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hello i'm barbara sarah and this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes polls close in liberia's presidential runoff with voters choosing between a former football superstar and a vice president the roots of former president. pleads for forgiveness as thousands of protesters rallied against his release from prison the kremlin says it wants a russian opposition leader alexei navalny investigated for calling for a boycott of next year's presidential election and driving to a new future we examine the rise in vehicles and ask what it means for the humans who drive from the thing. and i'm fan of commerce with all the day's sport including defending champions qatar staring at group stage elimination from the gulf cup but off the new zing against iraq.

let's start the program in liberia were polls have officially closed in the presidential runoff it's the first democratic transition of power in the west. in nation in seventy three years however turnout has been low voter as it were choosing between former football superstar george ware and the experienced political operator and the current vice president joseph mohammad of reports now from the libyan capital monrovia. thousands lined up to vote in more than five thousand polling stations across liberia arriving long before the stations opened the tunnels however nowhere near that of the foster home held in october that i had been delayed twice of the being contested in court amid claims

of a declared it is in the foster round officials say the reduction of candidates from twenty two just to may have cost a pretty among voters a kindle four for several. new processors screw or smoke this morning and i hope. this morning the qantas is between a former international football star dog where i'm vice president just what guy the we know would replace africa's first female head of state ellen johnson sirleaf who came to power after the country's last civil war told me years ago i'm not as they were losing him to do this there's virtually no they said to me that i'm going to wind up work hard to know when the georgia seventy two year old joseph walker has served as les beers vice president since two thousand and six he too wanted in the capital and great beer because of the transfer of democracy we went in one there were during your work and i would use it to. we have gone through the process is

that working with the president or do we are willing to live with both where promising peace in liberia and also want an end to corruption in one of the world's poorest countries if there is also hold it will be the first time in generations that lead videos will witness the transfer of power from one elected leader to another international observers also praising what they call of violence free process and that finally in liberia the ballot box was replaced ballots but this is a big election for everyone is falling to my. west africa the trend has certainly been you know more towards the democratic shift and really rooting them was firmly and i think that is what we will see here in liberia today the liberian people are determined to do with they're ready to do it. and i'm very confident they will. commission has two weeks within which to declare the results it's official

confident they'll have them ready in four days. liberia before this let's speak to blair glen course the executive director of accountability l'avenir was also an election observer with the e.u. in liberia's first round the vote voting he joins us live now from hanging be here in the united kingdom sir thank you so much for joining us i know that you have been speaking to colleagues and friends in liberia now especially about the turnout which we still don't know the details of the we do understand it's less than it was when you were supervising the election and why do you think that is is it really just a case of liberia being overwhelmingly christian and this is the day after christmas so do you think there's other reasons why turnout would be lower but like so much for me and yes i think that's one of the real secrets to christian. who was very up to christmas but i think there are

a couple of other reasons. but it's just the election for president the first reaction from the house of representatives there are a lot more to do in the race there were a lot more people writing about a group. of not just four presidents second ball gets round the election the second round been delayed because it can be by my two months because of various procedural issues and issues of alleged fraud during assess repair and so some of the momentum coming into the election may have been lost but it also goes out. and do you have any fears about the sort of handover of power of the next phase because we are expecting a result i guess in the next couple of days but because there had been accusations of irregularities out by one of the candidates you have any worries at all of a what might happen over the next few days i'm hearing some reports of irregularities already unproven and particularly to say. there is

a true or not i think there will be something to go wrong much as they did during the first round. during the first round i would not i think any kind of malfeasance ultimately in the supreme court decided it was just very very difficult to organize a an election in a place where we often very little infrastructure during a rainy season this round it is not a tourist season i think the electoral commission has more crimes but i do think there will be some issues not least of which is that you know gratian day is generally the sixteenth which doesn't give him very much time to confirm the results to deal with any complaints and to get the next president you know grated without any kind of constitutional issues in that regard. but the good news for liberia i think is it's come a long way since the war ended fourteen years ago the process is so far been very peaceful despite all the challenges and i would expect it to continue to be that way as long as the process is transparent and fair. oversleep between the two

candidates there is one there is an that is an obvious superstar george way in a sense went from literally growing up in one of the worst slums in monrovia to becoming a global superstar and you know thief player of the year in the ninety's but he had tried before two thousand and five two thousand and eleven in various roles to get into government do you think that this is going to be the you know the the successful time for him and if so why now. yes he has also been a senator for the last few years so he does have some governing experience. and he his electoral prospects i think improved over the course of the last twelve years or so his party and his movement has become more inclusive i think he's got better at running his campaign his campaign this year was much better organized much better financed than it has been in the previous two times that he's run for president and my sense is having just returned from liberia that people are eager for a change while the johnson sirleaf ministration has as done

a lot for the country there are still. and people are ready for a change and george wendt resents that change and he represents so once again i have made. no prospects. and i have reached the upper echelons a. story that i can they can relate seriously to and i think that's what. glencore sir thanks for your time we are having some issues with the sound the but i thank you for sharing your experience with you with us blair glen course election observer with the bay area as a first round of voting which was back in october. now former peruvian president i'll bet of mori has apologized for the wrongs committed under his government in the one nine hundred ninety s. in a videotaped message from his hospital bed fujimori asked to be forgiven from the bottom of his heart thousands of people protested against his release in the capital lima

on monday after he was pardoned by peru's current leader in what many believe to be a form of political payback shelob ellis reports. chaos in lima these peruvians are furious the former president alberto fujimori was pardoned by the current president picture a public christian ski a man they believe was trying to save his political career. i've seen all the people mobilizing the police were following us in circling us they got close to us and threw bombs at us. fujimori was serving a twenty five year prison sentence for murder is kidnappings and disappearances carried out by a government death squad during his time in office he led from one thousand nine hundred ninety into two thousand. started on sunday and families of his victims lead the charge. that actually if any i'm angry because i think

it's a violation. of the memory of her family members it's a violation of the fight for their relatives for justice and truth a frail seventy nine year old fujimori was admitted to hospital on saturday suffering from low blood pressure and haas arrhythmia he responded to the outcry on facebook and think. i am aware that what resulted during my administration on one hand were well received but i recognize that on the other hand i also disappointed other compatriots to them i ask forgiveness from the bottom of my heart. critics say it was his son cain g. who secure with the pardon he's a congressman in the majority popular force posse that's led by his sister keiko and saved president could be from impeachment by abstaining from a vote last week critics say it was in exchange for his father's pardon the president has defended the decision saying it was made because of fujimori's poor

health. or says it's obvious to all of us that the government he inherited at the beginning of the ninety's the country was in a chaotic and violent crisis incurred significant transgressions of the law as far as democracy and human rights are concerned but i also believe his government contributed to national progress i'm convinced that those of us who believe in democracy cannot allow alberto fujimori to die in prison going to. the carbon was bet by a silent majority a survey in may found sixty percent of peruvians wanted fujimori free supporters credit him with the defeat of the shining path and saving the economy from collapse . the fujimori's critics the death squad still hold them with a he's imprisoned or not they say they will voice their calls for justice shallop bellus al jazeera. the kremlin says it's investigating whether calls by a russian opposition leader to boycott next year's election break the lol election

of ali has asked people to avoid the march vote after he was barred from running as a candidate official say that he's ineligible to take part due to a suspended prison sentence he claims the charges are politically motivated for a challenge as has this update from moscow it's no surprise that the kremlin seems sensitive to what looks like an attempt by alexei navalny to drive down voter turnout in march the talk has been this year that the kremlin is concerned about voter apathy and want to turn out to be around seventy percent if it dips much below sixty percent well they've got a problem with legitimacy quite how they will prosecutes in the valley for calling for a boycott that remains to be seen i think this can be viewed basically as a shot across as bows a warning now no one really believes the volley would be able to be boots and if they went head to head in

a votes the recent poll suggests that if a vote were taken now we don't get between two and three percent but perhaps factoring into the kremlin's thinking was the potential damage the valley could have done if he'd been allowed say on state t.v. with his anti corruption message so in around he will now have to do his appeals and also go back to doing what has been very successful actually for him over this year which is his online videos his anticorruption message reaching out to particularly younger russians and calling them out on to the streets in parts of the country where you do not normally see political protests. coming up on this al-jazeera news hour heavy attacks in rebel held as opposition groups fear it's the next syrian city to be targeted in a bombing campaign we meet the kenyan parents grieving the loss of their baby daughter who was killed in election related violence and the head of russian

football takes a drastic action as he fights an olympic ban for state sponsored doping details coming up in sports. syrian state t.v. is reporting a government jet has been shot down over hama province it says the military jet was downed by rebels in the north of the area and the pilot was killed in the attack how much has been subject to heavy airstrikes by russian and syrian forces throughout the six year civil. war turkey reportedly wants to use a syrian military base in the rebel held province of idlib as an observation post it already has some troops deployed there as part of a deescalation zone deal as though that's having little impact on fighting on the ground civilian areas have reportedly come under heavy airstrikes by syrian government forces and their allies in the hall there is more now from beirut in

neighboring lebanon. those who were killed in this airstrike were internally displaced syrians a woman and her two children their new home has been destroyed whatever belongings they had now rubble they moved to tell it to convolute in the southern edges of the rebel controlled province of idlib and search for safety but in recent weeks the region has been the target of heavy airstrikes. the displaced from came here the planes came and hit them they're targeting civilians there are no unfortunates here where do you want us to go or i it's not clear if the bombing raids are being carried out by syrian government planes or those of its ally russia but what is clear is that the strikes are only increasing. they are putting pressure on the civilians the civilians would pressure the rebels not to fight because the regime has made major advances on the ground. they want

people to hazed arrivals and the regime is trying to pressure the rebels to agree to a political settlement. the stepped up airstrikes coincide with a ground offensive by pro-government forces who have been advancing from the northern countryside of hama and the southern countryside of aleppo towards. they entered small parts of the province advancing into the administrative borders for the first time since the rebels forced them out of and two thousand and fifteen an all out assault on. many of whom were other areas seized by pro-government forces it's still not clear whether the government intends to. the whole province or whether it's just. control of some areas in the countryside. what is clear is that the government wants the airbase back it is one of the largest military airports in the north turkey reportedly wants to use database as an observation post already its military is deployed in some areas of

it live. as part of a deescalation deal. it is supposed to be a safe area under that deal. the opposition now fears the presence of al qaeda linked fighters and it will be used by the government as an excuse to step up the bombing campaign they also fear that pro-government forces are no longer busy on other fronts and are now turning their attention to adlib. beirut. well it's five months now since i saw fighters were driven out of the northern iraqi city of mosul it was devastated and there i saw during the iraqi government's fight to retake the city but this week residents have been able to celebrate christmas for the first time in years and there are signs that mosul is businesses are beginning to recover part of the phillips reports. in parts of mosul it seems a city is coming back to life the people relieved the economy reviving.

mahmoud a tailor saw all his equipment destroyed during the shelling somehow he must start again. i cannot resume work simply because i'm short of materials i need textiles and all the requirement business is an tradesman must join hands to bring back life to decision the state and the people must come together and this has not happened yet. mosul famous for its markets selig projects from the surrounding countryside now the crowds have returned the people hope the city has left its darkest days behind of how to quit the journey. with them or you're making swift progress at all levels industry commerce the movement of people we had not expected things to go so fast we are confident the residents of new know and most will want to help the federal and local governments. but all the streets west of the tigris the tangled debris of war has barely been moved this

all that remains of the old commercial center the reconstruction of mosul's buildings and its people's confidence will take many years barnaby phillips al-jazeera. an israeli court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager her mother and cousin they were arrested a week ago after this video was posted online it shows sixteen year old. me pushing and hitting an israeli soldier the incident reportedly happened after her relative was shot in the face by israeli forces and critically injured i head has appeared in several other videos challenging israeli soldiers. well the u.s. this isn't to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital has been criticized across the world palestinians are demanding the country's downgrade their embassies to israel in response they've now received support from one of their strongest allies

south africa's ruling a.n.c. party tanya page reports the african national congress as decision was unanimous to immediately and unconditionally downgrade south africa's embassy in jerusalem to a mere liaison office it's an important show of support for the palestinians but it is conditional on government adopting the policy there is a long plus relationship between south africans and the palestinians forged during the years of apartheid president nelson mandela was a close friend of late palestinian leader yasser arafat mandela once described arafat as a fellow freedom fighter and he said to south africans freedom was an incomplete without the freedom of palestinians are empty a past hate heroes have also never forgotten that deep connection and they still use their position to speak out in solidarity with the palestinian cause we might be back yet. that the people who are predators in there right now

don't program. and got rid of. the fight against apartheid was a mass movement across civil society religious groups trade unions and political parties so the a.n.c. doesn't have a monopoly on that close connection to the palestinian cause in fact last night it was the second largest opposition political party the economic freedom fighters that protested outside the israeli in the sea and the torah when the one hundredth anniversary of the balfour agreement was marred which helped lead to the creation of israel. this is the johannesburg office of b.d.s. a global movement calling for the boycott divestment and sanctions on israel they were the people lobbying and c delegates to downgrade south africa's embassy in jerusalem we're here to talk to its spokesperson quote i can garner about the significance of the move when the a.n.c.

asserts itself as the oldest liberation movement in the african continent in a way that also sends a message to other african you know that fricken governments but also other liberation movements formulation west african continent that this is the kind of you know wave on a need to riding this wave as well these posters are for lots of different types of events they show the ways in which b.d.s. tries to influence people next to its focus will be on making sure the a.n.c. is party policy is adopted by government and implemented so that becomes a reality for the palestinian people. twenty page reporting there well at least twenty five people have been killed in a saudi led coalition air strike on a market in the yemeni province of taiz children are thought to be among the dead and at least thirty others have been injured human rights groups have accused the coalition of bombing markets hospitals and residential areas across yemen since it began its campaign in march two thousand and fifty. opinions in official says the

united arab emirates has intelligence that female fighter is returning from iraq and syria may be trying to use it to museum passports to stage attacks the u.a.e. calls the outrage earlier this week by banning female tunisian citizens from landing in the gulf state leading to protests in tunis the north african country responded by barring emirates flights from tunisia and demanded an apology at the newseum government spokesman says the u.a.e. did not communicate its reasons for the ban properly and says it will not accept how its citizens are being treated eight people have been injured in a suicide attack in northern nigeria just outside the city of my degree a female suicide bomber struck a day after the military stopped them attacked by suspected bottle boko haram fighters in the same area at least four people died in the attack.

as two thousand and seventeen comes to an end we're looking back at some of the biggest stories of the year through the eyes of five families in part four we speak to a kenyan family who lost their six month old daughter during political violence following a disputed presidential election al jazeera is catherine soy reports from single. joseph and his wife linda are still trying to come to terms of the killing of the six month old daughter samantha pendle. they say she died from a severe head injury when police raided their home in the town of. this was in august just after the fast presidential election and president was declared the winner. supporters of opposition leader the took to the streets in protest. police responding with tear gas batons and live ammunition joseph and learned so

however say they were attacked in their home at night. it's been an unpredictable and volatile election year in kenya the supreme court over time to the oldest paul citing irregularities of fast in africa. then withdrew from the repeat election saying the commission first needed reforms. rerun went ahead anyway in october. one thousand percent of the vote but only a fad of the one thousand million registered voters cast their ballots. all the while political brinkmanship deeply divided the country along partisan lines continue street confrontations between police and protesters only making things worse more than thirty people including baby pendle have died in the violence since august and are used to play here and on that night in august her family and neighbors say police came banging on doors they used tear gas to force people out

of their houses pendle was in her mother's arms when they were being beaten she did not stand a chance. of a doubt she will ever vote again. back ok. i didn't know that. whenever. she also says continue to seek justice. west in kenya and you can watch the fifth and final report in our series one year five we're going to tell you about a father and son who haven't seen each other for more than forty eight years because of tensions on the korean peninsula. still to come here on.

earth wiped out a trail of destruction the philippine island where entire communities devastated by storm. stroll in seattle the u.s. city. recycling and sports a new football record. that will be here with that story a little later in the program. hello and welcome back now across western parts of europe the weather is turning colder with the risk of snow across the alps but also further north across the u.k. will see some snow sort across the middle east ten centimeters of snow in places further south certainly temperatures struck in there madrid just making double

figures but the winds come from the south further east so as to the temperatures a pair of good fries in quite nicely as they were looking at twelve in bucharest on thursday there's a snow pushing down into the balkans region unsettled weather generally then across more eastern parts of the mediterranean but the cold air sitting across the you came fronts temperatures of just five in both london and paris on the other side of the mediterranean sea we've got showers for coastal parts fall jira and tunisia certainly tunis will see a big drop in temperatures so head through into thursday it's looking quite cool further along the coast an indy car only seeing a high of eighteen across central parts of africa we have some showers for the bomb but otherwise weather conditions are humorously find plenty of sunshine for lagos nigeria and akron gallow with temperatures around thirty degrees for southern parts of africa we've got heavy showers for parts mongolia some be in zimbabwe through towards mozambique but further south is looking largely dry and fine should be a decent day in durban with highs here of twenty seven.

after years documenting street violence and john this book. was inspired to transform perceptions that we as a journalism bit change to south africa and capture the vibrancy of the emerging black youth culture now is one of the people there kept said i will be giving a speech getting all of us this way since i knew african photography not so much at this time on al-jazeera. with bureaus spanning six continents across the. city. al-jazeera correspondents live in green the stories they tell.

fluent in world news. every minder now of the top stories on al-jazeera polls have closed in liberia's presidential runoff vote but turnout has been low voters were choosing between the former footballer george way out and current vice president joseph buckeye heroes former president i'll bet of mori has asked for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of his heart after being pardoned for corruption and crimes against humanity and the kremlin says it's investigating whether calls by the russian opposition leader need to boycott next year's election break the law. a powerful

storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has been downgraded while it was on route to vietnam typhoon tembin failed to make landfall in vietnam's delta hundreds of thousands of people were moved from their homes but experts say that heavy rain and strong winds from the weather system could still cause damage to the infrastructure in the region but then been devastated the philippine island of mindanao over the weekend or authorities have been criticized for not doing enough to help the storm killed at least two hundred seventy people and many more are still missing rob mcbride traveled to two border town where an entire neighborhood was discord. when the floods came this river was turned into a torrent throwing boulders and trees against the houses in its path. it took more than one hundred homes and killed nearly fifty people those in the area had been

told to leave but many had heeded the warning too late imo there are trying to evacuate but the surge was like in three to five minutes all the houses were wiped out. what's left of mary louis tim's possessions are below the ruins of what used to be her house she escaped with her children and her brother's family just in time well only until we were all crying and the water gap getting stronger and i told my brother i think we are going to die here they survived but another brother died. their temporary home is now the local school it's also where rosemarie sort of yellow now lives with her children and ten other families in the one classroom she says she had never experienced a flood like it got only the one i guess that there was a flood before but we didn't evacuate that time but after what happened this time i

can't go back. in a country that receives up to twenty life threatening storms a year there's been criticism of why mindanao suffered so badly as one of the most disaster prone countries in the world the philippines invests heavily in infrastructure and awareness programs to deal with severe storms but in mindanao the ongoing conflict makes that difficult and it's the poorest people living in the most vulnerable places who suffer the most in storms like this community leaders have told people not to rebuild their homes along the river but the need to earn a living from farming nearby means many in time probably will and when a future storm comes the river will probably take more lives rob mcbride al-jazeera two border town southern philippines. much of the world's plastic waste ends up in oceans where impacts badly on animals and their habitats in the u.s.

city of seattle a group of activists are fighting against the damage inflicted on the environment through a unique combination of strolls and social media rob reynolds explains. the streets around seattle's famous pike place market are full of cafes and restaurants the coffee is delicious but single use cups utensils and straws generate q.j. amounts of paper and plastic waste in this environmentally conscious city an activist group called lonely whale is urging people to think twice about throw away items leaders called the campaign stronger since yeah so we really wanted to start with something simple that connected every single one of us every single day and that item is to stop the other great thing about drugs there is an alternative don't you slam worldwide people use one billion plastic straws a day in the united states we have five hundred million single use plastic straws

every day they're zero percent of them or if i can. those that find their way into the marine environment break down into micro profit and when a marine animal in its path that they have a fifty percent mortality rate so it's a significant issue can we assume those trials are part of their die at unfortunately that the straw listen seattle campaign began in september twenty seventh teen and resulted in two point three million straws being permanently removed in that month alone lonely whale has launched what it calls a global viral media challenge called stop sucking and it plans to take the strongest campaign to twenty cities worldwide in twenty eighteen the care premiums not only meant to reduce plastics in the environment it also aims to get people thinking about our growing. a culture every time we talk about thing that has a crowd everybody's mind then goes to what about bob bob they were there for another five to go over there and are we talking terms that i don't miss while

seattle began restricting plastic waste a decade ago starting with a ban on styrofoam takeaway food containers and disposable plastic bags officials want to help mold a major shift in public attitudes really the bigger thing is getting people to stop and to think do i really need this i have this single use thing is this something that i really need to use right now i'm going to use it for five to ten minutes and then i'm going to throw it away and it's going to go to a landfill so that's really the bigger issue is having people kind of raisin in their consciousness a pushback against the culture of easy come easy go disposables that offers hope for the health of our planet's oceans and the creatures who live in them robert oulds al jazeera seattle well as we mentioned earlier plastic pollution is threatening to cause widespread damage to water as habitats and food chains and what's being called an ocean armageddon there's been

a dramatic rise in the production of plastic back in one thousand nine hundred fifty only two million tons were manufactured but by two thousand and seventeen the figure had risen to eight point three billion tons and it's set to grow even more to thirty four billion tons by twenty fifty now the risk it poses to the environment the so grave that the u.n. they set up a task force to deal with the problem an earlier move to implement internationally agreed goals to reduce waste was blocked by the u.s. china and india but it seems that plastic is a losing popularity among many factual as with fossil fuel companies pumping one hundred eighty billion dollars since twenty ten in two new facilities that produce the raw material for every day they plastic. well joining us now from oslo to talk about this in more detail is erik solheim the executive director of the united nations environment program sir thank you so much for joining us here on out there i mean the figures are pretty stunning and incredibly depressing i mean from two

million one nine hundred fifty to now eight point three billion tons of plastic produced and that could girl by more than four times in in twenty fifty do you think we will get to that or do you think there has actually been a turning point in recent months and years but when you go to term this is at the same time your idea of producing more and more but there's also the courts look at from government and from because there is from citizens of this sort from syria which was absolutely brilliant people who want to turn the tide on cross they want you to nuestro so many people so far. yes because they can stray from their church or from because they go in the group. i mean we saw that report from seattle we're actually just not using a straw has an impact there and i guess it's down to individual choice what we can ordinary people ordinary consumers around the world but especially in the west that sometimes consumes more plastic what can they actually do. well the average north

americans are using six seven this throws a year so it's implemented just as the book throws when you're in the supermarket clear thought well why aren't you neither plate or plastic and a lot of plastic two are also three oranges and simply unnecessary and piece of ass because there's what why can't you make much better programs some of the biggest. companies in the midst of the moment just announced that they would make their own rules invented from completely gray they will buy all materials but would be a huge change change makers of business can sense but in the cause the pressure from consumers we're seeing some very distressing images on our screens who are just a little earlier just plastic all over the coast and just pollution everywhere and i guess we've also seen some good news of people that have been cleaning up beaches but a lot of the plastic we cannot see because it's in the oceans and some people think there's almost as much plastic as there are as there's fish when do you think we're

going to reach a point of no return when it comes to this issue. the good news is that from the increase in the bareness on this is the last year people are cleaning beaches and have seen the big biggest human beechfield there ever is still the early in mumbai and other parts of india you see this is changing and the sikh government taking action at the african nations are. all prohibited plastic bags and you see peter suit is becoming much cleaner and important as morris to meet the democrats this is also very important for the beach and this is a huge economic issue for nations depend on turismo so you issue for us we get as you say the president of both those three micro plastic approach issues and it's a huge environment issues so bulls. seabirds the braves dying from from consuming

plastic we need to change we are on the way to change and there's been a lot of focus for many years now on recycling and i think in most places people are being quite conscious about the recycling but does that really solve the problem because plastic can only be recycled i think just once and ultimately is it not the focus on single use plas think that has to be increased less reduce stop what we don't simply don't need like straws let's make better products where we reduce the need to come to make sure that. it can be cared for a longer time we can make it from from a bio materials and as to diesel i believe what you need say all the plastic it's makes our cars. lighter for that for happy making consuming consuming less. gas so some prestige in the those cities so hope somebody can replace it but materials and some who simply don't need it to get it on them are

you optimistic. i'm very optimistic because i see governments not taking action honestly because there is either wanting to change and i see a pressure coming from citizens who our problem is simply don't want to be like this and the more we saw how fast change could happen say on smoking thirteen years folks moving was natural in all restaurants all over the planet now we have to be difficult is it really up to the oldest and about so change can happen we just need the political will to act well let's certainly hope that change will happen erik solheim executive director of the united nations a violent program speaking to us from oslo sara thank you thank you so much. the u.s. has imposed sanctions against two north korean scientists known for their role in the country's missile program kim jong sake and that repealing cholo are thought to be senior figures in north korean leader kim jong un's ballistic missile development team the sanctions are the latest move in a u.s.

campaign to the nuclearize the korean peninsula. it's been ten years since pakistan's first female head of state was assassinated benazir bhutto was killed at a campaign rally after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives come on hyder has more now on the legacy she left behind. oh. the arc of complicated pakistani politics by how far back do for god really portal the energy game the was young prime minister and pakistan's first woman state. was acting in an incredibly. during her lifetime she got such wide. off literally everything she was and she was very good night is a leader she had a strong command on foreign policy she had intense interest in.

pakistan the bottom of the filament prime minister twice been a good lord i'm able to recover from corrupted chargers during her second term as prime minister she was barred from politics but i managed to did with general musharraf in two thousand and seven. hundred. seven. don ending almost. died she had a no. procession was bombed into southern port city of karachi but despite that. continued read the. political rallied across the country however little did she know that the rally hadn't got by. her. despite the security. i mean there determinately she was a visionary she lost her life struggling for the betterment of the masses of as far

as her coming to pakistan was that renewal she made up a mind when. it was picked over anything and she never used. much before her return to go back to starting a prime i'll judge later search. engines about the security attached to her lives some of them the rogue elements and been working with al qaida possibly on one assassination attempt on you i do believe that there are elements within the security of paris just particularly those who are associated with the affront jihad of the eighty's against the soviets who still have links with some of the fall about elements and the al qaida elements it was doj element she feared were trying to kill her. after getting a rally in rawalpindi. to emerge from my house on top of

a very good wave to her to pull. a suicide bomber blew himself up. again ten years on she stands remembered by friendly unfortunate like. ajay create laws for democracy. folks knocked on. this year has seen a real drive by auto makers to get a ton of us fear calls on the road in the u.s. and the k. with humans no longer behind the wheel developers say more than a million lives a year could be saved but that change will mean job losses with some estimating with than one sees could be in the millions or in sli takes a closer look. in this brave new world of dance official intelligence the first direct effect on all our lives will be in transport it's already begun and it will

change humanity in many ways it's well enough known by now that driverless cars and lorries are being trials the future we're told may involve our children not having to learn how to drive these plants the automation to raise the car to go to me to move a satirical was this one even sitting in a simulator you feel a lack of control if you don't grip the wheel or press the brakes dragging on for real involves a leap of faith. that is true to the steering wheel you are now free to engage in other times the engineers here assure the technology is good enough for driverless travel on motorways if not in congested cities because there's too much going on. you know this is extremely busy and complex environment with lots of potential destructors people running across roads. so i think that's probably too complex we've certainly trying to contemporary think automation both on the

motorway and in urban environments. they don't work at all in urban environments and even on motorways they require regular interventions by human drivers. the future it seems may be a combination of systems moving us from port to driverless port modern rail systems near airports are driverless and people use those quite happily the paths of the cars through space would be similar to if there were you know some physical guide to them so i think in some cases so long as the as the speeds are fairly low it's probably a safe proposition. true believers in driverless transport say we will be able to sleep or work in our vehicle but if that sounds good it will also mean the loss of millions of jobs and i wonder trades unions want to know how those jobs will be replaced we're looking to see massive massive investment in electric vehicles driverless vehicles future mobility we need

a great leap forward it's easy to understand this concern in the u.k. there was a massive shock when car factories which had traditionally employed thousands of people all shut because of foreign competition this used to be the jackie were factory in the west midlands now it's going to be a warehouse the advent of driverless cars and wide automation could be a far greater shock still the british government reckons that driverless cars could create up to thirty thousand jobs in the u.k. which sounds ok until you hear evidence that says that in this part of england alone automation could cost three hundred thousand jobs it becomes pretty clear that governments like the one in britain in the job strategy for automation and quickly were asked to consider a world in which no humans at the wheel of a vehicle means accidents will not happen more than a million lives will be saved every year driverless vehicles will be on the roads and soon but will human souse jobs rely on transport except them and can we learn

to trust the machines to safeguard the lives of those we love lawrence lee al jazeera london. and on wednesday we'll have part four of our series on artificial intelligence where we look at how robots are revolutionizing health care that's coming up on wednesday and still to come on this al-jazeera news hour no christmas they come back with this n.b.a. superstar details coming up with. just talking. about shooting people are not going to shoot themselves and their other countries have managed to solve this problem but you worry that this conflict could erupt into a right open war that's a. security issue where the people who paid the price clearly writeup unprejudiced

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and now here some know with all the base court. thank you very much barbara defending champions qatar facing an early exit from the gulf couple after losing to walk in the group stages qatar went into the match it was serious momentum having won their opening match four nil against yemen and they looked good in the second man to the all kuwait stadium and was highly giving them the lead in the seventeenth minute to. square things up in the first half before husseini faisel wrapped up the win that with the second goal to one to iraq the final school. or iraq are top of group be off to that when that would buy her and level on points with them following their win over yemen qatar now must be to rein in their final game to guarantee progress to the semi's in the english premier league tottenham

striker harry kaina has a written in self into the record books kane scored at historic a hat trick in spurs five two win over south on ten that means ahead finishes at two thousand and seventeen with thirty nine league goals breaking on shares twenty two year old the record for most goals in the calendar year in the english premier league kane also topples messi as the top scorer in europe but with fifty six goals this year. they want to congratulate retain what you've. seen with the set of. we have to. be because these are some amazing thing for disintegrate and then of course that you please the two points with us so we build them. a game. and the day in fifth that with fourth place liverpool beating swans the five nil third place chelsea also secured three points they beat brighton two now that result moves them one point behind second

place majesty united the red devils are drawing a second straight the e.p.l. game and injury time goal of from discipline god help them to two against burnley. i need my players to accept to accept the risk not to be. afraid to lose. city or for not to be afraid of. a possible. didn't happen but could have been possible negative reaction from. the supporters. very happy we. had of russia's football union the stepping down from his post up for six months as he fights in the olympic ban for state sponsored doping. to call the sports minister the time of the sochi games during which russia was found to have run

a widespread doping program he was handed a lifetime ban by the international olympic committee earlier this month but is appealing this will tickle will still remain in charge of organizing the twenty eighteen world cup. and is christmas day showdown between last season's champions the golden state warriors and the runners up the cavan cavity has had the same outcome even without stop less steph curry the worry is that prevailed ninety nine to ninety two over the cats had a case of harassment i give him a credit it was supposed to be le bron james as knights and it started off that way the to the body worked in the absence of the injured steph curry golden state so wanted to make it a christmas to remember. you with it was a back and forth affair for much of the game with each side trading the lead had been drowned looked like the dominant force he was six months ago when he helped the warriors when the n.b.a. finals am. brown did what he could tying the game at ninety two

but play thompson came through with his full three pointer of the game but in golden state the head for good with which in the dying seconds of the match le bron drove to the basket but any chance of a christmas a comeback was blocked by drunks. finished with twenty five point seven rebounds and five blocked shots golden state closing out the rematch ninety nine to ninety two. small for supposed to go a small force. so if you know anybody else with a guard on the main open could put pad all over he just a little too small. does a star so i guess i was the last guy just on but i just like arm opposition all good. things and a lot of our fall game and you know we had a lot of transition point to go but in transition and i was going. to tell tell

sign of the game for us in the last. lebron and the cavs will have the chance for a bunch next month on the side space each other again in cleveland police and al-jazeera. and also his fall from we'll have more later on it's back to barbara in london said i thank you for that and that is it for this news hour remember you can get the latest on everything that we've been covering here on our website there it is the address of course al jazeera dot com or you can just stay in front of your t.v. because i'll be back in just a few minutes with more to these things if i. why

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