some of his legacy. is perched on stilts. but the cities are beginning to develop even areas where. the army is offering more sustainable solutions to the communities hardest hit by the types of change. that you continue working. this time on just. this is al jazeera. welcome to the al-jazeera news are not our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. and i'll be there a crew in syria captures the moment

a suspected russian strike hits a camp where families are sheltering all are also fighting in the democratic republic of congo adds to the misery of a country already suffering from a color. and a natural disaster we'll hear from our reporter in the capital kinshasa. also twelve million boxes of baby milk and eighty three countries has recalled the true scale of salmonella scandal is beginning to emerge. and how a slip of the finger apparently triggered fears of an incoming missile strike on hawaii. the day sports including the super bowl champions take a step closer to defending their title as the patriots rout the titans to reach the a.f.c. title game. welcome

to the news hour sustained attacks by syrian government forces aided by russian air strikes are continuing on rebel held areas activists say one hundred seventy nine people have been killed in the besieged damascus suburb of eastern guta in the past two weeks and further north in it labor pushed by assad's forces and their allies is causing a new wave of displacement about one hundred twenty thousand people have fled their homes in recent weeks rather than finding places of century many continue to face danger. no la la la da da da we. don't know that he'd. be up. your law. well

al jazeera screw shot these pictures while filming in the makeshift camp in labor it's an attack that did happen they tell us that a missile hit very close to those civilians including families who fled from earlier bombing raids in nearby hammer country side al jazeera correspondent village fandy can be seen amongst those crowds of men women and children desperately trying to find cover. cinema because sulu joins us now our correspondent in an attack in southern turkey not far from the syrian border good to have you with a set of even camps where people are seeking shelter are not spared the government's bombing campaign has been relentless. yes so hell the government continues its attacks on the real incentive the barrier because they are trying to break the resilience in the last phone call the opposition but this of course carries a lot of risks both on the humanitarian side and on the diplomatic side. as the

peace process. on track is underway the peace decision that was taken in capital us down are these are considered as the violations of the peace process and the partners the gaar in terms of this peace process which are russia iran and turkey it is going to be a difficult negotiation for these three partners during the such meeting which is going to be held at the end of this month january but as long as the strikes continue the regime's attacks continue on the civilians the human tragedy is expected to grow more and we have been speaking to the in jail representatives and opposition representatives since we arrived here and while we were inside syria they are telling us that if it continues five hundred thousand more people are expected to flow to the turkish syrian border and the situation here at the camps

nearby the border is very dire so hey and indeed i mean you just left those comes with the last twenty four hours your reporting for us saturday on saturday tell us a little bit more about the situation in northern syria where those many thousands are displaced where the situation certainly is is desperate for them trying to find safe haven tell us what it's actually like for the what by concerns of. yes so have people who have fled their homes and stand home actually most of these people who came to this turkey syria border recently and this is not the first time that they are displaced some of them have been displaced for three times and most of them have been displaced twice and this is a real was already full of camps as the war started almost six and a half years ago and those camps were already hosting more than five hundred

thousand people now they are fully occupied and there are new camps being built but of course. this is not a solution because these camps are not well equipped in terms of infrastructure and these are only good for those people for a short period of term we have seen people they had no money and they didn't have any chance to take money with them while they left mr hama and now they need immediate assistance in terms of medical equipment food and also some clothes also they need more tents for the ngos need more tents to provide for those people they have blankets are needed mattresses are needed i can say that everything is needed right now so help for those civilians so even a small help would be good for the syrians who have been displaced in the couple of

in the last couple of weeks and it's very desperate winter there as well sort of for the moment thank you for joining us from. turkey joining me now as well. from the doha institute a director of policy analysis good to have you with us on the program because we talk about the wider politics of what's going on it seems that no place is safe for civilians even strikes happening in areas that are supposed to be safe zones are used as an excuse as a location for opposition fighters civilians are in the middle of all of this seriously so as you know i mean. this illusion was part of the deescalation agreement which has been agreed by the three of. russia to the key and iran into a set on a process and whenever you see escalation like this we should know that things are not working small between these three parties in recent weeks actually we have been seeing sort of tension in the relationship between turkey and russia on two things number one is the sushi the sochi conference which the russians are desperately

seeking to have by the end of this month they want the syrian opposition to attend the suci conference of president putin wants this very much because he wants to translate his military gains on the ground in syria into something political there is a great deal of pressure on the opposition ahead as you say are all that such a meeting i mean would they can they all will they attend in the light of these attacks because this is not the first in the last forty eight hours this is exactly what is the is the thing to do next year on brush up on the civilian. community of dos fighters in order to force them actually to agree to attend. the sochi conference he's also trying to put maximum pressure on and on turkey in order to lean on the opposition not just to convince them people to at in sochi everything there is happening right now in syria is related to the suci conference

in one way or another and of course that the escalation of these attacks used to be perhaps in directly related to an attack on a russian base which our viewers might not have heard about that in itself is seeing these retaliatory actions on deescalation says what sort of facts can we take out of that particular incident this is i think another factor that is forcing or in fact. pushing the russians to do all that we have on the eve of the newly. the russians. newspaper communists and. uncovered that there was an attack on the i mean air base which seven russian war plane has been destroyed on the ground by its launched by the syrian opposition we have been hearing also in the recent weeks about another attack that was actually targeted at that russian in me so i think the russians are playing

taking this as a retaliatory action against syria which is and there are playing actually to punish them they are trying to humiliate them they are playing actually to see don't do this again because this is the price you are going to pay if you do it again the russians have been trying to take the lead in trying to find a solution to the civil war in syria america's taking a backseat we look towards a starter we look towards geneva now we're looking towards. there doesn't seem to be an end in sight so many contributors and analysts are saying that the war is coming to an end it doesn't seem to be like that when we see images like saluting because the russians have been so far and need been actually two and convents the syrian opposition to adopt the sort of political solution that they want because as you know the russians are so much reluctant to accept the position of the of the opposition on the future of the syrian president bashar assad they wanted some sort

of cosmetic changes in syria and leave things as as the are on the other hand true that the americans are not taking a very active role in syria but there are also supporting the russians in their office in fact we have been hearing statements by david something for you who was acting as assistant secretary of state for the new system if we are is actually seeing that the americans will not be supporting that the suci conference and that drove my opinion the russians crazy about it the thing that the americans are playing to put some. of that they are trying to put certain obstacles and their way in order to have the sort of political solution they want to have in syria we'll see what does happen it was good to get your insight moment problem there from the diehards gee thanks again for joining us. well we have more pictures now coming out of eastern ghouta are several people are in hospital after a bombing by government forces and aid workers at the scene say the victims are being treated for suffocation from what they suspect is chlorine gas

to europe now where the boss of french dairy company like tallis has revealed the extent of a global sound analysis candle after the firm was accused of trying to cover up the outbreak in a rare media interview emmanuela best said it affected eighty three countries with about twelve million boxes of powdered baby milk being recalled lawsuits have been filed against the company by families who say their children suffered salmonella poisoning after drinking the milk at least thirty are known to have fallen ill in france and one in spain that tallis exports its products to countries across europe africa and asia the dairy giant's revelation comes after its boss there to french finance minister bruno. who pushed for greater transparency he said on friday that urgent action was needed elective ease or lack to lease will take back all the baby milk products manufactured at crown regardless of their production

date from wherever it is being sold and in particular from supermarkets and chemists the aim of this radical step is simple to avoid delays problems and sorting batches and the risk of human error now is governor has apologized for an accidental message sent to residents warning of an imminent missile strike the alert triggered panic among many hawaiians who scramble to find shelter the emergency management agency later confirmed it was a false alarm particle hain looks at what happened. u.s. president donald trump and north korea's leader kim jong un have been trading claims about who has the bigger nuclear button so you might expect the u.s. state of hawaii in the middle of the pacific would be on edge i was the first place they're going to drop a bomb it's crazy you know living here it's awesome but the same time you know really going to like secure all the time that might explain why when this alert was sent out to every cell phone on the island people panicked the warning

a ballistic missile was coming seek shelter this is not a drill so people just are it's starting around trying to get into that room so there was a bunch of old girls who were eating and some kids are crying and nobody really knew what to do people on twitter found out about ten minutes later from emergency officials and politicians it was a false alarm those not on twitter had to wait much longer before a correction was sent out thirty eight terrifying minutes how could this happen in the first place the explanation itself is baffling it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift when they go through to make sure that the system is working and employing pushed along but that's right officials say one person pushed one wrong button the government says it will investigate but for the people who live through this panic that's little comfort i just hire anyone to this author place. that was it people are just running on history they were all

desperately. there was nothing at all they got one job right he messed up so all that's crazy a false alarm in the face of an actual threat making the people of hawaii realize they might not be ready for the real thing pedicle hain al-jazeera washington. well plenty more ahead here on the news hour including marking seven years since the arab spring into this year we'll look at why the same issues are still getting people out onto the streets are these live pictures coming out of to this show. also hackers in your home the new warning as our world's become ever more connected . and morocco kick off the african nations championship with a wave action from the opening match coming up in sport. that.

well soldiers in the democratic republic of congo have launched an offensive against the armed groups the specter of killing fifteen un peacekeepers the group calls itself the allied democratic forces and is based mainly in north kivu province shawn dallas has more. the beginning of an offensive by congolese troops on rebels hiding on the border the ugandan group known as the a.d.f. killed fifteen peacekeepers in an ambush on a un base in north kivu province in december it was the biggest single loss of peacekeepers in nearly a quarter of a century those killings triggered this response. army vehicles transported three hundred troops to the area with tanks and armored vehicles to port said. so we decided to launch an operation against the i.d.f. and all other armed groups in the area this is the last operation and we are prepared to fight to the end so we can restore security and peace in the region.

the congolese hope it's the last but it certainly isn't the first here is a joint un and congolese task force starting an offensive against idea fighters beckon twenty fifteen. originally ugandan rebel group have been rooted in the d.r. seeds run the national park for twenty years they retreated here after a failed bid to turn uganda into an islamic state they also oppose the ugandan president yoweri most afine who's been in power thirty one years. the i.d.f. has a brutal reputation it's blamed for seven hundred civilian deaths and binny over the past three years as well as mess right and recruiting child soldiers. the december ambush that killed fifteen peacekeepers and injured more than fifty came just two months after the a.d.f. killed two other peacekeepers the d r c is the un's largest mission and now one of

its most dangerous it says it is planning to bet congolese forces against the rebels but is yet to engage ballasts al jazeera. in contrast catherine saw in the congolese capital i mean military operation seems to really have no end in sight as the i.d.f. continue really to be a thorn in the side of the de ossie or forty's i mean what are the aims of the group catherine. well so hale this is a group that has its roots in west in uganda it was started in the one nine hundred ninety s. by a protestant who converted to islam and had started propagating advancing this very fake islamic ideology right now so he can clear what the group is fighting for anymore it is based in north will in effect in the r.c. after you get was routed out of uganda not a very big presence has been weakened over the years we're talking about according

to estimates a couple of hundred fighters but authorities still consider it a very very big threat that's why this operation is so important it is part of a joint offensive between the congolese forces and the ugandan forces two weeks ago we so ugandans carry out aerial combat missions in beni where thousands of the fighters are believed to be hiding and now this ground offensive that has been started by the forces and we spoke to the commander. in charge of the operation he said that this really easy final push and people in benny are hoping that it's going to be successful because we've seen previous offensives started by the government really failing in two thousand and fifteen that was mentioned end up package there we covered extensively that offensive against a.t.f. and when it was done the government came out and said it's done the rebels are completely eliminated by just months later we saw them coming back and carrying out

this series of very brutal attack killing civilians using machetes government forces are so he'll have also been accused in the past of carrying out some of these atrocities but the government has always denied to people that we've talked to benny thing that they hope that this is going to be a success because they have lived in fear for so long to this one so he would be keeping an eye on the worrying development where you are for the authorities is only going cholera epidemic and flooding which now sees a rising death toll. absolutely and this is another major major health problem this rain last week very heavy rain led to the death of forty five people in kinshasa more than a thousand people have died of cholera in january across the country this cholera outbreak has affected now most of the country and the doctors we spoke to a thing that they are worried that the situation could only get worse in the rainy

season and so he'll something of that we noticed when we were filming a story yesterday is that most of the people who were affected in last week's flooding people whose homes were destroyed have started going back to those same areas which is still very dangerous for them to be there here's a story that we did. it's hard to imagine just a week ago holmes stude here this is a neighborhood on the outskirts of kinshasa when floodwaters came crashing down from a nearby river many people didn't even have a chance to rescue their loved ones and belongings. months salicylates shows me what remains of the two bedroom house he shared with his wife and three children he says he knows he should take his family to higher safer ground but they're still here despite the obvious danger for. i am afraid because

he still leaning but they don't have any money to move them we could not help from anyone moving from here means lending the house. but the rains are expected to continue for the next three months and this means more trouble for a country that is facing a cholera outbreak the worst in two decades about a thousand people have died since last year more than fifty thousand from across the country have so far been affected. the government has declared cholera a national emergency and set up treatment centers the government has set up this facility here in the most affected area in the city we're not allowed to go to the wards where the patients are because of the nature of the disease since november at least thirty people mostly children have died in kinshasa alone. cholera is highly infectious also easy to treat if detected early but with

a poor health system and financial problems doctors are overwhelmed a government international appeal for eight million dollars has not helped less than two million has been raised. on the a few countries in africa can deal with this situation by themselves this is why the government launched an appeal for help in november and declared. disaster. so here health workers focus on prevention talking to anyone they can about the importance of good hygiene and visiting centers like this one are. there preparing themselves for more difficult times ahead in this rainy season. thousands of people are massing on the streets of the tunisian capital to mark seven years since the revolution that sparked the arab spring many of the issues which brought people to the streets back then are still causing problems today

let's go live over to china's for hashim correspondent is there in amongst the crowds of course people commemorating what happened seven years ago what's the mood like. well mixed feelings here so hey do you have those coming here to commemorate those who lost their lives in two thousand and eleven and the autocratic it is yeah and build ever crossed first democratic country become verging here saying that we have to honor the legacy of those perspective by themselves for the sake of the future but you know you're not going to see a display of unity here on the give us where today you tube is yeah the political divide continue as you have put example the pro government and not the party which is celebrating right behind me on the other hand you have a coalition of leftist opposition parties occupying a different spot on the brigade say square and they say that the reason why they

are attending the commemoration today is to pull more pressure on the government to put an end to the austerity measure see have only one hand and hope about the future but like sign here about the home going economic difficulties so it's quite a delicate moment for to his yeah just commemorate one of his more important events here modern history my colleague was set up instead he has this report about the main events there marked in his sister thousand and eleven. i this was the two new zealand capital seven years ago when protesters made history . with simple demands and joblessness and improved prospects for young people the spark the regional arab spring. uprising. the perseverance ended the rule of physicians in an aberdeen banally who had been accused of corruption and rights abuse but also began an era of political uncertainty less dienstag deng and not

prepared to be the person who takes decision this which result in the loss of life . and the conservative islamic party banned by ben ali was on its way to win elections. we have seen the popularity that hinata has around the country. and after a turbulent nine months the ushered in a democratically elected government in october two thousand and eleven. there were more demonstrations a year later despite a ban on protests and the challenge for tunisia is security and law and order especially on its borders but then geria and libya. three years after the revolution demonstrators took to the streets against economic hardship a new technocrat government was still failing to improve living conditions in two thousand and fourteen. but the new zealand's did get a new constitution hailed as an important step towards full democracy. the two

thousand and fourteen elections brought power to the secular new that to this party which later formed a coalition government but the conservative in the party but the security situation failed to improve. the lives of twenty two people including twenty one foreign tourists were killed when gunmen opened fire at a museum in the capital tunis. in june thirty nine people nearly all of them foreign tourists were killed in a gun attack on a five star hotel in sousse than easiest tourism industry has struggled to recover since then. people were out on the streets once again now they didn't feel safe and also had no jobs in two thousand and sixteen tenn a build a two hundred kilometer barrier along its border with libya to try and keep out fighters and refugees but in march fifty five people were killed when dozens of fine to storm through the town of been going down near the libyan border attacking army and police posts last may president the sipsey ordered the army to protect oil facilities in the south after protests planned to destroy production. and if he has

made major advancements in achieving democracy in improving its institutions but on the streets the economic hardships which sparked the protests seven years ago still continue. some of the job aid others there. were hushing the government has said it's taking new measures to try and help the poor luck ease the tensions across the country. i don't think so here there's going to be the tension any time soon for the simple reason that many people consider that a recent poll by the government to provide assistance to the poor and to the needy has a placebo they say that they are looking forward to see a genuine reform of the economy there is a problem about it is yes so hey this country spends more than he gets if faces chronic budget deficits he had been desperate for cash from the international donors have particular from the international monetary fund the i.m.f. the world bank i think that we cannot commit more loans and till you reform the

public sector just to give you an idea about the delicate task the government faces that it's a war course it is you know about eight hundred thousand government employees the wage bill for those employees cut something like twelve percent of the g.d.p. of it is not the government is not with very few options it greece taxes stache the workforce by twenty thousand the problem is that with the austerity measures laying off people yes he will get more. just can't get this done story and you will get more anger on the streets so the government is walking a fine political tightrope who wants to increase the revenues but at the same time it does not want to upset the cell population it will leave it there for now of course follow those events with you into this throughout the day thanks national. well the weather is next with staff and then after that. the latest back and forth between the u.s.

and iranian presidents as tensions rise over sanctions and the eagles saw over the falcons in the chase for the n.f.l. title those details coming up in sports with joe to stay with us. by the springtime flowers of a mountain lake. to the first snowfall on a winter's day. hello there well the air quality is going downhill for some of us in china in beijing we've got the first small alert of the winter season you see there already the pollution is looking pretty grim and it's going to get worse as we head through the next few days in fact today we got up to an air quality index there of two five eight that's very unhealthy and it's likely to stay pretty grim as we head through the next few days and the reason for that is just this time of year really there's nothing to help the pollution clear so anything

that's in place will just stay where it is and that's the thing for monday and for tuesday to some wednesday will things will change will have a wind from the northwest and that will clear around twenty pollution if the wind comes from any other direction than that just pushes it into the mountains and so we really have a geographical problem there ever as much as anything down towards new delhi and if anything it's looking worse here certainly very bad pollution they can barely make out whatever that is in the background and it certainly is worse today we got up to four hundred eighteen in the hazardous range and what you want to be is between zero and fifty that will be good that's good it to breathe but here we're at over four hundred eighteen and there's not really anything to clear it as we head through the next few days does look like it's going to stay pretty murky there. the way sponsored by qatar. and this. young libertarian. like you.

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welcome back to the al-jazeera news our i'm so robin a reminder of our top stories sustained offensive by government forces aided by russian air strikes are continuing on rebel held areas of syria now these dramatic pictures were captured by an al-jazeera t.v. one of the makeshift camps was attacked. also at least eighty three countries have been affected by a salmonella outbreak at one of the world's largest dairy firms french dairy diet like teles says twelve million box of powdered baby will have been recalled more than thirty children have been poisoned in france. voice governors apologize for an accidental message sent to residents warning of an imminent this syle strike the alert triggered panic before the emergency management agency confirmed it was

a false alarm. iran has lifted restrictions on the messaging app telegram which were imposed during the recent anti-government protests several social media services were blocked to prevent activists from using them to gather crowds at least twenty two people were killed and one thousand arrested before the demonstrations wound down earlier this month instagram was restored last week but facebook and twitter are still blocked. iran's president says donald trump has failed to undermine the twenty fifty nuclear deal between tehran and world powers despite repeated efforts on friday the us president weighed sanctions against iran for what he said was the last time warning here withdraw from the accord if it's not changed but has a rouhani says very few countries support this move data dog about the u.s. has remained isolated and with no value when attempted to confound the nuclear deal the whole world with the exception of one or two states including the zionist

entity stood against the us if we fail to honor our commitments and the agreements we signed then it's the end of civilization trumpeted all what he could to undermine the nuclear deal yet he failed those in power in the white house have failed to make the deal this is a victory for ethics a victory for law they're also says the deal is not negotiable is a reports from the capital. if there is one thing that iran's foreign minister has in common with the american president is that they both like to use twitter within an hour of the announcement by donald trump that the u.s. would stay in the nuclear deal with foreign minister jobs or if said trump's policy towards iran is desperate he said recent attempts to dismantle the nuclear deal were part of ongoing violations of the agreement. on saturday the foreign minister also addressed trump's alleged racist comments towards developing countries saying he was not a reliable person with whom to do business with us upon in my shoes maybe. as we

know the united states has been very open and very difficult as far as lifting the sanctions has been concerned blame us not forget many other countries have lifted the sanctions and life has become much easier in iran and it was before the dail tough talk from to her own inspired in no small part by support for the nuclear deal from germany france britain russia and china all the other countries who helped negotiate. as we know united states has been very all court and very difficult as far as lifting sanctions have been concerned but you mustn't forget that many other countries they have lifted the sanctions and life has become . much easier. any iran than it was before that the iran's government is motivated to keep the deal alive but with every repeating deadline the nuclear debate between the united states and iran becomes more

personal and not just at the level of government is in basra the old easier to run . the reign in oil tanker that's been burning in the east china sea since last week a set of sunk in the latest footage broadcast by chinese state television the ship is barely visible of of the water twenty nine crew members are still unaccounted for but iranian officials say there's no hope of any of them being found alive the tanker was carrying nearly won it million barrels of oil when it collided with a cargo ship. efforts are underway to recover a play which skidded off the runway at an airport in turkey and incredibly there were no serious injuries among the one hundred sixty two passengers on board the pegasus airlines flight the boeing seven three seven came within meters of the shoreline tabs. in the northeast now the airport has been closed one of our trees trying to work out what caused the accident pope francis has

been leading a mass at the vatican to mark the world day of migrants and refugees in it he acknowledged that today's rising numbers of immigrants and refugees off to generate fear in a host society saying those anxieties are fully comprehensible from a human point of view according to the un refugee agency more than sixty five million people have been forcibly displaced twenty two point five million people are refugees more than a quarter of them are from syria and then there are the ten million people who are stateless not considered citizens of any country and that includes more than six hundred fifty thousand ringle refugees forced out of the a bar in late august one of the most dangerous places for my friends and refugees is the mediterranean more than forty thousand people have died in those waters since twenty fourteen while trying to reach europe. well let's speak now to don the

old girl of and he's the director of advocacy and media for the middle east at the norwegian refugee council joins me now from a bad in jordan thanks for being with us on algiers there with the plight of the refugee or the internally displaced is not a pleasant one in the twenty first century doesn't address by the pope help to highlight the need to do more by civil society and governments. well i think the address by the pope is important for two main reasons the first is that we've seen all too few world leaders willing to stand up for refugees in fact have seen quite the opposite over the course of the last two years we've seen a hardening of the refugee rhetoric which the pope references in his address so i think that it's important that he is. standing up for that record number of people who are have been forced to flee their homes i think secondly and probably more importantly is this this rhetoric and this which is driven by this fear is

leading to policies and practices which are affecting millions of people negatively so those more borders are being picked up. refugees in some cases being sent back to unsafe countries and life for those refugees who have made it's other countries it's becoming increasingly difficult harsh so it's not just by the police is important and the question is whether politicians will what he does worse the name debate with many national governments is about the need to integrate and whether immigrants and refugees can do that all perhaps there are different funds available it's all about political will and what needs to change there. well i think that like i said there's been a kind of gradually coming about political will over the over the last two years of our commitments that our obligations on to care for refugees and we have seen. a great deal of generosity and hospitality in horse thing. millions of refugees if

you look at the neighboring countries the countries neighboring syria has massive amounts of refugees and in these countries if you compare typing the eleven on has more refugees the. whole of europe combined so i think that is the question is how to regenerate its hospitality the feeling of solidarity with people with hard to to flee violence and the leaders of rich countries but also the politicians in. neighboring states that lebanon jordan turkey all have a have a role to play well what that will boil down to is whether refugees have an ability to to work to send their kids to school and feel safe in their country was island will see what does happen for the moment thanks very much for joining us. palestinian groups have us and islamic jihad her declined an invitation to observe but not take part in the meeting organized by the p.l.o. in ramallah now they say there's

a lack of agreement on her palestinian group should respond to the u.s. decision to virtualize to restore as israel's capital now the announcement by washington in december has part regular protests worldwide of president abbas's you to address the meeting later palestinian relations with israel and pursuing full membership of the united nations will also be discussed and joins us now from ramallah in occupied west bank and of course say it is a big day for the p.l.o. we are expecting that significant speech from the president but what sort of the timeline of what we expect and what we expect to hear as well about. well what we're expecting is the payload to meet now they haven't met since march two thousand and fifteen so the central committee will meet around six thirty pm local about four or five hours from now then they'll be a speech by the president mahmoud abbas to the nation now it's likely that he will use very strong language when it comes to america when it comes to the move of the

u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem what's on the agenda for the meeting is likely to be a number of issues amongst them reconciliation within the palestinian factions themselves like you say islamic jihad and hamas have declined an invitation to come as observers to the meeting they've been criticized by other palestinian factions for being selfish in not taking part in the process also whether they'll look at security coordination between israel and the palestinian authority where the see what can be done then i have to remember the palestinians are the only people under occupation that have to give security guarantees to the occupy that's israel also they'll be looking various other ways to address the move of the embassy now the speech given by president mahmoud abbas later and it will come much later in the evening is likely to be very strong language but that won't be it what we're really

going to be looking for is on monday when the decisions from the central committee meeting issued and how those decisions are implemented now the strength of those decisions is going to have an impact on the israeli palestinian relations so not only are they be monitored by the israelis and the international community generally or leave it that's not right of course and followed through the day with you later thank you. now we're all aware of the responses by hackers whether it's too often soft bank accounts even elections but what if cyber criminals could get into your home and you were installing and become effable connected rob reynolds explains from the consumer electronics show in las vegas. right by now you've heard all about the internet of things or io t. so-called smart homes feature internet connected t.v.'s washing machines thermostats door knobs and locks all controllable by smart phones there are web

link security cameras smart showers and yes you guessed it online toilets the internet of things also includes underthings as neema model of a g. of speier explains simply put it right here the gizmo attaches to your bra or your briefs and gives you feedback on your health incidentally our clothes are going to be informing us about how to make the small baby steps micro decisions that actually to better health by twenty thirty the io team a and fourteen trillion dollars to the world economy according to the management consulting firm accenture sounds great doesn't it but the more connected people and their products become the more at risk they are for a digital attack it opens up the possibility for risks of security natures of these are computers that have some computing power always on always connected and they're

very appealing to the bad guys and the problem is as you're rushing to put the stuff on the market sometimes you use products off the shelf and they have bugs in them and you could distribute those bucks to your customers in recent years we've seen how vulnerable even formidable institutions are to hackers like the credit reporting agency equifax the movie studio sony and the us super spy bureau the. national security agency big defender is marketing a box that will defend all your systems and online connections it's a complete solution it's a multi think of it like a sandwich at the knowledge ease that basically employ our machine learning in ai to understand the behavior of connected devices and figure out when something nefarious has happened unfortunately cyber security is not the top priority for many device makers or it seems for many consumers at this point the convenience and wow factor and excitement of new electronics are essentially

winning the day consumers might want to consider whether smart devices are making their lives better or putting them in their families at risk robert oulds al-jazeera las vegas. fascinating stuff all still ahead here on the news are flawless winds of perfect forward such as this double olympic champion to pyongyang cho will have those details in sport straight up to the point. in the worst mass shooting in the united states in modern times the gunman owned forty seven guns and had twenty three of those firearms with him at the time of the shooting. united states of america has. obsessive attraction and love for guns in a way that other countries just don't have and that's why she helped put together

an exhibit at one church to help raise awareness to gun violence through art and in this piece two shoes on each piece of tissue a name and age of someone killed by gun violence in the area. it is called loving arms of course it's a play on words arms being what we used to hug or pray somebody but also arms being weapons as well the message here in this world needs more love and less violence. welcome back it's time for sports we're going to start with

a bit of american football absolutely yes the hell is coming to the shop and because super bowl champions the new england patriots a one set price is offending that title they reach the a.f.c. championship game for a seventh straight time an n.f.l. record in itself the pain. face the tennessee titans in the divisional playoffs on saturday tom brady threw for three touchdowns and the titans really had no answer to that as the pats force their way to a thirty five to fourteen win another victory like that in next week's title game would see the pats play for a record equalling six super bowl title i think the thing is we don't really take it for granted around here. i know hard it is to get to this game and you know we're very blessed to do it takes a lot of things a lot of good fortune a lot of hard work but obviously a lot of a lot of great blessings and i think you know our team throughout the course year you know we can win important games against good teams and we did that tonight and that's why you keep moving on in the n.f.c.

the philadelphia eagles hung on for their first playoff win in nearly a decade they beat the atlanta falcons fifteen to ten on saturday to reach next week's championship game. the biggest emotion for me was that i was out of the team the guys the resiliency of this football team and you know our backs against the wall people you know discounters don't don't give us much credit whatever it might be for our team to battle against a fine football team you know a team that was obviously this time of year is playing an extremely well hot football team. that's one thing about this team that i love so much they battled to the end. of the eagles in the pats will find out their championship title opponents later in the a.f.c. it's the jags versus the steelers while in the n.f.c. the saints play the vikings host country morocco got their two thousand and eighteen african nations championship off to a winning start the tournament which is only for those who play for cup teams on the continent so mauritania get hammered for nail in the opening game somehow

measure ports from casablanca. well the fifth edition of the african nations championship is now well on the way there is no doubt is a big day for morocco the country hasn't hosted a senior continental competition since nine hundred eighty eight. mohammed the fifth stadium in casablanca opened four hours before kickoff to make sure fans getting on time to watch the host open their campaign against for a tiny little of that actual battle that's a very important tournament and you hope to win the title close to thirty six thousand spectators that have attended the game and some of the supporters who are still pushing to get in even after half time on the pitch it was a perfect start for morocco after goalless first half the host finally broke the

deadlock in the sixty six minutes a uber cabbie with the goal of things got worse for a tiny and it's my head dad doubled their lead before we added his second goal on the night to make it three nil up above the. russian official capitalizing on a more attorney a defense that had long since giving up he added a fourth in stoppage time to seal the four nil win and send the whole crowd into a frenzy. with. you know. where very happy we came all the way from our cash to watch our team and they didn't disappoint. now the whole country are hoping that their team will be back to the same stadium on february the fourth for the final woman expect tournament on the continent will be the africa cup of nations in cameroon but as the reports inspectors who have been sent to the country are finding the preparations for the event behind. cameron's hopes of staging

africa's biggest football tournament are on the line independent inspectors are in the country to assess whether it will be ready this is an offender stadium it is much ready but cameroon needs thick stadiums to be in the same condition the country's government is confident however it will deliver. delivery of all construction sites as expected by december twenty eighth furthermore all the necessary arrangements have been made in terms of logistics and security at all sites in order to allow members of the inspection team to work in serenity. a stadium is set to hold sixty thousand fans this is what the site looks like right now and while the country's had since two thousand and fourteen to plan for the competition everything was impacted by changes made to the competitions format last year africa's footballing authority counts increased the african from sixteen teams to twenty four which means the country now needs six stadiums rather than four and there's

a lack of faith from the top of african football that they can deliver last year caf president said cameron isn't tricky to welcome even for teams. algeria and morocco have already signaled their intent to be replacements and the inspectors returning stadiums until january twenty first is no want to cameroon to show what their bid is made of so he'll malik zero ramadan season is unraveling fast they slumped to another defeat this time at the hands of l r l in a league. for an els court an eighty seventh minute goal to silence the real madrid fans at their home it was the rails first win at the bernabeu well madrid say fourth in the table sixteen points behind the legal leaders past lower and that gap can increase if asked when their game against wales sociedad later on sunday. mine just says he will have the chance to go thirty one matches unbeaten in the english premier league that incredible run stretches back into last season and it's no surprise then that they hold

a fifteen point advantage over manchester united at the top of the table but they'll play an impressive liverpool side at anfield and city boss pep guardiola isn't expecting an easy right it doesn't matter how do they make it will perform and they put everything on the field and they were in the hope so but obviously for as a real test good one feel one of the most prestigious stadiums in the world and they would perform it went right through. well so that game is the late to kick off a win for liverpool would put them level on points with third place chelsea then in the early kick off sixth place arsenal play strugglers bournemouth now you heard earlier about the missile alert in hawaii that turned out to be a false alarm while it also had some of the world's best golfers in a panic one hid under his mattress while another source shelter in his hotel basement once given the all clear they got back to the kind of bunkers they're more used to in the third round of the sony open this was russell knox who's in a share for sixth place out in front as american golfer tom hard to stretch to one

stroke lead going into the final day if he manages to hang on through sunday will be his first p.g.a. tour which. roger federer says he's too old to be considered one of the favorites to win the australian open as he gets ready to defend his title the thirty six year old is in form ahead of the tournament this week the ninety time grand slam champions opening match is on tuesday where he plays slovenia's but in a. having no expectations was was so nice after all these years i was having expectations like this year again but with age i feel like you know i play down my chances just because i don't think a thirty six year old to be a favorite of a tournament should not be the case so that's why. i see things more relaxed you know a later stage of my of my career now one of the best snowboarders in the world shaun white is heading to his fourth winter olympics thirty five all right put your hands together for sure that was our final competitor here today go to time gold medalist

qualified think young chang in spectacular style in colorado on saturday he scored a perfect one hundred for a second time on the half pipe is the only snowboarder to ever achieve that white's winning run included two of the toughest tricks on the hall fight the double might twist twelve sixty and the front side double cork fourteen forty and just take a listen to this reaction. show the final score the fact. that the old well you were right i was warm thank you i guess it was. all right that is for now more for me a bit later thanks very much joe let's just take you back to iraq we've got live pictures coming in to show you the crowds of assembled for the seventh anniversary of the start of the arab spring it started to nazir spread across north africa as you know people are still discontented with lot in life. rising unemployment

cost of living also increasing. slow increasing scenario where security is always being debated of course a big tourist holiday destination people tend to wait until easier because of recent attacks we'll be back with more news and often with ali but you go to stay with us here on the al-jazeera news.

from the foreign ministry. conservation is helping kick his stove to recover its snow leopard population to see the results i traveled up to the remote nature reserve of saudi chat it touch. traps have identified a healthy population of up to twenty snow leopards as the technology improves we're refining all these ways in which our guesses are are getting corrected and the latest evidence suggests there are more cats than previously acknowledged but the snow leopard trust believes it's premature to downgrade the cats on the

international list of threatened species. of the look of the arrival of refugees is debated in european parliament's. but the journey itself is little understood. to syrians document the route that has claimed so many lives such infrasound cheree part one people in power on al-jazeera. and al-jazeera crew in syria captures the moment as aspected russian air strike hits a camp where fadel lamen a sheltering.