never been more available it's a constant barrage every day but the message is simplistic you have the brain good logical rational person crazy month and misinformation is right dismissal and well documented. and evidence is part of genesis the listening post provides a critical counterpoint trying to bring mainstream media narratives of this time on al-jazeera. rockets fired from gaza calls panic in southern israel and prone to retaliatory strikes against hamas this says dozens of palestinians are injured in clashes with israeli troops and made the ongoing protests over jerusalem.

barbara sorry you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program a gunman opens fire on worshipers at a coptic church in cairo killing nine people a new legal setback for jacob zuma as a ruling by south africa's top court fuels opposition calls for his impeachment and a storm of derision after the u.s. president says the bitterly cold east coast could use some good old global warming . thank you for joining us israeli tanks and their craft have fired at hamas targets in gaza in retaliation for several rockets being fired into israel the israeli army says it's aerial defense system intercepted two crockett's launched from the gaza strip they caused panic among severely. on the ground in israel but no injuries

a third rocket hit a building in the south causing damage but no casualties however at least fifty six palestinians were injured in clashes with israeli forces during protests against u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital hundreds of palestinians demonstrated across gaza in the occupied west bank for the fourth friday in a row welcome web sent us this update from. the edge of gaza city is just a couple of hundred meters over there and this is the border with israel the separation friends wall surrounds gather all step aside to the camera can zoom in a bit for the fourth friday in a row people gathered at rallies in the city after friday prayers coming from the mosques and then some people from those rallies came here to the border to demonstrate to be like this for the last month ever since president trump announced that the u.s. would recognize to receive them as the capital of israel and demonstrators are trying to get as close to the fence as they can throw stones implant palestinian

flags. start fires as well those plumes of black smoke you can see from fires and burning tires in the israeli army's response with tear gas and some gunfire we've heard that more than ten people have been injured in the violence today in the unrest here and in four of the places along the border there are also being protests against donald trump's jerusalem move in the pakistani city of rawalpindi thousands took part in the demonstration which was organized by a charity group linked to the main suspect in the two thousand and eight bombing kemal hyder has more now from rebel pindi. crowden of people have gathered. destroyed at the fort for the palestinian cause the panic didn't ambassador to pakistan at all could mean a white aide who had read and large crowds that had come from all four corners of

the country all pakistani people from all walks of life have strongly reject it trumps decision of jerusalem as their capital of pakistan is the only country in the muslim world who has officially condemned and rejected this decision improper resolution in their parliament against the irresponsible act there are extreme resentment across the atlantic word and progress on a no except for many from the pakistan defend the including all of the say the leader of the modern art brokered a settlement of this was a good deal to make to receive them israel's capital and we cannot tolerate this at any cost we are trying to awake all the muslim community and to unite them and we want to send a strong message to trump that muslims won't accept it in any shape they can measure my support for the failure to leave god they are angry then against the american move to move the embassy to jerusalem being a muslim it's my duty. i was given i just had

a gun and i got this and that was muslim yes it is together and we want to give you a strong message that we are god and we have given you three. you will see and the people here say that. is the capital of salad the leaders say that this people should be ready to sacrifice even their lives for making sure that your delusion of the day we are not just your just capital also free palestine we're going to do as you. gathering. stronger again. hold on this particular. at least nine people have been killed in an attack on a coptic church in egypt two others were killed on the way to the church just south

of the capital cairo the gunman was arrested after opening fire outside the church as a service was taking place stratford has more. of a suspected attacker lives on the ground it's believed he's wearing a suicide vest which you can state these pictures field outside the coptic church of modern mena in assault in cairo suburb. thank god they locked the door there were hundreds inside if getting close a door on time it could have been worse than did back. in sinai this is the latest of a number of attacks on egypt's christian minority which represents about ten percent of the population the likely suspects are two organizations really that has been consistently targeting since twenty fifteen in sinai so this on a province or the small decentralized cell of affiliated with isis but but eating

in the valley and the primaries to small and cells one in cairo and one in central delta problem is that there's no clear counterterrorism and counterinsurgency policies so far dealing with this threat and for a while egypt has been just continuing the same blunders in the same mistakes egypt has been under a state of emergency since april when suicide bombing struck two coptic church is killing at least forty five people on palm sunday a local affiliate of claimed responsibility. the government has deployed more security forces outside churches in recent weeks in anticipation of attacks over the christmas period christians have long accused the authorities of not doing enough to protect them this attack will likely make those accusations louder. meanwhile a joint funeral has been held for eight of the victims of the attack mourners gathered at the virgin mary church in hell one egyptian president has also offered

his condolences to the families of the fattah el-sisi has ordered an increase in security measures at sensitive sites police in iran have used water cannon tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government demonstrators protests spread to the western city of command shell which was hit by an earthquake in the vendor this a day after hundreds of rallied in iran's second largest city and the demonstrators condemned the government's economic policies chanting slogans about the high cost of living and demanding the release of political prisoners there have also been reports of protests in other cities including the capital tehran. all economic indications in the country are good yes there is an increase in the prices of some products and the government is working on fixing the causes of the high prices some of the events that have taken place in recent days aside to appeal

because of the economy but there are other reasons the people behind what is taking place think they will be able to harm the government but when social movements and protests start in the street those who have ignited them are not always able to control them. south africa's top court has ruled that parliament failed to to hold president jacob zuma to account in a scandal over a multi-million dollar upgrades to his private home last year the course that concluded that zuma had violated the constitution when he benefited inappropriately from state funding for his home it's one of a series of presidential scandals that have tarnished the reputation of the ruling african national congress opposition has renewed its calls for the president to be impeached penya pages more now from johannesburg the constitutional court south africa's highest court has found that the national assembly that's parliament failed to take appropriate action against president jacob zuma and relation to

gross overspending of taxpayers' dollars on his private home called income or the constitutional court says the first thing that should happen is that the national assembly needs to come up with a comprehensive list of rules and regulations which perhaps could lead to the impeachment of president zuma however they didn't go so far as to say that's what should happen because that would be in breach of the separation of powers the opposition parties who brought this legal action we're pleased with the outcome nonetheless the constitutional delinquent mr zuma in no time would be scrutinised would be brought before parliament to be accountable because his own political party has actually failed to hold him accountable and we can we in the other day longer we need to be in parliament in less than did today's before the state of the nation and as of twenty eight. in mad to sense president zuma and the speaker of

parliament votes it wasn't true that the national assembly had done nothing multiple votes of no confidence in president zuma have been held and they've all been defeated and that's what it comes down to it's a matter of numbers in parliament because impeaching a president is a parliamentary process so even when there are rules in place that could lead to impeaching a president ultimately that would require a two thirds majority and the reality is that the governing african national congress holds the majority and so it be extremely unlikely that the numbers would be able to be gathered for an impeachment former football superstar george where has officially been declared liberia's president elect after winning tuesday's runoff with more than sixty one percent of the vote his opponent joseph i conceded defeat earlier congratulating way and saying that he wanted to avoid bloodshed

whereas when march the first a democratic transfer of power in the west african nation in seventy three years the white house has offered its congratulations on what it called our major milestone well there have been scenes of jubilation over george way as when on the streets of monrovia and the expectations are high. of whatever because i want to see more you for your coverage in burma liberal. because. the more young africans there are stepping up our dogs are change once you do it. we have a period by the police in liberia and. after the reconstruction the infrastructure. of that deal but. the one that has those the bus that. still to come in this half hour of news we're going to look ahead to the u.s. midterms next year which are being seen as

a litmus test of president popularity plus apple apologizes and cuts the price of replacement batteries after a. hello and welcome back now look at the weather conditions across europe we've got a cold front pushing its way across more eastern areas ahead of it had some quite warm but things will cool off as a system pushes through the circulation across parts of greece and turkey and that's given some very heavy rain over the last twenty four to forty eight hours yet more snow for the arts been an incredible season so far but behind it you can see we've got the westies coming in so it's looking pretty mild across parts of the u.k. and then into france temperatures well into double figures of the time we get through to sunday and see a bit of

a thaw taking place there across the swiss alps anyway zurich coming in at eleven degrees madrid also seeing temperatures of levon degrees and further east we're seeing some heavy rain affecting more central parts of turkey so move along the coast of north africa and we've got quite brisk winds coming in from the north so temperatures nothing special and quite a few showers being driven into the gulf of certain regions it could be some fairly heavy rain here in quite rough seas i would have thought caro should fare quite well with temperatures twenty one but here to will find as our system moves further east the weather will begin to turn somewhat more unsettled so head into central parts of africa still got fine conditions in many areas we have got some showers affecting japan and we could see wanted to downpours and deeper the highest here twenty nine. in the wake of the race riots how much can someone take before they crap their fight for recognition is crucial we needed cooler heads to prevail brothers and it

was a lot of them were people things that were certain that their religion on the things that was a guy that can be a good boss or be disrespected 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. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera israeli tanks and the aircraft have fired on targets in gaza in response to rockets fired into israel israel's aerial defense system intercepted two rockets launched from the gaza strip a third hit

a building in the country's south at least nine people have been killed after a gunmen after gunmen stormed a christian church just south of the egyptian capital a gun man was arrested after opening fire and police in iran have the cloyd water cannon and tear gas rare anti-government protests over rising prices spread to the western city of cambridge. aid agencies are finished a series of medical evacuations from the mis besieged damascus suburb of eastern huta twenty nine critically ill people some of them children have been moved as part of a deal with the syrian government but the u.n. says there are still more than four hundred in urgent need of medical care center honda reports now from neighboring lebanon. an appeal from a grieving mother. she hopes that all the sick children in eastern kuta will receive medical treatment so that their parents don't

lose them. it lost her daughter but all was ten years old when she died her parents say her life could have been saved but they live in an area besieged by syrian government forces where there is no proper medical care. at all as her sickness with pain in her teeth nice and hot doctors said there was something wrong with her nervous system and antibiotics didn't help the medication didn't work and she passed away. it's too late for batool but twenty nine critically ill patients are being given the chance at survival that was agreed after a deal between the syrian government and the armed group official islam that involved the rebels freeing prisoners in exchange eighteen of those transferred to hospitals in damascus where children. hundreds more are of treatment there's a severe shortage of medical supplies the medical facilities in the area have all

but been destroyed by the siege and the bombardment just over one hundred doctors provide care for an estimated four hundred thousand people half of them are believed to be children and. the children are always the ones who are the most vulnerable and affected as a result of the siege there are many children who have cancer they can't be cured because there is no medicine to treat them there are diseases because of the pollution even the water is polluted there are many cases of severe malnutrition in the united nations says one in eight children is going hungry up from one in fifty in may eastern huta has been besieged since two thousand and thirteen but in recent months pro-government forces tightened the blockade closing smuggling routes and tunnels that were being used. humanitarian organizations have been pleading for months with the syrian government to allow the critically ill patients to leave aide workers are hoping that the evacuations will be the beginning of more to come they're also asking for safety guarantees some patients are worried of arrest if

they go to government controlled territory. and who. isn't. doesn't have much time she is four years old and her sickness requires treatment that is not available in eastern huta it's a difficult time for her mother im of the law who was hoping that her daughter was on the evacuation list into my house in the fall down because of. my daughter has the kenyans right cancer doctors told me she needs surgery to remove her throat because it is too big and the cancer cells are spreading i hope someone helps me my child also needs chemotherapy and i called to forward it please whoever is hearing me now. and. already almost twenty patients among them children have died while waiting for evacuation. route. syrian rebels are beginning to evacuate from an enclave in southwestern syria under a surrender deal with the government a convoy of buses are moving the fighters and their families out of beijing near

damascus the rebels lost in nearby areas to the syrian government and its allies after heavy fighting earlier in the month. now studies have found that refugees fleeing war violence and persecution have a much higher risk of developing psychiatric illnesses that people who migrate for economic or social reasons research among those who made it to germany found as many as sixty percent had witnessed violence in their home countries of all those surveyed around half suffer from mental health problems like post-traumatic stress disorder or depression aid agencies are reporting rising levels of self harm and drug abuse among those living in camps or better vent of all who is the senior mental health officer with the u.n. refugee agency he says this problem may seem overwhelming but there are solutions that are many good examples that i know of the 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 saw 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 the refugees themselves to support each other that actually if you give refugees an opportunity to rebuild their lives they will take it so helping people help themselves to be the first thing and that's something that. mental health care systems in europe are not very much prepared to it's too much clinic based while we can do much more with refugee communities. thousands of indigenous people died to doing that kid's long civil war but they were not included in the official death toll and they're not receive proper burials now twenty one years after the end of the conflict some families are finally

getting closure as reports. a skull with bits of bones and a children's halloween t. shirt remnants of loved ones on earth from one of guatemala mass graves. two hundred fifty thousand guatemalans died or disappeared during the country's thirty six year civil war thousands of the digitas farming families had been a racist from memory until now. but i don't need me they shot my wife a bullet to the hip she was washing clothes she walked a couple steps but she couldn't walk anymore i mean and there she stayed my wife was just lying there. through d.n.a. testing families are now identifying their relatives burying them and visiting their graves during the war many farmers were forced into army operated villages it

was a way to ensure they didn't join one of the guerrilla groups in the area they were promised food and medical care instead many died from malnutrition and treatable diseases that my audio. the majority of causes of death of the children was due to disease due to a lack of medical attention it was limited because of what was happening in the region as well as the measles outbreak in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . people here say they were treated like prisoners so. if somebody for example had to leave to visit a relative in the capital or another province they had to request it in writing sometimes well in advance for the army to grant authorization those who left and did not return at the stipulated time would get into trouble and many times that trouble meant. in recent years quantum olens have begun to address the crimes of war former military leader a friend rios montt was convicted of genocide in two thousand and thirteen the

decision was overturned on procedural grounds and he's being tried again in absentia. for these families identifying and burying their dead is just one step towards acknowledging the many injustices of guatemala's civil war. natasha the name al-jazeera at least fifteen people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire tore through a restaurant in the indian city of mumbai it's not many of the victims were young women celebrating a birthday on divorce told the firing gulf to the four story building in less than half an hour it's not known how it started but officials say action will be taken against the owners. and investigators say a child playing with a stove may have caused the new york city is that lee is fire and twenty five years twelve people were killed when the fire broke out an apartment building in the bronx neighborhood four of the dead are young children the building has

a history of fire code violations. an arctic blast those hit parts of the u.s. causing the warnings of hypothermia and frostbite the cold does grip large parts of the country from the midwest to the northeast temperatures dropped to minus thirty five degrees celsius in northern new york state that's very cold the president donald trump has been tweeting about the freezing temperatures he wrote in the east it could be the coldest and new year's eve on record perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old global warming that our country but no other countries was going to pay trillions of dollars to protect against bundled up well as pascal vanny parcell is a climate physicist who was vice chair of the un intergovernmental panel on climate change he has this message for president trump the president term you might have forgotten that it's winter at the moment in the northern hemisphere it's perfectly

normal now it's very called at the moment in the eastern part of north america because the jet stream is bringing is ringing very called from the arctic and if the jet stream is doing that right no it's probably also because of global warming because the melting of the sea ice in the arctic is disrupting the position of the jet stream and the jet stream is bringing much more called air but. you can be sure that the rest of the word this is warming look at the map after all the year that's ending two thousand and seventeen is one of the warmest year of the last hundred fifty years of the global level so what's happening now in the u.s. is not relevant for the climates of the or year and the whole globe. ok now looking ahead to two one of the major series major stories are we expect in

two thousand and eight the u.s. mid-term elections will take place in november and it could have a major impact on donald trump's presidency is reynolds now explains. 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 donald trump at this point in pro rating and 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 twenty sixteen presidential election if lawler is able to show collusion between the trump 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 apple has apologized to customers after it admitted intentionally slowing down some older i phone the tech giant says it did it to preserve the life of degrading batteries but if faces several class action lawsuits apple is now cutting the price of some replacement batteries will take radar journalist basil crown fame told al-jazeera why apple customers were so angry and why he thinks the company will get

away with it they haven't been transparent and you know who have is going to sue them they've gone and said ok guys this is what we've done this is why we've done it this is what we're doing going forward we're offering discounts on batteries and also going to make it really transparent within the operating system how your batteries doing in the next i phone update so we're doing what we can and this is our apology and apple generally after they show an apology off they do anything like this a pretty much quiet take it will leave it and i think this should appease mice customize. more on the website al-jazeera the call. now time for a reminder of the top stories here on al-jazeera israeli tanks and their craft have fired on targets in gaza in response to rockets fired into israel the military says its aerial defense system intercepted two rockets launched from the gaza strip it

says a third rocket hit a building in southern israel calls and damage but no casualties well the unrest comes as hundreds of palestinians across gaza and the occupied west bank have taken part in protests for the fourth friday in a row they're angry at u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel at least nine people have been killed in an attack on a coptic church at it and a christian old to shop in egypt five others were wounded in the attack and how one province just south of cairo the gunman has been arrested. exam on t.v. and not a bit of thank god to lock the door there were hundreds in sight if getting close the door on time it could have been worse than did attack and. police in iran have used water cannon and tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government demonstrators protests spread to the western city of care muncher

a day after hundreds rallied in iran's second largest city of mashad the protesters condemned the government's economic policies chanting slogans against the high cost of living and demanding the release of political prisoners south africa's top court has ruled the country's parliament failed to hold president jacob zuma to account in a scandal over multimillion dollar upgrades to his private home last year the court concluded that zuma violated the constitution when he benefited in appropriately from state funding for ease in candler home. former football superstar george way out has officially been declared liberia's president elect after winning tuesday's run off with more than sixty percent of the vote his opponent and joseph buckeye conceded defeat on friday saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed whereas when marks the first democratic transfer of power in the west african nation in seventy three years. and those are the headlines stay with us i'm going to have more news for you

in half an hour coming up next though it's up front thanks for watching. his has been a year of controversy and crises of breaking rules and telling lies so how do you cover how do you hold to account a president as unique as donald trump and i'm from special. to us new not.