talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. in a country where parents often pick who you will marry following your love can have serious consequences one on one east meets the men risking their lives to protect india's young love from what i want to stop this time on al-jazeera. iran calls on its citizens to avoid what it illegal gatherings as protests over the conses ailing economy continue for a third day. hello i'm sorry to say this is al jazeera live from london also coming up palestinians in

gaza mourn the man shot by israeli soldiers during a protest over u.s. jerusalem policy what a year for emanuel macron the french president and this twenty seventeen with a big popularity bounce and a record breaking cold snap in the u.s. it's so bad sharks are freezing to death. drowns government is calling on people not to take part in what it says are illegal gatherings and protests driven by anger over the economy gain momentum for a third day in a row they have been protests against the regime this was the scene outside teheran university on saturday west student chante anti-government slogans fought with police they were eventually dispersed by riot police and government supporters in the last two days things have dispersed protests in other cities including some.

and some people are angry over high living costs while of us are demonstrating against iran's foreign policy meanwhile annual crew and sheen rallies have been taking place across iran to mark the end of unrest that shook the country in two thousand and nine demonstrators took to the streets in several cities carrying banners in support of supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei and like in two thousand and nine when protests followed a disputed election the current anti government demonstrations reflect a rising food and fuel prices as well as cuts to welfare benefits protesters say been unfairly targeted in the recent budget while religious institutions appear to have been untouched unauthorized lending practices have also caused the collapse of some financial institutions while president has done rouhani has vowed to clean up the banking sector and kick start the economy many complaint progress is too slow

iranian government leaders have long blamed u.s. sanctions while many were lifted after the nuclear deal with world powers two years ago some unilateral american sanctions remain u.s. president tweeted in support of the protests which he said were against the iranian government squandering its nation's health but some analysts say chum's policy is risk exacerbating iran's economic problems. how several honey you know told the public that you know the first forty years i was involved and i was you know more focused on the deal now after the deal is signed and focused on the fixing your economy but the economy itself cannot be fixed overnight it needs regulation it is the distillation it is the flexibility it needs fixing the political environment itself now after four years and the first year has a honey in this camp came to power and the minute time came to power basically said there are more sanctions on iran to be able to be imposed the need to be reviewed i

mean i'm not happy with the deal itself so any effort of any expectation to have i would say some outcome a positive outcome of the deal actually has been to close the new group of people who could size in the government they are more conservative the other more religious normally we used to hear this somewhat from the left of iran not rather than a from the new the conservative a tradition conservative this time we hear it more from traditional conservative more religious more people are living outside the main cities you speak about misha to speak about those you know cities you know the middle class people who are living there and they can in me actually is hitting their own daily life every minute. the funerals been held for a palestinian man he was shot by israeli soldiers during a protest and gaza the twenty year old was one of thousands of palestinians

involved in clashes with israeli military along the gaza border they're angry at the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel israeli military says demonstrators rolled burning tires and rocks at soldiers it says fired selectively against four main instigators malcolm webb has more on the funeral and. that was. the. to do the friday when. we. went off to do. that today morning from his injuries to ministry of health says he's a sixty. to die in the on the left in the file and the six december the u.s. president trump said america would recognize resulin as the capital of israel. 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 no more for the political factions and the armed groups in gaza whose leaders are for the young men to go to the border protest to fund the sheen or also those who are being killed this ones funded by the armed supported by the armed wing of fatah leaders every friday for the last month of protesters to go to the border the separation wall and fence that surrounds gaza only about five or six different places it clashed with the israeli soldiers if i take some life bullets. and there's no sign that they're going to give up any time soon. syrian rebels and their families have started to arrive in the darrow region south of damascus to making a deal with the government's a convoy of buses carrying about four hundred fighters on the some list was allowed to leave the rebel enclave in bad gin and travel to

dera and live the rebels last bad gin to the syrian government and its allies asta has the financing and the this month saying holder has more from beirut. beit din is the last rebel pocket in the southwestern countryside of damascus it is a military game 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 pro-government forces impose a siege so the rebels have no choice but to surrender or die really but this is the importance 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 round of 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 ally 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 and 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 some of those in western syria are starting to arrive home after injuring years of displacement across the country a temporary cease fire has provided some relief from the fighting but there seems to be no diplomatic solution despite several rounds of talks some of binge of aid has moved. the common the stone in northwest syria is deceptive. the scenic

villages bitterness fierce fighting and now it's destroyed homes are unable to provide relief during the harsh winter. over 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 that of us and 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 over 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 of the 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 italy 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 the hopes of finding a solution from

a big job read out as their. former president mohamed morsy has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary for a speech he made while in office morsi has been tried in several cases after he was deposed following mass protests and a military coup in twenty thirteen he's already serving a twenty year sentence in another case on charges of inciting attacks on protesters in twenty twelve three u.n. agencies have a shared a joint statement condemning the war in yemen saying people there can't stand another day of fighting the world health organization the world food program and unicef say the conflicts created the world's worst humanitarian crisis there's widespread famine and displacement as well as an outbreak of cholera much of the country's infrastructure and health system has been destroyed by saga that coalition air strikes and rebel shelling but u.s. defense secretary james mattis is defending washington support of the saudi led

coalition fighting who say rebels in yemen matters says the u.s. is working with the saudi alliance to limit civilian casualties as well as a vising on military tactics. greece has granted asylum to one of eight turkish soldiers who fled the country during last year's failed coup the cases of the remaining seven soldiers are still being considered as president richard typer the one had repeatedly asked for their extradition but greek courts have so far refused believing the soldiers would not receive a fair trial at home. russia's secret service has arrested the suspected perpetrator of a bomb attack in some petersburg eighteen people were injured when the bomb ripped through a supermarket on wednesday described as an act of terror by russian president vladimir putin iso claimed responsibility for the attack. and russia's supreme court has upheld a ban on opposition leader valley running for president next year they're always

been barred because of a fraud conviction which he says is politically motivated he's calling for his supporters to boycott the vote president vladimir putin is widely expected to win a fourth. stay with us here on al-jazeera still ahead. 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 to tashkent there getting to around eleven quite different and our marty there much of a 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.

just. twenty seventeen has been full of stories that have changed the global political landscape and al-jazeera has been there to cover them all. joining us as we look back at some of our most memorable interviews of the year in a special edition of talk to al-jazeera at this time. welcome back reminder of the top stories here an al-jazeera iran is calling on its citizens to avoid what it calls in the legal gathering this is protests over the country is ailing economy continue for the day the funerals been held for palestinians as the capital of israel and greece is granted asylum to one of eight

texas soldiers who fled the country during last curve. france's leader will head into twenty eight c. with a spring in his step after a rebound in the opinion polls a man you just sense forty is often called a height of presidents because of his hands on approach to governing is one him many at myra's but some criticism as well the touch about the house from power. keeping up with emanuel mccall isn't easy yet it jesse kyung president has surrounded himself 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. but what is amazing is that we never used. him two years ago people talked about the manner of michael as a young prodigy close to president hollande but he was never q. minister we never drew him what now is depressed and 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've. 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. only thought hundred macro's 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. message did you bring the need to directly support the c g. i convey a very clear message of hope but not an a one of the same commitment of the whole nation emanuel 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 somebody who's 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 he says is 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 a methodist year pleasure of play 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 chand 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 know what is the illusion is 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 only sure but when things

go wrong he'll be the one directly in the firing line and 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 the tasha butler al-jazeera paris. police in serbia have uncovered twenty five tonnes of toxic waste buried in barrels and containers at a private property near the capital belgrade the chemicals include benzene a cancer causing compound that's highly regulated across the developed world the owner of the property has been arrested tests are under way to see if local wells or waterways of being contaminated serbia which is looking to join the e.u. is heavily polluted due to years of environmental mismanagement. 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 it's not to use wells for drinking water until we get the analysis china is to remove taxes on its steel exports in a movie expected to raise trade tensions with the u.s. and europe china is the world's top still producer in twenty six state and sported more than one hundred million tonnes twice as much as its nearest rival to brown the global steel sector is valued as an estimated nine hundred billion dollars with china exporting to more than two hundred twenty countries and territories the u.s. is worried that china's exports will undercut its domestic production bright as more from beijing. until it was closed this was the biggest steel plant in beijing production got moved from here to a province outside the city as a way of reducing apple lucian but it's the specter of idle mills like this that whole and soul of the world still produces and china are is the biggest given the

oversupply of steel in the world right now china often gets accused of breaking the normal rules of trade by dumping that is selling its deal to the world for less than the cost of making it simply to keep its mills turning and the changes in the export taxes will add to suspicions in the u.s. and europe about china's trade practices from january the first to china will be reducing export taxes on some of its steel products making them cheaper and it will be cutting them altogether on things like steel wire and rugs at the same time it will also be reducing export taxes on fertilizers as a way of giving that industry a boost for its part to china denies the accusation of dumping pointing to the fact that in the past year it has reduced its steel exports by a third nevertheless there will always be the suspicion that china will always put the interests of its steel plants way above any international criticism meaning

that the kind of trade tensions we've seen in the past year will definitely continue into twenty eighteen. in many countries the end of year office parties a chance to socialize with colleagues but the blurring of work and social lives can cause problems in south korea the role of a group of nurses was expected to perform at their hospital policy aspire to debates about the treatment of women by their bosses can't they know that reports from the capital so. change 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 and 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 confucian 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 talking 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 one some 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. people living in the poorest neighborhood the canadian city of vancouver many challenges extreme poverty means many are struggling to afford enough to eat but the project run by three balbus is making show that at the very least. a decent.

doing good for others humans hope and humans meet at the street or dog barbers during the week ross cameron and josh work at the city's top beauty salons but every sunday they're cutting coming in 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 all 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 need it 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 herrmann i mean we've all had our past situations where our failures

maybe someone else's 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. mark there 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 in these guys don't do that at all they live they give us five minutes of compliments 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 daniel like al-jazeera on vancouver's downtown eastside. the cold weather that's gripped parts of north america could take several more days to chicago heavy snowfall has buried cars and blocked roads and also the famous niagara falls of the canadian u.s. border could freeze over if the cope with a persists well it's not uncommon for temperatures to plans to minus twenty degrees celsius in parts of north america interreligious say the length and intensity of the cold make this weather event usual and the cold weather has caused three dead shocks to wash up on the beach in massachusetts on the u.s. east coast the atlantico white shark conservancy says the three miles likely became stranded and fell into cold shock while trying to make their way to warmer waters in the south. the impact of climate change is being felt all over the world

especially on low lying islands scientists say the rising water level is causing cuba to shrink in america at this and see in human reports on the coastal town how many. 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 world hard 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 in my daughter grew up here we didn't have this wall and i would lower down there to play on the rocks because it was dry. in high money does a coastal town you're have vanna everyone notices of the water level is rising on this snow 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 a bit of the gotham in the same but we're applying new practices like planting.

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 how many to ask you about plenty more to read and watch on our website just click on al-jazeera dot com to find out much more about iran protests. reminder of the top stories here in al-jazeera iran's government is calling on people not to take part in that it says are illegal gatherings this process driven by anger over the economy continue for a third day in a row they have been protest against a regime outside to her on university students chanting anti-government slogans

told the police in the last two days these have dispersed protests in other cities including. child some people are angry over high living costs while others are demonstrating against iran's foreign policy the funerals been held for a palestinian man he was shot by israeli soldiers during a protest ingles a twenty year old was one of thousands of palestinians involved in clashes with the israeli military along the gaza border they're angry at the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of its. syrian rebels and their families have started to arrive in the daraa region south of damascus after making a deal with the government a convoy of buses carrying around four hundred fighters and their families was allowed to leave a rebel enclave in beit din and travel to daraa and lip the rebels lost but gin to the syrian government and its allies off the heavy fighting this month grace has

gone to the silent to one of eight takesh soldiers who fled the country during last year's failed coup the cases of the remaining seven soldiers all still being considered as president tayyip erdogan has repeatedly all their extradition but so far great courts have refused saying the soldiers would not receive a fair trial. russia's supremes court has upheld a ban on opposition leader alexei navalny running for president next year now valets brain bald because of a fraud conviction which he says is politically motivated he's calling for his supporters to boycott the votes egypt's former president mohamed morsy has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary will say has been tried in several cases since he was deposed and twenty. protests i'm going to. stay with us inside story is next.

demonstrations in cities across the biggest in nearly a decade protesters say prices are too high and the government's corrupt in two thousand and nine unaddressed was met with a minister a crackdown so how will the government deal with the people's today this is inside story.