this is real football fans who don't think about. the experience when real madrid love worth five hundred million euros expresses a position on something the world anti-doping agency has to take notice. al-jazeera continues its investigation into the widespread use of performance enhancing drugs in the final episode of sports don't ping the endless chase at this time. iran calls on its citizens to avoid what it terms that illegal gatherings as protests over the country's ailing economy continue for a third day. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the

program palestinians in gaza mourn the man shot by israeli soldiers during a protest over u.s. too gruesome policy zimbabwe look ahead to elections in two thousand the and a teen after a turbulent year that saw a long time leader robert mugabe forced from power and the record breaking cold snap in the u.s. that is so bad that sharks are freezing today. thank you for joining us let's begin in iran where the government is calling on people not to take part in what it says are illegal gatherings as protests driven by anger over the color may gain momentum on saturday student demonstrators turned their anger towards iran's foreign policy meanwhile i knew a pro-government rallies have been taking place across the country peter sharp has the latest. third day in

a row they were out on the streets to government protesters most of them students fighting with riot police outside terror and university but what began as a protest about rising food prices and welfare benefit cuts turned political on saturday they chanted not gaza not lebanon my life through. the. i don't be afraid we're standing strong together. suppression of anger about claims the government is focusing more on regional issues the economic problems at home. people ring in t.v. showed a display of strength by crowds of pro-government supporters in cities nationwide tens of thousands of people on the streets chanting death to america down with israel in support iran's supreme leader ali khamenei letter that people have protested against inflation other problems but that does not show that our people

have turned on each other or are against the ruling system and their leadership. the pro-government rallies were pre-planned to mark the anniversary of the end of the unrest that shook the country in two thousand and nine unrest in iran prompted another tweet from the u.s. president many reports of peaceful protests bahraini and citizens fed up with the regime's corruption and squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad iranian government should respect their people's rights including rights to express themselves the world is watching on the one hand the economic situation is something that exists across the board but of course i think 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 i this was a huge display of support for the iranian leader. ship but the government would be

concerned just how quickly the protest about food prices became political pizza shop al jazeera. what can that's on there is an iranian blogger based in london he says the unrest has been brewing for a while for some time now there's been some disparate groups have been protesting whether it was have lost their savings through these corrupt financial institutions but those pension is no longer going their pensions will have to live on the trees pensions as people are worried about the environment this woman is all these groups and their intestines testing and you could see that the those that those slogans are now becoming more radical you could say that the atmosphere is going tense or intense and most of all what you could say is that they no longer seem to have that fear from the security forces there in that they took to it the difference with two thousand and nine was that in two thousand and nine the new leadership was part of the establishment they just wanted service of some sort of form some sort of slightly different way of governing but within the islamic republic what's

happening that this is now beyond the regime what people are directly directing their anger at is the clerics that come to the conclusion that you can run the car a country with clerics everywhere interfering in you know everything running everything and it doesn't really take rocket science you don't need to have exposure to toot toot she explained that to imagine if this country was done by kurds interfering running everything what sort of state for that baby so it's the sound of the line of people they don't want courage to challenge their targeting at the clerics directly they're saying that you know we will be reduced to beg the kurds living in palaces they pine for the iran before long to seventy nine the chancing in favor of the you know the law of the reza shah they find of the color within the state that the man who modernized you want the nemesis of the clerics they turn that income which is the holy city of qom the bedrock of shorts elegy where the seminary schools are that chancing for the man who could sell the powers of the clerics some many years ago.

footage has emerged from syria showing children be rescued from the damascus suburb of eastern huta following airstrikes rescuers are seen carrying two babies from a ruined the building aid agencies this week evacuated twenty nine critically ill people including children from eastern huta as part of a deal with the syrian government they say the siege imposed by the government forces has resulted in a humanitarian emergency syrian rebels and their families of started to arrive in that there are regions south of the mask this after making a deal with the government a convoy of buses carrying about four hundred fighters and their families was allowed to leave the rebel enclave of beit jean and travel to and they'd leave the rebels lost to the syrian government and its allies after heavy fighting earlier this month sent a holder has more now from beirut. 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 game 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. the funeral has been held for a palestinian man who was shot by israeli soldiers during a protest in gaza the twenty year old was one of thousands of palestinians involved in clashes with these really military along the gaza border and they're angry at the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the israeli military says them straight has told the burning tires and threw rocks at soldiers it says troops fired selectively against four main instigators of has more now from the funeral in

gaza. the. friday we. went off to. the saturday morning from his injuries to ministry of health says he's a sixty seven to die in the on the left in the file and the since six december when 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 shin rules those have been killed this ones funded by

the armed supported by the armed wing of fatah leaders every friday for the last month of coup 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 fighting got some life bullets. and there's no sign that they're going to give up anytime soon. palestine has recalled its ambassador to pakistan. after he attended an event with the alleged mastermind of the mumbai attacks the palestinian envoy. was pictured sharing a stage with have sayed who's accused of planning the two thousand and eight attack the pair were at a rally criticizing u.s. president obama trumps the situation to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. now for the third part of our series looking ahead to the big stories of two thousand and eighteen extraordinary events in zimbabwe last month saw the military

force long time leader robert mugabe to resign and many hope the outcome of a general election in the new year will improve the economy i'm. standing on the world stage. reports now 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 amos imminent or 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 though 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. to complete my studies and then there's no work for me to do then. what is there 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 the 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 only going to always believe that from the next noise and it is the amount of. we are going to. the next government this is why they're panicking a credible voters 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 plan to register nearly seven million people before elections in twenty eight. as the bobbins prepare for those crucial elections they hope will 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 district 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. stay with us on al-jazeera still to come on the program the greek government says it wants to cancel the asylum that's just being granted to a turkish soldier who's accused of taking part in last year's attempted coup. i'm lucy and human on the northern coast of cuba and coming up i'll tell you why the

largest island of the caribbean is actually shrinking. hello there is turning milder now for some of us in europe and it's all thanks to this weather system here as it works its way eastwards it's dragging in some far milder air on the leading edge missing a little bit of snow before then it turns to rain and we are seeing a lot of snow on the ground melting already so the temperatures then all the way up thirteen degrees there in london and paris twelve in berlin and twelve in vienna as well but as you can see it might be marred with that doesn't necessarily mean that is dr got quite a bit of heavy rain that will be pushing its way into parts of france and also the northwestern parts of spain and into portugal on sunday so a lot of what weather to be found here the system and sweeps its way eastwards as

we head through the day on monday and then the new year will start with yet more wet weather in the western parts of france meanwhile in the far east it's still going to be cold day remotes go our maximum temperature just two degrees an area of snow is working its way towards us across the other side of the mediterranean we've been seeing a fair amount of unsettled weather here as well is just really been the tail end of what's been going on over a year up in the still a few showers on sunday making their way through parts of libya and into egypt and that stretches all the way up into turkey that continues its journey eastwards on monday it's not warm behind it kyra just eighteen degrees and still a few showers in the northeast. and she managed terry. for truth and war criminal. job on duty of a retired bosnian army general who defended setting a fire against attack by serb forces. and covers the

story of tough choices and determined to. measure at this time and colleges era. a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera iran is calling on its citizens to avoid what it terms illegal gatherings as protests over the country's elite wanted me to continue for a third day more airstrikes are reported in the damascus suburb of eastern huta and the funeral is being held for a palestinian shot by israeli soldiers he was protesting against the u.s.

decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. three u.n. agencies and issued a joint statement condemning the war in yemen same people there can't stand another day of fighting the world health organization the world food program and unicef say the conflict has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis there is widespread famine and this place went as well as an outbreak of cholera much of the country's infrastructure and health system have been destroyed by saudi led coalition airstrikes and who the rebel shelling but u.s. the fence secretary james mattis is the fending washington supporter of the saudi led coalition fighting who the rebels in yemen mattis says the u.s. is working with the saudi alliance to limit civilian casualties as well as advise ng on military tactics. egypt's former president mohammed morsy has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of insulting the judiciary for a speech that he made while in office morsi has been tried in several cases after

he was the pows following last protests and the military coup in two thousand and thirteen he's already serving a twenty year sentence in another case on charges of inciting attacks on protesters in two thousand and twelve the top appeals court in september upheld a separate twenty five year term on charges of harming national security by leaking state documents to capital. france says the leader will head into two thousand and eighteen with a spring in a step after a rebound in opinion polls a man when mccraw was just turned forty is often called the hyper president because of his hands on approach to governing it's won him many admirers but some criticism as well that has more from paris. keeping up with emmanuel mccall 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 butyl talked about the manner of michael as a young prodigy close to president hollande but he was never q. ministers and we never drew him work now as depressed and as he made it was really during the election campaign that we started sketching him a lot because as he was everywhere and with. macros built a reputation in france as a straight talker and a man of action it's why many in france called him a hypo president a phrase which was used to describe former president nicolas sarkozy's hands on style. macro has 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

that you bring to the need to guarantee the support to see jean. mcconville very clear message of hope but not an a one of the strength 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 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. him as president and what he said as 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 the last year when. 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. the need for chand.

if you succeed it's early but for the time being you delivers what you promised but not everyone is convinced some say he needs to delegate more to his ministers because you don't know what to do he's an omnipresent president you want to be in charge of everything all the time but that's very dangerous in the polls now 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 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 to touch a butler al-jazeera. the greek government has moved to block asylum being granted to one of a turkish soldiers who fled their country during last year's failed coup an asylum tribunal ruled in favor of the man's appeal and this still considering the cases of

the other seven but the government has filed a request to cancel the ruling earlier turkey's foreign ministry said that the situation would harm by lateral ties and regional cooperation several at amora is one of the lawyers for the soldiers she says the asylum tribunal has firmly resisted pressure from the government. there is not an ongoing dispute between the greek government and the greek judges the last three weeks and the greek government is trying to win friends ceratin good judges and also the justice and the greek judges respond to a very federal law and that is a very very strong answer after this ongoing dispute so i'm extremely happy over them when i actually because the judge is the great judge just i'm biased and in pa in an impartial way i announced this decision i have also to explain to you that this is not a judicial decision this is an administrative duties the decision of the up is

committee however the committees are parted by three members to all of them are administrate these judges from the critics justice and one of them is that a president that they have of the u.n.h.c.r. russia's secret service has arrested the suspected perpetrator of a bomb attack in st 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 i saw claimed responsibility for the attack. russia's supreme court has upheld the ban on opposition leader alexa need running for president next year novelli has 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 forced her. to head over germany's police union has the nouns the creation of a special safe zone for women at the annual new year's eve party in berlin he said

the move sends out what he called a devastating message that women aren't safe from assault outside the designated area two years ago hundreds of women reportedly being sexually assaulted or rolled to do new eve celebration in cologne. and many countries the end of year office party has 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 party and it sparked a debate about the treatment of women by their bosses kathy novak reports now from seoul. 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 sixty 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 to know that a year and haunting 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 where 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. zambia's

president has ordered the military to help fight a color outbreak that's killed at least forty one people in the capital lusaka. says emergency measures are needed to stop the disease from spreading more than one and a half thousand people have contracted cholera since september the cold weather that scripting parts of north america could take several more days to ease in chicago heavy snow fall has buried cars and blocked roads and parts of the famous the agora falls at the can of the u.s. border could freeze over if the cold weather persists well it's not uncommon for temperatures to plunge to minus twenty degrees celsius and parts of north america meteorologists say the length and intensity of the cold make this weather event unusual well the cold weather has caused a sri dead sharks to wash up on a beach in massachusetts on the u.s. east coast the atlantic white shark conservancy says the three males likely became stranded and fell into cold shock while trying to make their way to warmer waters

in the south. well the impact of climate change is being felt all over the world especially in low lying islands scientists say the rising water level is causing cuba to shrink latin america editor of human reports now from the coastal town of gemini. 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. 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 many of us a coastal town you're had vanna everyone notices of the water level is rising on

this low 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. we are

applying new practices like planting corn. rules 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 sida how many desk. much more on that store and everything else we're covering on our website al-jazeera dot com. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera iran's government is calling on people not to take part in what it says are illegal gatherings is them a stray shells are held across the country it's the third day in a row of protests some people are angry over high living costs while others are

demonstrating against iran's foreign policy the funeral has been held for a palestinian man who was shot by israeli soldiers during a protest in gaza the 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 israel. footage has emerged from syria showing children being rescued from the damascus suburb of eastern huta following airstrikes aid agencies this week evacuated twenty nine critically ill people including children from eastern. and syrian rebels and their families have started to arrive in that there are regions south of the mask this after making a deal with the government a convoy of buses carrying about four hundred fighters and their families was allowed to leave the rebel enclave of beit jane and travel to the rebels last page into the syrian government and its allies after had been fighting earlier this

month. the greek government has moved to block asylum being granted to one of eight turkish soldiers who fled their country during last year's failed coup an asylum tribunal ruled in favor of the man's appeal and is still considering the cases of the other seven but the government has filed a request to cancel the ruling earlier turkey's foreign ministry said the decision would harm bilateral ties and regional cooperation russia's supreme court has upheld the ban on opposition leader likes in the colony running for president next year has been barred because of fraud over fraud conviction which he says is politically motivated he's calling for his supporters to boycott the vote president putin is widely expected to win a forced term and egypt's former president mohamed 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 following mass protests and a military coup four news and half an hour listening post this next. step. back in. the carriage or. hello i'm richard give to your at the listening post this week we're breaking format to talk about a gaping hole in news coverage on a story that matters according to a global surveyor.