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hello i'm rob matheson this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. there is no peace if someone uses. u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital costs a shadow over christmas celebrations in the palestinian territory and beyond. a show of solidarity people in the philippines pull together in the aftermath of a deadly tropical storm. out of prison but in poor health peru's former president alberto fujimori is pardoned. and al-jazeera looks at the effect automation and ought to officially intelligence might have on developing economies . as billions of christers around the world celebrate christmas you. u.s.

president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital is looming large in this year's festivities but francis is presiding over celebrations in the vatican he's been a vocal critical of trump's move and is calling for the status quo to be preserved palestinian leaders were among those attending services in bethlehem where there was also a message on jerusalem both francis said repeating what many others said before him he's not you that jews i'm a city of peace. there's not peace if someone uses crude. it was in him to drink loads not to screwed. and it's also being widely denounced by the international community the u.n. general assembly voted to declare trunks jerusalem recognition as novel and void harry fawcett reports not going to city united and divided by faith.

by its ancient walls this tiny patch of land has for millennia borne a power that has spread far beyond the. stories of the three abrahamic faiths have jerusalem at their heart and the history of their sometimes tolerant often bloody relationship has soaked into the stones. and walk westward along the via dolorosa where christ carried his cross brings you after some twists and turns to the church of the holy sepulcher it's here where jesus said to have been brought down from the cross his body cleaned and in tuned with all his resurrection three days later george gently and took over from his father a secretary to the armenian patriarchate one of three denominations that manages the site he's had a bond with the place since boyhood but this is the central monument of the christians in the world i think the billion christians whether they're protestant or orthodox and catholic see in this place as the most important

place where rightfully so because the defining moments of the last week of cries took place within this building but he says it's part of a larger religious monument to the city itself one that shouldn't be politicized suddenly this signature or. makes the issue of jerusalem contest a been so it's our duty and our mission as the residents of jerusalem both israelis and others. to link this issue of jerusalem outside contestation in his recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the us president spoke of continued freedom of worship for all faiths with final political borders to be decided but many here see in the president's unabashed backing of israel's claim a cementing of israeli control over islam's third holiest site. so this is one of the main entrances to the al aqsa mosque compound the mosque itself is run by the

jordanian backed islamic work but the entrances to it are guarded by israeli forces and they can restrict access at their will palestinian academic marty addo heidi likens it to a roof being let out and withdrawn on a whim a feeling magnified by the trump declaration that he or thing which is my nightmare if israel today is going to translate such a declaration to implement what they claim solvent the over the city meaning to take over the site and to abort my presence. and kick us out of the of the city was. for the muslim faith this is the most closely connected place to have a prisoner made here at the shortest route to god that's because it's from here that the prophet muhammad himself is said to descend to have we believe the prophet muhammad came all the way from mark extend to heaven the received his evaluation coming through jerusalem is experience historical religious message to us and to

the world we belong here it's part of us it's really when you get up to the level of the skyline here in jerusalem you get a full idea of just how concentrated of the markers of the hundreds of years of religious history here those great domes behind me are the church of the holy sepulcher where jesus christ is believed to have been laid to rest in just a few hundred meters walk away you can see the gold of the dome of the rock which is in the al aqsa mosque compound where muslims come to pray every friday and just beyond that is the western wall. for jews the dome of the rock sits upon the temple mount site of the first and second jewish temples the western wall is the closest point in which they can pray it stones themselves said to be vested with divinity and rabbi and former opposition member of the israeli parliament the knesset lippmann says this place embodies the jewish connection to god and to jerusalem after two thousand years we would exile went from country to country cut at the

continent but three times a day jews turned towards to receive them to pray twice a year in the most important moments we said next year in jerusalem since seizing east jerusalem in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven israel has been trying to cement that connection with archaeological work that it says proves the temples historical existence which the united nations has ruled illegal in occupied territory. it's a necessity to counter rejections of jewish history here when we hear president we celebrate the fact that someone somewhere in the world is given recognition to the capital which is going to our capital for three thousand years the heart and soul the jewish people are right as an independent country to declare our capital but he left room open for those negotiations to figure out what exactly that means when we say jerusalem is the jewish capital the thousands of years drusilla has changed hands the subject of a continuing struggle for control this latest chapter in that history has had its narrative shifted by the us president its eventual resolution seeming only to slip

further into the future in this holy city that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. well there have been reports in analysis saying how trump's decision has ended seventy years of u.s. policy on jerusalem but is that we true as the u.s. really been an unbiased broker in the middle east peace process while washington has been israel's most loyal allies since the cold war it's pumped in billions of dollars of aid and weapons bolstering what israel says is its right to defend itself as part of its core middle east strategy last year it signed a landmark deal touching fifty eight billion dollars in military assistance over the next decade the united states is also used to its permanent members status at the un security council blocking draft resolutions against israel is used its veto power forty three times since nine hundred seventy the speculation the translators decision is driven by domestic politics eighty one percent of donald trump's

republican party and sixty one percent of democrats favor israel. if you look at trump's core support base the white evangelicals more than half of them already support trump's decision on jerusalem it's also about the power brokers of washington the different lobby groups that exact influence in american politics and decision makers american israel public affairs committee or a pac is the largest pro israel lobby group and several presidents like bill clinton barack obama and donald trump have vied for support during their reelection campaigns well earlier my colleague spoke to shibley telhami he's a professor for peace and development at the university of maryland she asked him if israel will ever agree to negotiate without the united states now that palestinian president mahmoud abbas says the u.s. has no role as a mediator. you know in some ways it was actually a way out for mr our best because if you look at what the administration was

reportedly offering it was something that he could not have possibly accepted we hear rumors of course we don't know all the details but certainly what has been put on the table including the suggestion that the palestinian sovereignty be quote moral sovereignty unquote something that no one could have accepted and certainly with the status of jerusalem as it is can't imagine how you can do it so in some ways it was hard for him to have pulled out if they had put a plan on the table that had support from song gone through such as saudi arabia that have a good relationship with the white house for more than twenty years the palestinian authority has been negotiating with the united states and year on year the u.s. gives israel billions and billions of dollars even under the barack obama presidency he gave israel the largest military aid packets in in history so why is it that right now about the saying that the united states is not a mediator and not an honest broker let's start with the fact that the post is a plane with an extremely weak and the survival yes has been

a priority because it could have been a lot worse for them and on top of that you had this incredible division between hamas and fatah between gaza and the west bank that has made it so hard even for those people who care deeply about the palestinian question to know where to go here so this idea then that the united that trump has taken this decision just to appease his right wing constituency do you agree with that argument and and if that is the case well how can you take such a decision that could potentially have disastrous foreign policy consequences as we're seeing as well as u.n. isolation is this going to backfire on the u.s. in any way well you know with the interesting thing is there was no pressure on him to take this decision it's extraordinary he didn't even wait to put on his plan for it to fail and say all right it failed it was rejected by the palestinians. therefore i'm going to move the embassy i did a public opinion poll for the university of maryland critical issues poll just before in november sixty three percent of all americans opposed moving the embassy

and a more recent poll after the decision by c.n.n. also shows that a majority oppose moving the embassy to jerusalem and that included by the way forty four percent of republicans only forty nine percent republicans supported it prior to the decision even though even jellicoe were divided with forty percent opposing the decision no one was breathing down his neck yes he's trying to appease his base for sure and he's under investigation and he wants to have core support but frankly the evangelicals would not have walked away from him if he didn't do it right then if he had waited. guatemala's president says this country will move its embassy in israel to jerusalem making it the first nation to follow donald trump's lead guatemala was one of nine nations that voted in support of the united states and israel last week at the un general assembly meeting on jerusalem status the country receives an estimated eighty million dollars annually from the u.s.

well peter hakim is a latin american political analyst he's joining us on skype now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time sir why do you think guatemala is chosen to be the first country to do this. i think. quite a model is a country. field itself very dependent on the united states has over many years sought to accommodate the united states to find ways of assuring the united states that supported and frankly noted ceases tremendous influence in quite amala probably almost as much as any country in all of a latin america or almost any foreign country it's been able to shape the policy in the program so quite a bit is there any reason to the timing of this that guatemala has decided to be

the first country to make this announcement at this particular time rather than perhaps waiting to see who else might have gone ahead and done it before them. well there's several important decisions that are awaiting quite amala that have to be taken by then one of the most crucial is what they call temporary protection status which allows has allowed quite a model in refugees from several natural disasters from the wars to take residence in the united states not permanently but temporarily with full rights. and how donald trump has threatened to. terminate that status and begin the porting guatemalans or forcing them to to return to what i'm ali and so that that's one

important but more generally the government that what a volatile day is a very weak government it's being investigated by variety of different government agencies and international agencies for corruption and i think what what amal is looking for is u.s. support and the u.s. support is what might. keep quite a model more stable more safe and that's what the got of mali government is betting on on of course one of those organizations that was carrying out its those corruption investigations was the united nations it has been very vocal in. its criticism of donald trump's decision do you think that played a role at all in president jimmy more on his decision to do this. like i say i think it's part of a general sense of jimmy moore ollie's the existing government much of the

parliament the model that the united states is the safe harbor let's do it the united states. just indicates ought to be done and that will make give us the kind of protection we need and very briefly serve you don't mind given the amount of. strong response that there has been internationally to this do you think what amount has got anything to fear from the international community. you know not really what amal is not the pendant very much in the international community it is . heavily dependent on its own. sort of choices on the united states in somewhat on mexico but mexico is one of the countries that of course didn't vote on the. movement of the u.s. embassy to jerusalem so now i think what amal is. this is

one path to for guatemalans to protect themselves if you are him always good to get your opinion in this thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you appreciate . things more ahead in the news hour including a leading opponent of russian president vladimir putin wants to run against him in next year's presidential election we'll tell you why his name may never get on the ballot. last the invitation to me and mars military that's raising eyebrows abroad . and in sports the gulf cup prepares for its second round of matches with the hosts already in a spot of bother peter is going to have all the details. more than two hundred people are dead after a tropical storm has devastated the southern philippines tens of thousands have been forced from their homes and

a state of emergency has been declared in several areas more than one hundred fifty more people are missing as rescue efforts get underway across the region where rob mcbride is joining us live from manila rob as we well know in the alley hours of any rescue investor rescue effort are the most important ones what's the situation at the moment. that's right as rescue teams continue looking for any survivors in mindanao amongst the debris and these tolerance of muddy water that affected many areas of the whole of the philippines really access to the damage this christmas morning of the amount of carnage and amount of destruction that this storm has caused to give you an idea rob the the province that suffered the highest death toll was in the northern part of mindanao the province that suffered the second highest casualty rate was right in the south of mindanao this really did cut a swathe across mindanao there have been

a number of people affected obviously but it also went through an area where we've had recent months fighting between government troops in the area and the roué and groups that are linked with isis also already there was a population in the past it meant that al that was conflict affected and are now on this christmas day having to deal with the effects of this storm as it moves out into the south china sea well. rob the philippines is regularly hit by weather events like this there are questions already being asked about why the government wasn't pres prepared as it should have been for this. there is there is a controversy there are accusations and counter-accusations now flying here yes people are saying why didn't the government make more preparations for this obviously the philippines is always affected by the storm it has to be said that mindanao largely hasn't had the kinds of storms that other parts of the philippines has historically have but people believe it is actually the effects of climate

change that the other storms that normally affect the northern parts of the philippines now affect the southern parts of the philippines and and then to now is possibly not as prepared you do have a growing population you do have villages on hillsides looking for places to live that are more susceptible to these kinds of storms but the government for their part the authorities said that they had been warning people they did tell villages to leave and simply they did not do so i think there is a possibly you know a calculation that it made in this part of the world where they had so many storms and possibly the timing of this coming just a day or two in the run up to christmas holiday which is vastly important across the whole of the philippines i think for a number of people they probably took the decision well let's sit this one out there we've made all our holiday preparations now we are not going to move and clearly for many people that has been the wrong decision rather bright life for us him another thanks very much indeed ok let me take you to lima peru i want to show you some live pictures these are supporters of former president about forty more in

fact these are police who are gathering in order to try to control the supporters of about a fortune body who you can see on the right hand side of the picture there those supporters are here to celebrate after fujimori was pardoned on health grounds on saturday he was taken to hospital from prison where he was serving a twenty five year jail sentence for corruption kidnapping and human rights violations during his ten year presidency from lima money and a sanchez is reporting. he spent years in prison campaigning for his release. he never acknowledged most of the crimes for which he was sentenced to twenty five years. the former president always claimed his innocence for the murders and disappearances by a government sanctioned death squad critics say the government was the most corrupt improve in history. his supporters created the seventy nine year old former leader

with the defeat of shining path rebels in the one nine hundred ninety s. where at the cusp of unarmed conflict that killed thousands of people supporters also say for him what he helped save the economy from collapse for years his children campaigned for his release aim he was ill and frail but he didn't have a terminal illness a condition for a humanitarian pardon precedents. denied him the freedom he craved. my greatest pain is to acknowledge there for part of the population for him or he was able to victimize looking for a depressing image as a hostage of the judiciary. an opinion poll in may said fifty nine percent approval and favored living. supporters say it's time for him to have a quiet life. to stay at home live serenely enjoys granddaughters enjoy the people who love him and be free to decide to do whatever he wants. many peruvians

who for years opposed the presidential pardon were open to release if he asked for forgiveness for the crimes he committed but for the families of the victims gesture was never enough. families of the victims say they feel betrayed. promised he wouldn't pardon for he wanted to win votes. to win justice for more than two decades. but. they don't care about our stuff about our desolation and the pain we still endure and we will never find peace. he's old well i'm old too and i haven't found justice yet he must complete a sentence despite his release from facing another trial a case is pending for the deaths of six people if convicted for the money faces another twenty five years in prison the. families of the victims say they won't

stop demanding justice and hope to see him behind bars again. just. russia's best known opposition leader alexei has cleared the first hurdle towards running for president against a bloody mir putin is submitted the documents needed to be a candidate in the election in march with the support of thousands of people across the country but it seems unlikely he'll be allowed on the ballot challenge reports from moscow. in twenty cities across russia from the blood of all stock to moscow alexina supporters to endorse him independent hopefuls must gather at least five hundred people in such meetings as a criteria for full candidate status of easily got that in moscow alone where he had this message for the man he wants to run against. leave my senior who didn't put it it's you who did you turned a country into

a source of personal enrichment for yourself your family and your friends but why should not be president any more you are a bad president you don't have opposed the program. then it was off to the election commission to hand in his application but on the is unlikely to make its own to the ballots for the elections in march he's always said his two thousand and fourteen fraud conviction was politically motivated but the kremlin is using it to bar him from the race the goal has always been to demonstrate that putin is a leader with no alternative uncontested and what they say can take advantage over anybody else and it is very important to keep this super majority this super advantage to demonstrate that putin has so much more power than anybody else another opposition leader was trying to test the system on sunday didier yashin an ally of the valleys was unexpectedly elected head of a moscow boni

a simple district in september but his efforts to use the power of the role to approve street events was struck down by moscow city court a few hundred people showed up anyway the election is just three months away now and as per usual the author of things are making it very clear that even a fairly small demonstration like this is completely unwelcome they want to allow to put up a stage show or have any bad as their own the police loud speakers are telling everyone that this is an unauthorized rally lasik over the kremlin is confidence yashin the company don't have the mass support needed to challenge putin but it's not taking any chances chalons al-jazeera moscow. springs king has used his traditional christmas address to call for unity following last week's regional election in catalonia he asked the newly elected parliament to give up further moves towards secession from spain. i think. some days ago the

citizens of catalonia voted to elect their representatives in the catalan parliament you know must face the problems that affect all cattle and respecting diversity and thinking responsibly about the common good the road cannot be one that lead to confrontation or to exclusion again as we already know that only generates disagreement uncertainty. on the moral civic and of course economic impoverishment of society as a whole instead the road must lead to coexistence in the core of catalan society as diverse and pluralistic as it is so that it recovers its serenity its stability and mutual respect in such a way that ideas do not put distance between or break up families and friends. still ahead on al-jazeera we look at the divide amongst christians in america trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. and that side i guess give themselves a welcome boost after what's been a turbulent week details coming up in school.

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you're watching all jazeera and a reminder of our top stories this hour jerusalem's highest ranking roman catholic cleric says the city should be a place of peace that excludes no one his comments follow u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. more than two hundred people are dead after a tropical storm which has devastated the southern philippines tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes and a state of emergency has been declared in several areas. supporters oppose former president all about a force of mourning are gathering outside the hospital where he's being treated for more he's been pardoned because of his failing health he's been serving a twenty five year sentence for corruption human rights crimes committed during his ten year presidency at seventy nine year old was taken to hospital from jail on saturday.

the u.s. decision to recognize juve as israel's capital has led several faith leaders to warn against the move in the west some christian groups are also voicing concerns about the fate of a city which has a special place in popular and religious culture from london reports. a carol concert in london's trafalgar square but it's also a fundraiser for the amos trust a human rights organization which supports projects in the occupied palestinian territory. they recently did a walk from london to jerusalem highlighting britain's unkept promises to the palestinians in the hundred year old balfour declaration they direct an ordained anglican vicar says they are one of a growing number of faith based groups supporting palestinian rights jerusalem is a couple of palestine. gerson's manias for more than just the capital city is the center of three faiths and is interwoven with the identity of three different people groups so anything which happens to houses wide scale ramifications so for

us to walk from london to jerusalem what other place could be to finish that especially if you all think all rights following president trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital one of the strongest responses came from the religious society of friends the quakers who called the action morally indefensible this action in east jeopardizing peace and justice and human rights by making it more difficult to continue with the peace process we work with human rights observers who are on the ground in history sloman in the west bank and they are already telling us that the situation is more tense and there are higher levels of violence cardinal vincent nichols the senior catholic representative for england and wales has said i fear for jerusalem and its people today i pray for its peace while the anglican church is also stressed the unique nature of jerusalem we're very mindful that we can be sentimental about jerusalem we have to think about the

realities on. the ground today by jerusalem is a place where christians muslims and jews live side by side but sometimes when a cause of tension i'd wanted to be a cause of hope. for many people the politics of the holy land may seem daunting but these musicians hope they can change that perception of course many popular christmas carols reference the palestinian city of bethlehem but it seems more and more people are taking an interest in what's happening in jerusalem and are willing to get involved. and by doing so they say they're pushing the message of peace that so central to christmas . al-jazeera london. evangelicals are the largest group of christians in the u.s. led the campaign to align the u.s. more closely with israel from washington tom aquaman explains their influence in today's politics of america. thank you polls have shown that no other american

demographic group not even jews stand behind the state of israel more staunchly then christians support grounded in their reading of the bible especially those passages regarding jerusalem christianity's holiest city it's fitting that it should be the capital of israel again as it was many many years ago and has been in the hearts of the jews for millennia some of angela close even believe jewish domination of jerusalem must be the prelude to the second coming of christ the messiah is the future of the prophetic vision of a new jerusalem where god will create a new heaven a new earth and a new jerusalem and he will inhabit his throne though many palestinians are christians too event jellicoe those who make up one quarter of the u.s. population place their faith in israel's promise to protect the pilgrimage to the holy places it's an entire part of the christian faith and christians can have access to it under jewish knesset israeli. troll that's not guaranteed when there

is a form of government in control of jerusalem. donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital has only reinforced his broad backing by evangelicals regardless of what they may think about his actual religious convictions was a promise that he made on the campaign trail that he has delivered as president i think for american christians this is one of the reasons why we elected him but not all christians agree zionism is a rebellion against judaism itself a perversion of it stephen french is an episcopalian who says muslims along with the other faiths must share control of jerusalem the very. seat of christianity not to mention the prince of peace stand with the utmost clarity against any kind of possessiveness towards jerusalem one protestant denomination the presbyterians has gone so far as to support

a boycott of israel and divest thing from companies involved with the jewish state and so this let me read to read your part so that the true answer to the whole story it's all right. but for most of angelical sympathy for the state of israel remains an article of faith tom ackerman al-jazeera washington christopher cox why has the bishop of coventry earlier my colleague. asked him what his initial reaction was to trump's announcement on jerusalem. it was actually with the patriarch of jerusalem who's the senior christian leader in jerusalem and his view of it i would very much that this was the wrong time for such a declaration i very much agree with. the british foreign secretary who talked about jerusalem only very recently being the shared capital of israel and

palestinian state so this seems to me and i think many other questions to be rather ill timed are you concerned though that this decision will further restrict palestinian christians access to jerusalem as well as christian programs from around the world who will travel to jerusalem to visit the holy sites that is always a danger and as the the leaders of jerusalem churches churches in the holy land not only the page but they all. wrote a letter to president trump shortly before this announcement was made advising him of all sorts of consequences and dangers of this move which they feared would upset all sorts of settlements at the time including the status quo what we saw happen in the u.s. a lot of people saying the driving force behind this decision by the u.s. president donald trump is the sixty million strong u.s. evangel right wing's how concerned are you that the strong evangelical hues in the

u.s. could influence the evangelical church in the u.k. the evangelical church in the u.k. i think it's really very different from the evangelical church in the united states it's more of a movement that is across all the churches and it has i think generally taken a rather different line from evangelicals in the in the united states or at least some evangelicals who must remember that there are no means uniform views even there and there's a much more hospitable line i think among younger. evangelical christians in the u.s. . i mean mars military has reportedly been invited to observe a military exercise led by u.s. forces despite being accused of ethnic cleansing against the muslim hinge a minority the pentagon told the reuters news agency that thailand invited me and auto observe the cobra gold exercise that involves thousands of troops from the

u.s. thailand and other asian nations and i'm told by the u.s. said it would end military assistance to me in ma if all of the start of a military crackdown in august which has forced more than six hundred fifty thousand ranjit to flee to neighboring bangladesh zachary abuse them as a professor at the national war college where he focuses on southeast asian politics he says it's doubtful the us was aware of the thai government invitation thailand is obviously driven by their own security interests and me and mars a neighbor on the top i want that that continues to the country since their own twenty eight who is fairly sympathetic towards that myanmar government and what they've done to the not i don't forget that the thai government has their own restive millennium searches seen some pretty sure that i just susan really caught the americans off guard you have to recall and that's used to send the

united states has been critically cut off direct military ties to the scotland on october last week the us government's thank sions the me and mark military commander responsible for the ethnic crimes do you know there are huge. and we have labeled as and cleansing some very clearly thailand is. just not coordinate this united states and that is going to quit at the tensions in that bilateral relationship. meanwhile the united nations has passed a resolution criticizing me mars treatment of the hunger it calls on the government to give them full citizenship rights grant access for aid workers and allow refugees to return memos u.n. ambassador said it was subjective and politically motivated. the present revolution in question represents nothing but an evidence of the attempt by some countries to abuse the united nations to impose their political agenda on myanmar the draft

resolution will not contribute to solving the current humanitarian problem all the complex issues the region state exerting and you political pressure and coercive measures will only bring negative results and still to be the situation on the ground a ship has arrived in the port of hard data and western yemen bringing urgently needed fuel for hospital generators the saudi led coalition is allowing the port to stay open for a month in november it blocked the ports to stop what it said was the delivery of on the hoof the fighters after a missile was fired towards riyadh saudi arabia says iran is supplying weapons to the whole thing is an accusation iran denies turkey says it's hiring more than one hundred thousand new public servants next year comes a day after almost three thousand public servants and military were sacked by decree over the ledge links to so-called terror organizations in total one hundred

fifty thousand have been dismissed or suspended from their jobs since the failed coup in turkey in july last year. is the director of policy analysis of the doha institute he believes president. has gone too far. well 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 using that as a pretext actually 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 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. apparatus and that his 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 also the judiciary so he went after almost all those he was suspecting of posing whether actually they had links to the movement. or. turkey and sudan have agreed to set up a strategic cooperation council and boost trade after a visit by president want to khartoum turkey's aiming to increase its presence on the continent with a focus on the horn of africa on the sudanese capital here but morgan reports. for

the first time in more than sixty years the turkish head of state is visiting sudan the aim to strengthen economic and political relations between ankara. with this visit our relationship with sudan will be stronger than we've agreed on strategic cooperation between the two countries in our relations with africa sudan has a special place the turkish president arrived in sudan with more than two hundred businessmen and women he stressed that turkey in sudan expect increased trade volume from the current have a billion dollars to ten billion dollars dollars this britain needed by sudan which recently came off your attention when after more than two decades. yes we welcome this visit by our brother the turkish president we've seen it. we also agreed to form a strategic cooperation council headed by the presidents of the two countries this visit is in a leap in the relationship between us but sudan is only one of many african

countries turkey is building stronger relationship with the visit to sudan by the turkish president maybe it's first by a turkish head of state since it and gained independence in one thousand. but it comes in line with turkey's policy in strengthening its influence in base in africa economically politically and militarily turkey opened its first and largest military base outside turkey in somalia last september and over the past three years it has expanded its diplomatic relations with more than twenty seven african countries the turkish government says it's determined to clear africa of the influence of. the man it's accuses of orchestrating last year's coup attempt in taking glenn run many schools in the continent nearly all have now been transferred to arrogance a recently established mahdi foundation. we think that if there are relations between the two countries these schools will be the bridge between them if there are schools these should strengthen it and the people as well and that's what we want with president visit to sudan ties between the two countries seem to

be growing indeed as turkey has influence and role in the african continent people morgan are just there. reporters without borders and amnesty international calling for the immediate release of al-jazeera journalist mahmoud hussein it's now been more than a year since he was arrested and jailed in egypt human rights watch has condemned the imprisonment the organization says his detention shows egypt's deep rooted intolerance for free expression bomber hussein is accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and al jazeera strongly deny he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment in jail. the world's largest amphibious aircraft has performed its maiden flight from an airport's near the south china sea the chinese built a g six hundred and has been in development for almost eight years it's designed to carry out marine rescues and fight forest fires the plane is part of

a chinese program to modernize the military the world bank has warned that the economies of the world's developing countries could collapse because of the rise of automation and robotics it's feared that robots making clothes and footwear will undercuts the cost of human workers in factories in bangladesh and vietnam in a second report an artificial intelligence lawrence league considers what the impact of automation might be on the world's working poor. every day all over the western world's goods are delivered to hungry consumers most of them manufactured half a world away over the seas by people who often earn virtually nothing and while the fourth industrial revolution the age of robotics and automation promise is radically to alter the lives of people in the rich world it is by no means clear whether any of the benefits will be passed on to the walls working people some global brands are discussing whether to raise shore manufacturing from asian sweat

shops to europe where three d. princes might make clothes or shoes the world bank has projected that in some african or asian countries up to eighty percent of people might lose their jobs. if it's true that many workers and many of them young women particular textile industries opportunity going to be out of a job or their work is potentially radically reduced then to what extent will this lead to social unrest to social destitution and essentially a fundamental crisis at the heart that society others ask why someone who owns a factory in the far east would bother investing in expensive robotic technology but it's far cheaper to keep paying workers a dollar a day to machine like that at the moment will be well beyond the reach of a factory owner in bangladesh or in china or vietnam for that matter. secondly a machine like that is likely to break down fairly often because it's it's

a very fine piece of equipment if it breaks down the whole factory and then many in a factory the entire factory comes to a standstill social unrest is already a fact of life it could get far worse so to the continued and probably growing movements of people except the west they may want to move to might be suffering job losses itself as automation takes over. if the future of the developing world is to be decided in places like this then frankly it looks pretty bleak either it seems robotics will increasingly be used to take jobs away from no three different associated with places like asia or those same workers will continue to exist on the same person for the ever and for years about the worst thing of all is that nobody seems to be talking about it there is however a growing understanding of how automation can help in emergencies here at southampton university in southern england drones are being tested to fly medicines

or food into dangerous or difficult places it's simpler and potentially more effective than throwing bags out of planes you can send lots of little bits of aid to lots of little areas and it's trivial and strike home. to pinpoint areas in other words take the aid to where it's needed dropping it centrally in the rich world or baltics could take away many current jobs but it could also create new ones which haven't even been trumped up yet but for those in the workshops of the world it could be disastrous and it's coming only al-jazeera london. sports picture is going to be here with more than one of the most amazing sports stories of the year. a new era in television news. and those insights he's a top student sings in secret that are all we had actual victims who had survived

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time for the sports here's peter. thank you very much australia are looking to take a step closer to claiming a second straight home measures whitewash when they face england in the fourth test which begins on tuesday but strayer 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 bowling attack lacked depth not quite humorous actually them taking twenty wickets in the series so. we have been and they have the cricket out at dieppe side now it certainly wouldn't walk by saying i don't watch my son jack in the nets. forward to

seeing what he can do to the english batters throughout this test match everyone's working hard to try and win this test match. you wouldn't expect anything different from from the group but they will go on as 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 put a hell of a lot of hard work i know we haven't got much for it but you know we really really hoping that we can come away with something and broad as a 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 sort of feature is golden state's star man steph curry the warriors' head coach said he cannot play having not recovered from a sprained ankle suffered on december fourth teevan the main man le bron james

should play even side 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 semi final berth liverpool manager you're going to are pairs the sights set on finishing second in the english premier league but the people who place ones in 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 they do much abroad. we have to qualify for germany. and it's high as possible groups like we could be two three four years here. and not dream but to 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 dance 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 have continued a unbelievable home run they beat the washington capitals three nothing on saturday in vegas alex touch it and william calls an old school would mark andre fleury

stopped twenty six shots for his first shot out 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 for me we'll have another update again later on and daryn joins up next with the latest a couple of minutes so i'm rob matheson for. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way to transform. our impeccable service remains but none comes from breaking it is

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