so the only gods coming soon. and she managed terry. for truth and war criminal. giovanni did he are a retired bosnian army general who defended setting a fire against attack by serb forces. just the old world and covers a story of tough choices and determined. that it gave all measure at this time an al-jazeera. iran's interior ministry says it will confront disorder after antigovernment protests turned violent on saturday. oaxaca robyn you want yours there were lots more headquarters here in doha also

coming up in the next thirty minutes a coalition of rebel groups promise to fight on in syria we'll look at what the new year could bring for a country that still mired in death and destruction. also sleeping rough in france how president michael's hopes to end homelessness by year's end has failed also. in the middle of the match i like looked over and i was like is limpy ok. changes the game for tennis great serena williams. welcome to al-jazeera they're all calls all social media for a fourth day of anti-government demonstrations in iran despite two protesters being killed on saturday night but there's confusion over who's responsible for the deaths in the city of daraa route the iranian government is blaming foreign agents saying security forces didn't fire on the crowd peter shop possible. for the

third day in a row they are out on the streets fighting with police went on into the night anti-government protesters most of them students facing up to riot police outside tear on university but what began as a protest about rising food prices and welfare benefit cuts turned political on saturday i. earlier in the day they chanted not gaza not lebanon my life a wrong i think. don't be afraid we're staying strong together. an expression of anger about claims that government is focusing more on regional issues than economic problems at home. iranian 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. but 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 for those been some disparate groups have been protesting whether it was sabre's have lost their savings through these corrupt financial institutions whether his pension is no longer going their pensions will have to live on pensions as people are worried about the environment this woman is all these groups and they've been testing and testing and you could see that the 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 the other. one this was a huge display of support for the iranian leadership the government will be

concerned at just how quickly a protest about food prices could become political pizza shop al jazeera. league are more deserving as a journalist for iran international an independent online news service she says the demonstrations have escalated much faster than expected. well i have been speaking to some mostly reformists political activists in iran and there is this widespread understanding inside iran that the mobilization organization first started by anti-roll many hardliners in the city of mashhad which actually happened to be the base for one of his main rivals in the last election and it wasn't expected to be anything beyond just slogans against the administration and the president but it seems like to descend would then the every day iranian in the population is just so much deep heard that is has gone beyond the presidency and it

has gone all the way up to the supreme leader which is very worrisome for all factions of the stablish mint the u.s. president the long term took a materials leaders on twitter for a second day running on friday he tweeted that iranian citizens were fed up with the regime's corruption and its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad he called on iran's government to respect people's rights to express themselves that all saturday he said that apart from the u.s. military power iran's people or what its leaders fear most. all still ety between the u.s. and iran goes back more than sixty years in one nine hundred fifty three a joint british american plot led to the else doing of iran's democratically elected prime minister excuse me and restored the ruling monica sharma reza pahlavi the resentment of the u.s. meddling helped trigger iran's nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution and the

installment of the anti western ruhollah khomeini supreme leader more than fifty americans were held hostage for more than a year the countries have been at loggerheads ever since in twenty fifteen troubling u.s. led sanctions against iran were lifted in return for limitations to its nuclear energy program the deal was the signature foreign policy achievement of barack obama's presidency but since coming to power donald trump has slapped unilateral sanctions on iran and the president could pull the u.s. out of the deal altogether in january now dramatic video has emerged from syria showing children being rescued from rebel held parts of damascus following government airstrikes these pictures of a child being pulled from the rubble are said to be from the damascus suburb of harassed or at least and at least thirteen people including five children are believed to be killed in the bombardment rescuers are also seen carrying two babies from a ruined building aid agencies say the siege by government forces has caused

a humanitarian emergency. more than thirty five groups based in northern syria are joining forces under the single banner of the syrian national army the announcement was made by the head of the rebel interim government opposed to the rule of president bashar assad the new unified opposition includes all factions of the rebel free syrian army the f.s.a. was backed by turkey to push eisel fighters on kurdish forces from the border areas between the two countries. in the fourth part of our series looking ahead to twenty eighteen we examine the future of syria twenty seventeen was a good year for president assad with his forces we can't dream large swathes of territory for my soul and the opposition but while the conflict appears to be winding down in some areas the prospect of genuine peace still seems far away as it is hard to report from beirut. syrian's in search of safety there may be less

violence because of russian brokered local cease fires but there are still active lines in some areas of the country over the past year the opposition lost sizable territory and the syrian government with the backing of iran have also recaptured areas from. the government is stronger than it has been since the conflict began nearly seven years ago but the war is not hearing it's and. the war is far from. for sure and what we're seeing is perhaps a winding down the conflict in some parts. there is a likelihood also an escalation. of the country almost a quarter of the country in the northeast for example is outside the state's control the mainly kurdish region wants a federal system for syria the government wants said it would be ready to discuss this but now it calls the kurds traitors for working with a foreign country and the u.s. decision to maintain a troop presence in the enclave has alarmed russia which says there is no

legitimate reason for them to stay. the war is over but the focus is already on dividing the spoils russia's president vladimir putin wants to play a lead role in. the kremlin has created an alternative for negotiations the russian talks have overshadowed. and now put in plans to host the syrian peace conference in sochi russia's leader says he has the support of iran and turkey countries that are deeply involved in the conflict he also says syria's president bashar assad is backing the peace initiative that may weaken his powers but leave him in office for at least a few years with a reformed constitution. what we will likely see is a syria not divided but the void in terms of spheres of influence. so it will be like a multinational company would countries holding shares and of course russia having

the biggest share of a political settlement is still a long way off for opponents of the government what is being discussed doesn't amount to peace but priorities have changed in two thousand and seventeen calls for us had to be removed from power were no longer heard western leaders now seem to be more concerned with working with russia to counter iran's growing influence in syria set up for their baby. there's increased security in major cities across the world ahead of new year's eve celebrations parties and some public squares have been cancelled in the turkish city of istanbul last year thirty nine people were killed in an attack on a nightclub sit in. most of them thought it was fireworks but it was the sound of bullets fired by gunmen during the first hours of two thousand and seventeen he killed thirty nine people and stumbles popular rayno nightclub. it is still on known how he managed to bypass high

security measures with a long range automatic rifle ali you know was the managing partner all that klopp who witnessed the shooting he lost his friends employees and customers he say's he still can't sleep. his horse can you imagine a bullet passing through your body well your welcome in a new year and it has been one year but there isn't a moment that i forget about this unfortunate attack it's very difficult to live with the spike is grief are you wants people to celebrate the new year outside rather than a home turkish authorities here in istanbul say they have taken all security precautions one measure was to cancel parties in popular public squares like tech seemed you know i am scared and avoid going to crowded places since then to come out and tell you cancelling public parties is a sign of government impotence people should be free but they throw fear into

people with these measures what's going to happen will happen we get nowhere if we are scared to show these we will be outside celebrating as always terror threats can't dissuade us from terror threats and become normalized for turks maybe that's what makes them feel relatively confident despite the highly curry's security and wireman and cancel parties in some public squares it seems turks will not give in to fear this name here soon and also to al-jazeera istanbul well as unprecedented security in sydney awareness to mated one million people will turn out to watch its famous new year's fireworks display under thomas as well from the. hundreds of thousands of people appalling in the city to gather around the harbor to watch the fireworks many of which will be launched from the harbor bridge behind me nothing new about that but happens every year what is unusual is the scale of the security operation put in place to protect specs. sykes's roads like this one they closed

off with barriers elsewhere in city buses not ticket items lorries are being put a cross straits to close them off that's because australia's government says in their words that an attack is probable not tonight specifically this is like general level of alert but it is a bit insidious such an iconic obvious target for thousands of people in the streets of the government wants people to know it's taking no chances at all twice in the last year vehicles have been used to mow down pedestrians in melbourne and one of those attacks in january six people were killed and the government doesn't want to take any chances on sydney's most high profile night of the year. in january twenty seventh in the un secretary-general appealed for peace in his new year message but this time he's going one step further i mean going to alert a red alert for our world's conflicts if the plant a new they injure is every merged global insight it is about nuclear weapons are the highest since the cold war and climate change is moving faster than we are

inequalities are growing and we see or if you fail nations of human rights i urge leaders everywhere to make these new year's resolution never again bridge the divides revealed trusts by bringing people together around common goals unity is the best i wish you peace and else in two thousand and eighteen still out here on al-jazeera an uncertain future for tens of thousands of barly forced from their homes by a volcano plus. journalism under fire dozens killed or jail simply for doing their job their story straight after the break. hello there there's plenty of what weather across the southern parts of asia at the

moment we've got plenty of clouds showing up on our satellite picture between borneo and some march or very heavy rains here and i think those will continue as we head through the next few days for the philippines though it's actually been largely draw over the last day or say but now we've got this developing feature that's going to running its way towards the west looks like that is going to make its way across mindanao giving us a very severe weather here they could be more in the way of flooding as we head through monday and into choose stay down towards australia of course we've still got the remains of our cyclamen here so there's still an injection of moisture lots of showers across essential about alice springs though still staying mostly dry thirty eight degrees will be the maximum here for us a further east we're seeing some severe storms around queensland currently could be some more very lively storms there to start the new year as well it should be drier as you head further south the temperatures in melbourne will be dropping as we head into tuesday the winds feeding up from the southwest so twenty one will be our maximum over towards new zealand and now

a very heavy rain is working its way northward easing as it does so in fact it looks a lot brighton karma for so monday our maximum temperature in christchurch will be around twenty one degrees and in oakland will be up to to twenty . when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven their barriers are built to impose division and it's not a sixties instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching others there are times the whole drama here's a reminder of our top stories there are calls on social media for a fourth day of anti-government demonstrations in iran despite two protesters being killed on saturday night the iranian government is blaming foreign agents for the deaths saying security forces didn't fire on the crowd more than thirty rebel groups based in northern syria are joining forces under the single banner of the syrian national army the new unified opposition includes all factions of the rebel free syrian army which is supported by turkey. has increased security in major cities across the world ahead of new year's eve celebrations parties and some public squares have been canceled in the turkish city of a stumble it's one year since gunman stormed a popular nightclub during

a new year's eve party killing thirty nine people in indonesia more than seventy thousand people continue to live in evacuation shelters after a volcano began erupting in early november many return to the danger zone every day to tend to their crops and livestock step vasant as well. well the military on the last day of the year is very somber these people's lives have been on hold for three months they're waiting and just watching the full kaino as you can see it's mostly elderly and children who are still at the if in fact the way she and child goes it's very hard and difficult for the government to convince the others the adults to stay here a lot of people of course have business to do they have no income here they have to send their children to school and as you can see in all reports a lot of people are taking the risk to go up to the full kaino very near to the crater instead of sitting and waiting down here. your mom got that kills time by

helping out in an emergency kitchen his family sought refuge in this government shelter after they were forced to leave to phillips three months ago the indonesian government has ordered families not to return as long as the volcano remains at its highest alert level or so not that no one can let up on my future looks pretty bleak if i have to stay here in the shelter how can i pay for my children's education i've got no work here at least seventy thousand villages in the danger zone have been forced to leave their homes the three months have passed and boredom has kicked in the local authorities are struggling to keep them away from danger. every morning like many others goes up the mountain back to his village a thirty kilometer journey by motorbike. nearest to the crater and no man knows exactly how dangerous the full kaino can be just five kilometers away. with mount norming dangerously near you know man and his neighbors are mining stones and sand

spewed from an eruption fifty four years ago the villagers are getting some benefit from the natural disaster then. i force myself to be brave enough although the government doesn't allow it i'm fed up in the shelter how long do i have to stay there so while only a little smoke comes out of the volcano i take my chance to earn some money in case there's a major eruption hopes he will have enough time to run while the government continues to urge people to stay out of the danger zone its policy has recently become more lenient because the run for law than can be on their feet because the situation is taking so long and because of all kinds activity is not always high people to get back to when it is during the day time to work and come back to the shelter at night. but newman decides not to return to the shelter and spend the night at his house trying desperately to get his old life back hoping and praying that pound

will go back to sleep very soon step fasten al-jazeera so bloody village. palestine has recalled its ambassador to pakistan after he attended an event alongside the main suspect in the attacks nine years ago palestinian envoy. provoked anger in india for appearing alongside have his say who's accused of planning the attacks the pair were at a rally condemning the u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. and saying in the region an indian soldiers being killed and at least two others injured after armed men stormed a paramilitary camp in indian administered kashmir police say the a target threw grenades and fired automatic rifles as they tried to seize the training center in the town of. india accuses pakistan of training and arming fighters in the disputed region there pakistan denies the allegations tens of thousands of people have rallied in togo demanding an end to the fifteen year rule

of president for a in the scene b it's the latest in a string of demonstrations organized by the opposition they want new rules limiting presidents to two terms in office. police and soldiers in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas at anti-government demonstrators they gathered outside a church in the capital kinshasa demanding president joseph promise not to stand for a third. years ruling coalition and struck a deal last december allowing him to stay in power beyond his mandate. the greek government is trying to get a court decision to grant asylum to a turkish soldier cancelled now the soldier is one of eight accused of involvement in last year's failed coup in turkey the others who fled to greece had their applications for solid rejected but have lodged appeals turkey has repeatedly called for the soldiers extradition but the greek supreme court down they would receive a fair trial at home lawyers several of them are his supporting the soldiers and

says the court decision shows the judiciary remains impartial 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 certain judges and also the justice and the greek judges respond to a very fast asleep and that is a very very strong answer after this our ongoing dispute so i'm extremely happy over them without surely because the judge is the great judge this unbiased and in part in an impartial way i announced this decision i have also to explain to you that this is not the judicial decision this is an administrative decision of the opposite committee however they commit this uprighted by three members to all of them my administrative judges from the greeks justice and one of them is there to present that they have of the un need c.i.

. the international federation of journalists more journalists are in jail than any other time in recent years two hundred fifty journalists bloggers and cameramen or imprisoned worldwide one hundred sixty of them in turkey eighty one journalists were killed this year compared to ninety three last year of j. welcomes the fall of the loss of life but says the total room is on acceptably high mexico afghanistan iraq and syria topped the danger list of jay's alarmed by the growing number of media workers also killed in india. less chilled dramatists that's why but we are middle eastern joe. in general today we have what morals are. due to a new word fifty years on the east in general to sort of as it was destroyed at least i took it for this reason it's very bottom to recall to your.

don't forget to to because it's mostly bottom mostly bottom prison in the world for the least we want to do it sixty two of the east ins are injured. soldiers there is demanding the release of its journalist mahmoud hussain it's not been more than the since he was arrested and jailed in egypt his detention has been renewed ten times since then say those accused of broadcasting false news to spread chaos which he and algis there are strongly denying he has repeatedly complained of mistreatment while in jail in july the french president said he wanted to end homelessness ness in his country by the end of the year but humanitarian groups say the problem is getting worse in paris alone thirty thousand people are still sleeping rough from the french capital that he barbara reports. he's been homeless for five years and he's still only twenty three tony doesn't want to show his face but he's happy to explain why despite the dangers he generally spends his days

begging and his nights sleeping on the streets and not in a state funded emergency shelter. recently someone stole my tent then when i was sleeping on a mattress someone kicked me in the head so they could grab the bag my head was resting on it so life on the street is very hard but in those emergency shelters you also get attacked when you get lots of drunkards there and evan if you don't look for trouble if you find it it's not safe there. the debate about how to deal with the hundred forty thousand people officially homeless in france was reopened this summer when the newly elected president made a surprise announcement. to delusion to the first battle is to have everyone in a dignified manner of death by the end of the year i want no more women and men in the streets in the woods last only boy michael suggested he could achieve

this by providing more emergency shelters and better follow up by social services but groups who work with homeless people say they've not seen evidence of either they say there are now more rough sleepers than ever partly due to an increase in the number of refugees camped out in places like the can are some things like this have become commonplace across the french capital and there are less than one hundred thousand people sleeping rough in this thing and its surroundings rowboats hard to believe homeless charity say things are actually getting worse. critics argue that the government could create thousands of extra beds for homeless people right away using existing facilities here. where there's a door back is the reader it's possible to a hospital wings that are currently empty they've got heating and sanitation they can be converted quite easily they're also not the army barracks that you could use then there's a question of finance the organizations that look after the homeless and run the premises. whatever the reality it's clear winter brings extra hardships for rough

sleepers according to one charity four hundred homeless people have died this year alone and the average age was forty eight for alleviate who became homeless this year after a family crisis those figures come as no surprise. there are lots of people who are ill and who don't get to hospital he says either because they can't afford to or because they don't want to be treated the new year should mean a new start for tony he's been offered work fundraising for a charity and he hopes to rent a flat with a friend but it's not easy. i have already saved up eight hundred euros was my friend will have to pay two thousand two hundred euros so that the level of acceptance without a guarantee or without proof of income looking back the president's short term target for homelessness seemed destined to fail but campaigners hope he will invest in long term solutions that can get people off the streets for good barber al-jazeera paris serena williams says she hasn't yet decided whether to defend her

title of the australian open despite making an encouraging return to the tennis court the twenty three time grand slam winner has played her first match since becoming a mother of four a mother four months ago helen gleeson reports. she isn't the first player to return to the court after having a baby but none have done so quite as quickly as serena williams in her first competitive outing since door to alexa olympia was born in september the fifty six year old to come one of the new stars of women's tennis he laina us a pang. serena dropped the first set today she has wrought on garrus winner because the much unfolded showed she might be back to her best before too long. moments of rustiness like they can be forgiven to mean if last match was the australian open final almost twelve months ago and us the panko isn't the world number seven for nothing the twenty year old said before the match she was excited to play a game that i'd love for the first time but there were no signs of nerves as she

cries out the match in a deciding tie break for serena there just stepping on the court was a victory in itself. i think i was really good and i feel like this was a wonderful opportunity for me to kind of test to see where i am not only physically but mentally it's like mentally like you have to get over that hump of like go for the shot you're going to be ok now because it's a lot that goes on through a female's body after you have a baby so. i think it was perfect fans will have to wait and see when and where serina decides to play next as her korea entered a new chapter telling gleason out is there. your child is there i'm so whole robyn these are all top stories there are calls all social media for fourth day of anti-government demonstrations in iran despite to protest is being killed on saturday night the iranian government is blaming

foreign agents for the deaths saying security forces didn't fire on the crowd dramatic video has emerged from syria showing children being rescued from rebel held parts of damascus following government asteroids now these pictures of a child being taken from the rubble also to be from the damascus suburb of harasta in eastern guta at least thirteen people including five children are believed to have been killed in the bombardment aid agencies say the siege by government forces in eastern kuta has caused a humanitarian emergency. more than thirty rebel groups based in northern syria are joining forces under the single banner of the syrian national army the new unified opposition includes all factions of the rebel free syrian army which is supported by turkey there's increased acuity in major cities across the world ahead of new year's eve celebrations parties and some public squares are being canceled in the turkish city of istanbul it's one year since a gunman stormed a popular nightclub during festivities killing thirty nine people and indian

soldier has been killed and at least two others injured after armed men stormed a paramilitary camp in indian administered kashmir police say the attackers threw grenades and fired automatic rifles as they tried to seize the training center in the town of. tens of thousands of people have also rallied in togo demanding an end to the fifteen year rule of president for a guess seemed to be it's the latest in a string of demonstrations organized by opposition groups they want new rules limiting presidents to two terms in office. police and soldiers of the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas at anti-government demonstrators they gathered outside a church in the capital kinshasa demanding president joseph kabila promise not to stand for a third term now could be as ruling coalition struck a deal last december allowing him to stay in power beyond his mandate you can

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