it sounds like an agreement between criminals trading in stone goods that have been taken by the place if anyone ever comes to ask the question minister throw their hands up in the air and say i don't know i was just nominated record with doing an investigation into. ukraine a bribes in corrupt. corrupt did just the president's the. investigation is the only go this time. this is al-jazeera. and i'm jane dutton this is the news live from coming up in the next sixty minutes palestinians say they won't be blackmailed after the white house threatens to cut

off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. to free all political prisoners and shots in the tourist prison camp in a surprise move after months of protest. president donald trump reacts theory to comments in a book about life inside the white house made by his sacked former aide steve benen . as north korea reopens communications with the south after two years i look ahead at the prospects clinic's weeks talks. palestinian leaders say they won't be blackmailed off the u.s. president donald trump threaten to cut aid with iran three courses of a billion dollars a year tom made the statement on twitter claiming palestinians for refusing to engage in middle east peace talks relations with the u.s. have plummeted since trump recognized jerusalem as israel's cop. last month the

cuts threaten money allocated to the palestinian authority most u.s. funding goes on development and infrastructure projects and not directly to the see itself also griscom its funding to the united nations relief and works agency or which assists palestinian refugees the u.s. is its largest donor both measures if they go ahead with cuts around seven hundred sixty five million dollars a year in aid to the palestinians reports now from the city of ramallah in the occupied west bank. a mother of three palestinian refugee children a routine trip to the doctor was already riddled with complications. but after hearing the u.s. may decide to cut more than three hundred million dollars of annual aid to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees or as it is known she now worries a bad situation may worsen. it's getting more difficult it's getting more

complicated and things aren't getting solved everything is becoming more expensive going to laws available to the poor is not nowadays on wednesday residents of the occupied west bank woke up to the news that u.s. president donald trump may halt aid payments worth hundreds of millions of dollars to palestinians if they're no longer willing to talk peace sixty year old wooden a fool like so many other palestinian refugees here relies on this unruh is supported clinic in a refugee camp a health center that depends on foreign aid. it's hard because of the difficult situation in all conditions and allow us to go to this clinic while officials tell us they've not been informed by the u.s. administration of any changes in funding to the agency the cuts could have a devastating impact approximately five million palestinian refugees are eligible for services close to eight hundred thousand of them live here in the west bank and

another one point three million are in gaza condemnation from palestinian officials who insist they are still very much committed to the peace process was swift many of them said palestine was not for sale we've lived for a long time without american aid and we couldn't some sort of buy without american aid and if it's really means that there will be more hunger and less ability to survive look at what the gazans have sustained because of the israeli siege of gaza. but but people you know i'm not willing to sell their homeland for money now faced with the prospect of a political solution growing dimmer and humanitarian. getting scarcer the only thing it seems palestinians can count on is even more uncertainty my homage to images either among the occupied west bank is a fun seller is a former policy adviser to the palestinian prime minister rami he says cutting aid

to the palestinians will have a major impact on refugee camps in the region. the palestinian government and policy our leadership always expressed willingness to go back to the negotiating table but not for free they as a trial has been violating the palestinian rights all along and they have been violating all of their agreements that the palestinian authority have signed with as a real cutting aid to the palestinian people will not make them bow to the as riley and the american will and cutting aid will not only affect palestinians but would also affect. the neighboring arab countries because if you i'm sure all of you know that we have thousands and tens of thousands of but it's. in in many other countries especially in syria and lebanon and jordan and cutting aid to produce you know refugees will also have

a dangerous time if occasion is not only in palestine not only on the palestinians and israelis but also on the region as a whole that the u.s. is the biggest contributor to the palestinian refugee agency the on the way it is out of the core budget the u.s. contributor on twenty six percent which is around one hundred fifty two million dollars a year and if you add to that also the u.s. support to the humanitarian projects they also are implemented through the underworld this number could could go up to three hundred sixty eight million dollars a year so this is basically a huge number and it will definitely affect the situation of the police here refugees as they said not only in palestine but also you know in the arab preach and the refugees will not remain silent i'm sure this will also lead to a protest would also lead to perhaps more violence will also affect the fragile security situation in also the arab countries especially syria and lebanon.

spokesman chris again as told there that there's been no fishel word from the u.s. that it will pull support in the aid organization will continue to provide health care and education we have had no indications whatsoever from the us administration that they intend to cut funds from under they remain of the single largest donor last year giving us three hundred sixty five million dollars we have daily conversations with them and as i say we've had no indications whatsoever of funding cut our contribution to the human dignity and the capital human capital of five point two million refugees the middle east is widely recognized it's enormous we run schools for half a million children seven hundred schools we are doctors do nine million patient consultations per year we have of nine thousand students in vocational training centers we have tens of thousands of disabled refugees we serve our micro finance

department dispenses tens of millions of dollars of loans every year it's huge our contribution it's absolutely massive our contribution to human development is really widely recognised as being widespread and indeed profound israel's parliament has given preliminary approval for legislation making it easier for court impose the death penalty the law would apply to people convicted of murder in incidents classified as a terrorist attack currently the death penalty can only be used if a panel of three military judges passes the sentence unanimously that the new legislation would see a death sentence handed down if only two out of three judges agree the bill still requires three more readings before it becomes law. i think that in the stream situation there is also a simple logic and simple logic is if someone murders a loss he will not spend the rest of his life in jail and he will be executed. it

is the director of the center for the study of the middle east at indiana university joins us via skype from bloomington indiana welcome good to have you with us on the show why would israel do this. well i think that a number of reasons of first of all let's not forget that prime minister netanyahu was central committee of prime minister netanyahu was party has just. passed a resolution to annex the settlements in the west bank which are universally recognized as occupied territory the settlements are illegal under international law. on the other hand the united states administration seems to be winking and nodding in the direction of a fairly hardline israeli government that it will not interfere with the hardline policies on the part of the israeli government and there is a political climate in the arab world in which some rather significant arab

countries are in a de facto alliance with the state of israel to confront iran and indeed the bottle any former minister tweeted before the new year that the palestinian or the jerusalem issue is a secondary matter so there seems to be a sort of a coalescence of political factors that i think makes the prime minister of israel who has never been particularly interested in resolving the problems with the palestinians making him think that he can get away with us and indeed if you force me to put money i would guess he probably can and as you say we've seen something new almost every single day particularly when it comes to the palestinians but i was reading your comments as a lead on before this interview and you say that this bill actually violates israel's no set well if i on if i understand the law correctly and i have to caution here i have not seen the translation of the bill into english so i haven't

read it but if i understood the reporting correctly it would apply only to palestinians targeting israeli it would not apply to israelis targeting palestinians therefore it would violate for some. of lee israeli norms regarding. the equal application of the law particularly as israel begins to exert more and more sovereignty over the occupied territories including of course easterly east jerusalem the west bank generally and there is a strip so it would violate that it would also i think be problematic from an international human rights law point of view. sense again the application of the law would be against palestinians not israelis if i have understood the report i mean i've understood the reporting correctly if the reporting on the bill is correct like i say if this does mean that palestinians for example face the death

penalty and not israelis if they put in a similar situation what's this going to do for the peace process for example well i think i mean let's face it the peace process seems to me at the moment more obama does it has for some time but certainly i think it puts the final nail in the coffin i should point out that up till now in israel there's been only one case of the application of the death penalty and that was with respect to iceman so the sort of the whole of cost exception under israeli law that if you are perpetrator of the holocaust you are eligible for the death penalty but nobody else so this would be sort of a huge sort of retrenchment from that position but clearly the peace process is at a stalemate you're reporting before this piece about the united states possibly withholding funds for there was cetera clearly there is no interest either in the current israeli government nor in the american administration of pushing a real peace process forward it's an unfortunate moment for all of us in the middle

east. thank you very much my pleasure thank you. go ahead on the news on clearing we look ahead to mexico's presidential election as candidates warm up for the race to the top job. and they have escaped the fighting but the new reality is not much better displaced syrians in a freezing winter in the open and it's for find out his favorite to take home one of the most prestigious football awards in the world. iran's ambassador to the united nations is accusing the u.s. of interfering in iran's domestic affairs and their use of his written a letter of complaint to the u.n. secretary general comes after days of unrest in which at least twenty two people have been killed but the government's received a show of support in the form of tens of thousands people who rallied to condemn the unrest matheson reports. on arabian state t.v.

pictures of government supporters filling city streets condemning protests and dance during days of. its basically people who are believing that what so what's happening is against the regime and they want to support the regime by saying this is a revolutionary jeem and we are in favor of it. the t.v. pictures of these pro-government rallies are a contrast to coverage of demonstrations against iran's leadership which began last thursday. the government has shut down some social media platforms. but pictures have been posted showing damaged cars burning buildings and chanting crowds. protests about unemployment and iran's economy which has been struggling after years of sanctions have grown to include demands for greater freedoms hundreds of people have been arrested the u.s.

is demanding an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council if the. iranian dictatorships history is any guide and we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the u.n. must speak out. president donald trump has sided with the anti-government protesters he's tweeted the people of iran are finally acting against the brutal and corrupt iranian regime all of the money that president obama so foolishly gave them went into terrorism and into their pockets the people have little food big inflation and no human rights the u.s. is watching iran's foreign minister has tweeted back saying iran security instability depends on its own people who unlike the peoples of trump's regional b f f's are best friends forever have the right to vote and to protest. more pro-government rallies are expected but that have also been calls for more

demonstrations against the government it's not clear if both sides will be on the same streets at the same time rob matheson al-jazeera. is here because government has announced it will release all political prisoners and close in the toy prison camp and surprisingly if charges against many who are facing prosecution will also be dropped stephanie decker reports. theo p. has been under pressure domestically and on the international stage there have been anti-government protests since two thousand and fifteen they continue to pose a serious challenge to the ruling party the decision to release all political prisoners will be welcomed by many peons some warn it may not lead to major changes in policy. that. go on the idea of the prime minister. realizes that it should be going to continue to. political junkie and that it is still stuck to

a political dialogue in order to avoid really being sidelined by the international community. used to be easily. only level of the society. the protests of the past few years of call for political and economic changes. iranian i'm hardly agents of lead vocal opposition to the government accusing the ruling party of marginalizing them. activists and journalists have been arrested in what is described as the most serious challenge if the government came to power in one nine hundred ninety one hundreds of civilians have been killed during the recent crackdown human rights groups of accuse the security forces of using excessive and lethal force. during wednesday's news conference the government announced it's closing the notorious mark callao a prison and turning it into a museum to facilities been singled out by rights groups in the past for suspected rights violations including torture and critics maintain the government needs to address the underlying grievances of the protesters such as economic social and

ethnic rights it's not clear what kind of impact the release of political prisoners will have on the growing opposition movement stephanie decker. electric studied political trials and ethiopia he says the government would be risking a collapse if it doesn't follow through on his promises. the question of whether or not the government can be believed. is one that divides a lot of people some people say that because the political landscape is shifting if in the interest of the government itself to do this if the government doesn't do this then it would be very difficult to hold on for a very long time there are others who are skeptical some who are cautiously optimistic but my own personal belief is that the government would all or even though it may normally sort of its all political prisoners it would it is very likely to to honor this pledge because this is no longer an option for the

government if it doesn't do this then it is probably i think inviting it is on arrival in u.s. president donald trump is last started his former chief strategist steve bannon follows publication of passages from an upcoming book in which bannon calls chung's eldest son treasonous for meeting a lawyer linked to the kremlin in two thousand and sixteen that meeting is central to an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the presidential campaign dine easterbrook reports. for the first time a furious donald trump publicly thrashed his former strategist over comments in an upcoming book saying steve bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind in fire and fury inside the trump white house bannon says donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic when he met with russians who claim to have dirt on democratic presidential candidate

hillary clinton press secretary sara sanders called the president's anger at bannon justified i would certainly think that going after the president's son and absolutely outrageous and unprecedented way is probably not the best way to curry favor with anybody the book's release coincides with special prosecutor robert miller's investigation into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand election and possible collusion by the trump campaign it includes interviews with white house insiders including bannon and paints an administration in chaos the white house tried to distance itself from bannon wednesday saying the president had little one on one contact with bannon but bannon was the c.e.o. of the president's campaign played a key role during the president's transition to the white house and was chief political strategist until he was fired last summer in the book bennett says he advised the president to move the u.s. embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem immediately after he took office he is

quoted as saying we know where we're heading on this let jordan take the west bank let egypt take gaza let them deal with it or sink trying i would love to tell you people banding continues to have a strong connection to president trump's nationalist core but sanders downplayed suggestions that those supporters might break with the president it's a question we're going to have to ask steve bannon the president's base is very solid it hasn't changed because the president hasn't changed his agenda hasn't changed as yet bannan hasn't commented on the blistering words from. the man he helped propel to the highest political office in the world dion estabrook al jazeera. the us president's former campaign chairman paul manifolds is suing the u.s. justice department and special counsel robert mueller over the russian investigators and manifolds is trying to fend off his criminal trial due to start in may he faces laundering charges related to work he did for the hours to moscow ukrainian

president viktor yanukovych the lawsuit accuses miller of going beyond his legal authority by filing the charges against him a turkish bank has been found guilty in a u.s. court of taking part in the scheme to violate washington's sanctions against iran made hakan artillery and eight others who accuse of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through american banks disguised as food and gold sales christensen in the reports from new york. attila took the stand and insisted he never conspired to evade u.s. sanctions at the deputy general manager of hulk bank his attorneys suggested his boss and others were to blame but it was a tila who was arrested while traveling to the united states while his boss and others charged in the case remain free in turkey the only other defendant to face trial in the u.s. turkish iranian gold trader and reza rob he pleaded guilty and became a key witness for the prosecution making accusations that rose to the top of

turkey's government saurabh testified he paid tens of millions in bribes to government ministers and the scheme that president rest of type and want himself had authorized when he was prime minister turkish officials who initially lobbied u.s. officials released have now moved to condemning him and seizing his assets the very fact that erdogan has been so concerned about this case does suggest that at some level he feels vulnerable however given the ease with which he's dealt with previous allegations of corruption in the past it's hard to imagine this it's hard to imagine a sort of suggested this is going to be the thing that brings him down everyone's government claims the u.s. is trying to weaken his government and do the bidding of political rival for to look glenn lives in the united states. this court case or stop being judicial became completely political with the sole aim to corner turkey and its economy and damage the country

a charge prosecutors have described as ridiculous you can choose to willfully help iran said acting u.s. attorney june kim in a statement or you can choose to be a part of the international banking community transacting in u.s. dollars but you can't do both so rob provided no evidence that a tila ever took a bribe but as u.s. prosecutors successfully argued that didn't mean he was innocent now he could face decades behind bars for a scheme he helped design but others including zurab got rich off of christian salumi al jazeera new york. at least fourteen people have been killed in airstrikes in northwest syria this footage shows the aftermath of an airstrike was destroyed a hospital on the outskirts of three people were killed and eleven people died in other strikes across it live and hama the syrian opposition says russian and government forces carried out the attacks it the provinces thought to be the last remaining largest remaining rebel held area in the country it's inside one of the

so-called de escalations and set up last september in an effort to scale back the conflict but with no letup in the fighting tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing the area as a one hundred reports. they set up tents wherever they can on the side of roads in open fields syrians are still on the move trying to find a safe place many have already been displaced more than once these people are from the north and home of countryside and from the villages along the neighboring provincial borders of lib areas that have become battlegrounds. we fled the bombardment and the airstrikes we can't go back because our house was hit and it is now destroyed they are targeting civilians and their homes not the rebels. the recent wave of displacement coincides with the winter weather is setting in making life even more difficult near freezing temperatures are common here and many fear

they may have to live out in the open for a long time they have nothing to return to and some of their villages have been recaptured by government forces for many going back is not an option. we had to leave the area because of airstrikes we tried to return to the village but it was talkative again we hope that the regime doesn't control the area the united nations says up to sixty thousand people have been displaced in recent weeks it also says aid is scarce there are already an estimated two hundred thousand displaced people in people who fled from areas across the country retaken by government forces. being displaced for the past seven years running from one place to it's horrible if god doesn't help us no one can kill us all even the children the regime wants to control every single area. the violence is not confined to areas close to the frontlines villages across the province are coming under fire. hospitals bakeries

markets have all been hit by air strikes it fell under rebel control in two thousand and fifteen it is also supposed to be a russian guaranteed deescalation zone. it is a heavily populated province an estimated two million people live there people fear the presence of. a coalition dominated by front which declared its independence from al qaida could be used as a pretext to launch an all out offensive the russian military did say the main goal is to defeat that group in syria in two thousand and eighteen. people are worried pro-government forces want to storm the rebels however believe the military campaign aims to recapture a military airport and lift the siege on to loyalist towns in the province whatever the objective the offensive continues to cause much suffering and. beirut. no way is banning weapons exports to the united arab emirates of its participation in the war in yemen the u.a.e.

is a key member of the saudi led coalition fighting heathy rebels in the country the coalition has imposed a blockade on yemen leading to widespread food shortages in a major health crisis the u.n. estimates more than five thousand civilians have been killed since the conflict began in two thousand and fifteen in recent weeks the saudis have allowed some humanitarian aid to flow into yemen but is natasha good name reports people in the port city of data set little has changed. far from the front lines and the ports it's a life of increasing challenges for so many yemenis bound by a feeling that they've been forgotten well. our life is miserable with the war raging for years i lost my job too we cannot afford a daily meal if we have a meal we're not sure if we're going to have the next one. hassen salem says his family's circumstances are unraveling in a way he never thought possible

a lost job then a lost home and now uncertainty over how much worse things could get wound up like that. we are left with nothing only god is our rock the nearby who died out port is no longer a source of employment or humanitarian aid since november the saudi led coalition has either blocked or limited access to ports of entry in yemen citing security concerns that a coalition claims to have reopened a court on december twentieth we were in the first week of january and the coalition is still misleading the public fabricating excuses to continue see jean and starving the yemeni people. the interruption in the flow of aid is adding to what is already described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis i love the mother thought the u.n. reiterated that even if today the port is operating at maximum capacity it would not be enough to meet the needs of the yemeni people so you can imagine how dire the situation is. salem and his family say they used to be able to rely on some

assistance from relief agencies but no more like so many yemenis they are left to cope on their own natasha going to al jazeera still ahead on britain's hospitals take drastic measures to cope with surging demand. among the sometimes kids here including western region after college. were voluntary and doctors together with the country's marines are bringing health services to once concert driven areas and real madrid prepare for their first outing of the new year details coming in sport a far. from the slowing going in the winds to an inch on the desert breeze move.

and we've seen a lot of heavy rain and snow over parts of china recently take a look at the chart for thursday we can see a lot of wet weather stretching all the way up towards shanghai there and it's on the northern edge of that where we're seeing a lot of wintery weather and that system is a bit of a blink and you miss it a fair because as we head into friday it was completely disappeared because the energy from the atmosphere will be sucked into a system that's off towards the east so far dry air for us on friday and shanghai they're getting to around seven degrees so not a warm day a tool a bit further towards the south you can see this little blob of cloud hid this is all storm that's working its way towards the southern part of the viet nam expect some heavy rain then potentially some flooding as we head through the next couple of days or so the philippines is looking very very wet lots of heavy rains here today and across many parts of southeast asia we're also expecting some showers particularly for us in k.l. and singapore there on the day by friday that looks like it should be until bit troyer if we head across towards the west you can see on the satellite picture this

huge area of travis and stretching its way across me and mom has given some of us some very heavy rain but it's easing now so more in the way of dry weather to be found here and actually for many parts of india and pakistan it looks like it should stay dry over the next few days but of course that won't help us with our current problems with fog. the weather sponsored by catto marketplace. documentaries that open your eyes at this time on al-jazeera. june nineteenth sixty seven sixty is the region with a map of the middle east you see miraculous victory of the israeli army in that war

war the greatest tragedy in the history of islam fifty years later al-jazeera explores the events leading to the war and its consequences which are still felt today we tried everything to be right with nation tried to make. contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was to do with the rule in june at this time. and again the watching out of our top stories palestinian leaders say they were in people back mailed after u.s. president donald trump threaten to cut aid worth around three cause of a billion dollars a year in a tweet he blamed palestinians for refusing to engage in middle east peace talks

israel's parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill making it easier for a court to impose the death penalty the law would apply to people convicted of murder and what it calls terrorist incidents. ethiopia's government says it will release and harden all political prisoners the surprise announcement by the prime minister will see them the tourists mark allowing prison turned into uneasy and full as months of anti-government protests. north korea has reopened a telephone hotline in south korea for the first time in almost two years the move comes ahead of talks between the two governments scheduled for tuesday but in its most reports. this is the only official means of communication between north korea and south korea but for almost two years the north koreans have refused to answer the phone until wednesday when they placed a call to the south. kim jong un has given an order to reopen the hotline between the north and the south to contact south korea regarding

a right time for talks and sending an addition to the kyung chang winter olympics. the decision was welcomed in seoul a day after the government there proposed high level talks amid a tense standoff over north korea's missile and nuclear programs but the u.s. government wasn't impressed we won't take any of the talk seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in north korea we consider this to be a very reckless regime we don't think we need a band-aid we don't think we need to smile and take a picture we think that we need to have them start nuclear weapons and they need to stop it now. in his new year's speech kim jong un warned the u.s. he had a nuclear button on his desk. that prompted donald trump to continue his apparent mockery of a president he's nicknamed little rocket man in a tweet the u.s. president wrote i too have a nuclear button but it's a much bigger and more powerful woman his on my button works north korea has been

punished with unprecedented sanctions by the u.n. over its weapons programs the u.s. has warned of more measures if young young conducts another missile test. al-jazeera. was a straight as ambassador in seoul he says washington's attitude may hinder the talks between north and south korea. i think it's a very positive thing it's very good that they've gotten the line again it's very good the president more has has agreed to it it's also a prospect now that the north koreans will send a delegation sporting team to the solomon cell winter olympics and that's good too i think they are the. or one of the problems is of course the united states' attitude nikki haley from the united nations the u.n. . representative the u.n. has has poured scorn on this some said what we want is for north korea to just disarm before we'll talk to them she's also said that nothing will drive

a wedge between the relations we have with south korea now quite frankly it's it's it's i think it's a reinforcing united states mindset of having having some sort of colonial feeling about south korea which doesn't really exist and should they should welcome the fact that north korea and south korea want to have talks that would possibly relieve tension and that's what we want to see i just wish that the united states and the donald trump would be less critical of this they're saying you know we won't do anything until the north koreans disarm they're not going to decide to have nuclear weapons they're not going to lose them they'll hang on to them make sick and head to the polls on the first of july to elect a new president is ready shaping up to be a historic race it's the first time candidates can run without the backing of a party meaning dozens of people are vying for the top job but the winner will have to come back voting mistrust an apathy david merciless now and what lies ahead for

makes in twenty eighteen. mexico's presidential elections are he not led by leftist firebrand undress manwell beauprez open or he ran in and lost the past two elections now lopez obrador is riding a wave of public discontent to lead the pack of times a day is the name most english that has months we haven't reached the possibility of him being correct we will stamp out corruption iron core a lot go to see on. ricardo and niamh from the center right national action party calls himself the clean hands candidate though he some division within his party. a sluggish economy could give former finance minister and pre candidate jose antonio media a push with the united states threatening to pull out of the north american free trade agreement says he has the experience to find new export markets. and for the

first time in mexico's history independent candidates have joined the race. but with surging violence and corruption scandals plaguing government officials gaining public trust it won't be easy. i think all the candidates are interested in themselves and their political parties i don't think any of them are in it for the people. i don't trust any of the candidates. only believe them when actual changes start to happen. analysts say that people must be engaged and hold candidates to account if they want this election to be different. the political class loves it when society doesn't trust them then you separate yourself and leave space for the government doesn't like is when social media is buzzing with discussion and. never before have mexicans had such a variety of candidates to choose from and with the july first election quickly

approaching many people here are asking what impact younger more educated and more politicized generation of voters could have on the country's future david mercer al-jazeera in mexico city. and then the next report in our series takes a look at the business of brics it. will be make or break for britain's withdrawal from the european union but if the first round of talks to go by reaching a deal could be a struggle that's on friday. two senior members of germany's foreign policy are being investigated for incitement to hatred of social media posts they criticised a police force for wishing followers on line happy new year in arabic dominic cain has a story from. the decision by the police to investigate alice via the leader of the alternative for germany party alongside their investigation into the comments of her colleague bad leaks one stalk came at

a point when we knew already that several hundred people had complained themselves about the point the points that the one stalk had to put out on social media the interesting thing to to say here is that following new year's day into news the new law has come into effect in germany which regulates what can and cannot be said online as much as it does in the broadcast media the written major and in the street as it were and so the question that the police will have to with the authorities will have to work out is whether the comments that were made by. talk by alice vital to contravene the law and then there is the question of the motivation behind it because several years ago in twenty fifteen years eve twenty fifteen when many women complained in the city of cologne that they had been assaulted by people of a with a migrant background the alternative for germany was very hot on on pointing out the dangers there the same thing is appearing to be sent now the difference is that

very very few allegations of assault were made on new year's eve twenty seventeen so the question would be what the motivation is behind the decision by these two ladies to make the comments they have made and the investigation is ongoing. border checks introduced in parts of europe during the height of the refugee crisis are still in place despite the calling for them to end and the e.u. rules controls can be put in place but only for a limited time paul reeses more on what some countries are reluctant to give up their controls. from an open border for refugees to a closed border for anyone not carrying a passport or a swedish identity card sweden's policy on opening its gates to asylum seekers during the crisis of twenty fifteen is long gone. but police checks on the train from denmark don't seem to be going anywhere soon the bridge between copenhagen.

was the main entry point for more than a hundred sixty thousand people who applied for asylum in sweden in twenty fifteen that flow has now dried up the law allowing restrictions has expired but sweden is one of the countries citing security as a reason for the controls to continue. the closure of the balkan routes has led to a huge drop in the number of refugees arriving in europe yet sweden france germany austria norway and denmark have all continued to impose controls on that front he is. those restrictions legally expired on november the twelfth on the article twenty nine of the schengen borders code but article twenty five allows the countries to extend them for six months if they claim serious threats to public order or internal security. gains and swedes had previously been encouraged to see

a newly branded aris and region as a place in which they could freely commute between the countries they say the increases in their journey times are unjustified this is mainly. politics they're worried. about the mass influx of immigrants trying to show that they're doing something and reality this nothing happens here. yeah almost a circus a waste of time journeys of thousands of kilometers from the middle east finally ended here in recent is the question of whether free movement in the schengen zone can ever begin again is still in the. whole race. britain's hospitals are having to take drastic measures to cope with surging winter demand national health service officials are warning known urgent procedures will be put

off for weeks the n.h.s. is one of the country's most valued institutions providing free health care for more than seventy. reports is deepening concern about its future. hundreds of british hospitals are in the grip of a winter crisis pay should numbers regularly surge during the colder months but this year sickness levels have sought to ease the pressure of health officials of doctors in england from carrying out all dolled emergency surgery such as cataract or hip replacement operations until the end of january people have been told to only go to hospital in a real emergency some patients are waiting twelve hours to see a doctor others are being treated and kodos medical staff also feeling the strain on twitter this doctor apologised to third world conditions at the hospital he worked in. i shouldn't be and t. is every day at work because of a lack of resources and lack of capacity wrote this nurse an estimated fifty five

thousand procedures are expected to be postponed in the coming weeks and h.s. chiefs have defended the move this is a planned response to. that we knew it was going to be difficult and we are managing that in the way that we expected and we're taking early action we're not waiting to have to respond to. the n.h.s. is one of the u.k.'s most revered institutions offering free health care to all u.k. residents but it's under mounting strain so much so that this time last year the red cross the international aid group said that if things didn't improve that it faced a humanitarian crisis twelve months on and the n.h.s. is still struggling to cope. many doctors blame successive governments for starving the service of funding all in a gradual attempt they say to privatized the public health service we've seen the n.h.s. this decade undergoing the biggest funding squeeze since it began. seventy years

and what we've seen in this decade is approximately forty billion pounds of cuts by the time we get to twenty twenty not simply impressed into the n.h.s. it's not surprising we're seeing the kind of scenes. this winter last winter the government insists the delays are part of a well planned system but that comes through operations and time critical procedures will go ahead as planned but all many people can see is a cherished service deep into crisis. al-jazeera. in colombia peace deal with improving the delivery of health services to remote regions. travel to the group of doctors who have enlisted in the navy reserves to see the work being done in. volunteer doctors setting sail their mission is to win support from an indigenous community longer flick did by colombia's conflict a peace deal signed with five gravels last year means it's now easier and safer for

the navy to bring assistance to poor remote areas through civic military brigades what people here are less hostile forces now that they have. a presence they are starting to look up to the colombian state and i'm proud we are able to contribute to. it is a classic hearts and minds campaign in a territory where people's allegiances of long been. and where state presence has been synonymous with military force. the government's clear guidelines are to take advantage of the fact that these armed actors are not interfering in these territories anymore so the state seeks to enter with all its capacity and avoid. institutional gaps that might be filled by new criminal groups. but in villages like those gaps remain why filling them will require time and resources. our health post is not enough for all the villages on the river and they attend

only people with health cars we'd love with brigades could come twice a year. most kids here have rarely seen a toothbrush let alone a dentist yeah it takes three to hold this patient down while he has this tooth pulled out his mother says bringing him to a doctor ten hours down river was never an option i'm in spite of the government efforts to improve the delivery of health services a major logistical problem. last year sixteen percent of colombia's rural population to further go medical care because of distances to services. over the course of the day hundreds are taking care of twenty two year old students stephanie says it's worth giving up her weekends. i just like how i feel when people think when i can contribute to those without the opportunity or

the money to get to a doctor for them i did not understand civil military brigades will hardly be a long time fix for chronically poor health care but me by this time as it tries to pacify these restless areas for good i listen to them. in brazil conservationists are trying to figure out why more and more than eighteen grey dolphins have died in less than a month they say up to five dead dolphins have been found every day since mid december in a bay in rio de janeiro this species is one of brazil's most endangered marine animals. improve the second minister has resigned in his many weeks over the controversial pardon given to former president of the fujimori free joy river least on health grounds last month triggering days of protests he was serving a twenty five corruption and human rights crimes including. a passenger on board a flight decided to take matters into his own hands off to waiting to. landing

these pictures were taken by a fellow passenger on ryan is london to be fed up with waiting inside he decided to open the merge and see exit and joy. on the wing instead he was later arrested still ahead on al-jazeera return to the court of law so the tennis star far will have all the details.

and it is time for sports heroes far. thanks very much the biggest names in african

football are gathering and gonna the continent's player of the year award is set to be announced and for the very first time fans are playing a part in the vote two thousand and fifteen winner gabon's peer emerick has again made the final three he was the leading african scorer in europe's top leagues in twenty seven team with twenty strikes in the german bundesliga for rossiya dortmund sodium on a out of liverpool is trying to come only the second senegalese player to win it see helped his country reach next year's world cup in russia mohamed salah also of labor fall is the favorite to win he played a big part in getting egypt to the world cup for the first time since one nine hundred ninety and has already scored twenty three goals this season for his club as i mentioned earlier for the first time the public will help decide the winner of the award earlier i spoke to football journalist gary al smith and asked him how much of a factor the public vote and social media will play in picking

a winner. well the thing about media especially where egyptians are concerned is that there's a running joke really a joke if you put anything on social media and we're going in egypt sharon is going to weigh in from the get go there is one popular web site in the off the boat site one very popular one they actually stop running polls for their money and for play out that month somewhere in october because. any time they put up their mom it's allowance so that's what i mean he doesn't want to be busy africa colombia wants which is booted exclusively by fines and i'm told by insiders done it wasn't even a contest they got is that because the up and i see it's a very big deal i mean i kind of underestimate it's it's actually probably taken more seriously than there is that will take something like there. which many people see has been reduced to a contest between the highest school to high school scores in the world especially

when messi and ronaldo joined the free about ten years ago but the african people still holds the very own talent when it comes to quote discussions and prestige on this continent. barcelona's record signing of ballet is set to return to action on thursday after a four month injury layoff the legal leaders will travel to celta vigo for the first leg of their round of sixteen copa del rey tie around madrid will also be playing on thursday they travel to the second tier side in the opening leg of their round of sixteen tie or i'll be trying to start the year on a much more positive note they ended twenty seventeen with a three nil home defeat to barcelona and now trailed them by fourteen points and. we're still live in three competitions and we have the same hope for giving the best in each match. and we have the greatest enthusiasm for winning this first leg

in the english premier league chelsea missed a chance to move second in the standings after drawing to two with arsenal arsenal were two one down after ninety minutes before hector bell and rescued a point with a goal in time all confirmation here that chelsea stayed down in third place a point behind matches united and sixteen behind runaway leaders the man city arsenal say six but taught him can move further ahead of them on thursday when they play at west ham meanwhile manchester city manager pep guardiola has hit out at premier league bosses he says the hectic christmas and new year schedule is a risk to players health while many other european leagues are enjoying a winter break on choose day city played their fourth game in eleven days city did the walk for three one but already ola believes this run of games is a disaster for players. to kill them. so i think for duration i don't know who are the bosses they have to reflect

a little bit that is no normal guys to play thirty first into i know the show must go on and it doesn't matter with. which guys still must go on the manager is here another one and the players are not here now once but that is on them. he had to pull out of his first two events of the twenty eight thousand season due to an ongoing elbow injury but novak djokovic has confirmed he will return to the court this month ahead of the australian open the twelve time grand slam champion who hasn't played competitively since wimbledon will take part in two exhibition of events in melbourne next week after that the former world number one will decide whether or not he's ready to play in the season's first grand slam which begins in melbourne on january eighteenth. finally extreme weather in germany forced the cancellation of the sprint stage of the skiing's annual tour diski race earlier these are the conditions that the female ski others had to contend with as they

began the four stage of the race it was subsequently cancelled as founder and lightning began to hit the course organizers announced that it would not be rescheduled. and that's all your sport for now more later and that's all the news for some reason that will be here with an explanation thanks for watching. you are making. their online the u.s. response to drug use and the drug trade over the last fifty years has been criminal or if you join us on say. in the morning and says i want to cover the world. is a dialogue could be was leading to some of the confusion about people saying they don't actually know what's going on join the conversation at this time on al-jazeera

january. african heads of states and governments. for the state of the african union where they go say twenty seventeen minutes rewind with brand new episodes of some of the best. entries from over the years the biggest names in politics in business will meet in the swiss alps for the world economic forum what will be top of the agenda matthew how sun engages in rigorous debate cutting through the headlines on up front and in a week of special coverage will be gauging reaction from around the world to america's most controversial president of modern times january on al-jazeera. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power to account. how has this radical transformation occurred. i mean if i mean if you want to look shedding light on the

romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain the people at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. palestinian say they won't be blackmailed off to the white house threatens to cause off hundreds of millions of dollars in aid. alone sami's a than this is.