an underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath india's largest cofield. now open cast mining has put the flames to the surface would be devastating consequences for the local population. as communities are destroyed and thousands suffer from toxic fumes what lies behind this human and environmental disaster people in power the burning city at this time on al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. and welcome to the al-jazeera news our life from a headquarters in doha with me in this for autumn coming up for the next sixty minutes former football legend george weigh in next the presidency of liberia after

winning the election runoff. at least forty one people died in a tack on a shia cultural center in the afghan capital kabul. protests continue in peru of x. president alberto fujimori is pardoned for murder and human rights abuses and a teenager who's become an icon of resistance for palestinians is kept behind bars by an israeli military court. as one of the world's top football player now george ware has become his country's leader after wondering liberia's presidential election where defeated vice president joseph in a runoff taking just of a sixty one percent of the vote he'll succeed alan johnson sirleaf next month in the country's first democratic transfer of policy the line team forty four west strongly campaigned on lowering paul the. in liberia where more than eighty percent

of people live on the one dollar twenty five cents a day the home of the reports now from the capital monrovia was celebration in the streets of the liberian capital neutral it was supporters will find some national football adored with greeted news of his victory in tuesday's runoff election with a song and dance was brought down in tea is a soon as the results won best he's seen he have been consulted by his running mate he will take that who is an ex-wife or former liberian president charles taylor who is currently serving a fifty year sentence in the u.k. for war crimes committed in neighboring sierra leone was told me any support as it's a dream come true and a struggle they say that started we back in two thousand and two us pointed to succeed it's a silly names for us that you can't check was sick because that meant

a trip the two of them to it was such a choice we had to present to the copyright that the electoral commission had just announced the preliminary results we're all busy and it is our c.d.c. thank you mr president is sixty one point five percent for his e d c and thirty eight point five percent for the unit body and now his opponent and current vice president just a block i says he has had deep misgivings about the elections from the beginning he contested that is also the fuss around on supported a case taken to the supreme court by the county they took him out in the race we've gone into an election that we knew from stacked it had a lot of problems we were not satisfied with where that they had structure and of the supreme court will follow with. constraints are

good but why do we want to see what we wanted we had all hope for a free transfer election i doubt seriously if that is where we're going to get the vice president and his unity party have not say whether they will challenge the results in court judge where he said to succeed ellen johnson sirleaf africa's first elected female president who led liberia for the past told he is she is credited with presiding over the longest period of uninterrupted peace in liberia since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine. where played faustino football clubs including s.c. milan chelsea and parties and german he's the only african football to have worn the feet for a while player of the georgia way as a victory in the presidential race is attributed mainly to his support base within the country's youth who are calling for up to sixty percent of the population he grew up in want to be a slums and he success against all appeals to many in what is

one of the world's poorest countries. where anti-politics up to his retirement from football in two thousand and two and is currently a sin attain liberia's pilot. who will be the first time since one thousand to two full plate founded by freed u.s. slaves in the mountain century will have transfer of power from one elected president to another mohammed at all just one groovy liberia only a question as an independent africa policy analyst and he says although where enjoys plenty of support many challenges lie ahead. on the one hundred you have to say he's coming and it's a big surprise you know a stock in stock who has come you know done his due diligence and be able to win over the majority of the router's the support for you is pretty and to the asti so that is on the positive side on the other hand the as you have mentioned the

problems on liberia faces pretty stock you know you mentioned the book this civil war even. you know poverty and then of course there were allegations 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 they stay consol the problem so it's a matter of how much progress we will aspecting to make. let's move on to other news that out of these forty one people have been killed in afghanistan after a suicide bomb the stormed a shia cultural center and news agency in the capital another eighty four people were wounded many of them suffering. has claimed responsibility natasha going to aim a pole. the 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 hall 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 one had 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. and endless tells. 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. in order to make him our media has not been providing enough amount of coverage he had been seeking julian activities. have been targeting the media outlets. as well as in the region 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 say lacks the numbers it makes up for in tactics. orchestrated by the sophistication of the operation and the amount of exactness impreciseness in the operations that do usually are targeted with little strength or little amount of import it create 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 . a father and the indian city of mumbai has left at least fourteen people dead the blaze broke out late at night in a building located in the city center firefighters have been battling the five for

more than five allis now the building as many as several hotels and restaurants in an area popular for its light life the cause of the blaze is not yet known. the u.n. says sixty eight yemeni civilians were killed in two separate air strikes by the saudi led coalition in just one day the first air raid on tuesday hit a crowded market in province killing fifty four civilians including eight children the second killed fourteen people from the same family in the red sea province of how they their saudi led airstrikes have killed a hundred and nine civilians in the past ten days that's according to the u.n. sudan a tarion coordinator in the yemen he's accusing all sides of the war showing complete disregard for human life. an israeli court has extended the detention of a palestinian teenager who was filmed kicking and slapping israeli soldiers earlier this month was sixteen year old for me was arrested by israeli troops last week along with her mother and cousin all three are now being held for an additional

five days on thursday the court looked into several charges against the mimi and her mother including assaulting soldiers disrupting their work humiliating them and participating in acts against israeli forces the teenager has become an icon of resistance among palestinians how before such reports from the author military camp in the occupied west bank. we're inside the often military prison compound inside which are 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 a case of i had to meet 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 disarm the defense side has been arguing that they should be released i had in particular presenting no danger 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 or shouldn't be acting in that way that 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 app. video went out with fire and then just act itself bad about it then they decided to act no less than. the real reason is because you see a man. with able to greet. the occupation has everybody have and this case isn't just being seen in isolation just on wednesday another young

teenager fauzi alginate he 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 has been 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 b. 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 miners who'd be detained. when a woman in gaza have rallied in support of the me me and against an israeli m.p. who verbal abuse families of palestinian prisoners or an husband is

a member of the netanyahu government on monday he boarded a bus carrying families visiting nuff a prison with israeli police officers he shouted at the mothers of prisoners calling their sons' dogs and terrorists the mother of one prisoner ended up in a verbal confrontation with him for the money it isn't sold or to tell me and again as desired ok patients will be told we support what she did we are also sure we have a duty with the mother of the prison and abdul rahman telling her own we are proud of what you did it again it is ridiculous that the us the red cross to make sure that prisoners as well as their families are deals with. the israeli parliament has approved and all limiting police powers critics say the move is intended to shield prime minister netanyahu from an ongoing investigation into alleged corruption under the new legislation police can no longer make recommendations to prosecutors to indict suspects the law also is to stop leaks to the media which have been

a feature of the investigation into netanyahu critics say the muzzles police and other institutions but he held a senior political columnist at the news website monitor and he says the north tax 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 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 are within 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 egyptian officer and five soldiers have been killed in an explosion and north sinai the egyptian army said they were carrying out a military patrol outside the town of avid one of outside bomb had their call hips

and security forces have been fighting in sinai for a number of years and the vendor suspected i feel fighters carried out a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in north sinai that killed more than two hundred and fifty people. including. failing to protect children and times of war. fighting femicide the mexican community trying to tackle. dangerous places and force the first. u.s. president. and china of u.n. sanctions against north korea by continuing to sell oil to pyongyang said on twitter quote red handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into

north korea there will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen and i watch house correspondent 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 seen 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 that's concerned the u.s.

sees it differently and now we see the frustration playing out on twitter by the president donald trump. well let's get more on this now we're joined by as isaac stone fish he's a senior fellow at the asia society in new york and he's joining us live from the very good to have you with us on al-jazeera so president obama saying china is breaking u.n. sanctions china saying it absolutely is not what's going on here do you think we don't know necessarily which side to believe whether china is actually in violation of u.n. sanctions i think it is believable that they are continuing to sell oil to north korea in violation of the sanctions but beijing really doesn't want to see the north korean economy collapse oil as we know is necessary for an economy and i think this is a tension that will be maintained in the relationship between the united states and china going forward i mean there are many different balancing acts that china is

trying to do here did they as we often talk about trying to rein in the north korean regime but at the same time as you mentioned they don't want a regime collapse on their border but of course there's the other balancing act they do they want to keep good relations with the u.s. but then there's the domestic audience that they don't want to appear weak to you know and does trade with north korea. i think the domestic audience is one that doesn't get nearly enough attention internationally so yes as you mentioned china doesn't want to beijing the communist party doesn't want to appear weak domestically they also have to be concerned with the economies of the three provinces in china's northeast and china's rust belt provinces that are a little bit more economically backward than the wealthier provinces on the east coast and provinces that have some substantial trading relationships with north korea so

beijing decides to crack down too much on trade between china north korea then you're going to hit harder these provinces that haven't really been risen up in the same way as a lot of other areas in china and while we are talking about the domestic audience in china and now they're looking on at what's happening on how do they feel about the behavior of the north korean regime and china's relationship with it what now you have a wide variety of views across china some people feel a lot of resentment that north korea is trying to embarrass china on the international stage some feel a kinship to north korea and liken it to where china was in the sixty's and seventy's some feel that china should really not need to concern itself with what the united states thinks at all and that trump publicly lecturing chinese communist

party secretary xi jinping about what china can or cannot do is not be fitting of the great country that they feel china has become interesting if the u.s. really believes that china is in violation of u.n. resolutions of u.n. sanctions could we see them take action against china do you think. so trump just didn't interview i think a few hours ago with the new york times where he talked about how he's been soft on china in regards to trade issues because he's expecting more out of beijing in regards to north korea so i think it's less likely that they'll take action via the u.n. and more likely that trump will decide to implement some tougher trade policies against china because it blames them for not doing enough to rein in north korea let's just and fish it's very good to get your thoughts on this next on fish joining us live from new york thank you. the u.s.

embassy and says it's lifted all restrictions on visa services ending a two month between the u.s. and turkey american officials say turkey has made assurances that local u.s. embassy staff won't be today or vested with the u.s. stops issuing visas into after two staff members at the u.s. consulate in istanbul would detained turkey has responded by lifting visa restrictions imposed against u.s. citizens but denies giving any assurances. right. now where there have been protests of a presidential pardon granted to the country's former leader alberto for him or the controversial decision by embattled president petro public a chance kaye has prompted his culture minister to resign and to sell of a ports as 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 un 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. the more he killed my son in this very cowardly and cruel way now president pedro public could chimpsky 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 a 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. 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. leader abbey 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 too is now asking for a pardon from the silver al-jazeera. now mexico is ranked among the most dangerous countries in the world for women because of organized crime and human trafficking one state has classified the murders of women this year as acts of femicide that is

the intentional killing of girls and women simply because they're female model of apollo reports from a stage where commune hit communities are trying to address the issue of gender violence. gabriella molina is a single mother in pueblo mexico who says she lives in fear less than a month ago for younger sister was brutally murdered the victim of a sexual assault the body was found on the side of the road in order for me. 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 where blows 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 and 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 that impunity is the biggest obstacle against dampening the crisis the problem however is also deeply ingrained in the culture is 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 and. 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 have been five other women murdered have 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 it's not one more not one more women killed employee of or in mexico or in the world. mexico. still ahead on the news hour with me the syrian gymnast whose dreams were cut short by one part is now dedicating his life to a new generation of hopefuls how an ancient form of body art is helping women with handles to rebuild their confidence and roger federer is getting ready for the new tennis season and

a strain tatyana won't be here to tell you what his plans are. by the springtime flowering of a mountain late. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. welcome back the weather across much of central and southern china is looking fine at moma the same goes for taiwan taipei there but the brightness and twenty four degree summer temperatures in hong kong for indochina we call politicians for more central parts of vietnam but across much of laos and myanmar weather conditions are looking pretty good as we head on into saturday not a great deal of change here a bit more rain around parts of southern china otherwise all looking drawing finds let's move on down into south asia where we've got some showers affecting the philippines at the moment across more central areas and we have got a circulation towards the east which going to continue developing as we head

through the weekend and by new year's day we could see some pretty heavy rain affecting southern portions again cemented now northern areas could be in for some really heavy rain unfortunately for so showers for java jakarta picking up one or two and then as we head up through the may plunge the singapore in kuala lumpur could see some showers at times but bangkok for the north should be largely dry across into the indian subcontinent here it's looking fine plenty of sunshine around opposite misty murky at times across northern areas as it head on into saturday it should remain drawing delhi highs here twenty one degrees. the weather sponsored by qatar and greece. architect is like god because you create things shining a career in building full glory yes i mean larry shift our attention to the disaster stricken regions of pakistan building upon traditional techniques and

arming people with the knowledge needed to sustain their society redbone architecture the traditional feel church at this time want to see iran. with bureaus spawning six continents across the. city. al-jazeera correspondents living brings the stories they tell. about it. fluent in world news.

good to have you with us on al-jazeera and these are our top stories liberia's election commission says former football star george where has won the country's presidential runoff he defeated vice president joseph auk on and take ellen johnson sirleaf next month. an attack on a shia cultural center in the afghan capital has killed at least forty one people and injured more than eighty others people have gathered at the center to mark russia's invasion of afghanistan in my nine hundred seventy nine the size of homs the news agency afghan boys. i saw has claimed responsibility for the attack. protesters in peru are marching through the capital lima against the pardon wanted to former president alberto fujimori he'd been serving a twenty five year prison sentence for corruption and crimes against humanity and murder. aid workers a critically ill patients from eastern. rebel held area in the

a serious capital damascus sixteen people have now left as part of a deal with the government on which the rebels have a number of their presidents but. refusing 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 and at least eighteen people have died while waiting. while hundreds of thousands of children are among the more than one million syrians have been sheltering in lebanon after escaping the war in their country say in a hall there are reports now from a refugee camp in the 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 fifty thousand syrian refugees have already travelled have already departed from lebanon to third countries through such programs but it could also be because syrian refugees have moved on from lebanon. through there or through different opportunities to third countries.

also we know that since the beginning of two thousand and seven a few thousand. 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 government and its allies are regaining more and more territory fighting is stopped in some areas cease fires and what is known as reconciliation deals are being reached but for the opposition there is no reconciliation with a government that has killed so many people. 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 these called flicked and ask president bashar al assad to forgive and forget and forgive me and let us go back home once and for all we're tired of this. 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. despond the introduction of. parts of so many refugees have fled to turkey i'm sure about returning home istanbul has given a new child some life. now there on the watch is a twenty five year old teacher from there she lost both her legs during your government a strike on her school almost a year ago another husband has a say as she almost died they came to stumble hoping another one will be able to

walk again with first benteke legs she's been treated for seven months at the square nick specific there stablished 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 men have a final month i hope the bloodshed ends in my country then we can go back home and be victorious in three. her husband hasn't 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 hand. the. syrians who escaped the war try to cling on to some sort of a normal life but this market my hair is from the mask is 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 certainly in syria and people. or all three of us i hope they will accept us as the. new people or the 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 spurt when the situation gets better in syria it will go back of course i'm alone here i believe everyone lives more comfortably in his or her own country all they wish is for peace and unite in the new year there is a little bit off the mask is in this neighborhood of istanbul some syrians own

stops 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 although al-jazeera stumbled. but to the u.s. now in two thousand and eighteen elections will be held across the country or four hundred thirty five saints the u.s. house of representatives and thirty three if they won hundred u.s. senate spots will be contested the outcome could have a massive impact on the presidency of donald trump while battles looks ahead to the two thousand and eighteen u.s. midterm elections. donald trump has a lower approval rating than any other president in modern times at this point in their first terms of office and that's bad news for members of congress in his own republican party as they face the november twenty eighth teen midterm elections

works it's very helpful to have a popular president at the top of the ticket but with trumpet this point would improve the rating and i don't want thirty years i'm not sure how much of a plus donald trump will be dissatisfied action with trump and the unpopularity of his tax cut legislation which is seen to benefit the wealthy has created a big enthusiasm gap between republican and democratic voters that was vividly on display in recent elections when a democrat won the virginia governor's race and even more so when democrats turned out in large numbers to help the democrat doug jones eke out a narrow win over accused child molester roy moore in the senatorial race in conservative alabama democrats are fired up we saw some significant electoral movement particularly among african-americans a solid constituency for the democratic party but we weren't sure that they would be enthusiastic in both of those contests they were very enthusiastic and the other

group that we've been looking at in particular are white college graduates who many of whom seem very disenchanted with. many analysts believe democrats have a good chance of taking control of the house of representatives. winning the senate is more difficult for democrats because many of them are defending seats in states which voted republican last year but even control of the house of congress would allow democrats to block trump's legislative agenda for the rest of his cerm ending in twenty twenty overshadowing the entire political scene is the investigation by special counsel robert muller of russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election if lawler is able to show collusion between the truck campaign and the kremlin it would be a political bombshell and a disaster for the president and his party robert oulds al jazeera los angeles and

a look ahead series continues on saturday when we visit zimbabwe two thousand and eighteen will be a significant year there are few question that but just how much change should we expect will bring you the story from what i already. take john to apple has issued an online apology and a battery replacement discounts on after admitting intentionally slowing down to i phones apple initially said the slowdown was to preserve the life of degrading batteries but after anger on social media class action lawsuits against the company were followed in several countries and the online apology the company says the issue is widely misunderstood and they offering a discount for replacement batteries. and you exhibition at the museum in the us features a mix of civil war history and political commentary the artist mark but for it was inspired by a painting called the final battle at gettysburg to create a modern day psychodrama on 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 rama 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 mark came to the hirshhorn which was built by gordon bunch after and it's a unique building we are essentially a donor 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 photo and it depicts the battle of gettysburg which is considered to be the turning point of the american civil war he got 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's 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 they 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. where this false

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so as well as created victims whose dreams and aspirations are often caught short by violence al-jazeera has followed a young man from aleppo who was serving as champion in gymnastics and won many tournament's trains children voluntarily helping prepare them to qualify for championships at home and abroad has his story and has words. from

a lot of thought and i live and that's a war my name is a comment so often i'm a gym. and i won the top position at the national level for a number of years i want to be and so i also want syria's national olympic medal to look well i mean if. i qualified for and participated in a world competition in soccer republish so what went on the field and i suffered injuries in my city aleppo during an air raid the city was pounded by barrel bombs the injury forced me to quit exercising so now i'm training young children to become future gymnast in the to do with. another one like at the gym was the sports team huge interest among residents so far i've maintained a high level 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 also i lost my dream to the war and i really wish to enable those young children to make their dream a reality. and it's time for sports now here's sasha thank you very much the only team of the gulf cup that qualified for the world cup in russia has been eliminated on thursday saudi arabia were beaten to nil by oman going into the match their armies knew a win would send them to the semifinals they are in day three to the final four but the saudis are out. host nation kuwait are also out they drew no no against the united arab emirates the amorality has progressed to the semifinals but 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 be. one and going to do better in the things that we think that we can improve for the next game and i'm. hundred percent sure that. we're going to play a good game two more front of us is a small dream you have a chance to qualify to some final and. but the very very do to succeed is. repeat the performance against the you know this is this is our way one of failings most prestigious races is facing his biggest controversy in seventy three years of

competition while those eleven has been stripped of line on his offer of protest from the run up the super max he crossed the line first in a record time in hobart and wednesday for what appeared to be a night the victory but second place comanche lodged a complaint over this may 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 i rule behind comanche there's no right of appeal for wilders eleven screw. i honestly didn't expect. to protest in order to win the rights it was all about. actions and if you want to avoid a collision and the fact that it was necessary sorry well i feel quite strongly that the rules are there to protect people's lives and if we can't rely on that then it's a difficulty in the sporting. events jenison on so that's one of the things we

spoke better and. better when the time is sort of thing it's a little bit even the more obvious he was the for each out within sort of maybe that was pretty closely because this is this is you michael you 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 of the event with a knee injury the spaniard was due to return to the courts at 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 years at the australian open in melbourne. writing on twitter the sixteen time grand slam champion said i'm sorry to announce i won't be coming to brisbane this year my intention was to play but i'm still not ready after last year's 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 well one man who is fit and ready ahead of the new season is seventeen time grand slam champion roger federer the swiss arrived in perth from first day ahead of the new season he'll be competing in the hostel and cup which 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. oh expectations are higher but at the same time i try to remind myself i just don't think it's normal 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 race to get so far so we'll see how things go here first now as roger and others prepare for the start of a new tennis season some are already up and running big heading south african kevin

anderson got his campaign off to a winning start of the members of the world championships he beat spain's public on your blue third 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 the star group be the young russian under a group of another strays exactly that seven five six who was the final score. as athletes continue their preparations for the upcoming winter olympic games in pyongyang the alpine skiing wild cut men's downhill event in italy has been one of my dominic paris but before that guillermo 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 the fresh and i was in my twenty eight year old italian paris was able to overcome the long and challenging course for hundreds

of a second faster than downhill standing the leader axel and spindle paris came out on top for his eighth downhill career where he also won the seven back in two thousand and twelve. and also the sport for now more later thank you very much tatiana finally dispose her more than one hundred women worldwide suffer from hair loss but some are finding new and inventive ways of challenging the stigma of baldness lower burden manly were met one woman who is using her scalp to showcase traditional head art. kony chapelle has been battling with the skin disease the lead to have falling out in large clumps but instead of hiding a head in hearts wakes the schoolteacher in kata is celebrating her baldness with hannah i'm embracing it i'm embracing my boss because this is what i haven't you have to work out what you have and i feel like in a way it's what makes me unique and different can he she was diagnosed with

alopecia more than ten years ago the auto immune illness can cause total head loss and affects one in every one hundred people it doesn't matter if you have hair of you don't have air you see hannah is one part of her process of reconvening her confidence but getting to the stage has been an uphill struggle in the beginning it was very painful to get the needles in moscow but you get used to it after a while. as i would get on once a month the hair will grow back and then it was start to fall out again and then it will grow back hannah has been used as a natural type of body art for thousands of years and is often painted on paper for celebration such as birthday for a wedding this had a crown. is a symbol of her unique identity and she now wants to inspire others from other patients suffer for cancer patients to do the same the american hair so c.-h. and says four out of ten hello supper's are women around seven million americans

are also affected but little research has been done to find out why. society has forced women to suffer in silence it is considered far more acceptable for men to go through the same hair loss process there are some societies which in time you know look down. here in that's unfortunate no i don't know how that's usually dressed it's it's very much a rule issue other pieces suffer as all cancer patients having chemotherapy in kata can turn ten that's. the head ought to this making boldness a thing of beauty. have customers confidence. once applied on her head she was taking selfies she is sending all the old to her friends it's it's it's made me cry. denise's next step to where you cry with pride at

walk and challenge the stigma of female baldness head all. the more about a man the al-jazeera. that doesn't for this al-jazeera news out that was shall carry is here with another full news bulletin just a couple of minutes from me in a soprano thank you very much for watching. you are making very pointed remarks where on line the main us response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminalized or if you join us on sex no evil person just makes up a over the morning and say i want to color the world in darkness and this is a dialogue that could be what's leading to some of the confusion about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

al-jazeera. where every. era and she managed tearing. or treating any war criminal. you know bonded young retired army general who defended saturday against attack by surf forces. and covering the story of tough choices and determined to. move in. this time on al-jazeera. in the wake of the race riots how much can someone take before they crack the fight for recognition is crucial we needed. to profile the brothers and it's because a lot of them were people things that was said about their religion and the things it was of the community almost of the disrespect of al-jazeera explores the history

and struggles of the lebanese community in australia once upon a time in punchbowl at this time on al-jazeera. celebrations on the streets of liberia with the announcement that football legend george waya will become the country's next president. i'm richelle carey this is out.