we're football fans who don't think about the. experiment when real madrid a club worth five hundred million euros expresses a position on something or the world anti-doping agency has to take notice. al-jazeera continues its investigation into the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the final episode of sports doping the endless chase at this time. this is al jazeera. and welcome to the al-jazeera news hour live from my headquarters in doha. coming up in the next sixty minutes former. mets' the presidency of liberia after

winning the election runoff. at least forty one people died. in a shia cultural center and the afghan capital kabul. a teenager who's become an icon of resistance for palestinians has kept behind bars by an israeli military court and protests continue in peru over x. president alberto fujimori pardon for murder and human rights abuses. he was once the world's top football player now george waya has become his country's leader after winning liberia's presidential election where defeated vice president joseph in a runoff taking out just over sixty one percent of the vote as well he'll succeed ellen johnson sirleaf next month of the country's first democratic transfer of power since one thousand nine hundred forty four he strongly campaigned on lowering

the poverty rate in liberia where more than eighty percent of people live under one dollar twenty five cents a day mohamed the reports now from the capital. the supporters of georgia way are aha p. and the been thinking about holding a victory party the in the capital monrovia but they've been asked to do it because the final results will be released to morrow these are provisional results for again where an unassailable lead over he's contend is the other the other candidate just of walk the man who's been prez vice president in liberia for the past hold three years old way of course very hopeful with the youth of this country who for up to sixty percent of the fashion of this country they have been seen relation. with this chance but nothing as much as what the supporters of george

were hoping planning it's as good as done that now george where is set to become the next president of liberia he will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf in mid january peace is the main thing liberians want right now with widespread support indonesia among the pollution of this country many people feel party house what it takes to bring the country together in reconsideration and moving forward from a post conflict situation to the. development and prosperity. well let's get let's get more on this now we're joined by equating independent africa policy analyst who's joining us live from washington d.c. very good to have you with us on al-jazeera before we get to whether georgia way of will be given an opportunity to address some of many of liberia's problems do you

think from what you're hearing so far mr equation a that these elections were free and fair will just contest the result. you know those two quest two separate questions yes i tend to believe it was pretty fair why because you know the supreme court looked the. objections by their vice president and by the candidate who came in during defense round in five this runoff was delayed for a month because the supremes court took its time and i am a big funnel tura disputes go in through the courts and of course taking their time so from my point of view yes i think it passes my test of free and fair elections on the other will the vice president. and challenge the results again that's why i don't for me to arkansas remember he challenging the last results even though he is

a member of the ruling party in the deputy to president johnson sirleaf so if the results do stay as they are and as liberia's president we know that he's been a phenomenal sport style and has been extremely successful but can he can solve the country's problems as leader you know as we've mentioned poverty a nation still recovering from two civil wars movie certainly the ball outbreak hundreds of thousands of children out of school i mean these are just some of the challenges just some of them facing life here. well you know on the one hundred yards to say he's coming it's a big surprise you know a stock in stock who. you know done his due diligence and be able to winnow by the majority of the router's the support for him is pretty enthusiastic so that is on the positive side and on the other hand the as you have

mentioned the problems that liberia faces pretty stark you know you mention the boom this civil war. you know poverty and then of course. of corruption so will he be able to tackle them yes i think he has a lot of good will and support in the country but will his solve all of them i don't think any one leader no law no matter how long this thing can solve all the problems so it is a matter of how much progress we will spectating to make and his running mate another will be jewel howard taylor what are we to make of her she is the and this role she's the ex-wife of the former president convicted will for the no child taylor she is a very respected said to ted bought as she had on politician or a she working for her ex-husband you know who's in prison and the u k.

i can tell you from washington and from what i read from around the globe. you know the international community and the opium if there is such a thing there an easy about that because yes former president taylor was tried and he's in jail and mr weir actually acknowledged that yes he has had communication with him so in many people's minds outside of liberia this is going to give a lot of influence to sort of the charles taylor faction in liberia that makes them very easy giving his history and what he was tried for so i think that is an important issue too to watch and it is in stark contrast to the outgoing president mrs johnson sirleaf who had a great. you know image in the international community she's give me a lot of credit for helping to end the war and she won the nobel peace prize so

there is that to stark contrasts said essentially a lot of goodwill to was johnson sirleaf as there is towards george way and perhaps not so much to was chill howard tayla so how do you see this very interesting partnership between where and working out. well i think that you know that taylor faction is grassroots support and also you know mrs the current president mrs johnson said live stay twelve years she has made so many gas company for for liberia even after the war money given to bring stability get democratic elections held and hand over i am reminded that when when winston churchill won their british i mean the second world war for britain she was quickly voted out so often the voters decide we want to try something else no matter how good a leader has been we want to go to the other side and see so what i'm saying is yes

the chance there are connections made the international community an easy but my read is that there are a lot of liberians who want to try that because this see him sort of us a man of the people and connected to the grassroots. is great as always to get your thoughts on this thank you very much for you tommy acquainted joining us live from washington d.c. thank you. we're going to move on to other news now at least forty one people have been killed in afghanistan to suicide bomb a storm to share cultural center and a news agency in the capital another eighty four people wounded many of them suffering burns eisel has admitted responsibility. 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. we heard a huge bang and smoke rose from inside the hole my face was burning i fell down from my chair and i saw my colleagues on the ground the smoke was everywhere i don't know what happened next the interior ministry says suicide attackers set off an explosion outside the center then stormed it and set off more explosives 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 that when the explosion went off we scapes 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. and endless tells. given that this

attack was in a shot neighborhood this appears to be the work of eisel. he says the armed group has been targeting the shiite community this year as well as media outlets. in order to make him our media has not been providing them enough amount of coverage he had been seeking activities. have been targeting the media outlets got. but to kabul as well as in the region how in order to make sure they get wisely seized. 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. orchestrated by the sophistication of the operation and amount of exactness impreciseness in your operations that do usually target with little the strength or little amount of import it creates a lot of good jobs achieving good strategic objectives the people at the cultural center were looking back and remembering a dark time or 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 zero. a fire in the andean city of mumbai has left at least fourteen people dead the blaze broke out late at night in the city center building the a several hotels and restaurants in a popular and light life area at least a dozen people were injured at the course of the fire as unclear. an israeli

military court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping his veins soldiers any of this month sixteen year old i had to meet he was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three and are being held for an additional five days on thursday a court looked into several charges against her mimi and her mother including assaulting sometimes disrupting their work she merely ate in them and participating in acts against israeli forces the teenager has become an icon of resistance among palestinians and a force that reports from the author military court in the occupied west bank were inside the often military prison compound inside which of the prefab buildings which make up the military court rooms here and we spent the last few hours inside one of those listening to arguments in a case which is gripped palestinians and israelis for very different reasons it's the case of i had to tell me her cousin or and her mother nariman they've been in custody since december the nineteenth after the emergence of

a video which showed i had on a cousin challenging two israeli soldiers near the village in the occupied west bank i had slapping one of those soldiers the palestinians for many palestinians it's an act of defiance against military occupation for many israelis the debate has been about the apparent lack of reaction by these heavily armed soldiers to such a challenge inside the courtroom the lawyer in the on the defense side has been arguing that they should be released i had in particular presenting the danger of being a minor being well known not a flight risk and also arguing that the military prosecution which has been trying to find other things in her past with which to charge her shouldn't be acting in that way but that is that those potential crimes should have been dealt with at the time and that what they're doing now in retrospect is purely in reaction to a video that went viral on the after. reading your went out and it was viral and it's very distracting from the am that it is on then. decided to act in the arrest

them so the real reason is because this young woman. was able to bring. the other patients to everybody's house and this case isn't just being seen in isolation just on wednesday another young teenager fozzy older needy he was released from custody on nearly three thousand u.s. dollars bail he was the young man who was pictured blindfolded being surrounded by more than twenty israeli soldiers as he was detained his lawyer is released his testimony in which he says he was beaten both during that arrest and in private afterwards he suffered a broken shoulder as a result and so his legal team is now mounting a challenge against the israeli military and it's also being seen in the context of the very large number of detentions of young palestinians both regularly and particularly in the last month since the dea the declaration by donald trump about

jerusalem being viewed by the u.s. as the capital of israel in the protests that have followed there have been one hundred seventy young palestinians minors who've been detained. a woman dancer have rallied in support of the me me and against an israeli m.p. the verbal abuse families of palestinian prisoners are in house and as a member of benjamin netanyahu government on monday he boarded a bus carrying families visiting nuff a prison word israeli police officers he shouted at mothers of prisoners calling their sons dogs and terrorists the mother of one president ended up in a verbal confrontation with him. well the money it isn't so there are two with tammy and a guinness to start ok patient will be turned to support what she did also should be an alternative with the mother of the prison and of the rock. hitting her own we are proud of what she did again it is ridiculous that members of the us the red cross to make sure that prisoners as about as their families are to deal with in

what way. the israeli parliament has approved a no limit police powers question said the moves intended to shield the prime minister benjamin netanyahu from an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption under the new legislation place can no longer make recommendations to prosecutors to indict suspects the law also aims to stop leaks to the media which have been a fixture of the investigation into the ethanol her critics say the little muscles police and other institutions well a caver elder senior political columnist of the news website al monitor and he says the law attacks essential parts of 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. the sitting prime minister and the they will not able they were not able to convince members of the coalition from other parties are within the likud do to support it and the border is. is in the term demise the police the attorney general the media it's

a complaint against the. israeli democracy saudi arabia has released two sons of the late king abdullah had been arrested as part of a purge by crown prince mohammed bin some on the says it's targeting corruption while the saudi attorney general approved the release of the princes saying that reached financial settlements with the government there were among around two hundred businessmen ministers and royals who are being held in riyadh ritz carlton hotel. but we have plenty more ahead on the news hour including unicef says the global humanitarian law is failing to protect children in times of war. fighting femicide we meet the mexican community trying to tackle violence against women and one of the world's most dangerous places and on the way in sport the first two gulf cup semifinal confirms tatyana will be here to tell you who they are .

u.s. president donald trump is accusing china of violating u.n. sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang trump said on twitter caught red handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea it will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen white house correspondent kelly hellcat has more from washington d.c. . china's denying the accusations that the president made on twitter you have to sometimes decipher why and what has prompted donald trump to go to twitter and often this is when he feels that an issue isn't being covered adequately in his view in the media he will tweet knowing that then in turn we will take a look and see what he's talking about and this is a really good example of that if you go back to the u.s. treasury website last month you'll see that it first called attention to these satellite images that said that it had of chinese ships applying oil to north

korean ships in the west see now apparently these satellite images put out by the u.s. treasury department were taken october nineteenth but again it didn't get a whole lot of media attention even though the united states says that this is in violation of sanctions that were put in place specifically speaking to this by the u.n. security council in september so perhaps it's a little bit of frustration on that level and frustration too by the president that he's tweeting this given the fact that when he first came into office in january he immediately began to address the situation of north korea's nuclear program by investing heavily in the relationship with chinese president xi hosting the mar-a lago speaking enormously about the investment that was being made in the hope that china would use its economic leverage to limit the north korean program but in recent weeks and months we've seen some frustration with that while the treasury department says there has been some success with china helping to isolate north

korea from the global financial system again there is some frustration by the united states with examples like this of these satellite images so well china is denying these charges saying that there have been no u.n. security council violations as far as it's concerned the u.s. sees it differently and now we see the frustration playing out on twitter by the president donald trump. the u.s. embassy in ankara says it's lifted all restrictions on the visa services ending a two month dry. the tween the u.s. and turkey it has to he has met all assurances that local u.s. embassy staff won't be detained or arrested the u.s. stopped issuing visas in turkey ata to stop members were detained at the u.s. consulate in istanbul doing a state of emergency and what turkey has responded by left in the restrictions and put in place on u.s. citizens but denies giving any assurances rosalyn jordan has more from washington d.c. . let's put it this way the u.s.

government decided not to issue new visas back in october because of the case involving two of its locally based employees inside turkey the u.s. government would not have decided to resume full. operations at its facilities inside turkey if it did not have these guarantees so the turks may be able to do was say that they're not offering such assurances but again the u.s. would certainly have the right to go back and stop the visa issuance process again if it felt that it was not actually keeping its word this is of course a dispute that has been going on against the larger backdrop against the tensions between washington and the two employees who had been arrested had been accused of a sensually trying to assist in the failed coup that happened in turkey july two

thousand and sixteen and that of course is something which the u.s. has strongly denied. right to her now with there being more protests a presidential pardon granted to the country's former leader alberta for the mauri the controversial decision by embattled president petro public which has prompted his culture minister to resign and as jada silva reports it's also attracting international condemnation. peru is being forced to revisit a painful a not so distant past the presidential pardon of alberto fujimori who led latin american nation with an iron fist from one thousand nine hundred ninety to two thousand has sparked outrage in the country and beyond a group of u.n. human rights experts has joined the critics calling it a slap in the face for the victims and witnesses who stier less commitment brought fujimori to justice an apology from the bed ridden seventy nine year old former president has done little to ease the sense of injustice who. killed my son and

this very cowardly and cruel way now president had republican jim ski has finished killing the entire family with this pardon of fujimori. they have called for more protests and inter-marry can court of human rights to examine the legality of the decision although we can deal with the pardon which has the appearance of a humanitarian pardon to be a pardon of a political nature. president. he has justified the christmas eve pardon on medical grounds but the timing of the decision has caused deep suspicion that's because just a few days earlier fujimori loyalists in parliament prevented a vote on could choose keys impeachment and allegations of corruption. the former president has served twelve years of a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights violations these included extrajudicial killings enforced disappearances and kidnappings as he used

death squads in a ruthless war against the maoist shining path. the group's leader abu male guzman now. eighty three has been serving a life sentence on terror charges and in a sign that proves too fresh wounds may have just been reopened his lawyer to is not asking for a pardon from the super zero. and as we can see from these live pictures from the peruvian capital lima those protests are continuing. the u.n. says sixty eight yemeni civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the saudi led coalition and just one day the first air raid on tuesday had a crowded market and killing fifty four civilians including eight children the second killed fourteen people from the same family in the red sea province of a there saudi led air strikes have killed one hundred line civilians in the past ten days according to the un's humanitarian coordinator in yemen he is accusing all

sides of the war showing complete disregard for human life or children are increasingly being used both as targets and weapons of war according to a report by unicef it says the suffering of children in conflict zones has reached shocking levels the report says children have become front line targets and are often used as human shields of rape and enslavement have become standard tactics an increasing number of being recruited to fight in west africa had on usenet a mated one hundred thirty five child suicide bombers the seer the conflict in yemen has been one of the worst for children this year with five thousand killed or injured unicef also says there was widespread and blatant disregard for international laws designed to protect young people had a hawk star 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 gutter 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 be 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 us soldiers are right on their mothers are shot their father even brutalized those children is out and they're saying to those children they're deliberately doing this. in eastern ukraine many children live by the frontline they share the scars of living in one of the most modern contaminated place. the situation is worse in yemen where aid agencies struggling to help. forty thousand children have been killed or injured and many more severely malnourished or risk of death a similar situation is unfolding in the democratic republic of congo where 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. as there well hundreds of thousands of children are among the more than one million syrians have been shelled and lebanon after a long war and their country is in a hole the reports from the refugee camp in bekaa valley. tells her grandchild that they will return to syria one day but she doesn't know when that will happen four year old i was born in a refugee camp in lebanon the family is from the city of burka which was reduced to rubble in the war. we can't go back to syria our home has been destroyed our fields are littered with mines we want to return but how can we survive there. surviving in lebanon is not any easier the united nations says many refugees are more vulnerable than ever more are falling deeper into poverty many depend on aid to survive and most are in debt their numbers have not increased in years lebanon

has tightened its borders and made it harder for syrians to enter the country in two thousand and fourteen the number of refugees surpassed one million a year later the number increased by two hundred thousand by the end of last year that number dropped by around one hundred ninety thousand and now the number is below one million until today about sixty thousand syrian refugees have already travelled have already depart. through such programs but it could also be because. through there or through different. countries. also we know that since the beginning of two thousand and seven if you. have returned to syria there are no exact numbers of those going back to syria but the u.n. believes that conditions for a safe return are not yet in place for many returning is not an option they hide

their identities because they're scared some are wanted by the syrian government are working with the opposition others fear arrest they defected from the army because they didn't want to fight and there are those who don't want to return to avoid conscription and the army this area of government and its allies are more and more territory fighting is stopped areas. are being reached but for the opposition there is no reconciliation with a government that is. some however are so desperate that they are ready to make peace at whatever cost. all those involved in the conflict should work to end this call inflict and ask president bashar al assad to forgive and forget and forgive me . many won't agree with the opposition continues to demand the removal from power that could be more years in exile and

with the way the war is going for some it could mean never returning to syria. lebanon. still ahead. as well dedicating his life to a new generation of hopefuls. transfer. a season and a strain yet tatiana will be here to tell you what has plans up and sports. hello again as we look at weather conditions across the america plenty of cold air in place across north america with that minus eight is a mix of the chicago minus twenty two up in winnipeg and some snow some fairly

heavy snow across the rockies so you can see there we see rain for seattle temperatures of eight for the south fine for los angeles and twenty six as the high so move the forecast through twenty four hours that snowfall continues to fall over the rockies we're going to see some big accumulations across the pacific northwest region elsewhere the cold air still in place extending over down to wards atlanta georgia and dallas texas fine conditions though for miami florida heading into the caribbean the islands are much as you would expect a lot of sunshine just a few showers and temperatures of around the thirty mark again up through the isthmus we have heavy showers in the caribbean side of panama costa rica nicaragua and honduras also some showers pushing through towards billie's in the yucatan peninsula and those are still there during the course of saturday but it should be fine for the north in mexico city there with highs of nineteen as we head into south america here we've got plenty of heavy showers across parts of prue and bolivia and then some rain across parts of paraguayan into brazil not continues it head on through into saturday further south should be fine and when

a series from expected a high here of thirty five. but . will it be a road to depose their dictator the war drums struck an unlikely to be. shut. down. for some time but in the news it was the weapon of choice is stronger than bullets with this documentary but this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is award winning programs to take you on a journey around the globe and. expose analyses. it's all about who's in charge who controls the resources and documentaries that will be neuroses it's a technology story it's a business story it's

a social story and it's a political story all wrapped into one it's unpredictable television that truly inspired us only oh now dizzier. it's good to have you with us on the al-jazeera news hour these are our top stories liberia's election commission says former football star george where has won the country's presidential runoff defeated vice president. and will take over a ellen johnson sirleaf next month an attack on a shia cultural center in the afghan capital has killed at least forty one people and enjoyed more than eighty others people had gathered. at the center to mark

a goddess found one thousand and seventy nine and they shunned by russia the site is also home to the news agency afghan voice i saw has claimed responsibility. the attack on a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping israeli soldiers earlier this month has had her detention extended by an israeli court sixteen year old on the main was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three and are being held for an additional five days. now aid workers evacuating critically ill patients from eastern goot the besieged rebel held area near syria's capital damascus sixteen people have now left as part of a deal with the government under which the rebels are releasing a number of their prisoners but at least one person is refusing to go fearing arrest by president bashar al assad's government last month the u.n. called for five hundred people in need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave but only twenty nine cases have been given approval at least eighteen people have died while waiting. now despite the introduction of deescalation zones in

parts of syria many refugees have fled to turkey are unsure about returning home for istanbul has given them a new chance in life and many of reluctant to leave c.n.n. of course yolu has been to meet some of them. is a twenty five year old teacher from she lost both her legs during your government a strike on her school almost a year ago no one's husband has them so she almost died they came to stumble hoping no one will be able to walk again with first benteke legs she's been treated for seven months this clinic specific this list for victims of the syrian war. no gun is tired she's been through a lot but she has one always for the new here one hundred final month i hope the bloodshed ends in my country then we should go back home and be victorious on three

. her husband has agrees he had to quit his work to take care of his wife his depressed and homesick obama on a percentage. of that and he will be going back home of course that if my wife gets better physically our families are back their words can't describe this longing all syrians and muslims wish the killings and asterix in syria to and. the. syrians who escaped the war try to cling on to some sort of a normal life but this market my hair is from damascus he has been doing the same business selling more boxes stories than istanbul for two years he complains that he has to pay a lot for rent workers and tax but he says he can't go back to his country we hope to the best certain. people.

or. syrians i hope they accept us as. new people or a new home twenty seven year old mohammad left syria two years ago he says he has no family here. and you want to be a village and it is good to live here in turkey everything is stable for a spot when the situation gets better in syria i will go back of course i'm alone here i believe everyone lives more comfortably in his or her own country. all they wish for peace in the new year there is a little bit off the mask is in this neighborhood of stumble some syrians on soaps here while others work or look for jobs but what they all have in common is the desire to either go back to syria or make turkey home see now because so little al-jazeera stumble. has created victims whose dreams and aspirations are often

caught short by violence al-jazeera has followed a young man from aleppo who was serious champion in gymnastics and won many twenty months he now trains children voluntarily helping prepare them to qualify for championships at home and abroad he has his story and has words. from a lot of our. name is. i'm a gym. and i won the top position at the national level for a number of years. i also won syria's national olympic medal. i qualified for and participated in a world competition in soccer republish. and i suffered injuries in my city aleppo during an air raid of the city was pounded by barrel bombers injury forced me to quit exercising and now i'm training young children to become future gymnast to. another one like that the divorce the sports team huge interest among residents so

far i've maintained a high level of physical fitness i still have a good command on my gymnastic moves i am still also prepared to participate in national and international competition i was encouraged to train young children by my father i managed to prepare some young children to be able to compete in provincial and national competitions. as i said the sport has a huge interest among children and their parents i lost my dream to the. more and i really wish to enable those young children to make their dream a reality. now mexico as ranked among the most dangerous countries in the world for women because of organized crime and human trafficking. classify them. as acts of femicide that is the intentional killing of girls and women simply because their female manuel. stays the communities are trying to address the issue of gender violence. is

a single mother in 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 and. 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 if 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 was murdered outside her work some believe she was targeted because of

her efforts to protect women and young girls still experts believe that impunity is the biggest obstacle against dampening the crisis the problem however is also deeply ingrained in the culture even if 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 ninetieth case of femicide this year since then there are going

five other women murdered. women shouldn't have to end up as a number or as some case file women have a 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 or in mexico or in the world. where the mexico. now two thousand and eighteen and thailand will see the coronation of a new king and elections promised by the military government signaling a return to democracy off to a coup three years ago and the first of. the head to some of the big stories next year when hay reports from the country's northeast where some doubt the vote will go ahead. a long dusty dry season is well underway on the plains of northeast thailand by the time this crop of kosov is harvested in about a year thailand should be a democracy again most ties here back to the government ousted in the military coup

three years ago including. a coordinator for a pro-democracy group called the red shirts she says people in the northeast dump the military will honor its pledge to hold an election in november. i would say seventy percent of the people here don't believe the election really happened and thirty percent think it might happen even if the election is held the type of democracy will be different. what thais had before the coup the military and the establishment in the capital bangkok know that it's very difficult for them to win support in parts of thailand like this that's partly why they've designed a system that will result in weakened political parties after the next election. the military will hand pick senators to sit in the upper house of parliament who will also have the power to install an unelected prime minister the plans are being criticised by the major political parties i think everybody will recognise that

the us fall short of the kind of standards that we would like to to return. the leaders of the coup in two thousand and fourteen are also drafting a twenty year strategic plan that future governments must follow everything is is. that the. military head. with the. strategy that he had. formulated. was the party ousted from power by that coup former prime minister yingluck shinawatra who's in exile avoiding a five year jail sentence for negligence related to a failed rice subsidies scheme says her trial was politically motivated in rural communities in the north and northeast. her party's popularity seems to be intact but while political gatherings remain banned campaigners such as parrot have no

choice but to get their hands dirty working in the fields. thailand. and in part to look ahead. in the u.s. on what midterm elections could mean for president trump that's on friday here. head on the news hour. haven't had an alpine skiing down help. tatyana we'll have that story next.

thank you very much the only team at the gulf cup that qualified for the world cup in russia has been eliminated on thursday saudi arabia were beaten two nil by mom going into the match knew a win would send them to the semifinals they are in day three to the final four but the saudis are out. also out against the united arab emirates has progressed to the semifinals bought the kuwaitis finished bottom of group a. so confirmation of the final standings in group a saudi arabia who will be in russia at next year's world cup or out kuwait also eliminated while the united arab emirates undermanned still have something to look forward to this year the gulf cup now on friday three teams in group b. will be fighting out for two places in the semi the emmen already out so rock or fancy their chances in that game behind the castle will be the other match of the

day whoever wins goes through while the loser will go higher behind though can afford to draw a price comes of ready for this winner takes all fixture hopefully we're going to do. when i am going to do better in the things that we think that we can improve for the next game and i'm. one hundred percent sure that. we're going to play again tomorrow front of us is a small dream we have a chance to qualify to some final and. but the way they do the succeeded is a repeat performance against iraq this is this is our very one of sailings most prestigious races this facing his biggest controversy in seventy three years of competition while those the eleven has been stripped of line on is after a protest from the runners up the super max he crossed the line first in a record time in hobart on wednesday for what appeared to be a night the victory but second place comanche lodged

a complaint over this near collision at the start of the race in sydney the jury of help that protested handed while those eleven a one hour penalty which would put them in second place overall behind comanche there's no right of appeal for a while those eleven screwy. i honestly didn't expect. to protest in order to win the race it was all about. actions you need in order to avoid a collision and the fact that it was necessary sir well i feel quite strongly that the rules are there to take people's lives and if we can't rely on that then it's a difficulty in the sporting. events adjacent on so that's one of the things we spike better and. better when the time is sort of thing it's a little bit to from the more obvious he was going to freak out with me maybe that was pretty closely because this is this is you michael you've got a little boy decisions and we made a decision and. here we are today while the number one rafael nadal has suffered

a setback as he prepares for the start of the new tennis season in just a few days' time the dollhouse unplayed since losing to dodgeball fun at the a.t.p. world tour finals in london off to which he immediately pulled out if they haven't with a knee injury the spaniard was due to return to the courts of the season opening present international bots says he's not ready yet for competitive tennis he reached the semifinals of the tournament last year before going on to make his fast grand slam final in two and a half is the australian open in melbourne writing on twitter the sixteen time grand slam champion said i'm sorry to analyse i won't be coming to brisbane this year my intention was to play but i'm still not ready off the last is a long season and the late start of my preparation i had a great time there and it was a great start to the month i spent in australia one man who is facing ready ahead of the new season is seventeen time grand slam champion roger federer the swiss

arrived in path of ahead of the new season he'll be competing in the hostel and copper starts on saturday federer won the twenty seventeen australian open title to begin a year of tremendous success including an eight wimbledon crown as well. expectations are higher but at the same time i try to remind myself i just don't think it's normal and realistic to aim for the same things i did this year in two thousand and seventeen so i'm going to try to. keep it cool and try my best and really see what happens but that rage to be good so far so we'll see how things go here for now as roger and others prepare for the start of a new tennis these and some are already up and running big hitting south african kevin anderson got his campaign off to a winning start of the members of the world championships he beat spain's public at only a blue star in straight sets from thursday to advance to the second round six three seven six with the school. and the other much of the day spain sort of after about

a group b. young russian andre rieu below another stories exactly that seven five six who was the final score. as athletes continue their preparations for the upcoming winter olympic games in the alpine skiing world cup men's downhill event in italy has been one of my dominic paris but before that he had a move fired was travelling at ninety six kilometers per hour when he suffered this crash luckily he walked away on scariest the day's action was actually delayed by forty five minutes as the course was covered by around twenty centimeters of fresh and i was right twenty eight year old italian paris was able to overcome the long and challenging course for hundreds of a second faster than downhill standings leader axel and spindle paris came out on top for his eighth downhill career where he also won this event back in two thousand and twelve. and also the sport for now more later thank you very much

tatiana now finally this news hour a new art exhibition at the hershon museum in the us is a mix of civil war history and political commentary the artist mark but for it was inspired by a painting called a final battle at gettysburg to create a modern day cyclorama al-jazeera speaks for the curator of the exhibition. a cycler was actually one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the united states and europe before cinema would be around and then there would be a dire ramat running on the inside and visitors to a cycle rama would come up through the middle of the cyclorama and they would have this immersive experience marc came to the hirshhorn which was built by gordon bunch after and it's a unique building we are essentially a donut and so the center of the building actually makes it impossible for us to actually be a cycle raman he was looking specifically at a cycle that was made in one thousand nine hundred three by philip poto and it depicts the battle of gettysburg which is considered to be the turning point of the

american civil war images of filipinos painting from i'm guessing from the internet it's a piece of un stretched canvas one piece about twelve feet high and forty five to fifty feet long and then on that canvas are multiple layers of paper colored papers burned papers papers that he soaked in water to give them this very different material effect and he glued together for mark he has decided to disrupt that idea by the materials that he uses so what he is using is just pieces of colored paper sometimes posters that he finds on the streets so what you have is not only this juxtaposition of figurative imagery and abstraction but also different layers of history so things that have been embedded in the kind of the base of the painting and then you get put on top and it's kind of this metaphor i think about how history comes back over and over again and i think it's a comment on how some of the issues that we we faced as a nation when the battle of gettysburg took place are still kind of relevant today that still haunt us today and what you get

a sense of as he went back in and disrupts the imagery is the sense of history and how history is never transparent there's never one version of history and that there are always these filters through which we all view history. and it doesn't for the news hour but i'm back in just a couple of minutes with another full usefulness.

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