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live and at al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us at least forty people are dead and many more wounded after yet another suicide bombing in kabul cultural organisation was the target but the afghan voice news agency was also hit i saw which has attacked several shots hard hits in afghanistan recently has claimed responsibility but hasn't provided any evidence that's also a name reports. explosions followed by a rush to assist the injured and count the victims. it's become a familiar ritual especially in kabul where the afghan capital has seen its share of bombings this year this time the target was a shiite muslim cultural center and the neighboring afghan voice news agency. i saw many dead in the area i was looking for my cousin but i couldn't find his body i'm not sure what happened but the number of dead is increasing. the interior ministry says suicide attackers set off an explosion outside the center then

stormed it and set off more. loss' in the basement it was midday on thursday and a group had gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the one nine hundred seventy nine soviet invasion of afghanistan the middle of a kind just when the explosion went off we skipped from the room where we were working and went to the rooftop we sold a small in flames coming up from the basement the taliban immediately issued a statement denying involvement. an analyst tells his era given that this attack was in a shiite neighborhood this appears to be the work of eisele. he says the armed group has been targeting the shiite community this year as well as media outlets the isis and have honest in order to make a mark media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage that they have been seeking juliet activities and so they have been targeting the media outlets

here in capital kabul as well as in the regional hub in order to make sure they get y.c. is raised. in may a truck bomb killed more than one hundred fifty people in kabul in what has been described as one of the worst attacks in recent memory afghans are trapped by violence from eisel and the taliban and what critics say is the inability of security forces to protect them. anger has led to protests and calls for resignations in the government analysts say what i saw lacks the numbers it makes up for in tactics. an orchestrated by the sophistication of the operation and amount of exactness impreciseness in the operations that do usually target with little the strength or little amount of import it creates a lot of women and their jobs of achieving strategic objectives. the people at the

cultural center were looking back and remembering a dark time for black day as it's called in afghanistan when the soviets invaded for the families of the victims thursday's attack has become another black day natasha going to aim to zero so let's also mention the taliban statement denying responsibility here is the spokesman says tweet in full the attack in the police off the area of kabul cities today has nothing to do with them was a hazy and it is said that the target of the attack was a media center and education facility was a had enough i am a very cautious about such areas and do not commit such acts well now say to michael semple he's a former deputy. representative to afghanistan he's also a professor at queen's university belfast joining us from dublin thanks for joining us on the news groups are not the first time that the cia have been targeted in afghanistan why do they continue to be targeted and do you think that this is the

work of eisel. first of all i would say that it is entirely plausible that eisel has undertaken this attack if we look back over this is that you the longer period don't they decade in a insurgency against the afghan government time and the and the u.s. so during most of that time there has been very little violence specifically against the shia community since i still came on the scene in afghanistan there's been a series of attacks against shia places of worship gatherings and she is like like today this looks like a no they're one of the that they i solicit sent in a sense opening up a no they're dreadful front in the war in afghanistan and why would i so be doing that in targeting the shia specifically. well i don't i suppose they're the ones who really want to explain it there's no good reason for it to one of the

explanations and i've heard from colleagues in kabul and is that they think that act it links to the to the regional conflict which is going on while. the shia sunni tensions are sort of being fortunately absent from a promise non for the past decade and a half we know that the and those tensions are be heightening a across the muslim world so is an attempt to try and import them into afghanistan and specifically they hear out you know i still blames blames she had to some extent iran before the the defeat to their caliphate to and in syria and also in iraq and this is a way of taking revenge on them in afghanistan and what afghans worry about is that however bad the conflict in their country might already be it could get even worse and it's amazing that nowadays you can hear akram saying oh we hope that our

country does not become another syria and that's what afghans are worried about on days like today you'll recall michael semple that in april the u.s. had said in transpacific lead that the u.s. had dropped what they called the mother of all bombs on isolate eastern afghanistan from that time up until now how strong was i saw in the country in your opinion. i still feel is still an important threat in afghanistan since the dropping about bombed they have opened up and extended a front in the north of the country they have not to disappeared from the east of the country you know they don't have thousands of troops but they do have people who are prepares to blow themselves up like this they're completely ruthless and although they have almost no appeal to the general population in afghanistan they have shown that they are able to recruit from amongst hardened fighters and so in

a sense if they are taliban still try to appeal to some extent to the population the eisel are trying to appeal to fighters saying it's like it's good to be a fighter with eisel and even though they don't have you know they don't have battalions this kind of attack is profoundly destabilizing because of course that they you know we know that for security problems in afghanistan to be overcome it's important to that official government security institutions you know going to have to get their act together they going to have to become more effective but this kind of thing it undermines the confidence of the population and the very security institutions which they require ok michael semple we thank you for joining us from dublin and speaking to us on al-jazeera well afghanistan bullets and burkas is a film on al jazeera dot com where we follow a group of afghan women who have signed up to fight the taliban in this case so the filmmaker gains unique access to women in remote villages who start weapons training with afghanistan police prior to being deployed in the field so you can

watch this film right here on al jazeera dot com it's part of our people and power documentary series. well homes schools playgrounds and nowhere is safe for millions of children caught in conflict zones attacks on them have reached what the u.n. children's fund describes as a shocking scale and unicef is telling the world such brutality cannot become the new normal so in a report it's named afghanistan where it says almost seven hundred children were killed during just the first nine months of this year unicef also singles out conflicts in the region of the democratic republic of congo which has driven an estimated eight hundred fifty thousand children from their homes as well as in northeastern nigeria and cameroon that's where one hundred thirty five children have been used as suicide bombers by the armed groups. while he's in iraq and syria children they're being used as human shields and they face constant violence and

bombardments and unicef says the past a thousand days of fighting in yemen have left at least five thousand children dead or injured. has more. this school in mosul stands empty this street makes for dangerous playground as snipers threaten overhead this is what childhood looks like for these families over the course of this year children in conflict zones like here in iraq have been singled out and attacks unicef says those involved in conflict a blatantly disregarding international humanitarian law is designed to protect the most vulnerable children is normal now that you can target a hospital a group of doctors in syria told me recently when i was in northern turkey how the armed groups wouldn't even come near the hospital because the hospital was more of a target than the armed groups so hospitals and schools are being deliberately attacked children are being brutalized and it feels like all the rules in war as you say that used to at least protect civilians and children in particular in these

terrible wars have all disappeared finally some light relief for people in rebel held eastern go to in damascus after four years of being trapped in middle of the fighting a few patients with urgent medical needs have been allowed to leave. unicef warns millions of children are also become in direct casualties of conflict from being displaced as well as being made homeless this refugee camp in bangladesh is home now for him to refugees from my ma of which four hundred thousand children children who stood by while our soldiers are right on their mothers or shot their father even brutalizes children aselton it saying to those children that they are deliberately doing this. in eastern ukraine many children live by the front line they share the scars of living in one of the most modern contaminated places on. the situation is worse in yemen where aid agencies are struggling to help.

five thousand children have been killed or injured and many more severely malnourished risk of death a similar situation is unfolding in the democratic republic of congo with violence has driven hundreds of thousands of kids from their homes unicef is appealing to all parties involved in conflicts around the world to stand together and protect the rights of children. is there any comments or questions about the stories do get in touch with us here on the news grid and you can send them in to any one of our online platforms we're on twitter you can tweet us at a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid you can send us a whatsapp one plus one seven four five zero triple on one for ny and as always use the has to a.j. it's. now hundreds of thousands of children are among the more than one million syrians who've been sheltering in lebanon after escaping the long war in their

country but for the first time in hears the united nations now says that number has fallen so as of this year it's dipped below the million mark as syrians found refuge elsewhere or decided to go home to syria since twenty eleven nearly forty nine thousand syrians have left lebanon as part of a un resettlement program and the three top recipients were canada which took in just under ten and a half thousand syrians followed by the u.k. were almost six thousand went to live and germany resettled another five and a half thousand while most syrians sheltering in lebanon are living in refugee camps like those is camp in the bekaa valley. conditions are miserable for syrian refugees in lebanon and during the winter it becomes even more difficult for them to survive according to the united nations many of them are vulnerable many of them live in extreme poverty many of them are in debt and they need really help to survive the distance released by the united

nations shows that the there are less than one million registered refugees with the u.n. now this is the first time since two thousand and fourteen the number dropped below one million according to the united nations many of them approximately fifty thousand have been resettled in third countries under the u.n. program while thousands have returned to syria they don't have exact figures but thousands have returned now many people here will tell you we want to go back home but we can't either because there are towns and villages and cities are are destroyed they have nothing to return to and there are many others who are scared to go back because they wanted by the government and the government really has been taking over control of recapturing a lot of territory so the question is how are these people who are wanted by the state or who are afraid to be forced into the army return home this is an issue that is not being addressed by the international community. well for in these numbers will speak to william spend learn he's a spokesman for the u.n.h.c.r. that's the u.n. refugee agency joining us from geneva thanks for joining us on the news grid so since twenty fourteen u.n.

is reporting that the number of syrian refugees in lebanon has now dropped below one million in what do you put that drop down to where we regularly revise our figures to make sure that people are there and that we know where they are and that we know what their main needs are so in the last distributions we found out that the number of refugees in lebanon is just under a million the reasons for this that some of them might have gone to other countries in the region over there were filled and some of them have indeed returned to syria how many this is of course little internal you can you give us a figure of the countries how can you give us a figure of those who have returned to syria to have. we don't have precise figures because people who return to syria do not register with us some of

them go for short periods to syria to see how the situation nice to see if it's safe to go back so it's difficult to have a precise figure but we estimate that several thousand have returned and stayed in syria during two thousand and seventeen conditions in syria of course are not yet conducive to large scale returns so we are following up the situation very closely that war is still going on it's still a very volatile environment but many refugees are following the situation in syria very closely hoping that it will be possible to return at some point and i suppose it's just important to pause here for a moment and just confirm that these numbers that the u.n. has put out are on the registered refugees in lebanon so there are still many on registered refugees who are syrian refugees in lebanon correct that's

correct those who have registered with with us but we stopped registering. refugees in two thousand and fifteen so since then the numbers are steadily going down what is the situation for the refugees that are currently in lebanon right now because we also understand that the u.n. is saying that the share of syrian refugee households living in extreme poverty and when you say extreme poverty we're talking about two dollars here two dollars an eighty seven cents and that number of refugees living within that budget per day is increasing why is that. that's correct after over six years in exile in some cases refugees have run out of whatever they managed to bring from from syria many have fallen into extreme poverty we estimate that three quarters of all refugees in lebanon are living below the

poverty line and about half of them are severe deep in extreme poverty. i visited the lebanon recently and i could see some of the conditions in which syrian refugees living in settlements all over the country in makeshift shelters that they have built themselves with with plywood with corrugated iron with pauline's and as we have heard it's getting very very cold in lebanon particularly in the bekaa valley and in the mountains where there is snow so conditions are very very tough and this is also something that is making refugees wanting to return to syria even if the conditions there are not the conducive for them to do so william spengler we thank you for speaking to us and joining us from geneva now in different parts of the world people are finding innovative ways to help refugees out our documentary series a.j.

sortes explores how one man is finding housing for people in belgium take a look. also on facebook by accident i read a post from the platform situation which is a group of the engine people helping refugees since two thousand and fifteen i started hosting people two years ago during the first wave of migrants coming to brussels to the park to mix media and i've been doing this nonstop until now welcome back i don't know how i am so. that evening. up. with about. noon and been. up with you know. you must.

phone screen. before you had the bathroom but when you get a book we're going to. get. i mean. i don't get that we have a book. and i think what he thought was that i think as a human i have to be there and help other humans find a safe place a warm place to sleep i cannot imagine living someone sleep outside tonight that's the reason i'm doing all that i need to speak out when the sun set up with something on. the screen as we asked me. was is this is what you know no no no i mean this is how do you know sort of the in your twisted way just a little bit to what the person. she

meant to you i think both too far in the. family tonight look you have got your private driver for tonight. good night. messages on facebook and. i think it's very. well living in compounds in camps without water or electricity means that for many pregnant women prenatal care is erratic the women can't afford medical fees so they don't get see gynecologists until late in their term putting them at high risk of complications you can watch the human impact of the syrian war through the eyes of a lebanese midwife helping pregnant syrian refugees give birth there it is lebanon the refugees midwife to find out on al-jazeera dot com

a state in mexico is now investigating the murders of more than one thousand women this year is acts of femicide that's the intentional killing of girls and women simply because of their gender mexico ranks among the most dangerous countries in the world for women many well repel oh is the state of puebla in the state of looking at how communities are trying to fight back. gabriella is a single mother in pueblo mexico who says she lives in fear less than a month ago her younger sister was brutally murdered the victim of a sexual assault the body was found on the side of the road in order to forment when compared to because of the way my sister's body was found at first sight it was deemed and as the newspapers reported she had been strangled. like many places in mexico facing a crisis of gender based violence that keeps personal safety in the back of every

woman's mind. to help create awareness the government has enlisted the help over one hundred seventy tortilla shops across the state and wrap up warm tortillas and pamphlets with information about femicide and a number to call it violence against women is suspected somewhere this is a good thing and it benefits us all to help women be informed that last month a prosecutor invade a cruise was murdered outside her work some believe she was targeted because of her efforts to protect women and young girls still experts believe impunity is the biggest obstacle against dampening the crisis the problem however is also deeply ingrained in the culture of previous was mostly it's male privilege violence is a male privilege men kill each other on a daily basis and men are also killing women because of their gender because they believe women are worth less or they believe that their lives belong to them in. protest denouncing violence against women are becoming more common in mexico which

has among the highest rates of femicide on earth the common slogan among demonstrations is not one more activist in mexico have launched initiatives aimed at reducing levels of violence against women projects that include everything from gender workshops for cab drivers to interactive database maps like this one that tracked and catalog cases of femicide all over the country. was killed on november eleventh it was the ninety eight. chiesa femicide this year since then there have been five other women murdered. women shouldn't have to end up as a number or as some case file women have to face we don't deserve to be killed or to be hurt or to be threatened or raped not one more not one more woman killed in point of law or in mexico or in the world. went up a little. mexico. anderson as a social media producer how is this playing out online andrew durian we're seeing a huge conversation online about this especially in countries like spain france and

morocco but let's of course start with mexico where several hashtags are being used to highlight issues of sexual harassment and violence against women there pretty much all in spanish as you'd expect but all roughly translate them for you one is male violence one is not one less and simply not excuse me no more violence there we go. here is among many social media users who says that every woman's violent death is a step back in development of the region she says that everyone must join forces across all sectors to basically stop them aside in latin america and the caribbean we're seeing the same hash tag in spanish being used in many countries especially in spain for example where a woman was murdered on thursday by her partner in a town of as you kick up so you have many people like i said in lots of countries who are joining the condemnation against or gender based murders now men well here

says that this is everybody's problem and he says it seems that we are just not aware of what is going on but to help men become more aware the u.n. women's solidarity movement for gender equality has started a campaign called he for she it's directed at men and they're using hash tag he for she where men commit to ending sexual harassment in videos like these. i am he or she i will speak up against sexual harassment i will be a positive role model be the change make the difference and sexual harassment i'm here for she is only together can we put an end to sexual harassment i commit to breaking the silent role that men have played for too long when it comes to sexual harassment using excuses such as locker room talk or it's only a joke create a culture of acceptance that we can no longer allowed. if we are not part of the solution then we are part of the problem i will continue to fight for equality and to put an end to sexual harassment you're going to use makes

a huge issue we all need to work together on this issue i commit to speak up against insurance to call it out when i see. that it was done very slowly. and we've also seen many other active campaigns that are very vocal around the world to tackle this issue this week in france there are lots of women who are sharing stories of sexual harassment using a french hash tag for the phrase expose your pig and they are going online to name and shame everyone who harasses them there's many people who are showing some pretty horrible screenshots from their phones of some of the messages that they've been sent while the organizers of the original me to movement are working to broaden their coalition and their campaign with her to now this campaign this expansion is to help other women who are suffering in silence so that's certainly sure to be an active campaign both online and off in twenty eighteen and as we end the year we're curious to see how your town city or country has responded to some

of these campaigns where you are for example in robots the mayor of the city announced his intention to put women only pink buses into service but we're curious if this will help tackle the primary issue there so let us know what you think and what you're seeing and we may feature it on a future show you can tweet me directly i'm at enter chapelle or just use the hash tag it's a newsgroup. and we do have viewers this evening with us from morocco in fact so send us your comments and your questions if you're watching us on facebook what you'll see in just a moment is kossovo has become tied up in protests against their prime minister that's after he gave himself a pay rise you'll see that in a moment on facebook but coming up right here on the grid. or protecting people's reputations we'll look at both sides of the debate around the contentious new laws in israel in a moment. hello

there there's plenty of time pushing its way across the middle east at the moment on the satellite picture you can see it all working its way towards the northeast eventually making its way through iraq into iran and across the caspian sea there but this area of cloud isn't really going to have a great deal of wet weather only to tour the area of rain that will be watching is out in the western parts of turkey and here it looks like it's going to be fairly wet throughout the day on friday and on saturday and as well as being wet we're also looking at some very strong winds as well further towards the south and here in doha it's a little calm of not we're looking at a top temperature of twenty four degrees the wind should be fairly light as well as we head through the next day or thirty degrees will be our maximum but it could be more of a breeze at times if we had down towards the southern parts of africa here plenty more wet weather to be found it's all stretching from angola all the way across and then into madagascar madagascar it seems a very heavy rain over the last few hours as we head through the next day or so we are going to see yet more heavy showers across madagascar and again stretching all

the way across the northern parts of our map further south is looking a lot drier and generally fine twenty four degrees will be the maximum a cape town fair amount of sunshine to be found here but for durban more cloud will be squeezing out the shower temperature for twenty seven. unbelievable it sounds like an agreement between criminal bosses it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the question then is for throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just a nominee director with doing a investigation into. ukraine and you're a fraud which you've been corrupt been not corrupt they've just looked at the presidency al-jazeera investigations the only god coming soon. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in

a battle to hold the powerful. how does this radical transformation occur. i mean it to me that if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people at this time on al-jazeera.

the headlines on al-jazeera and this is what's trending on our website right now top story why is the west. praising but ignoring interesting read on al-jazeera dot com. a sixteen year old. who was recently arrested in a nighttime raid on that happened in the occupied west bank in fact will have an update a live update with our reporter harry fossett on this particular story coming up. in just a couple. and another update for you want to story we brought you on choose they out of yemen andrew has been monitoring the reaction to several airstrikes there andrew yesterday in the united nations says at least sixty eight

yemeni civilians were killed in just one day this week from two saudi led airstrikes you're about to see here the aftermath of one of those attacks on a crowded market on tuesday in. fifty four people were killed there including eight children and in another strike into data fourteen people were killed from the same family. beyond the death tolls and town names people are using social media to humanize the violence in yemen. posted this picture of an entire family including five children who were killed in a separate coalition air strike on sana on monday all told across the country at least one hundred nine civilians have been killed in coalition attacks over the past ten days so online as people react to this as they go on twitter in particular many are expressing outrage at those who are involved here in the conflict jane ferguson for example tells her followers to remember that the planes are being refueled by u.s. jets a huge foreign policy failure she says while the u.n.

humanitarian coordinator for yemen jamie mcgoldrick says that these incidents prove the complete disregard for human life that all parties including the saudi led coalition continue to show in this ep serb war that has only resulted in the destruction of the country and the incommensurate suffering of its people who are being punished as part of a futile military campaign by both sides but what's important to remember here just as he said is that there isn't just one side to blame the u.n. says who if the rebels have many communities in their territory under a full blockade by stopping supplies from getting in yemenis are also suffering through some severe fuel shortages as well thanks to blockades of ports like the data here on the left and that's because of saudi led coalition which started in early november so yemenis are under attack they can't get the medicine food and fuel that they need to survive it's really a combination of crises well our colleagues at the debrief podcast spoke to several humanitarian workers with the save the children charity in yemen and they described

for us the crippling effects of fuel shortages. but fuel is also needed for power generates the generates the pumps to keep water clean you need fuel for our water trucking for many people in yemen rely on want to attract new trucks that go into communities and provide clean water and we don't have fuel access to enough fuel we cannot deliver clean water in the cools if we're not able to clean water then you have a catastrophe and and a rise in evil also borne diseases well some relief is on the way earlier this week ships began offloading thousands of tons of fuel at her data and the saudi led coalition says this port in particular will be open for the next month coalition spokesman says it will continue to take all necessary measures to provide assistance to the yemeni people in all areas for medical and food items so if you don't hear more about this and that full podcast sleepless in yemen just go

to our website al jazeera dot com for almost three years now yemeni aid workers have gone to bed hearing saudi led coalition fighter jets and circling their city sanaa so my colleague has me by you may use whatsapp voice messages to hear about their experience to hear what that's like so this episode has been made in collaboration with save the children yemen be sure to listen and subscribe and abs are part cast google play spotify stitcher and tuna and thank you let's look at some of the other headlines from around the world now sue turton is joining us from our london new center hi sue either in thank you the u.s. embassy in ankara says it's lifted all restrictions on visas services and being a months long run now he says turkey has met all assurances that local us embassy staff won't be detained or arrested the us stopped issuing visas in turkey off to two staff members were detained during a state of emergency in ankara take it back by halting visa services for americans in the us. south korea says it will ban anonymous trading of digital currency is

the government wants to crack down on money laundering schemes using them two weeks ago cell banned its financial firms from dealing in virtual money after prices for bitcoin and other currencies soared sparking fears of a bubble and uneasy is not its agency has destroyed millions of dollars worth of illegal drugs at a ceremony in jakarta hundreds of kilos of marianna and millions of narcotics pills went up in smoke thousands of people have been arrested for drug crimes and eighteen executed in a crackdown under current presidential djoko we don't do more than six million indonesians are believed to be drug users. experts in artificial intelligence say the world isn't prepared for the big changes automation is bringing to the global economy some say artificial intelligence could help us create an almost perfect world the world bank is warning developing countries could face economic collapse

lawrence lyrics that i was their concerns in the final part of our series brave new world. the future is coming and it's going to affect all of us it's widely accepted that millions of jobs are going to disappear but we may not have to work we might get paid for having fun and in this future the robots and algorithms that will replace us could either reduces to poverty or set us free this is the time of apocalypse and utopia and this is a time where we have to start thinking concretely about how so in vision a better world out of the kind of. the collapse of this world. optimists say things could be wonderful machines do nearly all the work money disappears as things a creative force automation in science negates climate change crops are grown in the deserts we create meet in our own homes. and as

a species we develop because we no longer spend our time doing boring tasks to feed our children i think we might well experience a near innocence of creativity and of social interaction in a very positive way if people have the leisure to do whatever they want to do very will be less frustrated by the hassles they have at work. they will be more fearful because they'll be doing the things that interest them. it may sound a long way away after all at the moment robots only do one thing at a time like this one making car doors but what if one can do all the things that week in previous industrial revolutions change was measurable people call it linear the difference with. the fourth industrial revolution is that change is exponential which means it goes faster and faster all the time and it's expected that within about a generation from now a machine will be built which is better than

a human and that changes everything. futurologists point to a problem where all of the world politicians discussing these things with their electorates artificial intelligence is barely mentioned in western election campaigns yet already jobs are disappearing as the robots take over the global tech giants who in future will control vost resources are discussing privately what their responsibilities to us will be but they would rather not talk about it in public. every day i experts believe the transition to worklessness that we as humans are embarking on must be addressed now we all understood this was coming i suspect the shocks will be lower and we can start to try to mitigate against it immediately if you understand that eventually most of the population will be unable to do traditional work then you can start introducing systems to cope with it was at the moment that just sounds like you're saying let's spend more benefits which when you have that linear view of the world isn't really an acceptable way in

british or western european politics to think the question is what we're going to do about it and so for us we believe that we need to organize citizens worldwide to recognize first of all that this is actually going to change a lot of things and already is but crucially where do you stand on this what do you believe and how are you going to get involved in debates so that actually leads to progress in in in how you perceive it. artificial intelligence could be the best thing ever to happen to humanity but in the absence of a global political debate about its benefits the risk is that it's seen instead is a terrifying a direct threat to us. the world will be a very different place in a generation from now it is surely time for the people to be involved in what it will look like. al-jazeera. set back from a tutorial in doha so thank you israel's parliament the knesset has narrowly

approved a controversial law that'll muzzle police involved in high profile investigations the legislation was passed by fifty nine votes to fifty four so it a prevents police from announcing whether they found enough evidence for an indictment before prosecutors decide whether or not to press charges it won't affect investigations that have already begun including the two corruption probes against the prime minister benjamin netanyahu he and other supporters say the new law will prevent innocent people from being shammed by unproven allegations akiva eldar is a senior political columnist at al monitor a media site the reports on the middle east he says the law is part of a campaign against the pillars of what he calls israel's democracy. the law the new bill will not apply to the prime minister or people who are now under investigation because in israel you cannot pass

a law that applies retroactively it will be relevant only to people especially politicians and public figures that will be under investigation in the future but you have to see this in the broader context and the timing first of all it comes after an attempt to pass the so-called french law that does not allow the police and the attorney general to investigate and to indict a sitting prime minister and this has failed now this new bill is also kind of the last draft is a compromise because they wanted to go all the way that it will apply to the sitting prime minister and the they will not be able they were not able to convince members of the coalition from other parties other than the likud to to support it

and the border context is. is in attempt to deal a just a minus the police the attorney general the media it's part of a campaign against the pillars of the israeli democracy and this next story the most read on our website right now a palestinian teenage girl who was filmed slapping israeli soldiers on her family's property in the occupied west bank is appearing in an israeli military court that's the video so she was protesting against a trumpet ministrations the citizen to declare jerusalem as israel's capital ad tamimi that girl was detained when israeli forces then raided her home a few days later and this video has been widely viewed and shared on social media as well harry faucet has more from outside the ofer military court on her detention . well this is a case that has gripped both palestinian and israeli society since it came to light

earlier this month the case of i had to meet me and her sister challenging israeli soldiers near there near their village of i had slapping one of those soldiers in the face and that video going viral it is of course being celebrated by many palestinian to see it as an act of resistance it has been criticized by many israelis who have also been conjuring and debating the actions of the soldiers involved but for head and her sister nor and their mother nariman all three now remain in israeli custody this is the second time they've come to israeli military court to see whether that custody will be extended or not israeli politicians have been weighing in the education minister saying that she should be in prison for the rest of her days in israeli commentator saying that retaliation should be carried out against such people in the dark of night without anybody watching so there's been a great deal of public debate about this case and also about others there have been

one hundred seventy palestinian minors taken into custody since these protests against the donald trump declaration about jerusalem erupted the day after that on december the seventh nigeria is in the grip of severe fuel storage is leaving drivers stranded in long queues for petrol as you can see right there many have run out of patience with legal sellers and they're turning to a thriving black market despite the high prices it is reports from. the queue is more than a kilometer long and it's a common feature at most because stations across nigeria this one is directly opposite nigeria's oil company yet it's not dispensing fuel to motorists some have been waiting ten hours. i've been going to see this last night and i have to does money there is no even sign off of viable moving from this position to even hope of getting if way for decades official corruption has crippled the country's four old

refineries the nigerian government imported what it needed through a subsidy system but that was hijacked by corrupt officers and businessmen. at the heart of the current crisis is the demand by retailers for any of you in costs and increasing supplies in two thousand and sixteen when the government stopped subsidizing petrol the cost of a liter jumped by sixty percent the queues disappeared at least for a year now they are back and nigerians are seeing big increases in full and transportation costs. the government blames the shortages and marketers who each says want to force the prices by bit double as you had a source their products said that they were good to include as the purpose of it will approach because of the level it is going to be has moved from about the to me only does but the fifty million liters but the question arises where is this going to boil knowing that in a lot of the major streets and highways caucus have plenty of petrol on offer but

at three times the official price market to say there is a shortfall and most cannot import enough to meet the demand they deny they are holding the country to run so there is a gulp on his shop for where and i guess you have come to salt in fourth or fifth along problem there is no we're. an independent medical we import everyone product which we know the london causes about one seventy one. which is eight cents more than the government approved price of forty cents a liter. the impact of the crisis has a knock on effect at the markets. where there are a lot more but at the cost of everything has gone up from transportation to of this president everyone is affected by the problem. the government says it's flooding the market with more petrol but right now most nigerians are worried about how to get from one point to another and the rising prices of food. al-jazeera.

we've been covering nigeria's attempts to rein in corruption in the oil industry over the years back in twenty fifteen we tackled the issue in an episode of counting the cost and we looked at the president's efforts to fight corruption in the team spoke to the executive secretary of the nigeria extractive industries transparency initiative there she is on the screen who says the fight against corruption is the most important thing nigerians have to do so you can revisit that interview on al-jazeera dot com and checking out the counting the cost page under the show's. sports had been just a moment tell us about how england have finally found some form. is it all too little too late. right after we get a look at whether the moment. find

out what people are talking about in sports or they hear such out on thank you very much to me we're talking about the ashes cricket today and for the first time also there is some good news for england australia may have already taken an unassailable three no lead in the best of five match series to regain the ashes and bought their opponents have been having something of a resurgent former captain to cook has led the fight with

a double century salvaging some pride for england and himself off to making just eighty three runs in the first three tests combined kicks two hundred forty four not out is the highest ever score by a visiting batsman at the melbourne cricket ground and it's put england in control of the fourth test at four hundred ninety one for nine at the end of day three that's one hundred sixty four ahead of australia's first innings title we'll take a look take a listen now to what cook had to say about so it's one of those things you get it a few times in your career you get into a bit you can it's that bit of rhythm where you know. we're talking kind of just flies by in this top five off and i was felt like i felt like two hours and then for some reason whatever reason i lost ten hours is gone quickly. well cooks are okes of seen him trending worldwide on twitter let's have a look at what some people have been saying retired indian cricketer james taylor was full of praise he said form is temporary class is permanent mentally one of the

toughest players to ever play the game england's greatest ever run score a well played alice to kirk toby here also is that well played he also added see publication in contant trace in just a shame it concentrates disappointments of the fuss to test remember those under echoes that same sentiment saying nobody is convincing me that this is one of the greatest innings one is in a dead rubber way less pressure than in the first three of the series too late i'm afraid but fellow former england captain michael vaughan says people have no idea how hard it is to score test centuries even in a dead rubber he tweeted the ashes of gone but the england team of shown lots of pride this week which is what is all that matters really for more on this from an unbiased point of view earlier we spoke to dili permit chandran he's the former editor of western india here's what he had to say about cook and indians performance. but i think the apps see it two different ways why don't the series is

. straight is intense two years and once it was in the first few games when they wrapped up the series but to be fair to cook and not just coke it's been stuart broad jimmy anderson as well of the senior players who to be fair letting them down in those first three games are very stood up in this game because they realize that the team's future the state of fate no whitewash in barry has a terrible repercussions for everyone involved and knows that having been part of it in two thousand and ten eleven and this is a kind of performance that some would say it's come too late but for him it's a huge plumes going forward i mean if you look at why he's. previously in the series and hasn't always been you know just getting out immediately which what happens to opening batsmen a lot he's often got in their face quite a few balls and then got out which is a really worrying sighting as you get older because it suggests that your

concentration levels aren't what they should be and that's why so much so much of the talk was about whether he has a future after the first three tests and i think the short over the course of this innings this epic innings that there's so quite a bit of lacked in them yet credit to england i mean you it seems bounce back up to being beaten that badly and they've done that and the boxing day test at the end of the day series not so not is a huge occasion it's probably the centerpiece of the test cricket year in many ways had to stand up and deliver like that it takes some doing the scoreboard pressure is important they've got a huge lead now it and then bullets in the first names especially stuart broad you would think that they can come out and say to replicate that but to be fair and seen too much wrong with the pitch of david warner or stephen smith get going you could still get a nice neat boys finish on. well another sporting event in australia has been

a hot topic of conversation today versus it need to hobart yacht race and there's been controversy there as for the first time in the event's seventy three year history the initial winner has been stripped of victory in dramatic fashion on wednesday wild oats eleven hare completed the grueling course in record time and thought they'd won for a ninth time in total but rival l.t.v. comanche lodged a protest after they almost collided just after the start of the rice while those have not been given a one hour penalty handing the line on is over to come. as always you can get in touch with us using the hash tag a.j. news go to tweet me directly at time tatiana i'll be back with the most wanted eight hundred g.m.t. but for now during it. thank you very much well one last thing before we go so you're going to see some life shots out of harbin that's in northeastern china right there where the thirtieth international snow sculpture event is on and this year is centerpiece highlights the twenty eight twenty two beijing winter games

five hundred craftsmen works up to nine hours a day in freezing temperatures as you can imagine to create the three hundred meter long sculpture using sixty thousand cubic meters of snow thanks for watching news grid we'll see you back here on friday to see them. a new level of luxury has arrived. an experience that will transform the way.

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