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blogs in iran and you want to be al jazeera news our life my headquarters in doha in this sixty minutes we have teens in kabul on the turkey syria border also reporters everybody germany and in harare zimbabwe also escaping the gunfire at a luxury hotel in kabul six civilians are dead the taliban has claimed responsibility. also turkish troops launching air and ground attacks against kurdish fighters in northern syria. and defending donald trump's israel policy shift the u.s. vice president is in jordan on the second stop of his middle east. and our top story in force rappler a taliban says to the quarter finals of the australian it was straight forward for the brown family. good to have you with us welcome to the news hour we start in south asia where the

taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack at the intercontinental hotel in the capital kabul the siege began when a gunman stormed the building on saturday night six civilians were killed along with five attackers during the sixteen hour siege and afghan officials say one hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been rescued let's go straight to jennifer glass sagara spondon in the afghan capital the world some confusion about the security operation and whether the siege was still ongoing just clarify what that situation for us is at the moment jennifer. all right now so the stitch the siege is over we do know that security officials and investigators have gone into the intercontinental hotel you can see on the hill right behind me here you might be able to see i know it's a little hazy that if the building is very badly births the fighting went on for sixteen hours it ended really just a horrible over an hour ago you can hear the traffic near me this road which had

been closed since last night has been open to traffic and we know that officials are inside now to do their investigations and to assess whether they will find any more casualties you know the fighting went room to room we know that many guests spent terrifying hours overnight hiding in their rooms as the gunman moved through the hotel and they held up afghan security forces for sixteen hours that's terrifying siege in the afghan capital and it comes after a number of other attacks in kabul as well security has been tight here but clearly not tight enough and as you mentioned the taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack saying they were targeting government workers they were targeting foreigners and targeting security forces so what does this tell us about the sort of security scenario not just around the hotel but around kabul have been the sporadic attorney in the capital and the people have been very angry about the security situation the government will have many questions to considering the

security of this hotel was hunted to a private company just a few weeks ago. that's right the government will have a lot of questions to answer and that's the big question on everybody's mind right now how did these attackers get in now just a couple of days ago the american embassy issued a security warning telling foreigners to stay away from hotels that they had intelligence that a complex attack such as this one might be upcoming and that foreigners shouldn't go anywhere where there might be groupings of internationals they didn't mention this attack specifically but certainly the fact that. this can go on in heavily fortified hotels and this hotel the. option of being on a hill so it's secluded from the rest of the city a lot of the rest of the city is already heavily fortified big blast walls lots of guards armed guards both public and private security companies guarding those

installations hotels and other places where foreigners or other might frequent but i think the government's going to come under increasing pressure and we've talked to some heartbreaking stories today many people still wondering what happened to their loved ones people who they believe have been evacuated but can't find them in the hospitals and so right now the search for survivors and and really the the real reckoning what the true casualty number will whether or from that number of six by all accounts the two hundred rooms in the hotel were full when this attack happened well it is a moving story of. information thank you. to the middle east three people have been wounded in the attack on the turkish town near the syrian border in other regions governor says four rockets were fired from syria into the town of turkish artillery returned fire into the kurdish controlled territory across the border the turkish forces have launched

a ground operation into a kurdish controlled in syria now this comes after a day strikes against syrian kurdish. the operation is concentrated on the african region six people have already died from the artillery and strikes turkish troops have been mobilized at the border and state media reports that turkish back syrian fighters of already crossed into. turkey's president says the next target will be. the syrian town that was recaptured twenty sixteen by a kurdish led force and was also backed by the u.s. but opposed by turkey. stephanie decker is a correspondent of the turkey syria border i think the most important thing is to actually just come up with the latest of what's actually happening in terms of the turkish assault on those white p.g. positions stuff well throughout the day that we've been here we were closer close to a military position there has been on and off shelling heavy machine gun fire jets

in the sky we've actually just had reports from sources in. the jets of just taken off and we've just heard another one in the sky so that's the air campaign which has been quite relentless seventy two jets involved just yesterday those ground troops of the prime minister mentioning that turkish troops had now entered. syria and entered the the region of africa what we've been able to confirm is that a group of special forces and f.s.a. fighters those are of course the syrian rebels that turkey backs entered an area in the north to the northern front and it's not a sort of comprehensive ground campaign on every front but we do know that troops are mobilizing for that and also the prime minister said that this was going to be an operation in four phases he said that one of the aims was to establish a thirty kilometer sort of safety corridors that some of the aims that the turks are saying but certainly it is an ongoing campaign it sounds very active from where we are because the repercussions of such actions like this militarily stuff mean

that there are casualties on the ground what are you hearing about those. yes it's been difficult to get connection internet connection inside a free in but the y.p. g. the last statement from them was that six civilians had been killed and three fighters had been killed we haven't had a not date sense of the turkish government is stressing a lot it's a message that they're keen to get out is that they're doing their utmost to prevent attacking any sort of civilian facility civilians that their target is to target the white which they deem a terrorist organization but you know as we all know when it comes to war say all the lines are blurred this is a populated area yes you have border villages we've been hearing the shelling going on throughout the day we know people have been trying to move further inside of the region of africa because of the border issues and of course there's the psychological element of this it's been a week of real strong statements from the fischel is here ankara saying they were going to go in they're going to get rid of the terrorists so

a lot of people enough from what we understand sheltering in basements. food and water what people would do in this country. so it's of interest. of course the real concerns about the humanitarian movement during assaults like this civilians are the ones that got caught up in the middle of it and now the focus is my beach why that particular town. well i mean it's not really the focus at the moment in the sense it has been it's on the radar of the turks and we had it stressed again by the president yesterday that member would be next now why is member june issue it's because the y.p. g. is still there and turkey always wanted to move further east of the euphrates member which is still west but the problem is that the y.p. gee there are part of the s.d.f. which are backed by the americans and the last time we had a real tense situation between the rebels backed by turkey inside syria and the i.p.g. there march of last year sale you had american special forces move in with vehicles

to try and deescalate the situation so you get into a whole different sort of dynamic when it comes to international players on the ground and their interests the bottom line here you have a nato ally so hale bombing a group that is one of the best allies of another nato ally in the fight against isis so just highlights the complexities when you look at it trying to decipher all the players of syria's war we're going to find out stuff cost about two through the day as the situation develops thank you. staying in the region the u.s. vice president mike pence is in jordan where he's been holding talks with king abdullah he's been defending president donald trump's move to declare jerusalem the capital of israel today pence met egypt's president of the c.c. and he said in cairo that the u.s. is still committed to a two state solution to the conflict between israel and palestine now pence has been speaking about jerusalem in the last few minutes. sure.

we. could use. your wall is. a little a few. years. and. the world. there are many more. well correspondent andrew stevens live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank under now that he's sort of in jordan with more opportunity perhaps to gauge the mood of arab leaders and the reason for visiting a man ahead of tel aviv and what sort of mood which expecting a billet to be in. well the reason this visit is taking place at all that was left off the original shed jewel. in december when there was obviously

a big knock back when the palestinians refused to meet him in bethlehem he is a conservative christian he wants to go to bethlehem but sticking with jordan jordan feels left out seventy percent of of jordan's jordanians are in fact palestinian in terms of their origins and they were really factored in in the approach from the u.s. when it hit hard with that december the six announcement from trump that in fact the u.s. would recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel so what is ensued is a real pressure on the jordanian u.s. connection that was a long long time that you look back over this friendly relations between jordan and the u.s. they are really at stake now you've heard that diplomatic approach hard to hear approach from parents around the round table saying all the usual things two state solution a boundary will be respected well that's not really on the cards it's not what.

we've been hearing from the u.s. president and there is an anger building up the mood has been described like this by a former foreign minister in jordan where this is being it's the to do officially as a business trip and therefore jordan is going to be more than keen to hear what he sees and especially fee expounds a little bit on what is called the deal of the century popularly i don't think this visit is welcome and people are worried that this might be the building of bad news . well as you said dundrum in the one place that princes unwelcome is the occupied palestinian territories i mean he'll not be visiting palestinian leaders it makes you wonder what the way forward is for the americans if they want to be this honest mediator or peace brokers that perceiving themselves to be. well here in the occupied west bank where the palestinian leadership are boycotting

any suggestion that they could have a meeting anyway even if even if it was really pushed hard there would be no chance of that things have gone backwards instead of forwards instant terms of the palestinian leadership and that's not just the official approach the official approach that everyone is being told by the palace and it's also the inside track i can assure you that there is a feeling now that any hope any extra hope that maybe that this initiative could somehow lead to the talks actually starting again and meaning anything that is a position that is ruled out entirely now by the inside as in the palestinian leadership furthermore the position in terms of any developments any any positive moves any peacemaking seemed slim as well although you can't rule it out pence is obviously trying to be as diplomatic as he possibly can be but then

how can he fix what seems like to be the unfixable with the palestinians now or with what's said has been said the perception is that you really have a situation now where by what is being said by israeli politicians is being followed by the white house on a very regular basis and that is the perception not only of the politicians of the so-called elite in palestinian in palestine but also those on the streets the street as it's known in arab terms the street is incredibly unhappy is not necessarily happy with its own leadership or the so-called palestinian elite it's in the nowhere land right now it doesn't necessarily want to express itself by throwing stones but there is a real real build up now of that only depression and fear for the future but also a real will to do something but people are unsure what they have to do to get heard not just by the united states but by the international community as. indeed we

should wait to see if there is a joint press conference and what both the americans and the jordanians have to say for the moment hundred thank you and let's cross over to harry forsett our correspondent in west jerusalem harry of course pence very clearly stated in the past twenty four hours of the president wants to maintain the status quo and support a two state solution how do we expect israel to react to that. well that is obviously that the message that he's been given giving in cairo and now again in amman and talking about final status is still to take for him to make those comments at the moment but it won't in any way trouble the israelis they are still celebrating the israeli government the declaration of jerusalem as the capital of israel as far as united states is concerned there are signs up calling mike pence a true friend of israel he is. an evangelical christian he is a true believer in in those pretty fundamentalist christian views that so many in

the united states see as part and parcel of very strong support for israel and he's seen as one of those pushing very strongly for this declaration by donald trump as well and so he will be welcomed extremely heartily here by the israeli side and he will be speaking at the knesset he will be hosted by benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister and the president reagan rivlin he'll visit the holocaust memorial he will pray at the western wall he world as andrew said have any opportunity to go to the holy sites in bethlehem that initial branding of this visit as one of great support for christians of the middle east has really kind of gone away and is now a fairly regular u.s. political visit the people who are welcoming him here in israel though there are of course of the israeli palestinians and the joint list of the arab parties the chairman of that has said that they will all be boycotting the knesset speech he's calling my parents a dangerous messianic man and that there is no time for him as far as the those

representing palestinians in israel are concerned or leave it there for now her of course see what happens through the day thanks very much. well plenty ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour including. they go shaving with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. deep political divisions in the us where a stalemate between republicans and democrats forces a government shutdown. and pope francis condemns violence against women in latin america. and the end of the dusty road work to finish for the dakar rally that's all coming up in sport with joe. to europe now where germany's social democrats are due to vote on whether to start formal talks with chancellor angela merkel to form a coalition government s.p.d. leader martin schulz has backtracked from his earlier opposition to an alliance

a decision that forced him to explain himself to the party our correspondent dominic cain is in the german capital it mean his own party members dominic are not happy about coalition talks with angela merkel c.d.u. they lost heavily in last september's election i mean how loud is that voice going to be. well that is the question many people here are asking so i'll point to make i'm actually in the old german capital the western capital of form not in berlin because the national party congress is being held here and the central question in this particular conference as it gets under way behind me right now is are the people here are the members of the party prepared to hunt and another four years coalition grand coalition with anglo american that's the question for everybody here can they do it. these are trying times for the social democrats once they were the dominant force in german politics and the

legacy of their first postwar chancellor behind remains palpable but so do their present electoral problems their current leader martin schultz now finds himself proposing another grand coalition with angle americal one he himself opposed in the autumn it's a position many in his party are struggling with. their own style of unity we are concentrating on finding a majority in favor of the result of the exploratory talks is the basis for a coalition deal at the party congress on sunday that's my task to get a majority or those are trying to get a majority for their positions but that is the competition within the democratic party. and there are several prominent elements in that competition already espied a groups in two of the sixteen states have voted against another grand coalition and the parties youth movement is vociferously opposed. at the moment cutting back on its energy we're not just leading the fight against another grand coalition

we're convinced that what we're doing is showing the s.p.d. the best way to become stronger in the future to be the strongest left leaning party in our society but some people in our party seem to think that we have an eternal guarantee to be the largest group in parliament but we don't. know this internal party dispute right now conceals the fact that this party's election performances have been falling and some might say failing for more than fifteen years a glance at the latest opinion polls shows how bleak the situation is just eighteen percent the s.p.d. is less popular now than in september's general election nearer to the parties in third and fourth place than to angle americans christian democrats for the as pretty as the sunday vote is definitely a very crucial decision that might as well decide the fate in the medium term for the esprit de of the party as a whole. in principle delegates will be voting purely about whether to enter formal

negotiations with the christian democrats in practice it seems like a battle for the party's political soul. dominic the president of germany was very keen to make sure the talks could continue or bugs the parties that could potentially for german government i mean the real question is what happens at these talks fail. well the point to make first of all is that this vote now is pivotal there are six hundred delegates at this conference . to get the option he wants considered three hundred one delegates have to vote his way as it were pressuring the house sizeable the opposition and we heard in my case that kevin hinted from the young socialists he says that his group has about ninety delegates to all the states part of the vote against that puts their total of one hundred number as i say with the three hundred one point to make then if mr

shultz fails he doesn't get the option he's proposing here well then yes they will not go into a grand coalition and there are two possibilities there and minority governments that i'm going to merkel would have to try to get her bills through parliament every time we're going that majority of people in parliament vote against it that seems unlikely or new elections and the point to make here is in those elections in that there's opinion polls you saw in my case that the social democrats right now is as low it as it has been for decades the question these delegates have to wrestle with now is do they embrace the coalition offered by anger now where their junior partners or do they abandon that and go for opposition and hope to win an election where they would have to persuade perhaps twenty percent more will vote for them that's what's at stake here today we see what happens later today for the but thank you.

there were three of president trump's inauguration has been marked by a government shutdown after the senate failed to agree on a spending bill it will try again early on monday to vote for a deal with immigration the main sticking point republicans and democrats are blaming each other for the deadlock as mike hanna reports house democratic minority leader nancy pelosi was the monger thousands of people protesting near the white house her presence at the moment no longer needed on capitol hill when they go see a chanst between senate democrats and republicans on the new wording of a stopgap funding bill fell apart democrats were quick to blame the president and right wing forces within his administration negotiating with this white house is like negotiating with jell-o. it's next to impossible as soon as you take one step forward. the hard right forces

the president three steps back but republicans in turn accuse the democrats and schumer in particular of negotiating in bad ways like that so mr she was going to have to up his game a little bit be a little bit more honest with the president states if we received rubber cement from the president himself posted multiple tweets one reading democrats holding our military hostage over their desire to have unchecked illegal immigration this is the one year anniversary of my presidency and democrats wanted to give me a nice present president trump himself well he's canceled a visit to his florida club house where he was going to celebrate the anniversary of his inauguration along with those willing to pay up to one hundred thousand dollars a plate more significantly perhaps it appears he's also canceling his trip to the world economic forum in davos where global leaders gather each year. a year ago on this night the newly inaugurated president was dancing at his

inaugural party at the insistence on doing things his way have left americans contemplating an indefinite freeze of many government services mike hanna al-jazeera washington. well in a few moments we'll have the weather with richard but still ahead here on out is there is news out. tens of thousands of remains are confronted by riot police during anti corruption demonstrations. once a symbol of pride no one i saw efforts for a bicycle comeback in china face of a bumpy ride for the sport the bond james closes in only scoring milestones and that it's not all good news for the basketball star. from the new. it's invasion. to the city that never

sleeps. or take a look at the satellite imagery for southern portions of africa served of reminder of the announcement while back that it was fast approaching in the western cape province of south africa the western cape water supply district running out of water unlikely to run at me in this civil supplies on the twenty first of april now in that part of the world we have a mediterranean climate which consists of hot dry summers that period rain now and then winters are usually mild and wet spot we've had a real problem in recent years in that the winters have been anything but they've been extremely dry twenty seventeen the driest in one hundred years twenty sixteen the fourth driest and twenty fifteen the second dries of course on top of that we've got a growing population for south africa the population the city is almost doubled in the space of certain years so we've not got that much in the way of rain to come

across the region obviously as the winter rains we really want to for heavily to really fill the reservoirs but the way things stand at the moment just a few showers like to be affecting south africa many the showers actually only further towards the east so cape town never seen one or two downpours the heavy rain across the region further north across angola zambia and towards mozambique. the weather sponsored by cats own race. the controversial leader of islamic jihad focus is one of the most one internists in the history of israel conan turns on his alleged extra judicial killings by israeli intelligence and mossad the sentient being caught in the us who says the outcome is only death if someone tried to. immediately searingly intention was shut down the border kill him in damascus at this time on al-jazeera would. discover

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stormed the intercontinental hotel on saturday night and had been battling afghan special forces until a short time ago now the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack which has left at least five civilians dead. also turkey has begun a ground operation against a kurdish controlled on clave in syria's three in the region this follows a day of artillery and air strikes that killed at least six people turkey's president says the next target will be been beaten out of town under kurdish control. u.s. vice president mike pence has been holding talks with jordan's king abdullah as part of his middle east all earlier on saturday he met the president a bill for the c.c. in egypt he's defending the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. at least nine people have been injured during anti-government demonstrations organized by the catholic church in the democratic republic of congo they say president kabila is

violating the constitution by staying in office beyond his term at least two people died during a similar protest in the capital on new year's eve now the catholic church has a mensa amount of sway and it's arguably the only institution in the country with the moral authority to impose some pressure on the political elite around half of the eighty million population are catholic the church has increasingly become the state's most severe institutional critic after standing up to corruption and campaigning for democracy let's get more this with catherine sawyer joins me now from the capital kinshasa because there was real concern that there would be clashes between church congregations and the authorities for this other fishel march after services ended on sunday so what seems to have happened. it's a bit quiet where i am right now so hailed by six it's been extremely tense all morning it's still tense with you know huge security presence with police and the

presidential tear gas and stone throwing protesters. religious leaders and congregation of from this a main catholic church where we are. police using tear gas when they tried to march and the reason why we're inside this compound of the catholic church is that it's been very difficult for us to feel on the streets outside police have been very aggressive even to journalists in fact. a police officer cocked his gun at our producer will produce that and our camera pattern as well in that is we were told that police load tear gas inside a charge several people were injured in a stampede and we did speak to the red cross and as you mentioned they told us that they've taken nine people to hospital six of them had gunshot wounds we've also spoken to a priest here who had said that one nun has been short dead but we are yet to

verify that information so he'll of course with no perhaps of the standing be in a course of time how important the role of the church is in pricking the conscience of not just politicians but the public on an issue that has become highly politicized. absolutely their charts the catholic church particularly is very significant and as you mentioned in your introduction we're talking about a membership of close to half of the population in the r.c. n.p.r. he has about eight million people so a lot of people increasingly looking to the charge for guide and in this very tough political times people you talk to here will tell you that they have lost confidence in their political system in their politicians so they're looking to the charge of for leadership this protest that we've seen in december and now has sort of died down in twenty seven and now it seems the catholic church has given them. a

lifeline so to speak so a lot of people are looking to have the charge for the for that guidance and if you remember sawhill the charge is also the one the catholic church to be precise is also the one that mediated and so this political deal in twenty six in between the ruling and opposition party that could have been an election presidential election last december that did not happen the deal has expired that's why the charge leadership is so angry and is saying enough is enough asking the congregation to go out to the streets to protest peacefully against what they call the. protest for the rule of law protest for the constitution thing that president kabila needs to step down peacefully so he'll. follow events with you through the day because of the moment. the african continent because the opposition m.d.c. a lot zimbabwe is holding its first rally of the year the country plans to hold its

first election since the end of robert mugabe's thirty seven year leadership within the next five months the concerns are growing here about the health of the alliance's leader morgan tsvangirai correspond how much hassle is in harare joins me now live a real chance now for the opposition really to set the political stall out what do we. expect them to say on sunday. well the country knows that the election won't meet a month. the opposition alliance has not a campaign. to tell them what the public will be if they win those elections they want to know what they'll do about the to me about how much each case should have they also want to know how different the policies that they'd be leading kids watching. this how do you assess their chances in the upcoming elections how reconsidering the country has really seen a huge political change in the past few months. it's

going to be extremely difficult for you on the same thing in ways that enables them that is focusing a lot of the by the struggling economy people that. live from the race all of the all that means that talking to the president the biggest debates they get to. baldly enables the blanket all of the all the love in the room mix the goals of the title how did they split that economy is still struggling we are getting the textbook on the ground to get. moving the economy but some analysts say you must avoid it so it is a better there's not going to be on the route. that it might move the thing that could make some of the bombing blow that would it say about the opposition would which could weaken. them indeed we'll see what they do say later in the day will come back to that house for the moment thank you. now the united nations special

rapporteur has been visiting running a refugee camps in bangladesh yang healy was banned from entering miramar a visit to neighboring bangladesh comes just days before he refugees are due to start returning across the border now the repatriation process is expected to last two years more than six hundred thousand fled to bangladesh since the him as army launched a crackdown in northern rakhine state in august child stratford is in talks as bizarre and spoke with the un special rapporteur for me and now. i don't think the situation has really improved in myanmar and first of all where will they go back to they've lost their livelihood they've lost their crops they've lost their fields all the all the rice now as we've heard really being sold elsewhere to other countries they've lost their homes so they're really rebuilding process is going to be huge and and the people should not be subjected to

living in another camp like situation we all know what happened after two thousand and twelve people are still there after two thousand and twelve and i've talked to people in charge were told that they would stay for come on muslims for three days they ended up staying in the right years in the years in come in talk to you. so i know that refugees are very concerned about that what can the international community really do in terms of pressuring. some sort of process to call she was found guilty of these alleged atrocities to be committed inside myanmar i think international community should do more to pressure that. we've all heard never again and if these people who we know. have committed

some of you know somebody has to be held accountable and somebody needs to see that these people are held accountable with respect to the a different here will can the international community do to better help bangladesh mean this is not going away in the near future is that this crisis what i've seen so far with just a few days of rain or even a half a day of rain we really will be witnessing landslides and we may see more casualties coming in huge numbers of casualties as a result of this and the constant. nation of the people in proximity is just it's just not. human. where they can live in dignity camps need to move out to be. dispersed a little bit and this is where the international community can help to. try to to disperse these counts and maybe. to provide more life

back to europe where tens of thousands of remain years of protest against changes to the judicial system demonstrators say the amended laws will make it harder to prosecutor officials accused of corruption the ruling party has been implicated in several forward cases that's how the hawks to reports. if the palmer was hoping the snowstorms raging across from mania would deter protesters from marching they were to be disappointed tens of thousands gathered in book arrest braving the rain and the cold and hostile police presence to show their opposition to anti graft legislation the protests were organized after the ruling social democrats o.p.'s the past in the last month which could make it harder to prosecute crime and high level corruption has been a controversial issue in romania since the government was sworn in a year ago. it doesn't mean that he's perfect i came here to live in a free country that is not full of corrupt people i want this assassins and the

marquis of people. to lead the country i don't think that i come here because we want to correct politicians and justice in romania. a protest march followed another event for we can remain here with the president speaking out of to a second felt government so another prime minister ousted i'm the cheese. after i weighed all the arguments taking into account the actual situation in parliament i decided to give the social democrats one more chance to designate the person they proposed to mrs duncan. dunn chiller would be the third prime minister and eleven months the first woman to ever lead the government she still has to be approved by the parliament most controversially she's considered a very close ally to the p.s.t. leader liviu drag he was convicted for ballot rigging and faces charges of abuse of office his two year prison sentence was suspended if the current anti graft legislation is passed the case against him would be dropped down jell-o.

was brought in after her predecessor stepped down on monday after falling out with the party head deeply embarrassing because the japanese prime minister was on a state visit to remain at the time his meeting with his counterpart was quickly scrapped and a day with the president was fast forwarded instead meanwhile the european union has spoken out and mania to do more to prevent and tackle high level corruption. rumania joined european union in two thousand and seven and is subject to special monitoring a legit dish or e and the rule of law i've been one to remain informal ministers deputies and senators have been indicted by the council of europe's anti corruption unit since two thousand and six but brussels has been accused of being too soft on the former soviet state the scale of the protest is nothing new and remain is history tens of thousands took to the streets in one thousand nine hundred nine in the mass uprising which led to the downfall of the communist dictator nicolae ceausescu

memories of that revolution seem rife nearly thirty years later the new prime minister is set to be sworn in in early february perhaps her first task is appeasing the marchers. al-jazeera. pope francis has condemned the killings of women which he says has turned latin america into the most violent place on earth for females the leader of the catholic church also spoke out against drug violence during mass in the northern peruvian city of tokyo he then returned to lever and spent time talking to followers and blessing children but as many other such as reports from the capital the pope's mission is peru is being overshadowed by his handling of a clergy sex abuse scandal in chile. well peruvians are much focused on the pope's trip here to leon's have been reacting to the pope's last comments before he left a few days ago where he said that the victims allegations that bishop protected

sex abuse of paedophiles in it were calumny and slander. like a snowball for the pope and now his top adviser on sex abuse scandal says. sean o'malley from boston has to rebuke the pope's comments he said that he didn't doesn't understand why the pope has those words slander and one of the and those words in fact cause a great pain to the survivors of sex abuse cases by clergymen this of course has caused a national uproar in chile and peruvians. also are waiting for the pope to react to one case here of a very powerful religious leader here. who prosecutors say has committed cases against young adults and children he is living in rome has been protected by the vatican the pope has only order to intervene in

this powerful religious organization. critics here say that they are waiting for the pope to not talk about war and people here critics of the pope are waiting and are expecting the vatican. prosecutors and the justice to be able to extradite he got back to peru. the state of emergency has been declared in parts of jamaica in a government crackdown on crime police and soldiers have been given extra powers around montego bay in the north west more than three hundred murders in the area last year and seven so far this year tours of reward to stay in their resorts. that the seventy people are being killed in a factory fire just outside the indian capital of new delhi the blaze started in the basement of a plastic manufacturing facility though it took rescuers nearly two hours to contain the fire the search and rescue operation continue late into the night the

government says that there will be an investigation the north korean delegation has arrived in south korea ahead of next month's winter olympics in people chairing the inspection teams visit was delayed by one day without elect split nation going yang is ascending twenty two athletes to the games the diplomatic breakthrough follows talks earlier this month the first official meeting in the early two years and the bicycle was once the only form of transport for most chinese people however as personal wealth increases in the pristine pursuit of taken by cars now it's making a comeback with bike sharing operations but as adrian brown reports the return has brought its own new problems. for some the humble bicycle has become a menace across beijing clusters of discarded rental bikes cover sidewalks bike sharing began two years ago the selling point was that it was cheap and you

could leave them wherever you wanted but that's the problem so many who live here or do you should see both sides yes it's really convenient and ecological but it's a disaster with this huge amount so you can you see a lot of it's definitely a waste because the occupy public spaces during peak times pile up at bus stops according to the government china has more than twenty three million shared bicycles. recent photographs on social media show numerous dumping grounds for abandoned bikes the operators insist there are clear rules about where to park them and it's not their fault it's not happening you can hire a bike like this for just seven cents for half an hour there are also other obvious benefits it's good exercise and better for the environment than driving but there's also one obvious problem excessive oversupply now the inevitable xah curb several

operators have gone bust with one owing investors almost sixty million dollars. the city of te engine has a long history of bicycle production despite the overcapacity these are destined for the rental sector thought is free market policies made this private factory possible now the owner hopes the communist government can come to the rescue now. we believe the government should do more to help the amount of shared bikes should be on the basis of a city scale just forty years ago you knew you'd made it when you had a bike along with a watch radio and sewing machine it was a family's most valuable possession a symbol of pride now for some it stands as a symbol of national waste a dream brown al-jazeera beijing well still ahead here all al-jazeera and sport joe will have all of the results from the australian tennis open as the world number two ends six you're trying to stay with us here on just.

this is held through a. dangerous most vicious where the slightest error means a one way ticket over the edge of the bodies that we men are coming next to more holes we may not meet them on braving tough conditions facing death at every turn yet to make serious here very much like you know gamble with their lives just to run and if risking it all on al-jazeera. and hundred forty twelve on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the

syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their countries haven't truly been able to. escape the world. markets time to support his. tennis is the top story absolutely and the australian open graph i doubt is a step closer to a seventeenth grand slam title the world number one beat diego summoned to book a place in the course of finals of the straight and open now the dow didn't have it all his own way schwartzman broke him three times before claiming the second set it was the first time the top seed had dropped to that to win the spaniard found his best form from that point on what's he powered through the last two sets and

clinched the much to three hours and fifty one minutes of his man in chile which in the last eight. was a good test and at the same time. i said before the win two i was done for but being honest. moments like this helps to be more confident in yourself and your body. now home favorite mccary else is on court at the moment taking on third seed grigor dimitrov to the trough took the first set seven six but as you can see the second set is currently in a tiebreaker as well now two other men's quarter finalist were decided on sunday six a barren chill it's past spain's. to book his spot and britain's collared mint will play in his first grand slam quarter final. in four set. in the women's draw well number two caroline wozniacki eased her way into the last

day the day needed just sixty three minutes to get past michaela not about a cold but that he will face unseeded spaniard colace waters navarro in her first quarter final appearance in melbourne in six years. you know right now i can say is that i'm in a good place i think i'm hitting the ball well and everything has been going well the last year and a half or so. it's been good the defending super bowl champions the new england patriots are waiting to find out if their star player will be fit to start their a.f.c. title game against the jacksonville jaguars later on sunday and quarterback tom brady is injured his throwing hand the five time super bowl winner has never missed a playoff starts sharing his eighteen year career he's limited his workouts in the hope of playing in their seventh straight a.f.c. title game but it's a far from optimistic message coming from the pats. are you going to be.

talking about. i don't know. if we're going to get ready for jacksonville but we can't make those decisions we can't for the team to do that so that's what we're going to do the minnesota vikings will be hoping to put an end to years of heartbreak when they play the philadelphia eagles the vikings have lost five straight title games going back to nine hundred seventy six but if they can snap that losing streak they'll play in their first super bowl in thirty two years and as a bonus this year's big game is being held at the vikings home ground. a retread of what we've practiced you know i just knew we had more in front of us. so. you know just like coach said that matters today is how we work we prefer today. get rid of the. transfers in top level football are always about big money deals and so it's rare to hear of two title rivals agreeing to swap players with no money changing

hands but that's exactly was about to happen between also and manchester united the two clubs have agreed to switch players with strike alexis sanchez moving to united midfielder henrik victorian going to also need the players seemed satisfied at their current club so this deal if it's confirmed after their medicals could be to everyone's benefit. lebron james is just seven points away from reaching a career tally of first two thousand in the n.b.a. his scoring was restricted though against the oklahoma city thunder on saturday the thunder type the record for the most points scored against james's cleveland cavaliers in a regular season game paul george was the top scorer with thirty six points as they embarrass cleveland one hundred forty eight to one hundred twenty four last season's ethan conference champions have lost ten of their past fourteen games it is what it is and if i can break the last one i can break at this point you know

and i'm the leader of this team and i said you know i want to know how we can get some wins and you know that definitely helps but you know i'm just as positive as i came being you guys know me patience is not always been the thing for me but you know no one the rough past and we're right now. get through this team and just say it's positive. well it's taken two weeks three countries and thousands of kilometers of unforgiving terrain but veteran spanish driver science has won the dakar rally for a second time one of the world's toughest all right insurance events ended up in the argentinian city of kut by daniel was waiting to meet the finishes. it's only the taking part that counts for others only victory will do and then there are those off to two grueling weeks to some of the toughest to reign on the planet just glad it's. time now to reflect on what might have been for me was

a mistake of the role of the circle. to first. in the first stage in the city. where we started we just saw so much fight but believe me. more than three hundred cars trucks motor bikes quad bikes and buggies plus a huge support network from around the world covering nine thousand kilometers. environmental challenge and since the race debut in one nine hundred seventy eight seventy competitors and spectators have been killed in accidents. they've worked to improve safety and to protect the routes no one died this year what a relief it must be to being. free and some of the roughest terrain of a weather condition. you take that even you have made it. this is the tenth year the dakar has been run in south america

a supposedly temporary measure after the two thousand and eight race was canceled following the killing of four french tourists on the planned route in mauritania. is the motor capital of argentina and these fans will give it up easily meanwhile the challenge is great for the races as it was in africa to get a little bit lost. it's it's change really really creak at the moment looks not so good for me. no one the motorbike race well the veteran spanish driver carlos signs repeated his two thousand and ten victory in the car category as they pack up dakar two thousand and eighteen planning is already underway for the next year's race in south america than this one there are busy in a court of about argentina south african cyclist pay has his first race win and more than three years at the tour down on the final stage though through the

streets of adelaide was won by veteran cyclist andre greipel but him he was awarded victory on can't back up to finishing with the same overall time as a strain is richie ports and that is a sport for now i have more feel a bit later so thank you be watching the news or elizabeth up next for the full half hour to stay with its.

parts. the sam's in archaeology graduate from iraq is also a part time going to museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture news has never been more available it's

a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have both good logical rational. and misinformation is rife dismissal. accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. turkish troops and tax against kurdish fighters and northern serbia.