a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power. is this radical transformation. i mean. i mean if you really shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and there unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. the whole rommany watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes south africa's top called rules parliament failed to hold president jacob zuma to account for alleged corruption also the last

of the remaining twenty nine critically ill people have been evacuated from the besieged rebel area near syria's capital and from football star to president george ware is set to take on the top job in liberia. and tech giant apple apologizes after a million slam it's deliberate slowing down of old i phones. that have you with us here on the news article first we're going to bring you some breaking news coming out of egypt there are reports of an attack at the amman mean a church that south of cairo not happened in the hell one district it's all there are casualties but the exact number is not yet known we'll bring you more on that story as it becomes available let's meet our other top stories at africa's top court says parliament has failed to. old jacob zuma accountable over allegations of

corruption now the court ruling follows its conclusion last year that zuma violated the constitution when he use state money to upgrade his private home but the court says it's up to parliament to come up with the right laws to deal with such violations tony page is for the air force as our correspondent in johannesburg it's a complicated ruling that does have long term implications as well as short term implications. yes most definitely and the long term. shadow that spain hanging over president jacob zuma is that original ruling you were talking about there which he was found hope failed to uphold defend and protect the constitution and that was issued by the constitutional court just behind me there and what that relates to is the overspending misspending of techs payers money to the tune of millions of dollars

on his private residence on upgrades that was deemed to be unnecessary on things like an empty well it seems that we've lost ten years there we're trying about as soon as we can let's move over now to the middle east where aid agencies have now evacuated twenty nine critically ill people from eastern guta of a seizure of rebel held area near syria's capital damascus now they were allowed to leave as part of a deal with the syrian government rebels are releasing a number of prisoners in return now last month the u.n. calls for five hundred people in need of urgent medical care to be allowed to leave but only these twenty nine cases were given approval and at least eighteen other people have died while they were waiting. for us in beirut following events or the last current batch of medical cases has been evacuated but still more need to go don't lose him. yes hundreds according to the united nations four hundred ninety

four people were on that priority list twenty nine have now been transferred to hospitals in damascus aid workers are hoping that this evacuation process is just the beginning and there will be more to follow but we understand that this is part of a deal a deal between the syrian government and the main rebel group in eastern who. released the prisoners in order for these people to be evacuated now whether or not further deals will be made it's hard to say but people are desperate mothers are pleading for help they're asking the world to help them we've been talking to people inside still he says there are young children four year old girls they need treatment they are suffering from cancer and they can survive with the treatment but there is nothing available in eastern turn of the siege the area has been besieged since two thousand and thirteen but as of late in recent months the pro-government forces really tightened the blockade they closed the tunnels they

closed all the smuggling routes so people are desperate doctors are saying that there are a lot of cases that can be cured if these people are given the proper treatment of cool so we're getting more news not. bull so rend. significant developments. yes in the southwest of damascus in an area known as the western. sheen the rebels there are now surrounded they're surrounded by pro-government forces there are negotiations the government has told them you either surrender or there will be a military solution what we understand is that the rebels are agreeing to lay down their arms and be bussed out of the area to the northern province of the rebel controlled province of it live now we've seen this happen before the government tightens the siege on one area and the rebel surrender but this area is very strategic it is close to it is where really the syrian the lebanese and the israeli borders meet now what does this mean it means that pro-government forces which of

course are pro iranian troops are close now to the border with israel and israel has expressed a lot of concern about this telling the russians and the americans that they will not accept this so iranian forces are moving closer towards the israeli border a few weeks ago this really stepped up attacks in syria not only targeting convoys belonging to hezbollah that have been smuggling weapons what they believe of course they targeted a base an iranian military base as a message so now pro iranian forces moving closer to the israeli border so this is not just the question of the rebels you know surrendering another area we'll leave it. to that in beirut let's return back to tanya page in johannesburg sorry tanya we rudely interrupted by technology good to have you back with us let's just talk about the way the opposition feel about this cold case regarding jacob. should by the judges there where you are they were hoping really full perhaps

a kick start to impeachment proceedings they are going to be disappointed are they not. well i think they're disappointed but they're not being too vocal about that they are trying to sell it as a. sort of victory if you like but i would have to say i think an objective observer would see it really is only a half a half when because they had been pushing for the constitutional court behind me this country's highest court order that president zuma be impeached now the court can't do that because of the separation of powers between the judicial system legislative and the executive but what the court has said is that the national assembly parliament failed to properly act. on its ruling that president zuma had failed to uphold defend and protect the constitution and that it needs to do something about that and the judges here the national assembly needs to come up with the right rules because at the moment they don't exist which may lead

to the impeachment of a president but into finn's both president zuma and the speaker of the house the national assembly. she said that look there were votes of no confidence in the national assembly it's not like the president was on hold to account but all of them were defeated because at the end of the day the african national congress holds a majority in parliament so even though opposition parties may have sort of a hard victory here in the courts ultimately impeaching a president depends on a two thirds majority in parliament and the opposition parties don't have that. in the future for the moment. thank you. staying on the african continent liberia's election commission says former football star george wendt house won the country's presidential runoff with a projected sixty one point five percent of the votes ninety eight point one percent of the votes have been counted and tallied mohammed atta has more from the capital monrovia was celebration on the streets of the

liberian capital monrovia was supportable for my international football adored with greeted news of his victory in tuesday's runoff election with 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 if you 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 full we any supporters it's a dream come true a struggle they say that started we back in two thousand and two us pointed to succeed because i saw. that during the years that you can't check was it like this that made a trip the two of them to it was such a charge that we had a president who was not the rock that the electoral commission had just announced

the preliminary results were all present ages are c.d.c. thank you mr president is sixty one point five percent for the c.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 and supported a case taken to the supreme court by the county they took him out in that race we gone into an election that we knew from stacked it had a lot of problems we were not satisfied with. whether or not the instructions of the supreme court were followed we were. constrained to go but why do we want to see what we wanted we had all hoped for a free fair transparent election i doubt seriously if that is

where we're going to get the vice president and his unity party have not said 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 she is she is credited with presiding over the longest period of uninterrupted peace in liberia since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine george where played fostering will 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. will be the first time since one thousand for two full plate be founded by freed u.s. slaves in the mountain century will have transfer of power from one elected president to another mohammed atta welch's era when via liberia. well george wears transformation from sporting superstar to a head of state is unprecedented but he's not the first professional athlete tend to politics back is the only cricketer imran khan made his name as a fast bowler and captain of the national team he launched his political party in one thousand nine hundred six becoming one of the main opposition leaders now twenty years old arnold schwarzenegger was the youngest person to win the mr universe bodybuilding title after a successful acting career he was elected to the governorship of california in two thousand and three and the filipino boxer manny pacquiao has juggled his sporting career with his job as a congressman and now senator and the mayor of ukraine's capital kiev is three time

world heavyweight boxing champion batali klitschko well aware sheena archaeology is the african football journalist based in nigeria joins me now live from lagos via skype good to have you with us on the program as far as george where is concerned these are huge challenges ahead at a very delicate time for a peaceful transfer of power is he really up to the job. well for a man to score goals it's easy for people would say as a footballer what to run a country is a very huge challenge for george ways in a country that is actually expecting so much from his shoulders as a politician he spent about ten years trying to get himself into powers and challenges that comes from social to political and all of those problems the need to unite liberia i think the people who. trusted him and believing mean and if think is the man a lot of people would come out and see in

a spurious he lacked all of the political savvy and all of that which actually cost it would actually cost him the first time you contested but i think liberians are with their feet in the money trust in georgia where it did ok they they trust him they voted for him it looks like he's got the top job but corruption is rife poverty one of the worst countries in africa for poverty in terms of. the amount of money people less than two dollars a day the health service is in tatters he's promised to fix all of those problems with an unemployment rate of four percent he has a very tough battle on his hands and he's got to get people on side. absolutely. to see the solution to all of those problems just does not allow wheat in a pond we're used to counting on a lot of liberians were not just in the country many of them were you outside of the country too in coming to get out to fix the problems these are challenges that any african country leader will actually face so you're not nervous when it comes to all of these problems when he was campaigning he said something very key he said

he's going round the united states where a lot of liberians are as well as some european countries to convene a lot of people who were highly experienced economic doctors lawyers and a lot of people to come back home to liberia believe me a lot of problems these challenges are huge when where when you hear analysts talk about these but george remains confident that the people of liberia alongside his party and all of those opposition parties the opposition parties will really against if you let me bring this in then in may he was speaking to an online news agency and he can i quote he said when i become president i will make sure we do everything to invest in agriculture to create employment for our people and for our people to be able to sustain themselves politicians say all the right things don't they when they want to be elected can he deliver when his election opponents were to warlords a former ex-girlfriend and now a disgruntled former sitting vice president they stand in his way to block his plans potentially. absolutely and the success of liberia lies in everyone this was

a country to go to a huge sea of war that was actually cause them so much in terms of facilities infrastructure was huge is done so much as an humanitarian he's invested his money in not just sports when he was a fit when he was when he was a player as well as a coach he's invested his money in the lone star he's done so much to actually bring back a lot of charge to just come back to the country and help develop the country i think all of those names that you mentioned the challenges we face any easy amanda that he's always open to peaceful resolution and conversation remember when he lost the last election people were pushing him to actually take it to court to continue to drag it on and he said no when it's my time it's my time i believe to get out to get out to fix liberia as a country talked about peace is mentioned something about uniting opposition parties because liberia is bigger than any individual i think like that a lot of liberians they've seen him he's convinced them when he was not a president he's done so much as a footballer they believe us president you can do so much more by bringing the

country together is a country that is this united in terms of politics and all of the but i believe george weah can actually deliver well let's see if he can and for the moment. that in lagos thanks so much for joining us sir. plus more ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including a rally against trump in pakistan brings out thousands hundreds organized by a man who has a million dollar bounty on his head. also donald trump accuses china of secretly selling oil to north korea violating u.n. sanctions against pyongyang and coming up in sports they will tell us why roger federer is looking so relaxed ahead of the new telly season. which already has huge unemployment is struggling to find jobs for refugees the

problem has been made worse after some e.u. countries refused to resettle them but one group thinks refugees could help contribute to greece's feeble economy as lawrence lee reports. language class for this group of refugees in northern greece jason from it live in syria has decided to seek asylum here they all need greek anyway because they'll be here for months or even years so slow is the bureaucracy. jason said he wants to study and maybe become a hairdresser. but he's open to suggestions for work. across this country similar scenes are happening the rest of europe has decided the greece can cope more or less greece has got a big problem the economist on the whole more than forty percent youth unemployment and at the same time greece is having to deal with the brunt of the refugee influx and the european quota system for sharing them out has fallen apart completely so here's the big question if there's not enough jobs for greeks then what to expect

refugees to do. in the absence of any other bright ideas some people here have decided to celebrate the new arrivals farmer demetrius makes some dried tomatoes and grows herb's but he has a problem his village like hundreds of others has shrunk by half since the economic crisis as a young people moved away or empty houses here waiting for families to move in to breathe new life into the community he'd love nothing more than refugees from rural syria to help him out you think you can help each other yes if they're if you just work just to stay here we can do it many thinks together so the idea came from a local organization working with refugees it argues that greece's economic crisis could be partly solved by the refugee influx not cheap labor but co-operative farms giving the new arrivals an economic stake and encourage them to stay refugees that used to be in. their original country or they have experiencing farming

we think that they can also assist the locals and the locals going to then and in developing the future for both in the camps it's becoming clear what happens when refugees can't access the jobs market a groups are warning of a huge spike in drug abuse by refugees stuck for years in a shipping container cannabis is sold alongside fruit on the road side of the noses of the police of the camp. male refugees telling their bodies has become common as well they are buying the drugs there are some people using headline also. in their camp and they are just because they're plants and just because you don't have any hope. here these last life of. their life. you don't have any hope. many greeks here claim refugees get special treatment while they're left to suffer in poverty they were life in the camps hard looks generous

there are apparently no greeks to work the fields in this agricultural land and to grow the economy it's only one idea but maybe they're starting to realize you can make a virtue out of a crisis lawrence lee al-jazeera in northern greece many refugees are also having to deal with issues surrounding their mental health research among those who made it to germany shows as many as sixty percent had witnessed violence in their countries and of all those surveyed around half suffer from mental health problems including prost traumatic stress disorder as well as depression the refugee camps themselves have become dangerous aid agencies of port there's a rising level of self harm and drug abuse. peter venter vergel is the c.d.n. mental health officer with the u.n.h.c.r. joins me now live from geneva good to have you with us on the program so let's just begin with the the problems of those that suffer with mental health issues the refugees in greece how big

a problem is that becoming and is it growing. well we do not have very clear statistical data about what i hear from my colleagues in greece is the problem is indeed growing and the last time i was in greece was two years ago the situation was completely different people where it had a sense of urgency to move on and what you see now is that people get really stuck and desperate and that comes with a toll on mental health so we do hear alarming reports about. negative coping mechanisms like. self harm loss of hope mistake violence drug use as was said in the film so yeah it's getting bad how well set up national governments across europe for example to try and help with mental health issues they have their own domestic populations to deal with that they have

this added pressure also of trying to deal of. the welfare of refugees or it within their borders. well let's say. one saw refugees are being hosted by a high income country in europe the government has the obligation to provide them we tell services just as anyone else their issue is that much of the mental health care systems in europe are not well prepared to work with refugees so i think there are many good examples that i know of mental health professionals who work with refugees but in general the whole mental health systems in europe are not well prepared because of issues related to language and culture so what i think needs to be done is much more training for doctors and psychologists in europe but also to

see how we can use the potential of a refugee stem cells to support each other which was so nicely shown in the individual about greece that actually if you give refugees an opportunity to rebuild their lives they will take it so helping people help themselves should be the first thing and that's something that. mental health care systems in europe are not very much prepared to to it's too much clinic based while we can do much more with the refugee communities will we see what does happen in the future thank you very much peter vogel there joining us from the u.n.h.c.r. in geneva thanks for your time so let's go back to our top story that attack that we were hearing about on a church in egypt least three people are reportedly have been killed south of cairo there are reports that the attacker was shot as well omar sure is a visiting professor in security studies at the doha institute joins me now of the

telephone what more can we actually read into this particular attack because egypt is no stranger to such violence against the christian communities. well it's more continuous he didn't change really still more details to come up but so far. over two thousand attacks in the last three years. according to the. leaking. we're talking also about particularly to. targets. that they were targeted indiscriminately the coptic minorities and also the. police and the armed forces. we do know that there were attacks obviously november there were victims who were missing a monastery there was the major palm sunday attack in two thousand and seventeen

which killed many as well what of the egyptian authorities or how they've been trying to reassure the public at large that every control of the situation is obviously they're not. they're not because there are two issues one is the crisis in egypt has to do with. what unfolded after twenty said and that has not been resolved and it's creating more and more recruitment and radicalization to armed groups. there is also basically a series of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism blunders that. are forces at committing and that is adding more and more now there are at least four. patients that are operating in sinai or the valley or the south of egypt or the western desert and most of. the. sinai province which is the. sinai. the coptic minority indiscriminately others are more selective in the

targets but still it's a it's an ongoing crisis will probably see more. fortunately and until now there is nobody thinking. the counterterrorism agency policies which are basically a continuation of a lot of times policies where we leave in the finale for the meant. from the security studies to pop to the doha institute thank you. let's move to a pox on without the people in the city of rawalpindi offer testing against the u.s. declaration that it recognizes jerusalem as israel's capital this is the fourth friday that people have been demonstrating across pakistan the demonstrations organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks saying come on had a correspondent joins me now from pinney where those protests are taking place i mean what's the message that people want to send globally kemal.

said they want to change across the. the guy that had been arrested a danish you and therefore the people you write speaking in addressing the crowd you are trying to rally mode up or down you go north on war not on the americans who will then be theater during the night they're also saying that they have been very sacrifice on the ballot i don't know if it is a fraud that the budget there was a great deal. that they are very engaged. i don't find a different opinion on the budget going down by the way to raise a very low day for what the next bill. the protests and they are going to lay their probably a larger field. particularly if you believe that for now thanks very much while

hard to monitor in the pakistani city of rawalpindi. well in a few minutes while the weather with richard but still ahead here on al-jazeera we look back at how we used to send messages as belgium's telegram service comes to a stall. they may have qualified for the world cup but saudi arabia's football team have suffered a shock closer to home those details coming up in sports with. by the skyline of the nation humble or off the coast of the italian riviera. well despite the cloud in the trough of low pressure the summer weather has really set in across parts of australia south in queens and we've seen some very high temperatures in day forty seven point four degrees celsius at the wonderfully named birdsville population one hundred forty very special hello to people watching in

birdsville the temperature their highest december temperature they've seen in twenty six years sun it looks as though we're going to see further high temperatures across those parts of australia meanwhile in stark contrast the weather in north america i'll put the fronts on here but it's not really about the front so there is one out towards the west which plays a part in the weather over the next few days about the temperatures but washington minus thirty six point six degrees celsius at this record monument washington is up more than six thousand meters but it international falls temperatures down at minus thirty eight right up there on the border with canada and if you like your american football the packers the vikings this is where they are concentrated and you see where the fans really wrap up warmly to combat the temperatures well we've also got the issue of snow and there's a lot of snow across the pacific northwest at least ten further towards the east but here in some places over the next thirty six hours we could see anything up to one meter. there with sponsored by cat time release.

between criminal busts it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask a question these are throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominee director we're doing an investigation in. ukraine did you pay bribes you've been corrupt or are being corrupt the just the presidency al-jazeera investigations the only god coming soon. when diplomacy fields and fear sweep then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's ill to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to a toll wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on

al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching the am to zero news are ives a whole raft of these are our top stories an attack on a church south of cairo has killed at least three people with one gunman shot dead by security forces it happened in the hell one district also south africa's top court says parliament has failed to hold president jacob zuma accountable over allegations of corruption the court ruling follows its conclusion last year that zuma violated the constitution when he use state money to upgrade his private home and liberia's election commission search former football star george where hers won

the presidential runoff where defeated vice president joseph will take over from ellen johnson sirleaf next month. apple has issued an online apology to customers following weeks of anger over intentionally slowing down of the i phones the tech giant says the slowdown is to preserve the life of degrading batteries a hostile reaction from customers as led to several class action lawsuits against the company apple's not offered a discount for replacement batteries adrian bass is a freelance technology journalist joins me live now from london adrian little did we both know where we could go when we first discussed apple's admission that an apology would be so forthcoming what do you make of this climbdown. we're it's unusual you don't normally get such a full. longer explanation from apple it's hard to get any press reaction out of

them let alone something this detailed they clearly feel it can really hurt they're facing legal action in in israel front and eight cases already in the states i'm sure they'll be loads more to come. so in the short term it doesn't look good they . offer to cut the price for just the year of having iphone six is all later upgraded so that goes down from seventy nine dollars by fifty dollars to a mere twenty nine dollars pretty well as almost sorry. because we're going to go into the prices a little bit later but i mean apple's reputation has been on shaky ground as you say those lawsuits in france in israel and the us as those sort of legal issues start to bounce you have sort of david and goliath moment or potentially in court and that's always a worry for a large international company like apple they just don't like that sort of public

city. no and if they don't settle and they may well settle me we may see embarrassing documents and if the courts can compel apple to produce the detailed discussions that led to this decision we might just see that you know apple actually deliberately quite quietly were pleased that they were slowing down i phones they say that we would never ever slow down the device deliberately or shorten the life rather of a device deliberately in their statement i think that's a little bit rich they do their absolute damnedest to stop third party manufacturers repairing their products not very successfully but they try and very very quickly as they sort of well before they get really to end of life they make the prices of apple charged to repair them so bridget if you would really want to

upgrade so while they may not deliberately cripple devices they're not really exactly thanking the best efforts to extend their lives but any know about how important it has people or people power and social media together be on this particular issue because. you might say the power of the public that invest in apple has allowed them to make the tree concession. yeah their fans are incredibly loyal and this has been so the social media lead the whole thing really cropped up on a forum called reddit a website called read where users are free to discuss just about everything. so yeah this was a social media led and they're reacting to that in terms of their long term britney taishan i don't think as long as they don't comply continue to regularly mess up and they've had a few bits of bad press recently poor security on on apple they don't continue on

the max rather as long as they don't continue to mess up they should be all right i mean samsung after all and galaxy note seven literally catching fire and they're doing just fine it hasn't had any long term damage and loyal fan apple fans are way way more loyal pretty well some would say fanatical compared to other manufacturers who do all see how fanatical they are the years to come for the moment adrian always a pleasure to speak to you thanks so much for joining us from london like was. the us president donald trump persecutes china are violating your own sanctions against north korea by not cutting off oil supplies to pyongyang trump tweeters caught red handed very disappointed that china is allowing oil to go into north korea they will never be afraid of the solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen our white house correspondent could be how it 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 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 well i was out of the u.s. president's tweet south korea seized a ship suspected of violating the u.n. sanctions seoul says the hong kong vessel transferred to

a north korean ship in international waters and i'll tell you the u.s. proposed blacklisting the ship international sanctions placed against pyongyang. now demonstrators are back on the streets of peru's capital lima to protest against the pardon granted to the former president alberto fujimori on sunday the controversial decision was a by battled president pedro pub local ski has prompted his culture minister to resign and the sound of silver reports is also drawing international condemnation. peru is being forced to revisit a painful and not so distant past the presidential pardon of alberto fujimori who led the 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 and this very cowardly and cruel way now president paddle public agenda 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 all we can do that of 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 it allegations of corruption in. the former president has served twelve years of a twenty five year sentence for corruption and human rights violations these

included extrajudicial killings in force 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 me is now asking for a pardon from the silver al-jazeera. it also is looking ahead of the major stories we expect to see twenty. team we look at u.s. politics midterm elections and they could have a major impact on donald trump's presidency of the crabs are all seats in the house of representatives and a third of the senate rob bridles reports. 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 this point going to improve the rating and i don't want to 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 one house of congress would allow democrats to block trump's legislative agenda for the rest of his term ending in twenty twenty overshadowing the entire political scene is the investigation by special counsel robert muller of russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen presidential election if mauler is able to show collusion between the trunk campaign and the kremlin it would be a political bombshell and the final message has been sent one hundred seventy one

years after the country's first electric telegram was to live it needs baka has moved from london's one hundred eighty years to the iconic telegram brought news of calamity and condolence joy and success. it entered popular culture surviving the invention of the telephone and instant messaging but the end is nigh it was ironically via twitter the belgian telecoms firm proxima announced the demise of its service one of the last in the world the system was kept alive by only a handful of businesses mostly bailiff's issuing hard copies of legal documents. tucked away in london science museum a some of the earliest examples of the technology the first system was developed in england in eight hundred thirty seven and would go on to change the world by nineteen hundred. cables that connected all the different continents of the

world and they with it was the first step to globalization radio t.v. telephone that our world has basically built on the telegraph it's hard to imagine but once these cumbersome machines were cutting ends technology very much the same way that computers were much later on they used the latest science of the day electromagnetism to point needles at letters in the alphabet to eventually spell out a word it was all down to how skilled the telegraph operator was using these handles . the technology created a certain style of writing a bit like modern text messages the word stop was used to indicate the end of a sentence senders also a pay by the word leading to some resourceful ways of communicating the shortest telegram of the english language was sent by the writer and celebrated wit oscar wilde he was living in paris and sent

a message to his publisher to see how his new book was doing the message simply read. publisher responded. later morse code was used to send telegraphic messages on april the fifteenth nine hundred twelve the ill fated titanic sent one of its last distress calls. the u.k. abandoned the telegram in one thousand nine hundred to the us in two thousand and six and the biggest market in india four years ago. but the technology isn't quite dead yet you can still send telegrams in places like italy also a host of companies and. people an experience of a bygone. era london.

welcome back more than one hundred women worldwide suffer from a loss but some are finding new and inventive ways of challenging the stigma of baldness laura burton badly met one woman who's using her skull to showcase traditional. cony chappelle has been battling with the skin disease the lead to have falling out in large clumps but instead of hiding a head in hats wakes the school teacher in kata is celebrating her baldness with

hannah i'm embracing it i'm embracing my balls out 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 pair 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 the mask out 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 hears and is often painted on paper for celebration such as birthdays a wedding this had a crowd. is

a symbol of her unique identity and she now wants inspire others from our patients suffer of the cancer patients to do the same the american hair so c.h. and says four out of ten had last supper as 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. you know. it's very much. other pieces suffer as all cancer patients having chemotherapy in kata can turn to. the head the artist is making baldness a thing of beauty. has cost him his confidence. like the design on her

head she was taking still feel she is sending all the old to her friends it's it's it's need. next step to where you crowned with pride at work and challenge the stigma of female baldness head on. i love that it's more about a man the al-jazeera. times fall off his chair so how thank you the start of the new tennis season is almost upon us imo since see whether roger federer can build up on his remarkable renaissance of two thousand and seventeen this superstar has landed in perth where he'll play in the heartland cup team event head of the defense of his australian open title in january and he looked in a relaxed mood as he got up close with fans and some local wildlife rottnest island this animal apparently called a quokka almost twelve months ago federer won his first grand slam title in five years in melbourne and then claim the nineteenth

a major of his career at wimbledon the first the six year old also climb back to number two in the world rankings all of this came after he took six months off at the end of twenty sixteen because of a name injury. i think anything i win from here on forward is like a massive bonus kind of a surprise because i didn't expect this of everything at thirty six thirty seven they are as good as i am today so it's a bit about staying healthy and enjoying myself and be very precise of how i practice and what turns up it's just hard to imagine that i'll face as good as i did last year some reason. to see this it's been like that before you know novak djokovic is preparing to make his return to tennis later following a five month layoff with an elbow injury the former world number one will play an exhibition match against roberta but he star good at the move boteler world tennis championship in abu dhabi it will be djokovic his first competitive outing since retiring in the quarterfinals of wimbledon earlier this year. that's been

a frustrating day for england's cricketers in the fourth ashes test against australia in melbourne despite taking a one hundred sixty four run lead from the first innings rain delay play on day for several times which meant australia could only reach one hundred three for two by the close as well as that england were forced to lie allegations of full tampering as footage merged of bowler james anderson appearing to take his nail into the ball in winds of straining ball coach travel bayliss hit back calling the allegations pommy bashing or barring any more rain on the final day in a will need to find a way to take eight quick wickets if they're to pick up their first win in australia since two thousand and eleven saudi arabia's football team may have qualified for the world cup in russia next year but they suffered a shock much closer to home they've been knocked out of the golf cart to no defeat term on who went through to the semifinals thanks to goals from sights on him and while it highly for her shrink. curator also outs they drew no no against the

u.a.e. progress to the semi's and a little later three teams from group b. will go for the two remaining semifinal places yemen are already out so iraq will fancy their chances in that one but the other game sees bahrain play cats are both could go through with a draw but with the two countries embroiled in a diplomatic row expect a heated encounter. arsenal have drawn level on points with fifth place tottenham in the english premier league after a three two in at crystal palace. opener for arsenal was cancelled out by andros townsend just after the break but alexis sanchez's scored twice in four minutes to put our surveying aside ahead that was enough to secure the three points for the gunners despite a late goal for their opponents now the chile forward has been linked with a move to league leaders manchester city in the january transfer window so it's just. it's always different.

it focused on short term for the short game. to find. you give your best the eastern leading boston celtics have pulled off a second win in two nights in the n.b.a. this time they rallied from twenty six points down to beat the houston rockets ninety nine to ninety eight another team forced to come from behind in the east with the walkie pox they came from twenty points down late in the third quarter to beat the minnesota timberwolves one hundred two to ninety six eric bledsoe schools twenty six points younis and a couple over added another twenty two. the washington capitals snapped a three game losing streak in the n.h.l. on thursday alex ovechkin scored in regulation and the tie break outs to help the capitals for four three victory over the boston bruins in fact that the capitals twelfth consecutive game win over those three. now it's early season long

wait for a podium place in skins world cup series has been ended on home slopes dominic paris won the latest downhill event in bottom rio beating noise axel and spindle by just for hundreds of a second but heavy snowfall early in the day caused a few problems for other skiers three suffered high speed crashes none of whom were seriously injured. spit like my ski had that i was poor now but you say oh yes ouch thanks. that was the lower call is up next with a full half hour to stay with us that's what you observe.

carcinogen. january. african heads of state and governments will gather. for the stage at the same the african union where the goals set out in twenty seventeen minutes rewind return with brand new episodes updating some of the best al-jazeera documentaries from over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the

swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be top of the agenda. engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headline. and in a week our special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january on a. witness documentaries. at this time on al-jazeera.

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