school. produce a man who saw. her astuteness. as owen's going places together. on live from studio fourteen here at al-jazeera headquarters and. welcome to the news a timely show of support for iran's government after protests in major cities against

corruption economic problems. leaders admit there are problems but have also been quick to point the finger at outside enemies. of whipping things up we'll explore all the factors at play also on the grid the u.s. talks up its efforts to train pilots after the u.n. raises alarm about a spike in civilian casualties from coalition air strikes the defense secretary james mattis is also blaming the rebels for stockpiling weapons in residential areas which he says is proof they don't care about innocent people's safety and once you know how cold it is right now in parts off america well sharks are washing up on beaches frozen solid conservationists think they fell into cold while trying to reach warmer waters is this the kind of thing we'll have to get used to as part of a changing climate. monitoring social media attraction on those stories and everything

else that's trending send us your thoughts on facebook or on twitter using the hash tag. here are the news good we're live on air we're streaming online through you tube facebook live and at al-jazeera dot com thanks for joining us so iranian con services have been out of sewing their support for the country's supreme leader and government the rallies were organized weeks ago but have taken on new importance after three days of antigovernment protests anger has boiled over in major cities after thousands took to the streets denouncing the sluggish economy and a surge in the prices of basic foods and say television put these pictures out not long ago showing antigovernment protesters in smaller numbers outside to her own university they appeared to be defying warnings against getting involved in what the government describes as further illegal protests but leaders threw their full

support behind other rallies which have been held to mark the defeat of the last major protest movements that was in two thousand and nine state television aired pictures from right across the country showing people waving flags and carrying banners bearing the image of ayatollah ali khamenei. our social media producer anderson pile is here to tell us more about why people are upset andrew durian you mentioned the jump in prices of basic goods and now a pack of forty eggs cost as much as five dollars and some to run mark skinny tehran markets that's about forty percent more than last month the government says that avian flu is to blame for this sixteen million chickens have been culled in egg producers say they've taken a half billion dollar hit but it's also affecting pocketbooks of working class families. he from the university of connecticut school of business gives us some perspective here he says that eggs in some parts of iran are now more expensive

than they are in the united states where the minimum wage is four times higher so imagine your income staying constant as the price of everything else goes up dramatically one political cartoonist here for the fars news agency suggest that the price of eggs is so high that you might want to lock up your chickens now the jump in prices is what initially brought residents of iran second biggest city out into the streets on thursday but the list of grievances has grown to include other issues both economic and political and although twitter is banned videos like this one started circulating on instagram telegram and other platforms of people chanting death rouhani death to the dictator and leave syria think about us fifty two people were arrested for shouting anti-government slogans and that added to fuel for demonstrations the following day which spread to cities across the country a twitter account based in saudi arabia called iran freedom dot org posted this video of a woman and her man shot calling for the death of supreme leader ali khamenei this

account in iranian government figures abroad have been very active on social media the past couple of days using these pictures to push negative messages about iran's purple establishment all that's prompted this response from iran's vice president about foreign meddling. but it won't go to us 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 a said to have been 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 and i took a look at two of the biggest hash tags being used in both english and persian the u.s. state department and president trump gave a significant boost to one of them the hash tag iran protests with their condemnation of the arrests some very popular posts on twitter at the moment come from the us administration and right wing think tanks like the foundation for the

defense of democracies however the iranian foreign ministry has called president trump's comments as meddlesome saw the most popular persian hash tag translates to all over it's getting a lot of traction out of saudi arabia and from what we can tell it's being boosted by automated accounts or bots because of some of these reasons supporters of the iranian government are downplaying the unrest blaming western media and sanctions for these demonstrations earlier we spoke to mohammad marandi he's a professor at tehran university. the iranians while they're upset with mismanagement but they also recognize that the administration is being prevented from doing a lot of what it's trying to do because of the united states and its allies in the sanctions and of course social media makes things much more easy so people are have information but also there is a fact that has to keep me kept in mind that while some people have been protesting . economic problems we do see

a very distinct effort on behalf of foreign governments for example b.b.c. persian which is belong to the british government the d.o.a. which is owned by the united states government and media outlets that are directly or indirectly funded by the west their show their showing an effort to expand the protests that they're trying to. intensify them to end though in order to politicize them whenever there is any sign of discontent you will always have the may think tanks in the western media saying that the regime is about to implode in the regime is unpopular and the and we've been hearing that for thirty five thirty nine years now and that's not happened and i don't expect anything like that to happen in the future and we are certainly curious to hear what you think about the demonstrations in iran if you're there get in touch with us and let us know and you can see that full interview with mohammad marandi on al-jazeera dot com and you can find out more about why people are protesting as well as getting the view from the

ground that's all that al-jazeera dot com. a funeral has been held in gaza for a palestinian killed by israeli soldiers along the border on friday the palestinian health ministry says twenty year old was fatally wounded by a shot in the chest at least fifty others were injured in the confrontations during a fourth friday a protest against u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and web spend reporting from the procession. was a god. to do on friday when. we often went off to do died saturday morning from his injuries to ministry of health

says he's a sixty seven to die in the on the rest in the file and since six december when u.s. president trump said america would recognize resulin as the capital of israel but i judge shopping for the state of it's a very bad decision for the palestinian people the americans are supporting israel in our own land we are people in our homeland and have given a martyr for palestine and for jerusalem oh it's normal for the political factions and the armed groups in gaza whose leaders for the young men to go to the border protest to fund the sheen rules those are being killed this one is funded by the supported by the armed wing of fatah leaders every friday for the last month of course protesters to go to the border the separation wall and fence that surrounds gaza out in about five or six different places it clashed with the israeli soldiers fighting got some light bullets. and there's no sign that they're going to give up anytime soon meanwhile a pro palestinian rally in pakistan has added to

a ready testy diplomatic relations with india the god of the ring on friday was organized by a conservative political alliance linked to hafiz saeed whom india suspects is the mastermind of the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks the palestinian ambassador to pakistan the attended and was seen joining hands with protest leaders in a show of solidarity india says it will take up the ambassador's appearance with the palestinian authorities happy mon jacob is an associate professor of diplomacy and disarmament studied. versity that's in new delhi and he says india's reaction is understandable. in diplomacy and politics it is very book and who you are seen with whose invitations you accept and who you get photographed are with the very fact that. a student about the choice to go do it idly and he knew beforehand

who who he was going to be with this was no secret and he went there and photographed with. it his record on those i think is has not gone down when he voted with you to leave it where he understand it would isms and secondly india or sort of looks at the whole put us demian issue to the some of. the outward and with the i would india as a very very strong political historical and trade ties the india's trade with the other world is eighty per cent but we'd start in trade with the state it is just one person so i did end of the day. there is a political consideration there was a great deal of political acts of acceptance with the media whatever it was relationship with the but i stayed in i thought at least and what i put a studio on stage for those of you watching us from syria we do have a story on syria coming up in just a moment we also have viewers with us from libya morocco and dubai send us your comments and your questions on any of the stories you've seen so far you can it

sweet us so we're at a.j. english we're also on facebook at facebook dot com slash a.j. news grid you can also send us a whatsapp at plus nine seven four five zero triple one one four nine as always use the hash tag a.j. news grid now speaking of syria a group of syrian rebels is arriving in the dead are region that south of damascus after reaching a deal with the government so a convoy of buses carrying about four hundred fighters and their families was allowed to leave a rebel enclave in a bed jan that southwest of damascus the rebels lost bageant to the syrian government and its allies earlier this month zena junta has more from beirut. bate asian is the last rebel pockets in the southwestern countryside of damascus it is a military gain for the syrian government and its allies they launched a massive military campaign two months ago the rebels were trapped in a small area they had no other choice really but to surrender we've seen this

happen before intense bombardment and then program and forces impose a siege so the rebels have no choice but to surrender or die really but this is a portent of this is not just a military gain for the government it is again for iran iran expanding its influence in a corner of syria very strategic corner of syria it lies between the syrian israeli and lebanese borders which means iran's allies on the ground are moving closer to israel and israel really has been voicing a lot of concern about this as of late talking both to the russians as well as the americans telling them that they will not accept it random moving closer to their borders in fact a few weeks ago they stepped up airstrikes in syria they weren't just targeting what they believed were arms convoys destined to the iranian allied hezbollah movement but what we understand one of those strikes targeted close to an iranian

military base a base that was being set up by iran so it was a warning message from israel so not just another military game for the government again for iran and possibly it could be a source of tension in the near future well elsewhere families in western syria are beginning to arrive home after enduring years of living in camps a cease fire is holding off fighting for now but several rounds of talks have failed to find any permanent solution to some a bunch of aid reports. why the common the stone in northwest syria is deceptive in the scenic villages bitterness fierce fighting and now it's destroyed homes are unable to provide relief during the harsh winter. were some says he couldn't handle the conditions in the camps for the displaced and has decided to return despite the risks he's now content with the limited supplies he can get in his own village but not of a strain john out there we've come back after four years in displacement camps home

sweet home nothing on earth compares to our lovely village we came back restored our house which was in ruins we also started to grow some wheat barley and more almost every syrian seems to have lost something and we were some also shares that loss as many of his friends and neighbors are gone. but his family is thankful for what they have and what they salvaged the northwestern part of hama provinces close to the course stronghold of the assad government rebel fighters were pushed out after months of fighting but a calm has prevailed since the attacks declined as part of a deescalation deal the bitter cold keeps most people indoors local see around six hundred families have returned took a stone and it isn't easy to resume their lives. but there's no electricity the village lacks basic services like sewage and even schools most of the residents found their homes in ruin but they were turned to bring life back to normal. elsewhere in hama province aerial and ground attacks have continued the

government and its allies deny the rebels accusations of violating the deescalation deal. this is the moment fighters say they shot down a military aircraft in hama activists say assad's forces have continued their push on the border between hama and live provinces. rebel groups have rejected the talks in sochi proposed by russia after the geneva process failed to achieve a pub to peace and as temperatures drop further in the seventh winter of serious conflict so do the hopes of finding a solution some of it job others there. well the u.s. defense secretary james mattis there he is he says his country is determined to reduce the number of yemeni civilians being killed by saudi led airstrikes speaking to reporters at the pentagon he said this includes training efforts adding we're going to continue to work with their pilots and explain how you do bombing runs his comments follow a un report released this week with said one hundred nine civilians had been killed

by saudi led strikes in just ten days including at least fifty four at a market that was hit but the saudis and their allies military coalition have rejected that u.n. statement saying it's biased towards the who with the rebels that they're trying to defeat well now speak to yemeni analysts elizabeth kendall she's joining us via skype from chamonix in france she's a senior research fellow at pembroke college at the u.k.'s university of oxford thanks for joining us on the newsgroup so you know the u.n. calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis at least ten thousand civilians have been killed so far in the war i suppose it makes sense that the u.s. defense secretary james mattis needs to come out and defend the u.s. as a role and position in this yes it makes great sense for mattis to come out now at a time when its national pressure is growing against the let's coalition in saudi arabia to say that the u.s.

is going to do its utmost to limit civilian casualties now is what you are actually in the context of being quite defensive the u.s. role what of course many people would like to see would be the u.s. come out and say that must be an end to the rule because a military solution to this conflict looks very unlikely now that we're in the year of this war hausler loudness though because maddest talks about a diplomatic solution he said they'll push for a diplomatic solution yet at the same time we know that the united states sells arms to the saudi led coalition. this is a contradiction indeed and the u.k. is in the same position as the u.s. in this contradiction on the one hand we're we're advocating a diplomatic solution on the other hand we're selling large amounts of arms which are being used in yemen and are whether intentionally or not targeting civilians so i think that our leaders having to speak out more and more as the public voters

become more and more concerned with what they're seeing on their television screens this is not just civilians being killed and as drugs this is a blockade which is starving a population and seeing an outbreak of cholera and also now syria we have a massive humanitarian crisis on our hands which is not being helped by the on going so there's all of this put pressure and then on the. coalition it is that's what madison is trying to do as well with those comments trying to trying to pressure the saudis yes although mattresses words which offensive. the very fact that he made them does acknowledge publicly that there is a problem with saudi targeting of its air strikes in yemen and that in itself puts pressure on the coalition but of course america's interests are broader than that simply the war in yemen they're about counter-terrorism and they're about cancer in

iran so it's difficult to see how you can come out more and more strongly against saudi arabia at this point given the other interests and benefits as what is the united states and its allies in yemen achieving their counterterrorism objectives i'm just reading from a centcom news release on yemen that was put out on december the twentieth saying that in fact i saw that as one of their objectives in yemen to fight i saw but they're saying that i saw has now doubled in size. well remember that the islamic state in yemen was never very significant so doubling in size does not mean much it probably means something like one hundred or a couple of hundred fighters outside in the arabian peninsula has always been the bigger problem and that had about four thousand cool site is at its peak in early twenty sixteen now the us has been actually quite successful in countering out hide in the arabian peninsula and it also launched its first air strikes against islamic

state camps in yemen in october two counts and so we are seeing their operations significantly dented the problem hasn't gone away and it won't go away because you can't kill terrorism this has to be about addressing grassroots grievances and we need to see more of that and. let me ask you about france's role because we've also heard from the french president mccaul who is speaking to saudi arabia's king in regards to yemen is france now looking to play a bigger role in yemen and trying to find some sort of political solution has mccall's pushing for. well francis certainly flexing its muscles on the political stage and math john is absolutely right that unless we see an end to the blockade then that will be. humanitarian disaster in yemen and so on christmas eve in fact matter which a mouse and directly set them a speech and

a full end to the blockade and this came on the back of increasing european union pressure to in the end at the end of november european union and the european parliament voted again to cool for a full arms embargo against saudi arabia and we also saw the u.k. prime minister to raise the may come out at the end of november during a visit to saudi arabia saying that commercial supplies and imports into yemen must receive you if we go to that disaster so i think all of this comes in the context of growing international pressure to end the blockade and to end strikes and advocate harder for a diplomatic solution ok i will leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us a little bit kendall thanks for your time while we pointed this out before but it is worth a revisit the al-jazeera is proud cast and the latest episode is on yemen where aid workers the scuffs the challenges facing them in the situation on the ground

sleepless in yemen amid the sound of fighter jets is on al jazeera dot com we'll cross over to our london broadcast center and bring in so it's certain who has more of the international news hi sue either in its former president mohammed morsi has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary morsi has been tried in several cases since he was deposed in twenty thirty following mass protests and a military coup is already serving a twenty year sentence for inciting attacks on protesters in twenty twelve and twenty five year sentence over accusations of spying for cattle. libya's u.n. backed government in tripoli says people displaced from the town after work will be able to return to their homes in february about forty thousand people were forced out and twenty eleven as collective punishment for supporting one a gadhafi mahmoud reports from tripoli.

visiting her and her relatives can't hide their joy. they will finally return to their hometown of put away for six years some of these children were born here in this camp in tripoli yet they are holding on to their parents dream is that it has already brought hope that we are so happy that we will finally go home we just need to settle down and live in peace now we've had enough trouble we're sick and tired of the interrogation but nobody has says she has had a terrible experience the son was accused of fighting for former leader moammar gadhafi and twenty eleven and was later arrested by rebels from the city of misrata girl who doesn't know. we just need our safety to be guaranteed had we need a neutral official brigade to secure our hometown to work we don't want misrata to

police to work because it used to be our adversary around four hundred fifty families live in this camp they don't have proper healthcare or sanitation so life here is tough. it is even tougher for disabled people like our mother mubarak he remembers how specious and comfortable his old house back home was. it has been so difficult for us living here on all levels the place we live in hygiene education and security on many occasions gangs and armed men attacked us and stoller belongings around four thousand families have been scattered in camps all over libya since september to an eleven most of them are in benghazi and the capital tripoli for the past six years several attempts have failed to bring the people of back to their home town that's largely because those in misrata have accused them of killing people who supported the uprising against them or get their

feet and they have demanded that in order for them to return the government must compensate the families of the victims. during the fall of the deficit rejean hundreds of to one of our men were captured while fighting against the rebels as a major supporter of gaddafi told her was used as a military base for his forces to attack misratah later around forty thousand people were forced out of whatever as collective punishment since then toward has become a ghost town. of the tripoli based a government of national accord has agreed to provide compensation to victims on both sides food for judea and ben nobody here they say it feels like they will be set free after six years of imprisonment they can't wait to go back home in february until then they are counting down days.

tripoli. as ambien president has ordered the military to help fight a cholera outbreak that's killed at least forty one people in the capital of some eg says emergency rashes on needed to stop the epidemic spreading more than one and a half thousand people have contracted the disease since september greece has granted asylum to one of the eight texas soldiers who fled that country after the failed coup in twenty sixteen the cases of the remaining seven soldiers are still being considered it's a president chip typer the one has repeatedly asked for their extradition but great courts have refused saying the soldiers would not receive a fair trial russia's supreme court has upheld a ban on the opposition leader alexei navalny running for president next year now while he's been ballot bob because of a fraud conviction that he says is politically motivated is now calling for his supporters to boycott the president vladimir putin is widely expected to win

a fourth term that's all but also may now back to daryn in doha thank you well now on facebook live how plastic bags are the new must have in fashion and ahead on the grid we're in cuba to look at how rising sea levels are shrinking the island. i i am . hello there we're quite a bit of cloud around the middle east at the moment if we take a look at the satellite picture we can see this area of clouds here but that's not really causing too many problems a tall and we've also got this area of cloud towards the west of turkey now this is the one that's giving us some heavier downpours and it's going to continue to do so as it works its way eastward so heavy rains here during the day on sunday turning to snow over some of the mountains as you might expect then gradually edging its

way further eastwards as we head into monday some of our weather will be working its way into lebanon so sixteen degrees will feel cool thanks to the cloud and the rain but further north it's over the northern parts of turkey where we've got the coldest weather and that it will be giving us a lot of snow for the east no major problems for us in kuwait were getting to around twenty three tashkent there getting to around eleven quite different in our marty their temperature of minus four the further towards the south and here in doha there's a chance of seeing a little bit more for go over the next few days as the winds are still very very light but that will burn away during the day and then we'll get to around twenty five or maybe twenty four degrees as we head through the next few days for celera is a little bit milder hair twenty seven degrees will be our maximum as we head down towards the southern parts of africa we've got plenty of showers here as usual and they're all stretching all the way across into madagascar. it's unbelievable it sounds like an agreement between a criminal boss it's like trading in stolen goods that have been taken by the place

if anyone ever comes to ask the question then is for throw their hands of a mayor and say i don't know i was just nominee interaction with doing a investigation into a. ukraine would you favor oids you've been corrupt been a corrupt they've just look the president say al-jazeera investigations the only gox coming soon. an underground fire has been burning for over a century beneath india's largest cofield. now open coast mining has put the flames to the surface with devastating consequences for the local population. as communities are destroyed and thousand suffer from toxic fumes what lies behind this human and environmental disaster people in power the burning city at this time on al jazeera.

because us in iran generating a lot of interest on al-jazeera dot com our top story. trending right now why are people protesting in iran to head to al jazeera dot com to read much more about

what is going on in the country. talking. about the record breaking winter conditions in parts off the u.s. it turns out that it's so cold but what's happening is that sharks have been washing up on brie beaches frozen solids andrew will take us through this and. well it happened on a beach in cape cod on the north eastern coast of the united states the frozen carcasses washed up over about two days and the atlantic white shark conservancy who removed the sharks believes that the three males became stranded and fell into cold shock while trying to make their way to warmer waters in the south and nasa has previously warned that the thawing of sea ice covering the arctic could disturb or even halt large currents in the atlantic ocean and according to a study published in the science journal progress in oceanography these changes also have the potential to impact the migration routes that sharks and other marine

species have taken in the past now wireshark so important their apex predators which means they don't have predators of their own so if they disappear the whole predator prey balance dramatically shifts this will affect the oceans health for example fish coral and algae population control which means the ocean will produce less oxygen although that has major implications for the survival of other species and sharks are important in other areas too such as tourism based economies and medical research but shark populations have decreased up to ninety percent in recent years due to extreme fishing one hundred million killed each year and sharks are not the only animals that are vital to our ecosystem that are at risk to climate change about two weeks ago these eighteen turtles stunned by freezing cold temperatures washed up on a beach all the way down in galveston texas fortunately they were saved in some of them have already been released into warmer waters off shore in fact turtles are so sensitive to climate that the gender of their babies is determined by the

temperatures of the sand in the eggs that they're laid in and many other species that are impacted by climate change you can see polar bears here there's only about twenty thousand of them left penguins corals butterflies plenty of other species and of course us human beings if you're seeing the impacts of climate change on animals in your community do let us know what you're seeing using the hash tag age and it's good. well climate change is having a visible effect elsewhere in the americas cuba scientists say that apart from more erratic weather events the island is actually shrinking our lot in america editor of the sea a new man reports. what it really is and his wife have lived by the ocean for nearly sixty years long enough to notice that something is changing especially when they look towards the key in front of them. forty or even thirty years ago during low tar you could walk over to the quay over there and you wouldn't get wet it was totally dry now the target is never lower than this it's all because of climate

change here my daughter grew up here we didn't have this wall and i would lower her down there to play on the rocks because it was dry. in high many of us a coastal town you're had vanna everyone notices that the water level is rising on this no lying island it's hard to believe what i'm actually walking on top of what was a swimming pool some forty years ago removed about thirty meters away from a beach that no longer exists it's yet another undeniable example of how the ocean is eating away at much of cuba's coastline. a report prepared by the ministry of science technology and environment warns that by two thousand and fifty coastal levels will have risen twenty seven centimeters and by the end of the century it will be up by eighty five centimeters causing the island to shrink significantly. scientists argue the climate change is also provoking more

frequent and stronger hurricanes flooding and at the same time prolonged periods of drought inland. the climate experts who prepared the report tell us a major action plan is being implemented to confront this new reality i bought at the gotham in this ng but we're applying new practices like plant. corals to increase and reproduce coral reefs and more mangroves which are key barriers for protecting the coastline and we need to adopt new construction practices in the caribbean we have experience building on stilts did list is long but scientists concede that inevitably many people will have no other choice but to leave their homes and move in to sea in human just how many tests cuba or climate change are we all do the title of an earlier episode of up front where the team looks at whether doomsday scenarios to help or hurt help or hurt the fight against climate change so he has and his guests debate how to cover climate change

in a way that motivates the public to action you can also follow up front on twitter they're at a.j. up front and on facebook as well back to sue in london with more of the international news a vigil has been held there a burned out new york city apartment building where twelve people including four children died in a fire mourners lit candles and laid balloons and flowers outside the building the fire was believed to have been caused by a three year old boy playing with a stove it was one of the worst fires in new york for decades place in serbia have uncovered twenty five tons of highly toxic waste buried in barrels and containers as a private property southwest of the capital belgrade the chemicals include benzene a compound that causes cancer of the property has been arrested tests are on the way to see if local wells or waterways have been contaminated. i

think that within two weeks we will have all the analysis there are some indications but we don't want to talk about indications what is important is that we ask citizens from this part of a brand of its not to use wales for drinking water until we get the analysis after last month's extraordinary events in zimbabwe many are hoping that the future without will see an improved economy and the way standing on the world stage zimbabweans have been lining up to register to vote once elections are held as hermits are so reports from harare. after decades of economic stagnation high unemployment and a shortage of cash people hope things will get better in twenty eighteen robert mugabe resigned in november after the military intervened in a seminar goggle is the new president until elections are held while they wait for an election date to be announced they are registering to vote many here say they hope no matter who wins it will be a new beginning for zimbabwe oh and see

a country which is full of opportunities because you know i mean you college right now i'm studying and the reason why i'm studying is because i want to work so if i could complete my studies and then there's no work for me to do then. in the past elections have been marred by allegations of vote rigging and violence opposition leaders say the military and war veterans helped keep robert mugabe in power for thirty seven years the new commander of the defense forces says things will not be different and that the army will respect whatever zimbabweans decide at the polls as we prepare for the elections in twenty eighteen it is our wish that their company and they were doing so for the day take place in an environment of peace and tranquility opposition alliance members say despite morgan tsvangirai health concerns he is their presidential candidate has cancer now that mugabe is gone they

say they are confident. about mixture we are all equal. believe that from the next coming winnowing enemies of an underground we are going to be the next government this is why they are publicly a credible voter's role could help avoid another disputed election zimbabwe is compiling a new voters role in replace the old emanuel register opposition party say is inaccurate and is dead people's names on it it is a commission says the passages the nearly seven million people before elections in twenty eighteen as a bob prepare for those crucial elections they hope they'll be credible and violence free the international community has said if things go smoothly at the polls they will be eager to invest to help ease the crippling cash crisis that could mean discreetly needed jobs most people waiting in line under the age of forty many are unemployed but they say for the first time in a long while there is hope that maybe twenty eighteen is going to be a good year. for al-jazeera. from

a financial back to doha well the french president of money when my car has been in office for seven months now and at the start some labeled him too arrogant but opinion polls and also just his popularity and star power are on the rise he has been keen to make his mark on the world stage on issues ranging from climate change to middle east disputes with russia butler reports from paris. keeping up with emanuel isn't easy the energetic young president has thrown him self into a frenzy of activity at home and abroad since being elected in may for this newspaper cartoonist sketching such a dynamic leader is proving quite a challenge. what is amazing is that we never used to draw him two years ago people talked about emanuel michael as a young prodigy close to president hold on but he was never q. ministers and we never drew him now is the president as he made it was really

during the election campaign that we started sketching him a lot because as he was everywhere he went on i. built a reputation in france as a straight talker and a man of action it's why many in france called him a hyper president a phrase which was used to describe former president nicolas sarkozy's hands on style. my only thought hundred macross taken a lead on climate change and reforming the european union he's pushed through a raft of domestic reforms including plans to help the deprived suburbs of the only solution what message would you bring to the need to do is legally support the c g . i convey a very clear message of hope but not an a one of the commitment of the whole nation emmanuel mccall has also been very active internationally he's taken a keen interest in crises such as lebanon syria and jerusalem he wants france to play a greater role what do you see some of his very quick to size up opportunities and

when he sees opportunities he takes them we saw that with the election last year and we're seeing that now with him as president and what you said says now is there's an opportunity internationally to take on a bigger role at the start of his term across popularity was low some in france said he was too arrogant but that's changed now higher in the opinion polls than any previous leader in their first year pleasure of course he's doing very well his refresh to french politics he's pragmatic intelligent not an idealogue he's what france needs right now these are people who want to change my core fulfills a need for change we cannot turn now if you succeed it's early but for the time being he delivers what he promised but not everyone is convinced some say he needs to delegate more to his ministers because you don't go forward with that he's an omnipresent president he wants to be in charge of everything all the time but that's very dangerous he's up in the polls now sure but when things go wrong he'll

be the one directly in the firing line and the one who will have to take the blame the french won't always support him. back ross says france was stagnating and he wants to restore its glory as his political party has nearly wiped out the opposition it seems that for now there is very little standing in the way of his ambitions tasha butler al jazeera paris. a viral video showing nurses who say they were forced to dance in skimpy outfits has prompted a national debate about how south korean women are treated at work the conversation is timely as people there and elsewhere gather with colleagues for and if your celebrations from seoul kathy novak reports. their treatment when these women became nurses this was not part of the job description video of them dancing at a hospital talent show was posted on social media prompting a national conversation about something not often openly discussed in south korea

the treatment of women in the workplace these nurses didn't want their identities revealed fearing repercussions at work for the talent show we were forced to dance we had to wear indecent clothes and perform sexy dances on stage and we were embarrassed. she says hospital officials sat in the front row judging the performances and that refusing to participate wasn't an option unless she could find a colleague to take her place. in south korea because of the confusion tradition of respecting it's difficult to say no to superiors this type of power abuse has become normal. lawyer leonis says sexual harassment is a problem for south koreans of all professions especially when junior employees are expected to drink with their bosses after hours. a year and party is a common occasion for sexual harassment people expect women to pour drinks for men

or for young and pretty women to sit next to older male bosses. drunk male bosses hug us and hold our hands during these company occasions but we can't say anything because they're our bosses in the most recent government survey the majority of those who say they experienced sexual harassment took no action among the reasons given were that they thought it would make no difference and that they would be disadvantaged at work. the government announced plans to impose harsher penalties for sexual harassment in november after a young employee at the country's biggest furniture company hun sen's accused colleagues of raping and sexually assaulting her the employment and labor ministry found the company failed to investigate the claims and fined hunt's i'm about five thousand dollars. as for the talent show a hospital spokesperson said it is planning to reform the dress code and is considering getting rid of it completely kathy novak al jazeera sole while women

are not immune from sexual harassment online on the contrary amnesty international says more than one in five women have experienced online harassment or abuse and a majority of the harassment almost sixty percent was racist sexist homophobic or transfer war in that amnesty poll on al-jazeera dot com by searching for hash tag me too peter is here to talk about sports in just a moment and how serino williams is returning to the tennis court just four months after having a baby that's coming up right after we get a look at the world weather.

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find out what people are talking about in sports today with peter yeah it's been quite a year for serena williams you want to twenty third grand slam title in january got married and had a baby in september and today less than four months off to daughter alexis olympia was born she made her return to comp it's of action the thirty five year old played an exhibition match against french open. when the un asked the pain at the movie. tennis championships in abu dhabi earlier of the pinko would be the winner in a deciding tie break but serena rustiness can be forgiven her last match was the australian open final when she was already nine weeks pregnant. mother had been aman are. you know i was

a little worried out there and then i looked at my my camp and i was like is olympia ok and you know but it's really good i'm excited and you know it's good to be back on the court of course or it isn't the only player to return after having a child although i have made the comeback quite so quickly yvonne goolagong cawley played the nine hundred seventy six a us open final while in the early stages of pregnancy she went on to win the wimbledon title in one nine hundred eighty she was the only mother to win a slam title in the professional era until kim clijsters year in two thousand and nine she retired before having first daughter jade about a year and a half later returned to tennis and won the us open since then it's become more common for players to come back after childbirth two time grand slam champion victoria as a raincoat came back last year seven months on from the birth of son leo and they are paid about elites from other sports who have made successful comebacks of the

becoming mothers like heptathlete jessica ennis hill she took time out to have some reggie and then won the world title in twenty fifty now earlier i spoke with former player safety who is also a new mom she says that serena is a company xing it's just incredible. when you become a mother and all the priory changes saw it's all about the baby this st louis mine and it takes a toll on the body so that's why it's so incredible that she's coming back that early after giving birth and even for me yeah i tried to keep. the fitness a little bit after after but i have to say to you do it at that quick and as you said there's a lot of you in your body changes and come back at this level sound looking for it to see how she's going to play in the air to tournaments are coming we know serena

has to be she's a twenty three ranks i'm trying times i mean she's such a champion she's so good to the tournament to break the record there matter record so i think that's why she's so much of a to come back but also she's such a legend and those people have been thrive for success and they're they really they work hard and even though she's a new mother i think it might even help grow to be even more much later even though she's a one of the best player that in tennis that ever had sort of i mean it's incredible and i wish her all the best also because it's not really to juggle being a mother and being also a professional athlete so i think it's great for all the the women's there in the world to just have this mother lesser in williams and so that you can do both also but it's not easy to do to do to do the world so i. that's why i have a lot of respect for her sometimes we forget that when the on the court is very

tennessee under very focused but it can also give another perspective in the world when you're outside of the core outside of your. competition you're training you you have this amazing little thing you know baby that to go and raise their hands and i think a lot of athletes that our parents as you said it can give us that extra. maybe joy in life certainly the the mike lee also longer their career because they have this also with their tennis so it could be. great for her even though she was a great and should be she's breaking all the records in tennis having a little girl that might even though should maybe be even more much debated too to go as high as she could be by being a mother it's every morning you wake up and you see. your baby and there's a purpose behind it. well not surprisingly there's been

a lot of excitement on social media about serena's achievements the see a hollywood actor risa witherspoon with this one well she says that he is twenty third grand slam singles victory while pregnant is one of his standout moments in twenty seventeen katie akong believe serena has returned so quickly she writes this woman is seriously amazing words don't and can't do her justice and what about this one posted on her baby daughter's very own twitter account ever goes on this is so cute i hope my daddy brings me to watch momi play for the first time i will be the loudest in the crowd you can share your thoughts on the return of serena williams with us using the a.j. news good hash tag or you can tweet me directly at peta underscore stamets i'm going to head you back to the reno i left most food in the eight hundred. hitter thank you well homelessness is a problem that affects communities everywhere there are no easy solutions about a group of people calling themselves the street thug barbers are doing what they

can in the canadian city of vancouver danny alack explains how they're bringing positivity and purpose to those who need it most thank you doing good for others humans helping humans meet the street bears during the week ross cameron and josh work at the city's top beauty salons but every sunday they're cutting combing and styling here in vancouver is downtown eastside a district where poverty and drug abuse are all too common as cameron knows for himself i have a history on the streets i was a heroin addict that about twenty years ago i cleaned up off that and battled opiates for the last twenty years and then we started this and that's pretty much when i did my last drug the people down here were closer with them than some of our closest friends that give you the last dollar out of their pocket if you know what you should do is come next sunday ross also spent time in the same neighborhood but he too found his way out through professional hairstyling the idea behind the street thug barbers he says. is that no one should give up no matter how bad things

get cam and i and we've all had our past situations where our failures maybe someone else the successes in the future so whatever we can do to help whether it's find work or support our shelters or just an ear when it's warm enough they work in a nearby park their nonpaying customers perched on milk crates they also cut hair on the sidewalk or in back alley ways in winter they do their cutting here at the living room a drop in center and clean needle distribution point for drug addicts the manager says sunday is the happiest day of the week for her clients and it's nice when you live in a society that when you're here looked upon as being poor you know that you're look upon as being less of a humid if these guys don't do that at all they lift us out and they give us five minutes of compliments and it's more than just a haircut i like you short up over my years no one who puts their name on a list run by the center is turned away the street thug barbers estimate they've

trimmed and shared more than five thousand heads since they began a year and a half ago bringing happiness and haircuts to a neighborhood known mostly for urban blight and homelessness. then you're like al jazeera on vancouver's downtown eastside thanks for watching the news read we will see you back here on sunday studio forty and at the same time see you then thanks for watching. the offense being a journalist the crime practicing journalism. same

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