in the most unlikely places. winning photographer the wonder has set out to challenge the shape perceptions of africa. and bring photography to his community. a story of hope and beauty in the face of adversity. the new african photography the failure. at this time on al-jazeera. the arab. iran's supreme leader blames enemies for fueling antigovernment protests. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up the israeli parliament passes and making it harder to give up any part of jerusalem in

a settlement with the palestinians let's meet next tuesday south korea agrees to talks with the north about the olympics but says nuclear matters are its top priority plus. in a few months time the stands here at luzhniki stadium in moscow will be filled with football fans from all over the world. and i'll have more on this later in the program with russia now in its world cup year. at least eight iranians have been killed overnight in antigovernment protests that's according to local state media they say twenty two people are known to have died since the demonstrations began on thursday the country's supreme leader is blaming what he's calling iran's enemies for the trouble rob matheson has the story . gunshots in the city of persia on monday night.

demonstrators defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here may change on the part i'm working but in this society i'm always. stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood. and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult i have a daughter. the high prices that really put me under pressure at home u.s.

president donald trump has tweeted that iranians are hungry for food and freedom and that's led to protests outside the white house demanding the removal of president rouhani yes iran's supreme leader says the country's enemies are to blame for fueling the protests. montazeri if the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack through which it can infiltrate look at the recent events all those who are at odds with the islamic republic have used various means including money weapons politics and intelligence apparatus to create problems for the islamic system islam republic and the islamic revolution that on monday night protesters also continue to demonstrate against iran's support for syrian president bashar al assad as well as in lebanon and hamas in the occupied palestinian territories iran's republican guard is threatening to stop the demonstrations but there are still calls for more protests rob matheson al-jazeera. iran has reopened two main border crossings with

iraq's kurdish region the trade routes to erbil and suliman ia were closed in october iraq requested the closure in protest of the kurdish referendum on secession an iranian m.p. recently said the closure had cost iran more than two and a half billion dollars. palestinians are condemning a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem and any future peace deal is really m.p.'s pass the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up any territory a simple majority was what was required previously the former palestinian negotiator say about a cap says the new law is a continuation of the u.s. president's decision with an end to the palestinian cause mohammed jump jhoom has more now from occupied east jerusalem. there are so many questions being asked about the impact of this new law what we do know for sure is that number one this law would mean that

a supermajority or eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members would be needed for approval of any future legislation when it comes to giving up territory in to roost and that's instead of the sixty one or simple majority members of the knesset that are needed or that were needed before now that makes a big difference because in effect that essentially takes to roussillon off the negotiating table and any future peace talks now the second and perhaps more contentious issue this brings up is that this could potentially allow for the changing of jerusalem's municipal borders that means that neighborhoods like one behind me call for as well as the refugee camp neighborhoods that are both behind the wall they would no longer potentially be part of the jerusalem municipality that raises a lot of questions about what would happen to the residents there that are now considered residents of east jerusalem with those residents continue to be residents of jerusalem when they continue to be residents of israel would they be able in the future to vote in jerusalem elections many questions at this hour we've

spoken to lots of analysts lots of lawyers there scratching their heads about it as well essentially this raises many issues about over one hundred thousand palestinians that are in neighborhoods like this that don't really know going forward what their residency status or other status are going to be bringing a lot more uncertainty into an already very uncertain time. as the secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and president of the palestinian medical relief society joins us now from ramallah himself a bug what does this do to the peace process. this is an arc of money one lot of many others that are directed at killing the peace process killing or slow agreement destroying it and killing the possibility of two state solution this is an israeli consistent effort to establish a system of apartheid in palestine to consolidate actually

a system of apartheid racial discrimination against palestinians and it's also an act that is aiming at its nicklin zing of palestinians from jerusalem itself so. i think it's time for the whole world to realize that what is going on is that an israeli afford to kill any possibility for peace in this region and israel and should be held accountable for what it's doing and the least that can be done by the international community if they really claim they want peace is to force israel to retreat by israel divesting from israel and establishing sanctions against israel ok i understand the point about accountability i'll come on to that in a moment ethnic cleansing strong language of course but what is wrong with the parliamentary system that they are tweaking or introducing here lots of parliaments around the world do not settle for a fifty one percent vote forty nine percent vote lots of parliaments when it comes

to enacting legislation have a very clear majority based system on top of which netanyahu benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister might say actually there's a demographic time bomb coming in this is how we're going to deal with it. well according to all slow agreement which established the relationship between the palestinian authority and israel and which in which was considered to be the peace process according to the mint there are six major issues that we're dealing with and should should have been negotiated by nine hundred ninety nine one of which was the issue of jerusalem one of which was the issue of borders one of which was the issue of water under the few g.'s and israel and they're also agreement that north side should be allowed to take unilateral actions in relationship to any of these six issues. israel practically is digging the unilateral steps to impose

their own version their own facts on each and every one of these six issues it's sending a message to the palestinians that when they're israelis and practically the international community deceived the palestinians when they're encouraged him to sign also agreement hoping that this will end with a two state solution and reality of the art of telling palestinians we deceived you we use the time to build settlements to your dies you lose a limb and now we will establish a system of apartheid and you will never get a palestinian independent state this is exactly and their israeli parliament has not i do an elected only to take actions regarding the occupied east jerusalem if this is if i can make some mix my metaphors here if this is step change within the status quo donald trump's announcement of moving the embassy to jerusalem and the recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel will very probably happen not yet

not any time very soon but it probably will happen you can i suggest to you have to accept that and work within the strictures the consequential strictures that come off the back of that but what else can you do because the status quo is shifting it is moving if this announcement today if this new law is part of that step change you have to do something about it but what else can you do because other countries are accepting it other countries are having to say ok we can't go any further than another u.n. resolution. well first of all it is clear that israel would not have to go that far in the establishment of racist apartheid system if it wasn't encouraged by the decisions of president trump let me remind you that the israeli settlement activities increased by one hundred percent since trump was elected and he did nothing to restrain that that's one issue that issue

is what can we do there are immediate tactical issues we should do and palestinian authority should do like that if airing all israel is responsible for settlements to the international criminal court this is. a step that was delayed too long and joining all you and other agencies and demanding that a condition of palestinian state that's at the tactical level strategically speaking if the world does not step in and pressure israel to stop killing the two state solution then we will have no option but to see ok we want one state solution ok very briefly just to interrupt you for a second very briefly basically saying that if you're basically saying that you have been betrayed after all slow should you address that question of betrayal not to donald trump but to bill clinton he signed off on the oslo accords that he pushed that's why we saw the israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin and arafat on the lawn outside the white house one major issue of the

world keeps telling palestinians you should respect existing agreements and that applies to any government whether this government is the one that signed that agreement or not today the government of the united states not by clinton by a very mr trump and mr trump is responsible for the behavior of his country as well as all european leaders who have been watching and not taking any serious actions to restrain israel from destroying the very last opportunity of peace in this place mustafa barghouti many thanks. south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing the two sides meet on tuesday the unification ministry said they mainly focus on north korea's taking part in the winter games they're due to happen in less than six weeks it follows kim jong un's new year's address which struck a more predator toward seoul has been smith. in the freezing environment of the winter olympics there might be a chance for a foreign relations between south and north korea hopes are being raised following

the new year address by came on north korea's leader suggested sending a team to the winter games starting in south korea next month government leaders in seoul were quick to seize the opportunity. the government proposes to hold high level talks with north korea on january ninth at the peace house in panmunjom true spillages to discuss north korea's participation in the pyongyang winter olympics. south korea's president favors talks with the north as a way of managing pyongyang's nuclear and missile threats. and the improvement of relations between north and south korea cannot go separately with the resolving north korea's nuclear program so the foreign ministry should coordinate closely with allies and the international community regarding that. the chinese say they've noted what they call positive signals from both sides of the border. or.

china welcomes it supports north and south korea taking earnest efforts to treat this is an opportunity to improve mutual relations promote the alleviation of the situation on the korean peninsula and realize denuclearization on the peninsula. while offering to send a team of athletes to the olympics came also said the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office a north korean nuclear bomb test last year as well as the firing of more than twenty missiles continue to defy the world u.s. president donald trump wants to toughen sanctions further as pyongyang continues to develop nuclear missiles it says it will be capable of hitting the continental united states if negotiators do meet next week ahead of the winter olympics will be their first formal talks in two years bernard smith al-jazeera. and staying with her story for just the next thirty seconds or so donald trump the u.s. president on twitter of course it's breakfast time in washington he's talking about

north korea saying sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have a big impact on north korea he also does refer however to kim jong un as rocket man saying he now wants to talk to south korea for the first time he's saying perhaps that's good news perhaps not we will see exclamation marks that's less reaction from the u.s. president to those positive signs coming out of pyongyang of course the key question where will those discussions go next still to come here on al-jazeera the nigerian military says hundreds of people held hostage by the armed groups. have escaped. more very heavy right into central parts of china over the next couple days someone there is don't look too bad at least for the time being it's

a twenty three souses they have been on call with some bright sunshine coming through further north as that west of weather into those central areas some snow there across northern areas of this band of rain and that will become a little more widespread a little more expansive as we go on through the second half of the week shanghai with temperatures just about getting up into double figures but you notice take a cloud does start to push its way across southern parts of china by this data turning increasingly wet staying pretty wet too across the far north east of india three me and this unusually wet weather this unseasonably heavy rain pushing in across the area has caused some flooding rains for much of india is fine and dry we have got the the fog the dense fog sitting across the northern plains warnings remain in force here and will be the case over the next few days the temperatures in new delhi no higher than around twenty two degrees celsius ten degrees will. in the fall right columbus we are going to see some more hot sunshine coming through this warm sunshine presently warm sunshine meanwhile across the raven peninsula

increasing wins he notes is just around the gulf over the next few days so not too bad in doha where the top temperature of twenty fall. you are making very pointed remarks where on line the main u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been decriminalized or if you join us on sax no evil person just makes up of it in the morning in the sense i want to cover the world in darkness and this is a dialogue and that could be what leading to some of the confusion online about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the colobus conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

well again you're with al-jazeera a quick reminder of our top stories the iranian supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei is accusing the country's enemies of fueling antigovernment protests state media says eight people were killed on monday night taking the death toll from five days of unrest now to twenty two. palestinians are condemning a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem for a future peace deal israeli m.p.'s passed the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory. south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of discussions proposing the two sides meet next tuesday it follows kim jong un's new year's address or struck a more friendly tone towards seoul donald trump has just said on twitter sanctions are beginning to have an impact on north korea. now to pakistan charities linked to a the main suspects of bomb attacks in india being banned by the government from

accepting donations the ban coincides with the u.s. president tweeting that pakistan was a quote haven for terrorists is natascha going to. remember there's a ten million dollar reward for any information leading to the conviction of half is site yet here he is that a rally last week protesting u.s. president donald trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel the united states believes saeed is the mastermind of the two thousand and eight attacks in mumbai over the course of four days attackers used automatic weapons and grenades to kill more than one hundred sixty people say he has denied involvement in the attacks at a court in pakistan found there was insufficient evidence to convict him and twenty seventeen he was put under house arrest for violating anti-terrorism laws friday when he made his release prompted outrage from pakistanis and. the u.s.

government which is long been critical of pakistan when it comes to clamping down on terrorism the pakistani government has targeted saeed's assets and charities they include three hundred schools hospitals ambulance services and a publishing house the government is blocking fund raising and there are plans to assume control of them the un security council has also banned two of sedes organizations pakistan is under pressure and therefore why this new decision. has come after the british by the americans by you and by india. this is a challenging time in pakistan us relations we must see decisive action against terrorist groups parading on their territory and we make massive payments every year to pakistan they have to help pakistan says moving in on saeed's

groups isn't bowing to u.s. pressure it's intended to fulfil its international obligations reuters reports that pakistan was worried it would face u.n. sanctions for failing to crack down on terrorist groups later this month a un security council team will visit to check on its progress natasha going to aim . as uncommon as a political commentator. he says sufi saeed's believed to support fights as in the disputed kashmir region and that won him support in pakistan. so did the legation element in pakistani military especially they get tired senior journalists they are somehow supporting office a good job for the reason there has are going to ization is involved. extending support to the question media freedom fighters in the indian so that is a fact and that is the reason there are the pakistan political parties that are so

against him for his being in water and activities which are. limited to any topic they would use in their fear there are so didn't woman he can extend these if they would just within within the country so yes the people and the political observer who believe there elements in the pakistan security establishment. somehow extending a model of financial support to the house they say then his are going to ization for their cities and there he is so far. as this is the only are going to his nation which is allowed to. non-governmental organizations are not allowed specially in baluchistan in their desert. to be so stupid these days and these evidences people believe there may be he is he has the support of element from the pakistan security establishment dozens of civilians have been killed in

a spike in the violence in syria and as part of the government's assault on rebel held positions near damascus four hundred thousand people have been living under siege in eastern for four years in desperate need of food and medicine is in a hole to reports. markets are being hit civilians the victims civil defense volunteers who rushed to help those who are still alive in recent days at least four people have been killed in what opposition activists indiscriminate. airstrikes believed to be carried out by syrian government warplanes have intensified in the besieged rebel controlled area of eastern. and it is residential neighborhoods that are coming under fire the government says it has launched what it calls a counter offensive because rebels are firing shells into territories under its control but rebels say the government is trying to help troops trapped in

a military installation in the suburb of harass. the recent attacks may be linked to the fighting but it has been weeks since the government stepped up its military campaign in what is supposed to be a deescalation zone the syrian observatory for human rights said almost two hundred civilians were killed in strikes and shelling including many women and children. civilians are not just getting killed in attacks children are dying from malnutrition patients are dying from the lack of medicines. by syrian government forces the united nations is warning that the situation has reached a critical point is in short supply and the international committee of the red cross has also expressed alarm what it calls a humanitarian crisis. eastern is then sleep populated some four hundred thousand people live there it's on the doorstep of damascus the seat of the government's power pro-government forces want to recapture this region but

so far its forces haven't been able to make any advances on the ground so its strategy is to punish the billions for supporting the rebels in the hope that they all surrender. beirut. to saudi arabia where a former finance minister who was recently detained as part of the kingdom's crackdown on corruption has attended a weekly cabinet meeting abraham was among two hundred businessmen and members of the royal family who were held in november so the media say he was released last month the nigerian military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by. managed to escape they were. close to the northeastern border with chad the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who are being kept in forced labor camps. from a brooch. the more than seven hundred hostages fled their captors after what the nigerian army called ground on elephants of over the last few weeks in northeastern

nigeria now these areas they have fled from are actually islands in the lake chad because of the receding waters of the lake on the borders with nigeria cameroon and chide they've been some islands forming in the middle of the lake and these have been populated by villagers who are mostly farmers and fisherman now they have escaped after the army or the military raid in the lake child region of northeastern nigeria now this is coming this discovery of large number of hostages kept the bible quote came almost a year after the nigerian government announced that a bookworm has been technically defeated a lot of nigerians are not comfortable with the declaration by president mohammad y.b. when he made that announcement says that and i was with will see in a daring and sometimes devastating attacks by book or on quite is in northeast nigeria and they have taken a lot of force to use some of these attacks actually took place in two thousand and seventeen the army is continuing its operations to be

a guest book or around and book i am a software proved to be resilient fall in northeastern nigeria a drinks factory in cameron's biggest city has also destroyed in about a school and several homes witnesses say the blaze started in alcohol at the factory and firefighters couldn't stop the flames from spreading to surrounding buildings and reinforcements were called in from the airport nearby. for the second time in a week last isis a battle the big blaze in the bronx neighborhood of new york at least twelve people were injured in a four story building twelve people were killed on thursday in the city's worst fire twenty five years. twenty teams going to be a big year for russia and for football fans worldwide when the world cup kicks off on june the fourteenth the tournament's an opportunity for russians to reverse perceptions following the scandal over the doping of a limping kathleen sent other con. professor such as russian denials of interference in the election of donald trump rory chalons looks at from moscow.

empty stadiums often have an atmosphere of expectation about them they need the roar of a crowd to bring them alive and moskos luzhniki stadium fresh from a complete refit is waiting for the biggest footballing spectacle of them all i says the direct construction took about three years corbett had to be demolished except for the external walls the statue huma's a high technology facility the base has natural druss with a special ventilation and a heating system and there are more than sixty five kilometers of engineering tubes under. the readiness of russia's twelve world cup stadiums is facing the usual pre-con petition scrutiny your cats are in berg's temporary stands raise concerns a few months ago assures us everything will be fine all together they'll be seven matches played here at luzhniki including the opening match the semifinal and the final itself together with the olympics the world cup is one of the two biggest

sporting events in the world which makes it not just about football but about politics to. the glory of russia's last big sporting bonanza barely lost it beyond the closing ceremony two thousand and fourteen winter olympics in sochi tarnished first by russia's military involvement in ukraine and then a widespread stoping scandal so providing everything goes well this summer the world cup is an opportunity to mend russia's reputation somewhat and it happens to be a presidential election year to disperse is extremely tremendously important for russian politics for russia as empire of. military force and bilateral. to lesser extent economic force political force. sports means kind of a war fare for the salutes national pride matters hugely in russia particularly

with many people left poor up by the recent recession in a wintry central moscow they dare to hope. of course we believe in our football team we believe in our victory we will am for the finals we are supporting them we believe in them this is our russia summer can't come soon enough rory chalons out zero moscow. again reminding you of the top stories so far today in iran the supreme leader ayatollah ali how many is accusing the country's enemies of fueling anti government protests state media say eight people were killed on monday night taking the death toll during five days of unrest to twenty two the president hassan rouhani is calling for calm. the enemy is poised for an opportunity

a breach to penetrate through to look at the incidents in the past few day all those who are against the islamic republic of iran those with cash politics weapons and intelligence agencies join hands so they may be able to create troubles for iran i have concerns that i will talk to people regarding these issues soon iran has reopened two main border crossings with iraq's kurdish region the trade routes to erbil and suliman nia were closed in october iraq requested the closure in protest at the kurdish referendum on secession an iranian m.p. recently said the closure cost iran more than two and a half billion dollars palestinians are condemning a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem under a future peace deal is really m.p.'s pass the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory a simple majority was required previously the former palestinian negotiator say better katz says the new law is a continuation of the us president's decision was an end to the palestinian cause

donald trump caused arab outrage last month by recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday it follows kim jong un's new year's address which struck a more friendly tone towards so the us president donald trump says sanctions are beginning to have an impact on north korea pakistan has seized control of charities and financial assets linked to one of the main suspects in the two thousand and eight mumbai bombings in india have fees saeed has been designated a terrorist by the un and the united states he has repeatedly denied involvement in the attacks and a pakistani court found insufficient evidence to convict him. the nigerian military says more than seven hundred people held hostage by boko haram that managed to escape they were thrown close to the northeast and border with china the military says many of the captives were farmers and fishermen who are being kept in forced

labor camps those are your headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the scream i will see you very soon but what. al-jazeera. where ever you. hi emily could be and here in the stream today from poverty to parliament we'll speak to uganda an afro pop star and newly elected m.p. . uganda as the robert better known by his stage name bobby wine grew up in one of compilers poorest neighborhoods to his east african fans he's known as the ghetto

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