just as we saw in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it's going to be and i'm going to ready is ugly in many parts of the world where people are saying if my government went to craft my interest then i would look for a strong narrative here and she's a fascist i don't care if you promises to secure the stability of my life and my people i'm a country and i think that's where we are heading and i don't think our leaders have the vision to understand that the threat that we face. in the. world. the man accused of planning the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks leaves a protest in pakistan as the government faces pressure from the u.s. to crack down on terrorist organizations. claim for the bad boy are watching al-jazeera live from doha and also coming out

the arab league seeks global recognition of a palestinian state with east jerusalem as its capital thirty two sailors missing after an oil tanker collides with a congo ship in the east china sea and the italian coast guard says at least eight people have died and eighty six others have been rescued from a boat off libya's coast. several pakistani groups which are facing pressure from the government are holding a demonstration in the northwest and city officials are they include jamaat ud dawa the organisation led by the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks suspect toughies saeed pakistan has recently brought so nations two groups named in a u.n. security council sanctions list the u.s. has suspended hundreds of millions of dollars of security aid to pakistan accusing it of being a safe haven for terrorist groups come on hyder is in with more. as sure as dollar

data do with the palestinian people after the ball gets down to french guns. which will be taking place in different cities across pakistan the last one was general will be indian which tens of thousands of people. also participated now it is important in order to drums nation against budget on that is also growing considered against the united states for failing to do its job or no one is done and then trying to blame it on a new. court date is going to be considerable support as far as american moves are concerned by the government although the government at this time trying to have a measured response saying that the communication lines were still open with the united states and their target on hold that the united states would look at bogost on schoolish and saying that over seventy three tolerant people had you lost their

lives over one hundred billion dollars of financial losses and what the americans were claiming was just been arc. in other world news an oil tanker has caught fire and thirty two crew are missing after a collision with a congo ship off the coast of china this happened off shanghai where the young sea river meets the east china sea search teams are looking for the missing saying is from iran and bangladesh who work for a leading even in shipping company rescue a save the twenty two one crew of the other ship involved trop mcbride has more from beijing. the main priority is still for the fate of the crew members on board the tanker it is an iranian tanker the senshi and most of the crew are iranians with two bangladeshis on board as well the crew from the other vessel which is a bulk carrier they have all been accounted for twenty one chinese nationals we are told have been rescued from this vessel this collision happened some three hundred

kilometers off the east coast of china between a bulk carrier carrying grain which was apparently heading south and the tanker which was heading north with one hundred thirty six thousand tons of refined oil on to south korea of a big concern is the blaze which broke out on board the tanker which was still said to be going some twelve hours after the collision there have been reports of oil in the water of a slick developing and some of the vessels that have been sent there are specialized in trying to control pollution but the east china sea is shared by china south korea and also some of the southern islands of japan so there will be a lot of concern in all of those countries about any developing slick and which direction it may be heading jordan says the arab league will seek international recognition of a palestinian state after donald trump's decision on some members of the

organization have met in amman they've been protests in jordan and elsewhere after the u.s. president recognized him as israel's capital as speak to manage on june who joins us from ramallah in the occupied west bank i want to tell us first about what else came out of this sadly meeting in amman. well essentially folly it was just the more needs to be done in order to pressure the international community to make sure that palestinians have a state i mean that was really the result in death or as it were to this meeting now out of the meeting not much significant happened other than these statements there is a need now for the arab league to try to conduct another meeting they're calling for an emergency meeting soon within the next few weeks possibly next month also to try to discuss the issue to really take it up with more urgency and try to ensure

that once again this is very much on the agenda not just for arab governments but also for the international community at a time that is fraught with so much tension you know it's been just over a month since u.s. president donald trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel in that time week after week we have seen protests especially in the occupied west bank and in gaza that have repeatedly turned violent it's very worrying here in light of all this now let's take a listen to more of what came out of that meeting this is the jordanian foreign minister telling us a little bit more about what went down. if not become our goal is to get the american decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel and to assert that it has it legal effect. we have specific requests the most important of which is the recognition of the palestinian state with jerusalem as its capital according to the jews the full nine hundred sixty seven borders. ahmed one wonders though how

much consensus there is among arab leaders on this issue of jerusalem especially when we hear reports that egypt is asking is to media to downplay opposition to trump's decision. yeah that's right folly this is been a big question in the arab world and more questions are going to be asked especially in light of this new york times report which talks about leaked audio from from an egyptian intelligence officer a senior intelligence officer who was reportedly telling leading t.v. talk show hosts in egypt to try to influence their viewers to back u.s. president donald trump's decision on jerusalem of course that is very different than what we've heard publicly from the egyptian government and this this article in the new york times it quotes captain ussher of the holy asking hosts how is jerusalem different from ramallah which is the current base of the palestinian

authority in the occupied west bank he also goes on to say in this report allegedly that another intifada would not help egyptian interests again all of this really underscoring just how complicated this is you have the public condemnation by many arab countries of donald trump decision then on the other hand in the arab world especially amongst ordinary citizens they say that arab leaders simply aren't doing enough to stand in solidarity with their palestinian brethren at a time when they really need financing they really need political support they really need them to rally to the cause so this is a very interesting development at a time when there are so many questions swirling around and so many are worried that trumps decision is just going to continue to inflame an already inflamed situation ali thank you very much for that reporting there live from ramallah in

the occupied west bank. nigeria is speeding up the process of bringing its citizens home after from libya after allegations of exploitation and abuse the repatriations began a few weeks ago after reports that migrants were being sold into slavery the nigerian foreign minister says two aircraft are being sent to fly eight hundred people home in the next few days meanwhile the tongan coast guard says at least eight migrants have drowned off the coast of libya eighty six others have been rescued from a boat from the boat where they were in rescue agency say many more are still missing and put the death toll as high as twenty five let's get the latest from our correspondent in libya mom who joins us from typically tell us what the libyan coast guard is saying about this latest rescue operation. well the folly of libya's cause to go to. this board to host of

a girl bully that's a town east of the libyan capital tripoli and also brigadier general you've got some of the spokesman of libya's coast guard has just said that they could libya's coast guard has not intervened in that operation and it has been all taken cared of a by. coast guard now from go to the coast. of and their boat a small of course and in a very bad condition boat capsized around more than thirty five miles of the coast east of tripoli now libya's coast guard says that they cannot spot these small boats because they are usually very small unless they are reported or are getting

a call from migrants on boats because sometimes in many cases the smugglers give them migrants before the sale of they give them. either a thought i phone or some small devices to call for excuse so in this case libya's cause the girl says that they have not got any call for askew but the whole operation has happened in the international water around more than thirty five miles away from going to bully coast thank you mahmoud for that mahmoud live for us in tripoli. still ahead on al-jazeera a status of refugees could become a key issue in coalition to germany plus the temperatures drops in south korea head of the winter games home rise for it in relations with

a new. hello and welcome back now start by looking at weather conditions across southeastern parts of asia first of all and we've seen some heavy rain across the island of borneo the last twenty four hours yes showed you had rainfall totals from port in excess of one hundred millimeters today as smeary just down the coast sixty three millimeters look at the forecast still plenty of showers across borneo but i think probably a slight improvement generally ger in the course of monday least from a lazy in borneo so that part of the philippines look fairly wet central north an area somewhat dry job though still seeing some heavy rain affecting the western part of the island and those who move up through the a pensioner scattered showers are generally weather conditions once you get into southern parts of thailand not too bad in cambodia and vietnam nothing more than a few showers now as they head down into

a stray there we've really been seeing some exceptional heat here over the last twenty four hours so these scenarios in particular and indeed suburb of sydney penrith forty seven point three degrees celsius setting a record now as we look at the forecast still pretty hot on monday for sydney at thirty four degrees lots of showers across northern areas but head through into choose a slight drop in temperatures but thirty two certainly cooler in melbourne at twenty and it should be fine in perth for the high here twenty nine. when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's not effective instead of being an obstacle. into became another obstacle to peace in a four part series al jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts

of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame at this time on al-jazeera. welcome back to our top stories on i'll just hear as several pakistani groups including some banned by the government are holding a protest rally in the shower i think were dollar led by the main suspect in the two thousand and eight biotoxin the u.s. has suspended hundreds of millions of dollars though security aid to pakistan in an effort to pressure the government to crack down on terrorists and i know a tanker has caught fire and thirty two who are missing after a collision with

a congo a ship off the coast of china says teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh rescuers saved the twenty one coup of the other ship involved and jordan says the arab league will seek international recognition of a palestinian state after donald trump's decision on jerusalem some members of the organization every meeting in amman. syria now and the latest government as strikes and shelling of rebel held suburbs of damascus have killed at least seventeen people activists say eastern gotye is being bombarded almost every day about four hundred thousand b.c. syrians are thought to be chopping hey mr breton gordon is an adviser to a coalition of medical charities in syria he says at least one hundred twenty children in eastern guta urgently needs medical treatments. the last. record. tax particular. christmas and new year period we've seen over ten hospitals and. commission in. the last

say in live we currently have twenty five children and. teens we absolutely need syria is a sees. a seriously injured troops. meanwhile in southern syria people who fled the fighting a facing a battle of a different kind surviving the barely cold winter has a story. in syria's southern province of daraa those displaced by war face a new threat whether. this is a company one of the largest in the region. and her grandchildren arrived here after escaping fierce fighting between serious opposition groups and i saw a water logged field is now home if the rain continues and we forced to leave where can they go. when they left on homes without any possessions you can see the

rain water around us you can see for yourself how bad conditions are and we do helpless the complex basic infrastructure there are no paper roads no drainage people feel forgotten there are you this used to be farmland it was unfit for people to settle in the first place hasn't been supplied with any of the basic services no one has lent has or will lend a helping hand none of the relief agencies either serious long civil war has triggered one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history eleven million syrians have been displaced by fighting heart of the whole population most around six million are internally displaced it is a bleak existence. parka al-jazeera in myanmar six soldiers have been injured in an attack in western rakhine stays the army says they were attacked

by a group called the hour can range a salvation army this was a separate incident on friday when homemade bombs were used against a truck transporting government troops meanwhile bangladesh and myanmar say they are ready to go ahead with a plan to bring revenge or refugees back home aid agencies and the u.n. a call the agreement a farce for reports. to husband and three children fled the myanmar military crackdown on the ranger in late december she says a boatman demanded seventy dollars for each person before he ferried them across the national river into bangladesh more than six hundred fifty thousand ranger have fled across the border in recent months rights groups say myanmar's military killed around seven thousand ranger men women and children in the first month off of the crackdown began in late august but the bangladeshi and me governments are already preparing to offer what they describe as voluntary repacked ration for refugees who

want to return to myanmar plus lima like many refugees says she will not go back. to that of whatever you know we won't go back not under these circumstances we've been persecuted in brutalized that they took all our possessions our crops and cattle we would rather die here that go back under these circumstances. three penetration agreement is based on a similar initiative by bangladesh and myanmar after a previous crackdown on the regime in one thousand nine hundred two it involves the myanmar government verifying the identity of refugees who want to return. but salesman's of ranger have never had sufficient identification documents proving their residency. then burma's government stripped them of their citizenship in one thousand nine hundred two miles army has destroyed hundreds of range of villages in recent months so the repatriation plan involves putting those returning into

temporary camps dealing kluges a role for the u.n. but in what capacity remains unclear at the present the situation my mother is. because of how. our daily bases. the bangladeshi government is estimated to be spending around four million dollars a day to help house and feed the refugees and it's signed off on a separate plan to move around one hundred thousand refugees from the camps to temporary shelters on a coastal island that critics say is highly vulnerable to typhoons western governments including the u.s. say myanmar's government is guilty of ethnic cleansing of the predominantly muslim ranger they ask who can guarantee the security of the refugees like to sleep family if they return to myanmar and how can they go back when their lack of citizenship

which is made them so vulnerable to violence and persecution for decades has not changed chance strafford al-jazeera german chancellor angela merkel says she thinks major parties can form a coalition government they have resume talks in berlin a potential sticking point they'll between i'm going to merkel's christian democrats and the social democrats is a refugee crisis they're divided over whether to allow relatives of people who are already in germany to join them dominic cain has this report from the. it's time for nine year old michael michael to do his homework and as in many families his big brother is on hand to help in fact twenty two year old mahmoud is more of a father to michael than an elder brother. because as yazidi refugees these two have been granted asylum in germany but for the past two years their parents and siblings have been stuck in

a holding camp for migrants increase. the news of the view of marco germany told them they could come join us here but then a few months ago we were told they could not go the official said you have no documents that prove your brother is related to your parents paid for the papers to come from iraq then they said they needed to test michael's d.n.a. and they'll finally they've said that ok your parents can come. but the brothers' hopes of a reunion have been dashed twice before and their situation is not unique since twenty sixteen germany has put a temporary hold on reuniting the families of people who are not classed as refugees the bavarian christian social union and go to medical system party in the southern state says while genuine refugees should be allowed in those with subsidiary protection and these claims for asylum are rejected should not we are objecting to the right of so-called subsidiary. accept that if

you choose to bring their family to terminate because to be honest this would. exhaust our capacities what makes this view more interesting is that stefan meyer speaks on this issue not just for his party but also for angle americans christian democrats but this particular point of view is not shared by the social democrats and with coalition talks between the three parties now intensifying in the new year the question is might this issue be a sticking point because the social democrats believe that where possible families who qualified to be reunited should be allowed to do so the political fight in germany is now about how to bring a government together from parties with such differing views from mahmoud and michael matta long it's how to bring their family back together dominic can

al-jazeera in bavaria. they've been long queues outside supermarkets in venezuela after the government ordered them to slash prices rampant inflation in the country has risen to above one thousand percent and that's led to widespread shortages of food and medicine president nicolas maduro blames the economic crisis on an international conspiracy. we arrived early but we couldn't get in the prices were much lower last night but today the prices a normal they were dickey prices elevated compared to the income of venezuelans well most venezuelans. we understand that supermarket chains have a right to increase prices because it's relative but none such an exorbitant manner three hundred percent i think there should be a bit of control and if there were some control we could purchase things. ecuador's government has appointed a new vice president to replace jorge glass who's been jailed for corruption money i.v. konya seen here on the left is taking up the position hope that assessor was sentenced

to six years in prison in connection with a bribery scheme brazilian construction giant or direct has admitted to handing out bribes worth nearly eight hundred million dollars to secure lucrative public contracts in peru the recently pardoned former president has tweeted that he's dreaming of a future for his country without bitterness that if would you morry called on peruvians to let go of the resentment triggered by the decision to pardon him on medical grounds but as in federal public which in ski announced the pardon just after surviving an impeachment vote with the support of fujimori son had been serving a twenty five year sentence for human rights violations. in the united states a prominent republican senator says there is no evidence u.s. diplomats in cuba were targeted with an unknown weapon possibly a sonic attack senate foreign relations committee member jeff flake reached a conclusion based on classified briefings from u.s. officials it contradicts kane's why the us secretary of state that

a targeted attack cost several diplomats in cuba to follow me seriously ill in two thousand and sixteen excellence in party reversed the obama administration's dealings with cuba by pulling most u.s. staff out of the country but i'm not suggesting that nothing happened. but to evidence of the attack the cuban government. or there. i've not seen evidence of that said i will talk about what i see in the classified setting that is inconsistent with the cubans set in the uk i think the idea here i would say. the us president is taking credit for next week's talks between north and south korea donald trump says he too is open to talks with north korea and hopes next week's meeting between the two korean nations will go beyond the north as participation in the winter olympics. i would love to see them take it beyond the olympics we have

a very good relationship with south korea i would love to see it go far beyond the only thinks absolutely just probably time will get involved right now they're talking to us it's a start it's a big step if i weren't involved they wouldn't be talking about olympics right to be doing you know to a few words there would be much more serious while tension on the korean peninsula has cast an early chill or reparations for the games but in the next part of our series if you had to those stories set to make headlines this year florence really has this report from kill. the mountain town of. the site of south korea's first ski resort and it's preparing for nothing achievement to host the country's first olympic and paralympic will take games some of these slopes will be closed later this month for the event across town finishing touches are being made and people are looking forward to the opening ceremony in february. i'm excited and a bit nervous that i'll be able to watch such

a big event taking place here. it's been such a long time since south korea hosted an olympics event it's a good opportunity to promote the country and especially this area it could also be a chance to improve into korea relations north korea has recently said it may send its athletes to take part in the event something south korea says it welcomes but security concerns over the north's nuclear weapons development remain organizers however say this isn't the first time a huge sporting event is held against the backdrop of heightened tensions but of course again safety and security are part of all of the olympic games and so it's a part of our preparations that we do but every other olympic committee has also had the same measures in place so we're working to ensure that everything is in place in time for the games. but an even more unpredictable factor is mother nature for costa temperatures on the day of the opening ceremony could make it one of the

coldest in thirty years and the stadium has no roof a deliberate design to save time and money officials say to counter the cold they're installing when she and will give out hot packs and blankets to spectators . this is a hot topic a pocket sized portable heater to give it a good shake the chemicals inside react this packing generates heat the last for at least ten hours put in your pocket. warm and toasty. for those willing to brave the cold it's not easy to get to the venue with a new high speed train from seoul to peel china. south korea also plans to use the upcoming olympics to showcase what it says will be the most technologically advanced games which and i'm a total idiot there's a camera placed on the whole mature competitors and spectators can watch the event from athletes perspective in real time on this tablet which uses five g. technology has. no efforts being sped to make the two thousand and eighteen winter

olympics and paralympics a success florence li zero pm china south korea and in the next part of us here ease we'll be reporting from moscow where valmy approaching on course for a fourth term as president will explain why russian politics is still a one man show you can watch that story right here on al-jazeera on monday the first man to command a space shuttle flight has died at the age of eighty seven john young was the ninth man to walk on the moon and he's the only astronaut to fly into space on the gemini apollo and space shuttle programs he remained active in nasa into his seventy's. this is obvious here and these are our top stories this hour an oil tanker has caught fire and thirty two crew are missing after a collision with

a congo shape in the east china sea search teams are looking for the missing sailors from iran and bangladesh rescuers saved the twenty one crew of the other ship involved drop macbride has more from beijing. this collision it seems took place at eight pm saturday saturday evening beijing time as a location around thirty three hundred kilometers off china's east coast in the east china sea it seems as though the vessels the tanker was heading to south korea it's called the century with thousands of tons of iranian oil on board and it seems as though the bulk carrier carrying grain was heading in the opposite direction we were told that that's was heading for southern china several pakistani political groups including some banned by the government are holding a rally in the shower this comes after the u.s. suspended aids funding to pakistan military aid that is in an effort to pressure the government to crack down on terrorism the groups holding the rallying. led by

the main suspect in the two thousand and eight mumbai a times jordan says the arab league will seek international recognition of a palestinian state after donald trump's decision on jerusalem some members of the organization have been meeting in amman jordan jordan people protested in jordan town other arab countries after the u.s. president recognized as israel's capital in syria the latest government to send a shelling of rebel held suburbs of damascus have killed at least seventeen people activists say eastern go to is being bombarded almost every day about four hundred thousand b.c. syrians are chops than. the italian coast guard say at least eight migrants have drowned off the coast of libya eighty six others have been rescued from a boat they were in s.q. agency say many more are missing and put the death toll to us highest twenty five german chancellor merkel says she thinks major parties can form

a coalition government a potential sticking point between. democrats and the social democrats is the refugee crisis stay with us. on counting the cost for a look at the economic reasons behind the rest in the middle east second largest economy plus new year new walls for european finance but that's not all we'll ask the chief global economist at u.b.s. what's his dangerous idea counting the cost at this time. twenty sixteen was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into europe. over five thousand people died between libya and italy or turkey and greece. the following film was first broadcast in two thousand and seven before today's conflicts in the.