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hello i'm rob matheson and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. i'm not as the loser but it would be a because of the curse of democracy the ballots are being counted in the race to see if it's going to be a former football great to or liberia's vice president will lead the nation for the next six years plus. wiped out. a family escapes with only seconds left before tropical storm ten destroys entire communities in the philippines also. a very happy man was waiting for this day for a long time and acquittal in the fee for bribery trial of a former president of peru's a soccer federation. routinely reports the current most delicate operation but could robots be tucked in for when.

i'm going to start in liberia her votes are being counted in its presidential runoff election workers say the turnout it's not been as high as it was in the first round in a tobar but polling has been peaceful in a race that's going to see the west african nations first democratic transition of power in over seventy years the contenders a former international football star and the vice president fifty one year old george weah spent his childhood in the slums of monrovia rising to become the first african to be named fee first world football player of the year one thousand nine hundred ninety five his bid to be president in two thousand and five was unsuccessful he was also the running mate for the main opposition candidate in two thousand and eleven his rival joseph book i has held posts in the private sector

and in government including being agriculture minister the seventy three year old has also served as vice president under president ellen johnson sirleaf since two thousand and six but is twelve years of service didn't secure him sara lee was backing she enjoys george will more from mohamed in the capital monrovia. thousands lined up to bolton more than five thousand polling stations across liberia. arriving long before the stations opened the tunnels however no where near a lot of the foster homes held in october that ronald 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 the among voters a kindle four for the so-called. new processor score 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 wino would replace africa's first female head of state ellen johnson sirleaf who came to power after the country's lost civil war told me years ago i'm not as they were losing to this there's virtually no they said to me that i'm going to when i walk back and how will you know georgia seventy two year old joseph walker has served as les beauteous vice president since two thousand and six he too wanted in the capital they're great beer because it's a test of democracy we went in one time they were doing their work and i would use a tool. we have today we're going through a difficult process this is what the president or do we are willing to live with both wear and walk promising peace in liberia and also want to corruption in one of the world sport as countries if the results 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 a violence free process and that finally in liberia the ballot box hospital placed ballots but this is a big election for everyone who is following democracy west africa the trend has certainly been you know more towards democratic shift and really through. them want firmly and i think that is what we will see here in liberia today the liberian people are determined to do what they're ready to do it. and i'm very confident they will then a true commission has two weeks within which to declare the results it's official so how about confident to have them ready in four days how would it all just. be a liberia. raji is managing director of macro africa intel investment which is a consultancy focusing on research and investment in the region he says the winner

when the political will to deal with corruption the turnout is among the results of the time it's festive period. understandably. quite difficult but some let me talk about all of. dick nights of christmas. for. the primary choice and very popular candidates and an incumbent that students are familiar with i doubt very much that the result will be any difference from what is so in reality what the us when is who is succeeding cannot meet tell you no points if your point. i give them the political but they need to make bold. policy actions yet look see if you know there was no much are done so experience

as you were. told it will it will depend on how. well it's go. but well we're still sure that this is on corruption in the afghan country is at the core of johnnie's really michael well it's got its. if you would you wish to do those benefits and yet if it. was. well let me get. what you let's all get. well you all deserve but. although i doubt very much that's all those roles. on the part of. the international committee for the red cross and red crescent have begun medical evacuations from eastern guta the besieged rebel held area of syria's capital damascus almost four hundred thousand people have been trapped there by government forces since two thousand and thirteen amid widespread food shortages enclave's

been the target of hundreds of airstrikes and artillery attacks the united nations had earlier called for five hundred people in need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave meanwhile syrian state t.v. is reporting that a government jet has been shot down over hama province and says the military plane was downed by rebels in the north of the area and the pilot was killed in the attack how much has been the target of heavy airstrikes by russian and syrian forces throughout the country's civil war a powerful storm that's left a trail of death and destruction in the philippines has weakened on route to vietnam tropical storm tembin failed to make landfall in vietnam's mekong delta nearly a million people will move from their homes but experts say heavy rain and strong winds could still cause damage to infrastructure in the region tembin devastated the philippine island of mindanao where authorities have been criticized for not doing enough to help the storm has killed at least two hundred thirty

people with many more still missing while rob mcbride is joining us live from monrovia on the island of mindanao and as people are beginning to assess the damage rob there coleslaw coming out with more stories about what's been happening to them . that's right this is at least a hopeful scene in all of this there we are in the city of our our we which as we know has suffered very badly from months of fighting between government forces and fighters linked to i still. a lot of people those displaced people have been living in temporary accommodation and given the extra burden of having to deal with the flooding from then as it moved through here well at least today some of those people are going to be really housed in this settlement that's been built outside of merari given permanent homes given the importance of this president rodriguez will be attending will be handing over the homes to the new residents it's also i

think rob given the fact that this. damage recovering from this storm it's important for him to be sitting here this is a hilly inland area this area suffered badly but also given the extent of the storm we have seen a lot of damage around the coastal areas we visited probably one of the worst affected the towns the township of too bad where a whole neighborhood was simply swept away. when the flood 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. it's all the house. what's left of mary lou itam specials 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 i mean i don't we were all crying and the water kept 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 on the born again 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. so this is at least a hopeful sign in a place. in the old one amended outpaces the classic development style lemma the conflict holds up development the lack of jobs and money here all contributes to a general sense of resting and into that violence none of this rob is helped by the storms battering this already battered place robert bride life for us and

rob thanks very much indeed. the chin is in official says the united arab emirates says intelligence that female fighters returning from iraq in syria may be trying to use two missing in passports to stage attacks the u.a.e. caused outrage earlier this week by banning female choosing the citizens from landing in the gulf state leading to protests in tunis and north african country responded by borrowing emirates flights from tunisia and demanded an apology which is in government spokesman says the u.a.e. did not communicate its reasons for the ban properly and says they won't accept how its citizens are being treated. we are not part of emirates we have a sobering country and they should deal with us according to what normally happens in relations between two countries after the continuous calls with the emirates is through our ambassador in abu dhabi it appears they have lifted the ban but they did not give us details on how the ban was lifted the u.s.

has imposed sanctions on north korean scientists linked to the country's missile program the u.s. and south korea. and repealing chawla a senior figures in north korean leader kim jong un's ballistic missile development team the sanctions are the latest move by the u.s. to pressure pyongyang into abandoning nuclear weapons. peru's former president alberto fujimori has asked for forgiveness from peruvians from the bottom of his heart thousands of people protested in lima after president petro public which in ski announced he was pardoning fujimori on humanitarian grounds for more he's been serving a twenty five year prison sentence for corruption and crimes against come up here oddity committed during his time in office in the one nine hundred ninety s. shelob ellis has more. chaos in lima these peruvians are furious the former president alberto fujimori was pardoned by the current president

pedro public option ski a man they believe was trying to save his political career. i don't believe some of them have 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 the families of his victims lead the charge i think. they're trying to see 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 the relatives for justice and truth a frail seventy nine year old fujimori was admitted to hospital on saturday suffering from low blood pressure and hostile arrhythmia he responded to the outcry

on facebook and think kaczynski. 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 asked forgiveness from the bottom of my heart. critics say it was his son came to secure with the pardon he's a congressman in the majority popular food. posse that's led by his sister keiko and saved president kaczynski 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 say sorry then 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 cotton 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 rebels and saving the economy from collapse. the fujimori's critics the death squad still hold them with he's imprisoned or not they say they will voice their calls for justice shallop bellus al jazeera plenty more ahead on the news hour including. i shouted on top of my boss several times have kids in the halls of kids they've never bothered to listen to but that. we look back on the political violence that took the life of this couple's six month old child in kenya plus. the kremlin says an investigation should be held into whether russian opposition leader in the valley has broken the

law by saying voters should boycott next year's election. and the head of russian football takes drastic action as he fights an olympic ballon for state sponsored doping details in sports. mexican police arrested a suspect in the murder of a crime journalist hung carlos moya so sure is accused of planning the killing of little slava british in march but she was shot several times as she drove out of her garridge to continue work on of the search and location works continue to achieve the arrest of the other people responsible for the homicide and want the public prosecutor's office the state's general prosecutor's office processed the suspect will present the main elements of the investigation and its methodology well this past year has seen numerous protests denouncing violence against journalists demonstrators accuse the government of not doing enough to protect

reporters or to bring their killers to justice mexico is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists at least sixteen were killed there in the last three years. the u.s. canada and the european union have joined top u.n. officials in demanding the release of two reuters journalists being held in me in march while alone and killed so who was arrested earlier this month after they were invited to meet police officials in the outskirts of a young gone reema says the reporters quote illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media they were working with stories about the military crackdown that's forced over six hundred fifty thousand range of muslims to flee to bangladesh since august the kremlin says it's investigating whether calls by a russian opposition leader to boycott next year's election break the law and acts in a volley has asked people to avoid the vote show jailed for march after he was barred from running as a candidate officials say he's ineligible to take part due to

a suspended prison sentence he claims the charges are politically motivated rory chalons is in moscow with the latest. it's no surprise that the kremlin seems sensitive to what looks like an attempt by alexei in a valley 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 prosecute 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 and a warning now no one really believes that would be able to beat putin 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 to the valley could have done if he'd been allowed say on state t.v. with his anti corruption message so in a rally 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 onto the streets in parts of the country where you do not normally see political protests there that give organ is a senior analyst in russian affairs with a consultancy firm i.h.s. market she says the kremlin is investigation into the valley will be viewed very differently inside russia. russian media which is totally controlled by the state has done a really great job just to portray this fall out as the fault of the west of the americans that they are jealous of of rising russia under putin and that they're trying to undermine russia by any means possible by sanctions the conspiracy that

even the oil prices joined dropped just to hurt the russian economy but on the other hand you have a new generation that actually. they have no no other leader but putin and they want to change and this is the pocket of voters that nonviolent is happening no vallone is playing a long term game this is not about the upcoming elections time is on the site he's forty one put in a sixty five and he knows that in the long term he stands a better chance than anyone else that is in in the political landscape at the moment to to beat for the presidency having said that i have to say that we haven't seen any change of government in russia that comes from bottom up something has to happen we've seen the ruling elite and something has to have been with the economy to try to bring all these factors together to see real change of government or

meanwhile russia's president vladimir putin has been nominated for reelection as an independent candidate putin's been in power for eighteen years and he's expected to win another six year term so far he's referring from campaigning but he has praised the efforts of his government in managing the economy. of course these have been difficult years for both the country and for those who had to ensure stable development and overcome the difficulties that stemmed from the world economy i can say that the russian government not only did everything that it could but in my opinion even more than that you have essentially solved all the economic tasks at hand and russia's opposition party has formally nominated a t.v. personality because singh is subject to run against putin next year's election subject he is the daughter of putin's former mentor and a totally subject who was the first elected mayor of st petersburg but critics of

a subject say her decision to run plays into the hands of the kremlin and only gives the appearance of a democratic process. the rise of artificial intelligence and robotics is changing health care more operations and i carried out by surgeons using robots now the extraordinary progress of robotics is leading to suggestions that machines could care for us when we're old or sick lawrence lee reports. guys hospital in central london and a man is about to have his life chances vastly improved with the help of the robots . he has prostate cancer the surgeon and his team would in the past have cut him open and felt around with their hands. but now they insert chub. and then we'll let the robot. soon the surgeon is at

a console moving the robot remotely it's fine tools stitched up the man's colon before moving in to perform the operation. in principle you could have the surgery carried out or part steps of the surgery did a very clearly defined carried out by a surgical instrument that was basically set up until today i had laser eye surgery only ten years ago and i know for fat that the op thousand the surgeon did not i say he met devon think he set a machine hit a button and there was a machine that did the surgery wasn't. all kinds of surgeries are done like this welcomed by those lucky enough in the rich world to have an operation made quicker and less painful than in the past. but the new frontier is not in medicine but in care the robot succumbing to help the aged to consider the role that robots can

have in caring for those we love is surely at the sharp end of the debate around automation in the human world after all robots home to modes that don't have the human touch and so how do we as human beings feel about outsourcing a duty of care to a machine in the coming weeks these dimentia suffer as a care home in north london will have robots for company the owners run dozens of places like this across the u.k. they want to roll the machines out everywhere because what we're dealing with is dementia residents people who forget who have a memory lapses and if robots could remember. things about them or their cultural needs aboard that have it's about the back end of living and if they could relate this to a new pierced of forty one an agency staff was coming in it could be a lot of emotional things like these these people experience because when you

forget things you get agitated and you cannot recollect what you are really forgotten how are you very and you robots like this it is argued could help organize delivery of medicines or relatives could skype their loved ones through it screen but cannot love but it is argued they could help dispense it's the agonizing question is whether we want them to i think ethically it's undesirable. robots take the place of carers for these specific issues of being reassured you know being helped to death and so on i think very few people would say that we should staff our hospice with robots i mean at the end of life that's really where you want a completely human type of interaction in parts of the world robotic care assistance has already been viewed by people a socially acceptable. in japan a nation of technology lovers with an aging population is becoming common but will

carers ever be replaced by machines it would surely to questions about how much we value our own humanity lawrence lee al jazeera london and on thursday we'll have part five of our series an artificial intelligence a future with robots an ai is coming and it's going to affect us all of al-jazeera talks to those seeking to mitigate the fallout. still ahead on al-jazeera we take a look at the legacy of pakistan's first female head of state one decade after her assassination plus. in the united states me and five hundred million single use plastic straws every day they're all present a family icon it's called the strong us and seattle account a push to keep plastic waste out of the world's oceans underscores a new football record set in europe sun is going to be here with that story later in the program.

from the waves of the cells. to the contours of the east. welcome back the weather across much of eastern china is looking fine at the moment sunshine from shanghai down to hong kong taipei two should enjoy bright weather but we have got this heavy rain across the far south of china into northern parts of vietnam so some rain likely and annoy as we head into thursday will find that rain continuing here indeed rain developing further towards the north and east across the rest of indo china some showers likely for lesbia margery looking fine we can go in very close to thirty degrees into southeastern parts of asia the remnants of tembin most no trouble depression breaking up around the gulf of thailand system heavy showers here otherwise not too bad across this region but the showers are in the philippines especially in more southern areas so heavy showers across parts of

malaysia in borneo and then seen some storms your shares in singapore and kuala lumpur so head on into thursday the risk of showers will generally decrease somewhat let's push across into south asia now and here still a threat of a few showers affect in sri lanka but otherwise it's looking largely fine some cloud across northern areas perhaps a little bit of snow up over the himalayas otherwise the problems ferdie mist and fog for delhi but temperature wise we're looking at high seer of twenty three degrees celsius. the weather sponsored by cattle and nice. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage the bit where every day but the messages simply state you have the feigned good logical rational people versus the crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusations and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour counting is under way after a peaceful day of voting in liberia's presidential runoff election observers say the turnout is much lower than it was during the first trial of tolbert voters have had to choose between a former international football player on the country's vice president. the international committee for the red cross and red crescent has begun medical evacuations from east to go to the scenes rebel held area of syria's capital damascus the united nations had earlier called for five hundred p. . will the need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave. mexican police arrested a suspect in the murder of a crime journalist john carlos what on you is accused of planning the killing of. in march mexico's one of the world's most dangerous countries for reporters with at least sixteen journalists killed there and the last three years a key oil pipeline in libya has been attacked by armed men one thousand barrels of

crude oil is being lost every day damage to the pipeline that feeds the port of c. that is still being assessed libya's military says men carrying weapons planted explosives at the pipeline the price of crude oil jumped above sixty five dollars a barrel after news of the explosion egypt's asking international experts to help resolve a dispute with ethiopia over a massive dam on the river nile kyra's asking the world bank to help ease tensions over the grand. project foreign ministers from both countries have been meeting and ethiopia's capital addis ababa following a ten month pass which also involves sudan egypt fears the hydroelectric scheme will reduce its share of the water if the o.p.'s says the dams needed for its economic development. we usually work and cooperate to avoid any kind of tension and there are some issues that should be taken away in separated from others and i think the water issue of egypt sudan and ethiopia should bring us together in

a union because it's the issue related to the future and the interest of the three countries. will not bring any significant harm upon the egyptian side and we are working at the state of the us we are trying to be very transparent the important thing here is that if there are any concerns that come from the egyptians we are working very closely to solve. as twenty 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 as katherine soy reports from kisumu. 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 when 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 august paul citing irregularities of fast in africa. then we threw 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 panda 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. and. back ok. i didn't know that that. isn't an informant of all. time whenever they'd be election at all is remember. during election day. she also says they'll continue to seek justice for their daughter catherine sawyer

. western kenya and on widens day you can watch the fifth and final report in our series one year five families we'll tell you about a father and son who haven't seen each other for nearly fifty years because of tensions on 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 explosives has more on the legacy she left behind. oh. gould in the arc of complicated pakistani politics by how far those recall really portal energy job became the was youngest prime minister and pakistan's first woman head of state. was acting and incredibly. joining her last time she got such wide screen

off. literally everything she was a global leader she was very good night is a. she had a strong command on foreign funding she had intense interest in. pakistan the bottom of the filament prime minister twice be interviewed was unable to recover from corruption charges during her second term as prime minister she was barred from politics but i managed he did with general musharraf in two thousand and seven paved the way for her return in october two thousand and seven when i did photo return to pakistan ending almost eight. she had a narrow escape procession was bombed into southern port city of karachi but despite that to her life continued read the political rally across the country

however little did she know that the rally hadn't got bob. her life despite their security tricks i mean their determined leader she was the region really she lost her life struggling for the betterment of the muscles of. his her come into pakistan. was that renews she made up her mind when. it was over anything and she knew or used it months before her return to pakistan yemen prime i'll judge ito certain. about that security attached to her lives some of them the rogue elements and been working with al qaeda possibly on one assassination attempt on you i do believe that there are elements within the security of paris this particularly those who are associated with the prime 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 tried to kill her. today i think a rally in rawalpindi what do emerge from i had her on top of a very good wave to her. moment a suicide bomber blew himself up. again ten years ago and she stand remembered by friendly and for the like. a great loss for democracy. box larked are not all spittles in gaza have been forced to cancel operations because cleaners have gone on strike over delayed salary payments the health ministry says planned surgeries can't go ahead because operating theatres aren't ready the cleaning staff are demanding overdue pay from the palestinian health ministry which is run by the national consensus government they say they haven't received wages for several months and

they've been speaking about the impact it's having on them and their families. and i say. i came here today because i have not been paid for the past four months striking because they're just not paying us and we're struggling i need my salary so i can take care of my family there are ten people in my family and they only to eat and they have other expenses too i need eleven u.s. dollars a day for them but now there are times we go to bed without even eating. much of virk and we haven't been paid for the past four months as well as my wife and children their nine other family members who are relying on my income for rent and other expenses doing much of the handicapped so we have additional medical expenses damage occasion it's cost me one hundred forty two u.s. dollars a day. the

u.s. decision to recognize a roussillon as israel's capital is being debated across the world the city's holy for people from three faiths but at the core of the issue is an occupation that shows no signs of ending so how do you reconcile the conflict without disrupting the right to worship for all we spoke to historian widely known as the atlas of palestine jerusalem is palestinian longer than london is endless is muslim and christian population have been living there for thousands of years they have no theory they have been there long time ago and now they are returning they have never left jerusalem and they were absolute majority of population until recently when the colonial jewish european settlement started in palestine there are no legal basis whatsoever for israel to occupy or to declare

sovereignty on jerusalem there is a natural right for anybody from an. faith muslim christian and jew to live and worship peacefully what shipping peacefully doesn't mean that you kill people take their homes and kick them out there was no motivation by airlifts ernest's about jerusalem from a religious point of view they wanted only to expand the area applied in palestine to make israel and when that includes at least western jerusalem that will attract more jews from abroad to come to become citizens and palestine the palestinian claim is very simple they always lived in palestine they all lived in jerusalem even before it became christian and then after that it became largely muslim even before that cananites the palestinians are the natural inhabitants of police star

and regardless of the religion they have adopted the time so to talk about people who were there and then came back to recover something they claim to have lost two thousand years ago is indian it disingenious is really is very strange in eight hundred seventy one the british sent a mission to palestine to make a set of eight of but a stern they spent four years surveying palestine and they produced twenty six maps and ten volumes and in that they have stated that all studies have shown that the palestinians we met at the end of the last century are the same palestinians who have been living there for thousands of years so who is the foreigner a foreigner who came from the ghettos at least in europe to look at the country of palestine and to claim that the people who live there for a thousand years are not natives of the country they are who are the foreigners

they are the natives and that is something not accepted by any part in the world except those who believe in racism and apartheid. scientists are finding vast amounts of plastic waste in the world's oceans as the throw away junk of modern civilization degrades it turns into microscopic beds the dens of the food chain from fish and turtles to birds marine mammals and eventually humans but the people of seattle in the united states have filed a unique way to encourage recycling and avoid using plastic straws rob runnels reports. 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 call the campaign stronger since yeah so we really want to start with something simple that every single one of us every single day and that item is to stop the other great thing about there is an alternative don't you worldwide people use one billion plastic straws a day in the united states we're five hundred million single use plastic straws every day they're zero percent of them are if i can. those that find their way into the marine environment break down into micro profit and when a marine animal in fact they have a fifty percent mortality rate so it's a significant issue can we assume those cars are part of their diet unfortunately the strongest in 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 throwaway culture every time we talk about fingers positrons everybody's mind bang goes taylor what about bob huffaker there's another pastika over there and are we talking to her about i don't know as well 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 raise and 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 rob reynolds al-jazeera seattle. still ahead on al-jazeera the traditional dagger that's caused its way into the heart of omani identity. and in sport a christmas present for basketball fans a rematch of the n.b.a. championships. news has neither the new and the liberal but the message is a simplistic and misinformation is rife listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera and live there it sounds like an agreement between the criminal bosses it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever

comes to ask the question is for throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominee director we're doing an investigation into. ukraine could use a bribes you've been corrupt been not corrupt the just the president say al-jazeera investigation is the only god coming soon. former senior official with peru's national football federation has been acquitted of a conspiracy by a court in the us niall burgo is charged with taking bribes in exchange for being awarded marketing and media rights to international soccer matches burgo walked

free just days after two other south american officials were convicted of similar charges the case has been linked to the corruption at the heart of fee for international football's governing body. we are very happy we meant well as waited for this day for a long time about the need to get to the point. well. they had over thirty million pages of documents in this case and hundreds and hundreds of witnesses and thousands of files that we had to go through. to see it was a herculean task. really to understate it but. we won. and it was the right thing to do for the jury. for the rest of the day's news and sports his son i thank you very much the finding time is qatar facing an early exit from the gulf couple off to lose in to iraq in the group stages went

into the match it was serious momentum having won their opening match for an elegance yemen and they looked good in the second man to the all kuwait stadium and was giving them the lead in the seventeenth minute. squared things up in the first half of the for husseini faisel wrapped up the when with the second goal two one to iraq the final school. all iraq are top of group b. off to that when that would be here in level on points with them following that when the over yemen qatar anon must be a behind in their final game to guarantee progress to the semi's in the english premier league tottenham a striker harry cain has a written in self into the record books kane scored 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 can also messi as the top scorer in europe with fifty six goals this year. they want to congratulate retain massive achievement. with the set of. we had also social happy because he's had some amazing thing for him to celebrate and then of course very pleased that you point for us so important i'm. game. and the day in fifth that with fourth place liverpool beating swanzy five nil third place chelsea also secured three point 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 jesselyn god help them to draw two 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 happen a possible negative reaction. from. the supporters and i'm very happy with. that character he had of russia's football union the stepping down from his post that for six months as he fights and the olympic ban for state sponsored doping the tally of let's 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 up 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 is that had the same outcome even without stop less steph curry the warriors that prevailed ninety nine to ninety two over the caps helen case and her small but you're going to claim it was supposed to be le bron james as knights and it started off that way the tiger woods body split in the absence of the injured steph curry golden state so wanted to make it a christmas to remember. you would it was a back and forth affair for much of the game with each side trading the lead kevin durant's looked like the dominant force he was six months ago when he helped the worry is when the n.b.a. finals cut. the braun 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 to head for good thank you with in the dying seconds of the match le bron drive to the basket but any chance of

a christmas day comeback was blocked by drunks drowned 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 it would been a complete pat on 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 oh it's good to have both things in the line of our fall game and you know we had a lot of transition point a gun but in transition and i was going. to sign it again for us in the last. lebron and the cavs will have the chance for a bench next month and the sides face each other again in cleveland. and there and that's as well for me i will have more later on now for centuries hand-crafted

knives have been status symbols in the middle east they're still carried by men during important ceremonies and family occasions and among the traditional dagger known as the congo is a source of national pride traffic reports. omanis often say that is a symbol of their national identity. and similar knives are made in neighboring yemen and southern saudi arabia but the craftsmanship here in oman has been for centuries considered the finest in the region. the silversmith's at this workshop in the historical town of from india. people they've been taught the altar of using traditional omani designs to make a dagger which can take months to crossed my grandfather me this is the best things you can do what ever it done so that's a clue that you're taking this walk back up for you would then the. government recently set regulations on how the omani should be made in order to preserve its

specific characteristics the traditional say decongest favored by the royal family for example must have four or seven rings depending on the status of the wearer. handles that used to be made from black rhino horns are now called from buffalo horn or woods these are some of the oldest hunters in this shot but one of the holding here is a sighted one. it's least one hundred years old the cut off the sheet is made out of snake skin the handle is made out of black rhino horn we're told that it's worth no less than around twelve thousand dollars and tradition dictates that if i remove the blade from the sheet then i have to use it to a guide muhammad will come off shows us how the closure is worn by helping his son dress as he would for weddings and special occasions with on juries either worn on

a specially crafted belt or tucked behind a waistband a wooden sword but i feel proud to be wearing my arab omani clothes my patriotism runs in my blood and he had me in with the represents the in money post manatee our pride in our nation and it also exults the sultan the country and our ancestors of them. what was once used as a weapon now crafted as a work of omani. stuff at al-jazeera news where a shark air is going to be here in a couple of minutes with all the latest news iraq matheson thanks for being with me by phone i. travel often. by tranquil bottoms and purple forests their pride was all. walks of orange. by icons land long

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