a morgan has more. this is the first visit by a turkish head of state since saddam became independent in one thousand nine hundred six so this visit is regarded as historic in many ways the two presidents met after president arrived in khartoum and spoke about many issues including ways to strengthen ties a lot of bilateral agreements have been signed today more expected to be signed tomorrow and they mostly focus on top political economical development as well of agricultural and tourism sectors here in sudan as well as in turkey they also discuss developments in the islamic world specifically president decision to move

the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and recognized as the capital of israel. did in this state for the united states is going to destroy us just chairman of the islamic conference i've requested support from countries to the countries that responded i would like to think the most again of us is wrong in the world of the issue from the world is won't encourage. now this comes in line with turkey's policy to strengthen its base here in africa over the past few years turkey has opened a lot of new embassies across the across the continent and it says that if it plans to open many more it has also opened the largest the turkish military base outside turkish soil and somalia so sudan is just one of the many countries that turkey is looking at to try to strengthen its base and relationship with so to come on the news colombia celebrates its version of black friday but this year is facing a big stretch. china's changing faces why more people are going under the knife in the quest for the body beautiful. and dutch side i have a x.

ajax give themselves and welcome bruce to what's being a turbulent week details in sports. hello there we've got plenty of cloud across the middle east at the moment it will be working its way in from the west you can see plenty of grey weather history to go all the way across through back through there all the way across into tashkent as well for a lot of gray weather and a few outbreaks of rain as well plenty of snow plenty of wintery weather or not as you might expect up towards the northeastern part of arm up towards the west of course here mostly rain stretching there through parts of lebanon into syria as well that all clears away though as we had three tuesday tuesday does look like a brighter day for us here but across the central belt will still be some rain here

so for many of us in iraq it does it fairly wet and that's stretching its way across into the northern parts of iran as well so here's that area of cloud then a bit further towards the south you can see kuwaitis under that but here in doha no problem for us with the weather twenty seven degrees. abu dabi there getting to around twenty six if we fast forward into tuesday we can see that cloud slipping its way southwards that might be a little bit gray there for us in riyadh and we had down towards the southern parts of africa here there's lots and lots of unsettled weather plenty of violent thunderstorms you see them stretching from angola there all the way across towards the east so we mozambique we seem to particularly like the ones at the moment. as i want to pan over if you will. but that's. more which is of. your last. letter to the moment because on the beach on the bottom in the first

episode of a two part series al-jazeera investigates the world of performance enhancing drugs . sports doping in the streets at this time. when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expected to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullies my life when people need to be heard a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just the flame ethnic cleansing you mean more for bangladesh al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and online.

from one of the top stories head to syria palestinian christian leaders have rejected the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital calling it dangerous and selves . woman 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. north korea has called the latest round of u.n. sanctions an act of war it says countries which supported the fresh measures would pay a quote heavy price. it's been a month since amisom and i was sworn in as a new president inherited a bankrupt economy and high unemployment for a long time needed robert mugabe to step down after a minute she intervention how much us are reports from harare and what progress has

been made since the changeover of power. prices of basic commodities have gone up since president emerson 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 where was. any dollars and i mean the so-called sixty or seventy dollars to me were two terms for things and one of so much. when i got was new administration has promised to end crippling cash shortages this hasn't happened yet sony card must claim 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 you including. investment.

in terms of the. right to property. shobna started many zimbabweans hope when they 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. or reviving the economy in stamping out corruption a seen as key issues when liberians vote in a presidential election runoff on tuesday the former international football a georgia where is taking on the country's vice president joseph tokai cosmetic surgery is on the rise in china it's now so popular there that china has become the third biggest market for the procedure after brazil and the united states but those wishing to change how they look are increasingly at the mercy of illegal

practitioners adrian brown reports from shanghai. eleven years ago chen lin decided she did not like the way she looked she since spent more than twenty thousand dollars on injections her visits to this beijing clinic have become his routine is going to the head dresses. the injections made my chin more pointed in my face longer later i had surgery to my nose which was flat before now it's higher i also made my lips fuller and my skin smoother this was pre-surgery and before problems with immigration began. and once immigration stopped me and made me restate my id card number four times every time i go through immigration the expression of the officer is one of a big surprise. the pursuit of physical beauty is big business in china last year

three thousand operations were carried out at his beijing clinic alone one of the city's biggest the popularity of plastic surgery is driven by social media and the growing obsession with selfies in a shanghai park i met good who didn't want to be recognised he thought a make over would improve his job prospects he had double eyelid surgery but it went badly wrong grr can no longer sleep properly and that's taking a toll on him when the white house they can't close my eyes at all when i try to sleep this is why it's so painful my biggest hope is that i can close my eyes and his sleep well to many people this is nothing but this is my dream he can only close his eyes by using a special lotion these razor scars are evidence of two attempted suicides in spite of the many well documented stories of botched operations there appears to be don't

shortage of trying to ease women and men who want to change the way they look but they are increasingly at the mercy of illegal practitioners and the government's now so concerned it's begun a campaign to shut them down that is not much comfort for good he's now saving for another operation so that he can hopefully close his eyes again adrian brown al-jazeera shanghai peru's former president. has been taken from his jail cell to hospital the jury will undergo treatment for low blood pressure and heart problems a seventy nine year old is serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights abuses during his ten years in office is previously were questioned a humanitarian part on the grounds of his deteriorating health this is the third time he's been taken to hospital this year. but israel has taken the first step

towards expelling top diplomats from brazil and canada have been accused of meddling in the country's politics ahead of the pro-government constituent assembly as academy persona non-grata not wanted and not welcome in the country a diplomat say nicolas maduro his government is consolidating power by isolating the opposition ahead of next year's presidential vote this week the constitutional assembly effectively barred three opposition parties from running in the election. and we're reporting from many areas where in the second part of our one year five families series inflation is rampant food and medicine a scarce president across from the us government has been accused of human rights abuses yet he remains defiant and you shimer reports from caracas. the pitot a neighborhood on the outskirts of caracas doesn't have rubbish collection or running water one of the more. we haven't had any water for three years we park our car here and feel these containers more or less every day and

a half. kathy is a community worker here suffering the same shortages as everyone else but not prepared to just accept their community. to me look i turn it on but the water comes out so we have to shower with cups. she could jolt shames and encourages her neighbors to respond if the municipality won't collect the rubbish then they will. the government does not give resources to the local authorities so they do not pay the companies that do the work because they don't have the budget so everyone three input that is who is affected there katty like many venezuelans has put her dreams on hold in her case to bake cakes with inflation through the roof with jobs cash food and medicine scarce many venezuelans have lost faith in their politicians and they're increasingly looking inwards organizing themselves in the hope of

a better future. they're all victims are rampant inflation food medicine shortages and rising crime it's important to work together we've forgotten that we're all brothers and sisters from the same land a land called been a soil and we're trying to take the reins of this country we're not politicians we don't work for any government agency we want to show that the citizens still have power. tens of thousands of venice wayland's have left the country got his daughter hannah says he's hoping to join an uncle in costa rica i know that that's the wages are not enough not even for their share or even to get through them and i'd like to live alone but you have to share. presidential elections are scheduled for next october president nicolas maduro will stand again hoping to extend the brand to socialism introduced in one thousand nine hundred nine by his predecessor this opposition is divided and some are being prohibited from standing here long ago yet

but i'm not at all it's illogical the one person will solve all of them as well as problems every one of us is obliged to play their part in improving the country. then this way there is in crisis like kathy many like say where their politicians a failed they are going to do something about it they like. caracas. and part three of our series as they know what it will be speaking to a syrian family who've been internally displaced by the war living in east coast or that story right here in algeria. every christmas season colombia witnesses a tropical version of black friday but as i understand around here to reports there's tension this time around here to fierce competition from chinese sellers. buyers crawl underneath the door of this whole social mall and run they are resellers trying to get the most desired garments to stock their shops the might be gone or great early rice is colombia's version of black for. day which repeats

itself every night at two am during the christmas season due to a little bit of 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 this isn't basic of course in the uk we lost 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 chaney's community told us they are facing racial discrimination the manager of the grandson mol rejects such accusations so you know nothing about how to call them they just call them the n n if they come and work legally and follow the rules they are welcome but if they are doing a licit activities we will fight them but we've been here you know colombians who contraband as well and this was thanks to the chinese invasion of. what's happening seventy thirty you know it's only a good shape of the iceberg in the last decade the chinese imports and farmers i think raised by almost twenty times going from five hundred billion here with dollars a year i imagine tens of billions will go soon economies reyna says colombian merchants need to learn how to compete. noise from place them on colombia is no longer a country of cheap labor we have

a per capita income of around seven. thousand dollars revel believes we can compete making cheaper take styles shoes or clothing at this point as opus the sellers feel they have to win their protection as battle but it's unclear for how long they'll remain in business in an increasingly globalized world at least in that i'm. just ahead on the news hour. and you play music who understand and. al-jazeera looks into how artificial intelligence is changing the workplace. and coming up peter will be here with more on the most amazing sports stories of the year to. a conflict is like the god who created. the shining in korea in building full glory yes mean larry shifts her attention to the disaster stricken regions of pakistan

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a quiet revolution in how we work is happening all around us and 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 automation is the process of machines taking roles formerly held by humans it's been happening for centuries but it's getting quicker with machines now much more capable of doing complicated tasks like stitching together shoes or even stitching a wound artificial intelligence enables machines to think through a task and work out a solution and then do it for example one googles on computer is an expert of the boardgame go beating the world champion earlier this year and then told itself to play chess when that type of intelligence is applied to the legal system would we

need lawyers or even politicians in the first of a five part series on al jazeera lawrence leagues emmons which jobs could be under threat and where that leaves humans. and you play music who. 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 guess is or 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 their 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 storks to pick fruit very little appears outside the imagination somebody'll is anybody asking what jobs there might

be less folk humans actually to do and what also 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 america with a decent basic income one thing they're using an income scheme would cost a quarter of the military spend 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 lee al-jazeera london john bryson is an associate professor at the university of bath where she researches artificial intelligence she says replacing humans with algorithms can be tricky as facebook has found. it's important to remember that the a in artificial intelligence the ai the artifact a robot is always built by someone it's bought by someone it's designed by someone there's always a human or a human corporation that's responsible so the question is what would motivate corporations to get rid of all of their humans and replace the humans entirely with robots so it makes sense to try to make their human employees as productive as possible but it's not clear that it makes sense to have

a company with no people whatsoever we have already had artificial intelligence in various forms for decades depending how you define the term so if you're looking for something that's exactly you're not going to see it ever we're not going to build a robot that's exactly like an ape you know that if with a computer stuck on it that's just not going to happen but if you look at sort of the continuum of how robots have been or art of automation in general has been being brought in then you might say that there's already some excesses i think the most dangerous thing is actually not so much the unemployment but the fragility if you have one algorithm rather than hundreds of people so a really good example is facebook was i was asked by the republicans. in the last american election to replace hundreds of human editors with a single algorithm and it turns out with

a single algorithm it's easy for fake news to find a way around it so now face because rehired the human evolution sports news and it peter. thank you very much loren australia are looking to take a step closer to claiming a second straight home ashes whitewash when they face england in the fourth test which begins on tuesday australia have already won the five match series having taken the three games so far they've also upped the ante in melbourne mitchell starc who has been ruled out of the fourth test and will be replaced by jackson bird poked fun at england's bowlers after james anderson suggested australia's boating attack lacked depth not quite humorous actually them playing twenty we could sit in the series so. we have been and they're having a great get out at deb's oh it certainly would walk by saying i don't want my subject here in the nets. to forward to seeing what he can do to the english batters throughout this test match if one's working hard to try and win this test

match. you wouldn't expect anything different from from the group of honest bunch of of players you know they're willing to do whatever it takes to try and get a couple of wins out here which you know the point of a lot of hard work i know we haven't got much for it but you know we've really really hoping that we can come away with something and. christmas day is one of the most anticipated days in the n.b.a. regular season that's because it usually features are highly anticipated match often a showdown between the previous seasons finalists and this year is no different as champions golden state face the cleveland cavaliers one player expected to not it's a feature is golden state star man steph curry the warriors' head coach said he cannot play having not recovered from a sprained ankle suffered on december fourth keven the main man le bron james should play inside have the third best record in the east and will be looking to

avenge their four one finals drubbing by the warriors who are sick in the west. there are five games on christmas day with both conference leaders in action the side with the best record in the east that would be the boston celtics take on the washington wizards and the western conferences number one side that would be the used rockets they will be playing the oklahoma city thunder. saudi arabia and the united arab emirates meet in the gulf cup group a match on monday where the winner can virtually secure a place in the same e finals also in kuwait city on monday the host nation will face oman both teams last day opening fixtures but a victory can go a long way towards keeping them in semifinal contention confirmation there of the two matches on monday the saudis and immoralities kicking off the day's procedures and then in the late game by host nation kuwait face oman and group b.

will be back in action on tuesday yemen take on bahrain and defending champions qatar will be up against iraq if the qatar is when they will secure a semifinal both. liverpool manager you're going to clar pairs the sights set on finishing second in the english premier league but the people who place one zero on boxing day are currently fourth in the table a whopping twenty points behind leaders manchester city. i don't leave them in syria maybe. we do much about what. we. do and this is how it is possible groups like we could be two three four if you will. dream but if you do it too that's what we have rode sixteen teams in action on boxing day second place manchester united will be trying to close the gap on runaway leaders man city you won't be

playing on the day fourth place tottenham are just one point behind liverpool in fourth they face southampton. it's been a turbulent few days for the famous dutch club by exams to them after being eliminated in the europa league preliminary rounds that were knocked out of the dutch cup this last week the club took action and officially speaking coach marcel kaiser and his assistants including dennis bergkamp were removed from active duty club legend michael rise again is in temporary charge and on thursday the third defeat of vellum to a three one justin privates kasper dahlberg and maris completed the come from behind win i x of second in the dutch league five points behind p.s.v. eindhoven. new n.h.l. expansion team the vegas golden knights of continued the unbelievable home run they beat the washington capitals three nothing on saturday in vegas alex turk oscar lindbergh and william calls an old school would mark andre fleury stops twenty six shots for his first shutout with vegas in the six hundred ninety ninth

a real game the golden knights fifteen home wins this season are tied for the worst in the n.h.l. with tampa bay. over in boston the bruins beat the visiting detroit red wings three one patrice bergeron school twice in the third period to help seal the win this was boston's fourth straight victory. and that's all the sport it's back to london thanks peter and a quick rounding catch up in a time when our web site address for that is al-jazeera to count as it may learn tell if there's news or maryanne demasi will be here in a minute with another full run of the day's news ice washing.

we are 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 a legal system to bear oxford university as professor of machine learning steven roberts talks to all jazzier this time. training starts lightly but the pace picks up quickly as these grannies work out a long lifetime of frustration. at eighty five years old intombi saw what trains as hard as anyone and they. as feel so good i feel fresh a punch this side and this side like this and like that. they're adults like things like soccer because i will bring these ladies are tough and they take their training very seriously you. know you're free to.

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