one thousand nine hundred sixty seven sixty's that redrew the map of the middle east just met record as victoria. ended war for 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 we went to the united nations tried to make. contacts through different countries and it was clear that all this was to know if the war in june at this time. this is. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next sixty minutes but i'm not going to waste my time

or the country's going page by page talking about a book that's complete fantasy on the attack the white house slams an explosive book about trump's presidency as trash lawyers move to block its release a suicide attack in afghanistan's capital kills at least eleven people more than twenty others are wounded it really stings the race and i usually don't come out here like this i'm normally dressed like a ninja in some spots it's colder than the surface of mars a monster snowstorm hits eastern parts of the u.s. . and i'm far a smile have all the latest sports news including andy murray's out of the australian open three injury and his career could now be in limbo.

laureus for u.s. president donald trump are trying to stop the release of a book that details a west wing on the trail one steeped in this function and being called buttons written by the journalist michael wolff the book extensively quotes trump's former chief strategist steve benen who was fired last year on thursday the white house came out fighting describing the book as trash by a north or no one has heard of one on that in just a moment first though this report from diane s. the book. on thursday attorneys for president donald trump sent a cease and desist letter to the publisher and author of fire and fury inside the trump white house demanding the book not be released next week they also threaten former white house strategist steve bannon with legal action for telling author michael wolff that donald trump jr was treasonous and unpatriotic for meeting with russians before the twenty sixteen presidential election it would be really nice to

do it in a and a white house meeting thursday the president downplayed ranker between him and his former strategist and. me that you. don't really know me very bad last night so you know you obviously changes to pretty quick but on wednesday and enraged president son of bannan when he was fired he not only lost his job he lost his mind bannon hit back on twitter saying i won't speak about who lost their minds or ever had won the book's release comes at a troubling time for the white house special prosecutor robert mueller is deepening his investigation into russia's meddling in the twenty six thousand election and possible collusion by the trump campaign author michael wolff says he spent eighteen months and conducted roughly two hundred interviews with president from senior staff during the transition and the first year of his administration he paints a picture of chaos inside the white house and

a column thursday seems to question the president's mental fitness for office it used to be inside of thirty minutes he'd repeat word for word an expression for expression the same three stories now it was within ten minutes in the book bennett says he wanted the president to move the u.s. embassy immediately to jerusalem after he took office he also suggested letting jordan and egypt take over the west bank and gaza respected least the white house has tried distancing itself from bannon saying he had little one on one access to president trump but in fact ban. it was the president's campaign c.e.o. and held strategy positions during his transition and first seven months in office and they estimate joins us live now from washington so obviously a very interesting news conference there from the white house press secretary what do you think it goes to now and what reaction has there been in the u.s. to her comments well i will tell you the white house is in full

damage control over this book. what a lot of talk on the street a lot of talk on radio and television in the newspapers about this book that's coming out next week and yesterday sarah sander sort of batted away questions from the process about this book that everybody wanted to talk out about today she came out swinging calling the book sad pathetic and laughable there are numerous examples of false hoods that take place in the book i'll give you one just because it's really easy the fact that there was a claim that the president didn't know who john boehner was is pretty ridiculous considering the majority of you have seen photos and frankly some of those view of even tweeted out that the president not only knows him but has played golf with him tweeted about him i mean that's pretty simple and pretty basic ages of employees which would be super easy to fact check or wrong again there are numerous mistakes

but i'm not going to waste my time or the country's time going page by page talking about a book that's complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip because it's sad pathetic in our administration and our focus is going to be on moving the country forward. and this is just another huge distraction for this white house that has had a lot of chaos to deal with over the last year it wants to be focusing on policy it wants to be looking at new immigration policy a new plan for infrastructure here in the u.s. and it's still instead it's having to talk about this book that's coming out in a week i honest to brooke with the latest from washington they and thank you and joining me now from san francisco is alexander nazarian he's a senior writer for national affairs for newsweek magazine and interviewed steve bannon for this week's cover story alexander nazarian thank you so much for being

with us you will have heard my colleague there they are now estabrook and obviously also the interview the press conference with sarah how could the sand there is which effectively says that this book is full of false and full of inaccuracies now in your own interview you did find a discrepancy where steve bannon tells you that he spoke on the phone to trump for thirty minutes on the day of the alabama election when actually white house call logs suggest it was just nine minutes so there's a discrepancy right there ultimately how reliable do you think a lot of the things the van and will have said on this book are. that's that's an excellent question and. frankly at this point it's impossible to answer let's also be clear that some people have accused the author michael wolff of exaggerating and i don't just mean sanders in the white house press briefing not accusation has been around since his book on rupert murdoch and

in so that's not to say that there's anything in this book on true i don't know that. but i did speak to one person who's in the book and he said yes i probably did say some of these things i don't know i say. i would i would express some caution about the reporting just because of mr ward's reputation but he obviously spent a very large amount of time with mr bannon and with other white house staffers so there's probably some fairly good reporting here right i mean he months is a very long time to spend on inside the west wing nobody's granted that kind of access and you know the rest of us have very jealous of mr walsh the accuracy we can speak to at this point but clearly the reaction of the white house suggests that some of this is is true and it's quite interesting as well in the reaction of the white

house how they're trying to distance themselves obviously from steve benen but how crucial do you think he has been in the white house in the time that he was there he will say that he was involved in he did say to me that he was involved in every major decision but that he did not like being a staffer people inside the white house have told me and have told other reporters that he inflated his role and continues to inflate it so there you have some of the discrepancy that you just alluded to i think he is a dangerous enemy even more than he's a useful our i i don't think president trump can alienate steve benen fully even if he will no longer embrace him the way he once did and the other interesting basin in your interview with steve bannon is where you basically try to understand why

he's doing and you say as an attempted to trade on his association with the president for personal profit like others have done so why do you think bannon is acting the way he is because he must have known that there would be this huge fallout from the book and the things that he was telling the author. you know i asked him this question yesterday and he did not answer he has not been especially liquidation us in the last couple of days though usually he does he has a group of reporters of journalists that he does talk to. i. that's that's a very difficult question you know my sense is that he is terrified of what robert muller the special counsel is going to come up with and he is pointing to jared questioner and downtime to new specifically in saying these guys are in real

trouble he's sending out sort of almost flares maybe even messages to president trump saying these are the guys you better you have to include in your son the they could be in real real trouble why do that in a book like this in such explosive language i don't know i don't think steve benen really worries about what he says i don't think he's out there to make friends to make money. he doesn't want the former and he has plenty of the latter i think this is for his ideas and his ideas are bigger than steve benen according to steve benen bigger even than donald trump so he's willing to burn any bridge in order to get where he needs where he believes the country needs to go now of course it's impossible to do that if you have no political allies and that's the problem he's facing right now i mean you mentioned that basically what drives him are his ideas i mean are those ideas now compatible with donald trump i mean i know they're

having a very public international spat right now but do you think that ultimately he will keep on supporting a trump presidency yes i believe that his support for the term presidency remains even as he is acutely worried that. if the democrats control gain control of the house as many people think they they can they will initiate proceedings to have a president from peru move from office i believe he's worried for the trump presidency but he remains fundamentally loyal to president trump because he is the best vessel out there for him to carry out his ideas if jeb bush were president bannon is from been an ism would just be a blog post on breitbart news right now it's the governing philosophy of the united states more or less i'm sure mitch mcconnell and paul ryan wish it were less but

the fact of the matter is baron isn't hold sway and i don't think steve baron wants to forsake that alexander has arrian senior writer or national affairs for news week magazine of course interviewed steve bannon for this week's cover story thank you so much for your time thank you now another news an explosion in the afghan capital has killed at least eleven people and wounded twenty five others i saw has claimed responsibility for the apache which targeted security personnel the police were carrying out an anti drugs operation when the blast happened a bullish a hood has more now from kabul. a suicide bomber detonated his explosives among the crowd of protesters on thursday now the protesters were demanding their businesses to be open afghan police have been greeting each businesses in shops in

kabul. area where these shops are reputed to be selling in the sit substances like alcohol which is banned in afghanistan these shop owners were demanding their shop being opened the afghan police try to stop these protestors clashes broke among the protestors and afghan police and in these clashes number of protesters and also police wounded now taking the advantage a suicide bomber detonated his explosive among the crowd of police and the protesters. and it turned the whole of the protest into a blood shed by killing number of people and dozens of people wounded. the u.s. says imposed sanctions on five iranian companies it says are working on the ballistic missile program it comes ahead of a u.n. session on the recent unrest in iran in which at least twenty two people were killed iran's army chief says the protests are over but says his troops are ready

to intervene if needed zain reports from tehran. the size of these pro-government rallies is a message to iran's critics at home and abroad. iran's government has plenty of public support and is here to stay. speaking to a crowd in the northern city of mush even a political rival of iran's president in the last election said the predictions by foreign foes of an imminent overthrow the government was a miscalculation. this crowd is glorious and meaningful when iranian people felt the footprint of the enemy they came to the scene and declared their hatred of america. powers. in recent days would suggest that a majority of iranians are in favor of maintaining iran's way of government especially in the face of violent instability. but they don't necessarily support president hassan rouhani policies the economic problems that sparked government

demonstrations in the first place are still a challenge for the administration. for the papal its. economic problems have resulted in corruption and. economic stability is very important everyone who takes office makes some promises but. because of high prices things shouldn't be so expensive that people have to cry out it was because officials didn't care about the people the cost of living is on the rise as unemployment and the economic promised with his reelection has yet to materialize despite the partial lifting of economic sanctions following the nuclear deal with western powers and twenty three. government supporters are calling for all iranians to be a part of solving the country's problems. the government should adhere to its promises the promises talked about during the election and be accountable the whole

country can help solve the economic and political problems here for now public support for the government appears to have ended a violent week of anti establishment protests what comes next will depend largely on iran's leaders deal with the country's economy and what. are the legitimate grievances of their own people. much more. ahead of the final.

donald trump a stake in credit for a thaw in relations between north and south korea the two sides are inching closer towards talks and on wednesday reopened a border hotline trying tweeted with all the failed experts weighing in does anybody really believe that talks and dialogue would be going on between north and south korea right now if i wasn't firm strong and willing to commit our total might against the north for years but talks are a good thing when meanwhile washington and seoul have agreed that they won't carry out joint military drills during next month's winter olympics which are being held in south korea also in jordan has more details now from washington the trumpet ministration has agreed to delay the military exercises known as full eagle until after the end of the winter olympics in winter paralympics in south korea that's because the south koreans have been concerned that they wouldn't have enough armed forces to provide security for the games as well as to participate in this annual

joint military exercise with u.s. troops it's an exercise that includes both the army the air force and the navy meantime the fact that the north koreans have extended an effort to engage with the south koreans in the south koreans have seemingly welcome to this is a development that's being welcomed at the united nations for hawk is the deputy spokesperson for the secretary general. the secretary general is very keen to make sure that all the security council resolutions concerning the nuclearization of the korean peninsula can be implemented and in that context he is hoping that the recent moves will help pave the way forward for such resolutions to be implemented through diplomatic initiatives and and of course we'll continue to monitor the vents as they develop even though north and south koreans are simply

going to focus their first talks on the involvement of north korean athletes in the winter olympics u.s. officials are going to be paying not just very close attention to these discussions but also consulting with south korean leaders they're concerned they don't want to see north korea try to use this opening to try to escape some of the more onerous sanctions that have been imposed upon it because it refuses to give up its nuclear weapons program nigeria's military says it has rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by boko haram in two thousand and fourteen salome pogo was found with another girl and the child by troops deployed in the town of polka they're now receiving medical treatment the abduction of more than two hundred seventy students from the town of chibok four years ago drew huge international attention and widespread criticism of the nigerian authorities about one hundred girls are believed to still be in captivity. the president of togo has broken his silence

after months of protests against his rule calling for dialogue with opposition groups that ministrations against firing have been taken and been staged almost weekly since august with more than a dozen reported protesters in the west african nation war new rules limiting presidents to two terms in office the president and his father before him have ruled since one thousand nine hundred sixty seven. dialogue. of resolving disagreements between political activists. recently. have often been affected by attitudes and positions and behaviors to diametrically opposed to our values. detrimental to. the sum of tennis champion boris becker says he's pressing charges against the

german nationalist lawmaker who insulted him using a racist slur on social media though a becker whose mother is of german and african-american the scent described the remarks by my ear as unbearable and racist as an m.p. for the alternative for germany party which campaigns against the mass immigration and what it calls islam is ation he lashed out at becker on twitter after the twenty three year old complained of racism in berlin in an interview. it's the second time this week that the f.t. party has been threatened with legal action over allegedly racist twitter posts as dominic cain now explains. the lawyer for noah back a ways to diddle time and setting out his client's reaction to the comments that were posted on twitter by the alternative for germany member of the german parliament ye meyer mr becker's lawyer says that his client believes that it was a racist comment and he is seeking legal redress he is suing mr my but also in

a civil sense but also seeking a criminal investigation to be made into the comment posted on the account of yens meyer the point to make here is mr meyer says that the post was made by a colleague of his and that the comment has been deleted another fort is though the issue of race and how the alternative for germany party is dealing with it this is not the first instance in the car past week or so in which the issue of race race has been raised by elements inside the alternative for germany party they are tricks from stalk a leading member of parliament over the new year period referred to in terms that others have believed to be disparaging about islam and about members about muslims that was a thought repeated by her co-leader alice viable so there is certainly an a sense now the police are investigating several members of the it's alternative for germany party about the issue of race and the comments that they have made in

the past few days large areas of the united states are bracing themselves for further freezing storms a phenomenon that meteorologists refer to as a bomb site close several deaths several ready being blamed on a sustained cold spell in the midwest and the east coast the big freeze stretches from the niagara falls and the north as far south as florida john hendren reports from chicago. a deadly arctic freeze his blanketed the american midwest with lingering record breaking cold in minnesota last week forty five below zero in spots colder than the surface of mars in north dakota wind chills of fifty below celsius or fahrenheit at that point they're pretty much the same in chicago setting record lows in the new year a river of ice. really stings the face and i usually don't come out here like this i'm normally dressed like a ninja only my eyes are hearing now

a new storm targets the entire u.s. eastern seaboard with the rapid ruthless force of a bomb we're going to see what we're also called the bomb a storm that street in so rapidly and twenty four hours that it almost seems like a hurricane with snow wintry weather has frozen fountains from new york to south carolina drop the first snowflakes in tallahassee florida in thirty years and frozen niagara falls in time in iowa it suspended this car in place i can even tell you how many anxious the ice that it has on it and left vehicles piled up in a deadly crash on the new york thruway but the record setting chill does not make global warming fiction other parts of the world if you look at temperatures right now are actually somewhat above normal where one of the coolest places on the planet right now so this is in no way refutes the notion of climate warming or climate change the lethal cold has left two dead in milwaukee one in detroit and

several more as far south as texas despite warnings against a new rule polar plunges some in boston traded in parkas for swimsuits in boston harbor. in. the u.s. national weather service has issued wind chill advisories and freeze warnings from texas to canada but the munsters sign clone now descending on the eastern coast of the u.s. is expected to strike hardest in new england john hendren al-jazeera chicago. well in china at least three airports have been shot and nine others are experiencing delays because of heavy snow falls there the national observatory has raised the weather alert up to its second highest level parts of the central northern and eastern regions could see up to thirty centimeters of snow. it would be news hour on al-jazeera still ahead more from south africa where eighteen people have been killed and more than two hundred injured in

a train crash stop using drugs burn the recipe families of canadian soldiers the man dancers after a drug they took is found to cause brain damage and in sports the world's football rich list is out we'll tell you who their heavyweights are and how they're making their money. i am. hello there we've got a really messy picture weather wise across europe at the moment take a look at the satellite picture we can see the swelling mass here this is a storm elena as expansively running up towards the northeast but behind it it certainly isn't draw i we've got plenty of cloud plenty of rain in a couple of separate areas of low pressure will dancing around each other so plenty more in the way of wet weather as we head through the next few days as well plenty of rain over parts of the u.k. and then that stretches down through parts of spain and into portugal now this

weather system hig rashly edges its way eastwards and it is likely to give us some snow over some of the higher ground here from madrid though looks like here will see mostly rain and all temperature will get to around nine degrees all that unsettled weather still extends towards the northeastern parts of europe the exception really full this onset of weather is the southeast and here it's fine and dry fifteen degrees with no problems there in athens that a bit further towards the south and you can see this weather system that we've got with us over the levant region that's giving some of us some very heavy rain. could well give a problem with the flooding or some landslides that clears through pretty quickly though and on saturday it does look dry there instead on saturday we're going to see another weather system work its way into the northwest that's going to bring rain to many parts of morocco and probably some showers to rebound. ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans

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i remind of the top stories here on al-jazeera donald trump's lawyers are trying to stop the publication of a book containing explosive claims about the trump presidency trump is also threatened his former chief strategist with legal action over defamatory remarks made in the book at least eleven people killed and twenty five wounded in a suicide attack in afghanistan's capital i saw has claimed responsibility that's according to the groups and mock agencies and iran's army chief says six days of anti-government unrest are now over but it's warning his troops are ready to intervene if necessary thousands of pro-government supporters have been rallying

for a second day. well ahmed. is a fellow in the director of the iran observed project that the middle east institute and joins us live now from washington d.c. sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera first of all from everything that you're seeing and hearing and following on social media do you really think that the protests have effectively ended now i wouldn't say at this moment the protests have ended because reports from inside iran and also the video on social media tell us that the protests are still happening and different parts of the country including and. major cities but definitely the protest movement. and the past two days it has not transformed into a national movement that could pose an existential threat to the iranian regime and i think that there are several reasons for that first of all from the very first

day protests have been scattered mostly in provincial towns and cities and they have not had is central leadership an organization secondly the iranian regime is very adept and experience and comping down on purpose because they have face certain such situations in the past as well i'm turkey and i think that this is the most important factor that the runyon before miss political factions have been have not joined this brought this. before miss or played the instrumental role in the two thousand and nine protest after the controversial elections but this time they are not coming to the streets because they feared that. to disoblige the country to do it and do some of the gains that they have had over the past years on some of them basically they say that the we don't want iran to turn into another syria. i mean that's interesting because obviously you know the catalyst for these protests was the economic situation the price of eggs for example going up and

a lot of other staples but then what we did see in the sixty's when they were going on was a lot of anger there at that at the government and directed also at the clerics which perhaps we don't see that often so i mean do you think you say the reformers haven't followed and they didn't back the protests but you think we're going to see some kind of protests reemerge in iran. you're absolutely right because the key driver of the current process it's the economic grievances because after the signing of the nuclear agreement between iran and world powers we've seen some improvement in economic sector in iran the g.d.p. has growth but much of this foreign investment has been in the energy sector and that has not benefited ordinary iranians inflation is increasing again unemployment especially amongst you it has reached forty percent on people's living conditions

are deteriorating. and on the political front also many of iranians they have high hopes that the government well implement some political reforms will bring about more political freedoms and inclusion itself different segments of the society into the government system but they are very disappointed but despite these disappointment farm is feared that if they joined the protest it would be very brutally suppressed by the regime and that will put the country in a very negative negative trajectory that they will lose some of the progress momentum that they have had so they all do they are disappointed with the government want to continue with this path i mean you mentioned that the reformist factions that were present in two thousand and nine didn't join now because basically they fear another series you know two thousand and nine the arab spring and happened and a lot of the events that we saw in that neighborhood sort of speak hadn't happened but then how would people unhappy with their honey government actually manage to

get any change in iran. well they believe that they voted for a second term for president rouhani they believe or has president rouhani would be able to further improve iran's relations with western societies that would bring more foreign investment to the country and also they believe that perhaps their honey government will mean to know at least some of the freedoms that they have had so you run does not turn into a military dictatorship or more just social and political just frictions coming into place but as you pointed out. before although it is difficult to predict where did these protests may lead to in the coming days and coming weeks but the underlying anger and frustration amongst the iranians whether it's about political. grievances or it's about their economic situation are still there and

unfortunately that the iranian leadership instead of listening to people's problems and trying to address those issues are linking these brought this to foreign concept. foreign agenda so i think that these underlying causes and conditions will remain there and it will continue to money if itself in anti-government protests will continue to challenge islamic republic a madman g.d.r. fellow and director of the iran observed project at the middle east institute sir thank you for sharing your expertise with us eighteen people have been killed and more than two hundred injured in a train crash in south africa many of the victims were on their way home after the holidays when the trucks mashed into the carriages at a railway crossing tiny page reports from johannesburg. the shosholoza main is a popular train for families during the busy holiday season it was hearing from the

beaches of port elizabeth to johannesburg but several hours south of the city it collided with a truck and trailer at a level crossing officials say the driver had tried to breach the train across the track he walked away with minor injuries. the club driver was taking turns and we thought he was going to pass through. the. guard has caused a lot of lives. half of the carriages were derailed and burst into flames the train was carrying about seven hundred people tourists families and workers who are just said goodbye to loved ones hitting back to their jobs after the christmas holiday stunned travelers waited by the road for buses to complete their journey conscious that for many families they will be happy homecoming tunney

a page out zero johannesburg russian and the syrian government airstrikes have killed twenty three civilians in a rebel held on klav of the capital damascus three children and eleven women are believed to be among the dead in the suburb of eastern huta several infants were injured the attacks follow the deaths of at least seven civilians including five children on tuesday by airstrikes in the northwestern province. well turkey has accused the u.s. of unprecedented interference in its domestic affairs after a u.s. court convicted a turkish banker of helping iran evade sanctions met read. along with eight others was accused of moving billions of dollars worth of iranian money through american banks this guys this food and gold sales senior turkish officials including president that the han have been implicated in the case. this is

a scandal is the city of a scandalous case it was clear from the beginning that this case was. interfering in turkey affairs and it's tearing up turkish domestic politics legally sane to listen area has been put into practice and now we want to how long the u.s. administration we don't allow it to look we'll its network. system in their favor through that they have established. a course in canada is to decide whether a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of canadian military veterans can proceed the former soldiers say they were required to take an anti malarial drug with serious side effects including brain damage they blame the canadian government for a lack of support than your lack reports from ottawa in one thousand nine hundred three canadian soldiers deployed to somalia tortured and murdered a sixteen year old somali boy after

a court martial several were jailed an entire regiment was disbanded in disgrace now it's emerged that the canadian military was giving its soldiers mefloquine and many may have been experiencing it's now well documented neuropsychiatric side effects how many more families down there on the steps and tell you. but nothing the queen actually does to your family soldiers are suffering from mefloquine it is not always t.t.'s deeds stop using this drug burner recipe marj matchy and veterans of many canadian overseas deployments have gathered outside parliament calling for more support for those who suffered from mental a queen use organizer de bono who is in somalia in one thousand nine hundred two says the drug continues to take a horrendous toll we're losing about a veteran a week is coming through our facebook feeds that have committed suicide so. it's

still happening lionel desmond a veteran of canada's mission to afghanistan killed his mother wife and daughter before committing suicide he'd been diagnosed with p.t.s.d. but his family has now found out that he'd been taking methyl equipment his sisters told the auto rally it was time for action this is why we're here today to continue this fight not only for an inquiry into my brother's death but to also make sure that that little white polka met with his kick to the curb and we know change is going to occur and we won't have to said here i'm wary of both anybody falling back on the tracks no more. as of last june canada no longer requires its troops overseas to take meth liquid but unlike the us australia and germany it hasn't banned the drug entirely from use by the military international campaigners want canada to look seriously at the role of meth liquid in problems experienced by canadian soldiers overseas i suspect that part of the reason the canadian military in the canadian government are reluctant to be too critical of mefloquine even when

other countries have all but abandoned it is because this would force the canadian government to come to terms with some very unpleasant moments in its history while the canadian government is finally taking some steps to deal with this dangerous anti malarial these veterans who come here today and the thousands who support them say there's much more that needs to be done daniel lak al jazeera. still to come on the news hour he might be. showing no signs of slowing down ahead of the hit and sailing against the passage of time efforts to save the ancient oman. business updates. going places to get.

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thank you i am. mexicans head to the polls in july to elect a new president and it's already shaping up to be a historic race it's the first time candidates can run without the backing of a party meaning that thousands of independents are vying for the top job they even more so looks now what lies ahead for mexico in two thousand and eighteen. the day mexico's presidential elections are heating up led by leftist firebrand andres manuel lopez obrador he ran in and lost the past two elections now lopez obrador is riding a wave of public discontent to lead the pack of candidates to name most signals that. we haven't heard the possibility of ending we will stamp out corruption i'm.

ricardo and from the center right national action party calls himself the clean hands candidate though he some division within his party to 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 needs 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 spaces where the government doesn't like is when social media is buzzing with discussion and debate. 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 a younger more educated and more politicized generation of voters could have on the country's future david mercer al-jazeera in mexico city. and the next part of our look ahead to two thousand and eighteen it's the ticking clock who towards brics we visit the u.k. city whose referendum vote most closely mirrored the overall result to see if

opinions have changed more than halfway through the process of actually leaving the european union that's coming up on friday right here on here and now it's time for sport here is far in doha barbara thank you so much the tennis career former world number one andy murray appears to be in limbo britain has withdrawn from the upcoming australian open with a long term head injury murray hasn't played competitively since being knocked out of wimbledon last july the thirty year old had hoped to make his return at this week's birth of an international but withdrew forty eight hours before his first match he announced in a statement that he'll be returning to london to quote assess all options. better news for nobody chalk a bitch the twelve time grand slam champion confirming he held take part in two exhibition of ants next week as he returns from a long injury layoff he'll then decide whether he's ready for the australian open which starts on the fifteenth of january thirty six year old roger federer is

heading into the melbourne tournaments full of fitness and form the defending australian open champion being jack's all that's at the hartman cup in perth. bennett switzerland beat the usa three no in their tie and are into saturday's final. some injury concerns for women's world number nine you want to contact contact retired injured again salinas but lena in the quarterfinals of the brisbane international the briton reached the semifinals of the australian open in two thousand and sixteen and the quarter finals last year. spanish lead legal leaders barcelona were held to a one one draw at celta vigo in the first leg of their copa del rey round of sixteen a tie the match which was missing messi and suarez saw the return of barr says a record signing ballet but he failed to score the second leg at the nou camp takes place on january eleventh. all the world's biggest football clubs including

barcelona are getting ready to spend millions of dollars on new players in the transfer window which clubs have the most financial influence a new list has just been published by football marketing company soccer teams from the world's most watched domestic competition the english premier league dominate the high end of the table manchester city are at the top and are one of five e.p.l. teams in the top ten more on expected is the team at number four seven time chinese champions quango ever grand nine chinese clubs are ranked in the top one hundred index also highlights the growing prominence of the game in the united states five of the top thirty clubs are from major league soccer and while around madrid are in sixth place barcelona don't even make the top ten they're down in thirteenth well earlier we spoke to football financial expert rob will some from sheffield hallam

university he told us what soccer expats there results on. it was an interesting this is no nothing in your piece just talks about how surprising is were some of the clubs and the methodology really suck or actually you so unlike how you can see firm deloitte measure financial performance and the amount of money that each club house at its disposal what this list does is puts together all of its assets the amount of wealth a club's owners can potentially bring to the table to give this financial power ratings to what it's intended to do so just how powerful a club might be in the football market and that's what we've seen entrants from from china at number four of course two of the world's wealthiest companies backing up particular football team and they look a likes a passenger on a month or a city so that personal wealth in the ownership structure is certainly influencing these these findings today egyptian football star mahommed has just been named african football's player of the year at a ceremony and ghana celebrated his liverpool team mate saudi

a manet and bones peer emerick a bomb to the top price which was partially decided by a fan vote fella played a big role in egypt's qualification for the world cup and has already scored twenty three goals for liverpool this season but he says it's just the beginning since he came as professional in my mind i want to be the best player ever in egypt in history so i know what i want i know how to do it i'm working hard every day improving myself so that's what i will so i think i'm going where i'm doing we'll at the moment so i'm going to see even in the future this one the next one and that's fun. the final the gulf cup will be held on friday with oman facing the united arab emirates it's a tournaments that demonstrated the region's complex politics makes with its love of football somehow most reports from kuwait. there's no doubt about passion for

football or its fans love of the national team thousands of omani supporters have flown to kuwait to watch their side play in the final of the gulf cup as you. well yeah after a surprise semifinal win against behind the two thousand and nine champions have just three days to refocus for the title decider against united arab emirates the tournament may lack a global punch but it's a huge regional importance if you're in the final you want to be in the final. because it's the gold cup of tea but it's all beats the world cup for middle east. and they are all desperate to take the car back to. their one team no history isn't on their side they faced the u.a.e. here ten years ago in the final of this competition but they came up short this time and they're confident the outcome will be different. our confidence is really high head of the final on friday and with our huge supporters behind us we've

determined to return to our home and with the cop the a team event has also had the political dimension because of the blockade imposed on qatar by four arab countries the u.a.e. saudi arabia and bahrain only agreed to take part when the event was moved from qatar to kuwait. the m.r.i. team refused to answer questions from al jazeera journalists covering the competition during their pre-match news conference. with the two countries do have in common is a desire to build competitive teams for home tournaments while qatar is building up for the twenty twenty two world cup the u.a.e. will host the asian cup next here. the team of made a lot of progress ahead of the gulf cup they have been one of the best teams in the

tournament and have played at a strong level or ambitions are very high the players embrace the responsibility of delivering success ahead of the asia cup. golf cup title could be the perfect launch pad for the crew and he and his team sana all to zero kuwait and that's all your sport for now it's now back to barbara in london thank you never go far as a rich maritime heritage including the traditional wooden boats which have for centuries been used to transport goods between the arabian peninsula africa and asia their construction is under threat from cheaper modern technology but there are a few people determined to keep the ancient building traditions alive charles stratford reports now from the historic port of sore in eastern. history books say dallas had been sailing the warm waters of the gulf for more than two thousand years but exactly who invented this ancient type of vessel is lost in

time maritime scholars believe they could have originated in china around six hundred b.c. . the sails have been replaced by an engine but they are still used for trade fishing and tourism along the coasts of the united arab emirates saudi arabia qatar yemen. taliep kafeel nasri has been sailing tourists along oman's coast the twenty year is. cool. i live in create on the sea and the sea is everything to me it's a type of therapy i've spent my life on the ocean on boats like these which are so important as symbols of our heritage. the historic pulte of sue situation dona lagoon in eastern oman was once home to a fleet of hundreds of dallas the portuguese the dutch and the british hold their boats in these waters over the centuries all keen to benefit from its ideal trading

location. it takes only five days to sail to india from here. maritime trade started flourishing here in the seventeenth century with places a stall a field of sons of all india and africa and so also became a major center for the ship building industry a tradition in history and culture that is now struggling to survive. this is the only dal building yard in soon now. this boat is being built for a country owner when it's finished it will cost more than three hundred thousand dollars and that's without the engine. in keeping with tradition it's being constructed almost entirely from a cd and. originally these boats were literally lashed together using rope. and even now little metal is used as in the past the wood is imported from asia and

africa allie's family had been building dallas for more than three hundred years to have the. main challenge we face is the introduction of fiberglass fiberglass dows are easier to build and they are cheaper but wooden boats last much longer fifty to sixty years of course this is our heritage and we must protect it people must know their traditions and protect them without our traditions who are we. many of these predominantly indian fishermen spend weeks at a time at sea many of their fathers also sailed fishing and trading down to and from india they are reliant on their dals the name of which is actually a swahili word originating in east africa the arabs simply call them meaning ships a testament to the commercial and cultural impact they've had over centuries in the

gulf and well beyond a tradition that people such as captain taliep say they are determined to preserve . and that is it for this news remember you can get more on everything with the covering on our website the address al-jazeera dot com well it's up to the news that we're but i'm going to be back in just a few minutes with more of the day's news by. training

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