rewinds returns with new updates on the best of al-jazeera as documentary. and the moving story of two young turkmen girls in afghanistan. at last able to get an education are two years of repressive taliban occupation five years on what has become of their dreams. rewind pencils and bullets at this time on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm rob matheson this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. the shutdown of iraq got

a lot worse from all. the work. today would be a good. u.s. senators prepared to vote on a bill to end the government shutdown. turkey's president promises to crush kurdish fighters as his military continues its air and ground operation in northern syria. at least six people die in anti-government protests in democratic republic of congo . and tensions rise as tens of thousands of refugees are set to be repatriated to me i'm from bangladesh. oh two hundred g.m.t. and the clock is ticking for senators in the us is the struggle to end the funding crisis that's kept the government shutdown for two days in the coming hours the republican controlled senate is expected to hold

a vote to try to break the deadlock money for federal agencies has been cut off since saturday after the senate failed to pass a funding bill and that's affecting a range of departments including passports and visas services immigration is the heart of the dispute democrats won funding tied to protection for undocumented migrants who entered the u.s. as children republicans and democrats have been blaming each other for the past but senate leader mitch mcconnell says it has to end now the democratic leader could end of today. we can get past this manufactured crisis and get on to a host of serious issues before the require thought for bipartisan negotiation this shutdown vote got a lot worse tomorrow a lot work today would be a good day to end americans know why the dysfunction is coming dysfunctional

president hence we are in a trump shutdown and party leaders who won't act without them it is created the chaos and the gridlock we find ourselves in today it all really stems from the president well my kind is joining us now live from washington d.c. mike are we still in the gridlock. well rob it would appear sir but there's some mixed messages coming out of the senate floor there are some republican senators saying that yes they think they're going to get the sixty votes needed when that vote takes place however other republicans saying it's very unlikely that the government is going to reopen so very much mixed messages but just to walk you back through the day you heard the level of the trill that was being exchanged by each side each side blaming the other for not being able to reopen the government but in the course of the day a group of some twenty four bipartisan senators got together to try and work out

a compromise this is from both sides both democrats and republicans sat down together they described themselves as moderate they came up with a compromise proposal we're not sure of what its content is as yet that has now gone to the leader of the senate to mitch mcconnell and his democratic minority leader within the senate chuck schumer they have been holding intense discussions it is reported they've been talking to each other to try and see whether this compromise will work where the democrats would agree to give in and actually add to the vote so that the supermajority that sixty votes can be achieved when the vote takes place in some four hours time but still no certainty that government's going to reopen at the beginning of this week mike we heard earlier on chuck schumer placing the blame for all of this directly at the door of president trying what can the president do to try to move the situation on. well the president's done

very little over the past forty eight hours today his participation in direct participation has been limited to the inevitable tweeted tweet of vitriol against the democrats who he said are tempting to hold the government hostage we have heard from white house members saying that the question of immigration will not be discussed with the democrats anymore and to all they stop as they comported holding the government hostage well the democrats are insisting that immigration is dealt with in the short term bill they don't want to tailed off any longer to get the whole of government reopened they are insisting that it be addressed in terms of the stopgap measure so we do have no direct participation from the president we do not know whether he's personally talked to republican leaders in the course of the day we do know because the white house has said that the chief of staff has been in

touch with both the leader of the house and the leader of the senate but there has been no attempt by the president in the past forty eight hours to reach out over the floor to members of the democratic caucus who support is utterly essential if as i mentioned those sixty votes the supermajority are to be gained and government is allowed to reopen rob mike i know we're going to be checking in with you is that vote gets closer but for now thank you very much indeed the u.s. is urging turkey to use restraint in its operation against kurdish fighters in northern syria turkey soldiers have entered the enclave of free in part of an assault to drive out kurdish peoples protection units or y p g turkey's president is vowing to crush the group which he views as a terrorist organization stephanie decker reports. the border echoes with the sounds of war turkey's offensive on africa is now well under way the ground

operation started on sunday turkish soldiers supporting free syrian army fighters inside syria. turkish president dredger type edges defiant as he addressed a large crowd in the city of course i believe. this is a national struggle and then this national struggle we will crush anyone who stands against us let this be known. it's been a week of rhetoric politicians promising that turkey was going to attack a free to rid of the y.p. g. kurdish fighters that i'm pro considers terrorists but they're also the u.s. is best ally on the ground in fighting i still regardless of international complications turkey is fully committed to this offensive we're on turkey's border with africa and throughout the day we've heard the sound of jets in the sky also intense artillery and machine gun fire outgoing from a turkish base behind that mountain although why p.g. are extremely well trained they know the terrain in turkey has superiority when it comes to the skies and that gives it

a huge advantage. belligerence here heard the airstrikes late on saturday as turkey started its offensive and they are a little uneasy. although most. here we are right next to the action with planes flying over our heads and there's a lot of shelling of course we are confident but at the end of the day anything can happen shells have already fallen in turkey so we are worried this could happen here. turkey says it will continue its operation until it's pushed the y p g away from its borders no one knows how long that will take what the implications may be. stephanie definitely here on the turkey series which are as much as the junk professor at george washington university he says the u.s. could turn a blind eye to the turkish military operation there's certainly a domestic component to all the rhetoric coming out of turkey and even here in washington there's an understanding of why president early one needs to conduct

this military operation in fact i would go as far as saying and there there might be even a tacit acceptance that as long as circus troops remain on the west bank of the euphrates river that washington might decide to look the other way and not come to the assistance of its kurdish allies on the ground now if turkey decides to cross the river to the east side that's a whole different story because that's where u.s. national interests are at stake i think washington after quite some time president trump coming into office articulated a syria policy one that aims to preserve u.s. gains in syria the u.s. had been involved in trying to push isis out and now that they have they want to hold on to the territory that they and their allies have and also to try and put some pressure on iran in syria financial pressure because they are rainy and spent up to fifteen billion dollars a year in supporting the assad regime and that territory that the u.s. is holding on to is very rich in natural resources including oil there's the

euphrates dam and there's also a very agriculture agriculturally rich land in that area so this is part of a broader geo political calculus for washington why they want to remain in that part of syria. at least six people have been killed and several injured following clashes between police and protesters in democratic republic of congo and government demonstrations were organized by leaders of the catholic church in the country they're angry at the delay in holding a presidential election after president joseph kabila as final term expired in twenty sixteen catherine sawyer reports. after a morning mass at the main catholic church in kinshasa washee pairs begin their latest protest march carrying tweaks their rosaries and bibles they are angry that a charge broke a political deal between the ruling and opposition parties that could have seen a presidential election held last december has not been on that they did not go far

police had blocked the road refusing to allow them to move forward and when the match is still their ground this happened. police and presidential guards against stone throwing protest as several people were killed others injured some with gunshot wounds to the obviously we have the right to much we were following the instructions of walk. it was a piece of protest but the police would not let us. in the east of the country police gas inside this church the service had just ended and the faithful are about to start their part asked several people here also injured oh no not one of the oh my god i don't respect people's rights kabila must go is even throwing tear gas into the church we will not accept kabila he must go his mandate is over. a new year's eve there was similar violent confrontations during demonstrations. this in the beginning of the. remember the killed six people in december and logically

people should have been afraid but it's the country that is happening now so this pressure is going to increase i don't know that the government stays the. the tests are easy charts he does and opposition politicians and ceased they will not give up their demand for change. this road in the city has now been cleared by police but it's still very very tense people here are very frustrated about the political situation and saying that they have lost confidence in the politicians in the political system and that's why we're looking more to the catholic church to provide guidance and leadership in this difficult political time. with a membership of close to half of the eighty million congolese population the catholic church is hugely significant and many people hope it may be the catalyst that will finally see a free fair and credible election without president joseph kabila in the running

catherine saw al-jazeera kinshasa every seven people have been killed in fighting with security forces in ethiopia the violence broke out during religious celebrations in the heart of a region worshippers etc fought with security officers during a procession for the christian festival of the epiphany. the taliban says it's was behind an overnight it's a hotel in the afghan capital which killed at least eighteen people got in the stone couple's intercontinental hotel on saturday night targeting foreigners and government officials and of a glass reports. explosions and gunfire lasted for hours as afghan special forces moved through the hotel guests trapped in their room new sheets and curtains to try to escape the attackers intent on bloodshed and murder. for the weekend there were people and children inside the hotel rooms the attackers were knocking on the door of a trimming to reach their targets they killed ordinary people and officials they were

targeting foreigners especially hard. as the fighting intensified and grenades and gunshots echoed around the hotel some could only wait for it to end his brother corey hussein was trapped inside and had stopped answering his phone to let it out with when he told me he locked himself in a room it's very difficult with a family member trapped inside it's tragic and painful it's unfortunate that these things happen it's not just him many other people are trapped and i hope to see him and i hope this fighting in our country ends. on the roof of the hotel afghan soldiers signaled the end of the fighting by waving an afghan flag almost immediately i call her from his brother he was safe. but marjon was not as lucky a visiting cousin had jumped from a hotel balcony she thought he was alive but couldn't find him in any hospital she says she looked all night before discovering who was dead. or alive it's difficult

here in afghanistan my cousin lived in holland for years he came here for just a week and this tragic incident happened oh as an afghan forces an international advisers left the area officials headed into the hotel to assess the damage and look for casualties and survivors this is an attack. that unfolded in the public eye live on t.v. and watched by hundreds on the streets the afghan president commended afghan security forces saying they'd done all they could to minimize the number of casualties he wants an investigation into how the attackers got into the hotel the question also is how they did so with enough weapons for sixteen hours to jennifer glass al jazeera. plenty more ahead on the news hour including all eyes are on hollywood's a list as this year's screen actors guild awards take on a special. hundreds of thousands turned out of pope francis mass in peru ending his

controversial tour of latin america. and in sports world number one rafael nadal remains on post for glory at this tribunal. a plan to repatriate hundreds of thousands of the hinge of refugees to me and ma is due to begin on tuesday the plan is to house them in camps until they're destroyed homes rebuilt bangladesh and memo agree to send back around seven hundred fifty thousand refugees who arrived since october twenty sixth seen over the next two years however many refugees are what about their safety if they return the un says the repacholi nations have to be voluntary james gomez is the regional director for southeast asia and the pacific at amnesty international he's joining us now from bangkok thank you very much indeed for being with us by dash is paying a significant amount of money to look after these refugees isn't it reasonable that

at some point they are going to try to find a solution and get the refugees back to me i'm all. yeah i mean you know they are you know trying to get the refugees. from our point of view this is problematic and premature because we are not clear about the fundamental conditions to which the refugees returning to because they have fled you know probably the risk to life destruction at the hands of the time a door in the right kind state and we said name sending them back to the same conditions so this is why the issue of voluntariness is important to ascertain although that document you know framing the return agreement and the physical agreement do make reference to the voluntary returns but do we need effective

oversight to determine if indeed these returns are voluntary here i think the role of the u.n. is important although the documentation you know that we have cited provides for the u.n. h.r. to cite lists of attorney but that is not good enough you know u.n.h.c.r. needs to be central to oversight the process to ensure that it is in indeed voluntary and it should have the mandate to you know. ensure that you know that if it's able to prevent or stop those returns that are not voluntary and this its role should not only be on the bangladesh side it also needs to play a part to determine the conditions on the myanmar side so therefore you know in this situation i think the returns that are you know. that are planned for the twenty third of january just simply too premature and to stage as i understand

it me and ma has said that the un's report was not going to be allowed to be in the region into iraq and stating to be able to monitor at least in the next few days in the short time what the situation is there what pressure then can the u.n. actually put on me and mine to allow people in to oversee this transition back to me and more. well i think it's not just the u.n. one thing the international community in total together with everybody else is concerned about the situation and needs need to extract transparency from myanmar i mean in this process of returns we are not clear what the. guys are going to return to we hear they are going to be interned in camps if this is the case then. similar to the. thousands of people already in. previous.

exercise so we need transparency we need clarity in terms of. where the guys would actually return to the original. lens and i will be able to farm them and seek a livelihood the problem here is you know the myanmar government is just you know throwing a blanket over everything so we need to ensure the u.n. fact finding mission actually get sent more importantly i think for both sides whether it's me and more bangladesh the voices of the rowing there has to be any decision affecting the community must be central to running this participation without the rowing the voice being heard about decisions about them then in their court out and i think this is part of the problem james gomes is from amnesty international we appreciate your time thank you very much indeed. dozens of

women have gathered at a football stadium in us vegas on the second day of global demonstrations against an equality. the rallies are also being held to mark one year since the u.s. president's inauguration many are not only supporting women's rights but also denouncing president trump's views on issues including immigration abortion and l g b t rights. hollywood's elite is set to tackle the industry's growing sexual harassment scandal at the screen actors guild awards ceremony is now underway in los angeles it's a female powered affair with women presenting all thirteen awards to honor the past two years acting achievements. our correspondent rob runnels joins us now from outside the shrine theater and los angeles rob first of all who are the contenders for the top acting awards. well the first i want to mention robert you hear some loud noise around me it's because there are work crews real show business

professionals who are breaking down this elaborate set and it's amazing to see how fast they work kind of the illustration of the old adage the show must go on but a little news to report the. award from the screen actors guild for the best female actress best female actor excuse me in a motion picture in a supporting role goes to allison janney she played the mother in tonja. mother who drove her daughter relentlessly to be the best in her figure skating chosen sport and the best male actor in a supporting role was won by. by sam rockwell for his portrayal of a violent and racist police officer in the film three billboards in being outside having missouri now i think the big race here tonight is for the female

lead actor in a in i'm in a motion picture it's a wide open field you have frances mcdormand who played this indomitable force of nature in three billboards you have judy didn't she was always a perennial favorite playing the aging queen victoria in victoria and abdul you have the young irish actor for instance a sitter show ronan played an amazing the version of a young teenager coming of age in sacramento california very sensitive portrayal and there are others as. well so that. category is pretty much why the lot of. people think that frances mcdormand is going to get the. in the mail movie and in that category lead actor in a motion picture it seems that most people think it is been wrapped up by gary

oldman who just inhabits his role as winston churchill in the field darkest hour. the other possibility there is a critic's low. yes sorry to interrupt you i tell you what it is what i say admiring the fact that you are still going on despite the directing that is going on behind you because of the noise we're going to leave it there but thank you very much in the. pope francis has led a final mass in lima bringing his tour of south america to an end more than a million people gathered to hear the pontiff at the last call most airbase and peruse capital during his address he warned of corruption in politics but his trips been overshadowed by his comments on the sex abuse scandal in neighboring chile and the accused victims of slandering a bishop not on a sanchez has more from lima. well the nearly week long. trip of pope francis to do ended with a massive attendance funny only one million people nearly

a million peruvians to this last mass immigration in the air base of. the the trip of the pope's trip has been seen and perceived in different ways. in a lot of there was a lot of expectation that the pope would speak more about the sex abuse cases by clergymen and the trip and that on a sour note when the pope just before leaving sided with the bishop. that. the pope said that there was no proof that he allegedly for. texted a paedophile priest. and of course that caused an uproar in chile. the reaction has been very different the pope here has been cheered and greeted and wellcome throughout the country from the amazon to the northern city of to heal the

city of lima and the pope has talked about many different things throughout the trip but what he didn't talk about here was the abuse cases that happened to it but the majority of people said they did not expect the pope to talk about the sex scandals and rather to talk about peace which is what many peruvians want. foreign ministers from latin america and china are meeting in chile for a two day summit that will focus on trade but leaders of the thirty three members of the latin american and caribbean community want to make sure that relations with china go beyond its appetite for commodities are america editor in the sea and human has this reports. chilean cherries juicy sweet and above all red intensely red in china it's believed the color brings good luck especially when marking the chinese new year next month hence the insatiable demand

it's a tradition that's bringing good fortune here to. this is the largest production in history exports to china have allowed food producers to grow substantially all the way from central to southern chile. this is the very last shipment of chilean cherries which will soon be going to the port of san antonio to board a ship with a thousand containers of cherries all going to china more than ninety percent of this country's cherries are exported to that country for a very simple reason no one pays more than the chinese it's. china's appetite isn't limited to cherries other fruits meat angriness that it can produce at home have given south america a twenty three billion dollars trade surplus in food. largely was chile brazil and argentina in less than two decades trade has increased twenty two times

making china the number one importer of latin american commodities this presents a problem and an opportunity says the u.n. economic commission for latin america and the caribbean and latin american countries have been talking to the chinese about this i mean welcome to invest in latin america if you want to welcome to increase our trading patterns but let's move to areas of innovation to provide value added. one of those areas is renewable energy especially solar latin american leaders want china to become a partner in technology and science not just an importer of raw materials. of gold they believe will make economic development in latin america less reliant on good luck to improve the region's fortunes you see in human i'll just see the most lidia's chile. still ahead in al-jazeera germany's social democrats vote for talks

about forming a coalition with anglo-american but their leader faces criticism plus. i'm rob mcbride and avoid problems with the solar panels that are helping china float to the top of the green and it's only found in sports says your garcia gets his golf season off to a winning sargeant singapore dittos come up with peter. from the waves of the sales. to the contours of the east. hello there it's turning a bit cooler for some of us in the southeastern parts of china the winds are going to be feeding down from the north over the next few days of the temperatures will be dropping thirteen in shanghai on monday but as we head through into choose day only eight degrees as a maximum and hong kong will also see the temperatures drop over the next few days

as well so the winds here they're feeding up from the south of there picking up a bit of moisture as they do so so for some of us across this region there's likely to be an increase of cloud in just the outside chance of the odd shower as we had down towards the southeast and parts of asia lots of wet weather here we've had some very heavy downpours over mindanao there in southern parts of the philippines we're also seeing a lot of cloud across parts of job jakarta is a looking really quite wet and that's as we head through the next few days so monday and tuesday rather wet hair further north it does look a bit dry force in singapore and for k.l. as well over towards india most of the wet weather recently has just been in the extreme south it's also been affecting us in sri lanka but things are going to change as we head through the next day or so with this little weather feature edging its way towards us it doesn't look very big but it's going to bring some pretty nasty weather there and it was working its way straight across new delhi as we head into tuesday so here it won't be warmer toll on tuesday fifteen degrees it will also be rather murky for many of us very wet to. the way that sponsored by

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you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour republican and democrat senators have postponed a vote to reach a compromise to end the government shutdown later on monday they're expected to vote again on the trumps administration's funding bill money for federal agencies was cut elph after it failed to pass on saturday. the u.s. is urging turkey to use restraint in its operation against kurdish fighters in northern syria turkish soldiers offensive the own claim about freeing to drive out fighters from kurdish peoples protection units known as the white b.g.

. pope francis has concluded his tour of south america but the final mass in lima more than a million people gather to cue the pontiff and police capitol the trip has been overshadowed by a sex abuse scandal in chile. u.s. vice president mike pence is in israel as part of his middle east tour where prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called him a great friend the trip follows his visit to jordan and egypt over the weekend tense mentioned he and jordan's king abdullah agreed to disagree on donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital in december how the faucet reports from occupied east jerusalem. on the second leg of his regional visit the u.s. vice president was keen to offer assurances to a major middle east an ally and by extension to the palestinians who refused to meet him on the issue of jerusalem we are committed to continue to respect jordan's role as the custodian of holy sites that we take no position on boundaries in final

status those are subject to negotiation and and as i think clearly you are the president make clear the world united states of america remains committed if the parties agree to a two state solution through the arab world's public outrage with a recognition by u.s. president donald trump object to slim is israel's capital the jordanian king offered a conciliatory tone in your visits here i'm sure is to rebuild the trust confidence in not only how we move forward two state solution on us drew forth next sixty seven lives and he's jewish but as a capital opening up and a palestinian state but living side by side with a secure recognizes ready course for internationals he said that's far from the line being taken by the palestinian leadership its president mahmoud abbas declaring that the u.s. had given it the slap of the century reiterating his position that the u.s. could no longer be involved in the peace process the u.s. vice president isn't meeting the palestinians but he does have

a message publicly apparently tailored towards them reiterating u.s. support for a two state solution if that's what both sides agreed to of course for the palestinians that message is entirely overshadowed by what donald trump said over a month ago declaring that the u.s. view jerusalem as israel's capital. but many of the messenger himself is part of the problem the shift in u.s. policy with which pence was closely associated was welcomed by his evangelical christian base many of whom believe the return of the jews to the holy land is a precursor to jesus' second coming their bands has there and gender that is extremist fundamentalist looked. christian absolutist idiology which goes against all the beliefs and commitments of the arab and palestinian christians and particular and they feel that they have been betrayed by somebody who is kneeling. to mend this injustice using village an as a justification for israelis it's

a different picture hence represents a u.s. administration that recognized what they see as an uncontroversial reality jerusalem status is the capital of your view. a great friend of the state of israel arrives here this evening a true friend united states vice president mike pence we welcome him here and i'm looking forward to our discussions we will discuss the trumpet ministrations efforts to hold iran's aggression the iranian nuclear program and ways to advance peace and security in the region. before leaving jordan for israel pence visited u.s. troops didn't undisclosed location on the syrian border telling the president had the back and that isis would be driven from the earth very soon his next speech will be to the israeli parliament the knesset on monday israeli palestinian representatives have vowed to boycott the event a mass. how does era occupied east jerusalem. well in a few hours businesses in gaza will go on strike to protest about the failing

economy economists have asked citizens living abroad to send money to their families in the hope of reviving it but unemployment is still at a record high as israel's blockade continues for an eleventh year and has more from gaza city. on monday this busy shopping district will all silent as workers and businesses join the strike and it's not just here shops factories restaurants and hotels are all expected to take part across the gaza strip. doors will close machines will be turned off and work will stop from eight in the morning to six hours the strips of main commercial organization called the strike. we wish through this strike send the message to our leaders our plate is international leaders and to the united nations the gaza strip will collapse in and we need immediate help if the economy collapses he will have impacts everywhere health education and whole services. business men are listening and they want to take part

they say things are getting desperate and there's no money in the economy. all god's eye will be closed we will be on strike and we want the will to listen to know our suffering and help us to find a solution is reaching breaking point. but any impact of the strike outside of gaza is likely to be small without the international community and the world are going to listen or not but i think this is a direct message to israel who is besieging and locating the gaza strip to pay attention to what is happening in terms of the humanitarian crisis that is happening here in gaza for more than ten years the gaza strip has been under siege by israel it controls what gets in and out and restricts everything from consumer goods to construction materials is all says it won't lift the siege on gaza until hamas now mass used to rule the strip up until recently but now it's under the

control of the palestinian authority and i says it won't disarm until the end of the occupation now the strike is likely to have an impact only have an impact on israel it's unlikely because of the hard line position they take him on card al-jazeera gaza city germany's social democrats have given the green light to formal coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives party delegates narrowly approved this step at a conference in bonn michael's been unable to form a government since the elections in september when it came reports. it was a vote with profound implications for the social democrats for germany and perhaps the e.u. by a clear but not necessarily large majority martin schulze now has the authority to enter formal negotiations with anglo american the platform slogans proclaimed a new time needs a new politics but on offer was much of the same old government in a wide ranging speech should spelt out why another coalition with miracle was the

best option. believe me this hasn't been easy for anyone but i never doubted for a moment that we should follow the player the president tried to as their way out of this difficult political situation as a social democrat here's my firm conviction that in this exceptional situation we must at least try to provide the best possible outcome for the people of germany and the euro. but many in the hall and in the wider party did not agree perhaps the most vocal opposition came from the party's youth movement lloyd has been absolutely i'm sure people negotiated well it's a reason i and many of those in and outside this room are not happy with the results it's not because they did bad work but because after twelve years of anger michael and eight years of grand coalition we no longer have the same views on resultant issues this conference is opens up some very clear divisions inside this party between the party leadership and the rank and file between those prepared to compromise and those who aren't and between the younger generation and the older

one some analysts believe the current leader has to bear responsibility for the last bit of what we see it is that he is very good support for market choice and not just as clearly he is. not a party look at the us and our future i would say i would actually even call him a yesterday's man as of today and yet as of tomorrow schultz will be the leader who takes his divided party formally into negotiations with the christian democrats but the final deal which then emerges must be passed by a ballot of the entire party membership and if sunday's vote is anything to go by that may not be easy dominic cain al-jazeera bomb. has welcomed yesterday's decision to go ahead with coalition talks and she says they'll start as soon as possible. for us it's important in the coalition talks that germany has

a stable government that can deal with the issues facing us in the future may be key issues include economic strength especially the necessary changes that we need and it's age as the foundation for social justice and security the negotiations will be within the framework of the preliminary agreement already reached with the social democrats many issues remain to be resolved in detail and that's sure to require intensive discussions. thousands of people are taking to the streets in northern greece to call for the republic of macedonia to change its name protests to say their neighbors can use macedonia as is also the name of a greek province the two countries have been locked in dispute over the name ever since macedonia declared independence from yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred one greece's objections have left macedonia without an officially recognized name that means the country can't join international organizations like nato. at least one person has died in fighting between protesters and police in honduras as

demonstrations continue against the real action of president hong orlando how london defeated opposition candidate salvatore's in a solid joint demonstrators on the streets of the capital they accuse authorities of manipulating the results of november's election. the united nations has launched the largest humanitarian appeal for yemen and saudi king for almost three billion dollars in donations almost three years of saudi led airstrikes and fighting with hooty rebels has left forty five percent of the population in desperate need of lifesaving assistance. it's not just the people who die directly because of the war in the conflict itself as those people who die those silent deaths and know the legion is all in the times where they haven't been able to access good health or access medical facilities and die for the preventable diseases faced the children at least thirteen people have been injured in a train crash in the australian city of sydney the train failed to break in time and had a barrier at the end of the line in the north west of the city and emergency services

say no one was trapped but witnesses described the scene as chaotic it's fear the death toll from a measles outbreak in the indonesian province of pop or new guinea is much higher than previously reported official figures say sixty eight children have now died but church leaders say the real number could be in the hundreds step vos and has been given rare access to papa and sent this report. children of the tribe in. a life their buddies are exhausted and weak from hunger and disease undernourished they're battling against outbreaks of measles and chicken pox. military medical teams have arrived in some remote area. and a husband lena's had to travel for five hours and free it a six month old daughter would not survive. his being in this bad condition for quite

a while but only now have people come to our village to help. is five years old but how body is less than half the size of a healthy child her age village is saying twenty nine children in her village alone have died. we rode our boats to a health post in another village but when we arrived they rejected us some of our children made it they were alive but some died we buried them there others died on the way we buried the next to the river village just tell us that local authorities never visited their village even after our measles outbreak was reported last september a long. yes we have very limited means and stuff but this doesn't mean we are trying very hard but we need is not just to be criticised but real help those who criticize us i want to work here. church officials estimate hundreds of children of

the tribe have died so far but many deaths have not been reported. my question is does anyone really care about these children who are dying does anyone want to go there and get real data about their condition and why do we only now say this is a problem. the us my tribe is best known for its past history of had hunting and cannibalism and living of the forest but introduced to modern life and money there struggling to survive without government eight four months they desperately have tried to find help but their cries to save their children's life found that here this has prices so that. it's not reaching one living in these forgotten parts of the apple had a go. while help has come for these asked my children many of us remain in their remote villages the only hope this help will write in time step fasten al-jazeera i gotz. an island volcano in papa new guinea has

a ruptured again triggering tsunami warnings for nearby coastal communities plumes of steam and ash are being shot into the air from kind of our island nearby flights have been canceled the volcano first erupted earlier this month causing fastens of people to flee from surrounding islands getting sits on the pacific ring of fire an area of intense seismic activity a fisherman is being killed and nine others have been injured when a racing sail boats collided with a fishing vessel off the coast of hong kong the american danish yacht was approaching the finishing line in the fourth leg of the volvo ocean race when the accident happened none of the got screwed was injured but the boat was damaged and forced to retire from the race. china is fast becoming a leader of the solar energy revolution as the world's biggest in metter of greenhouse gases and it's launched the largest ever plan to replace carbon with renewable energy robert bright has more from on high province. they float in the

winter sunshine shimmering islands silently generating enough power for a small city on the shore new sections of solar panels are bolted together and then floated out to join the others the lake they occupy was formed by the collapse of a disused coal mine underground that would otherwise go to waste to design these sections like this especially for this area they were and you no matter how much help the land flow. the water helps cool the panels and keeps them free of dust to make them more efficient. and hoyt like other provinces is experiencing an unusually severe winter. if it's the result of climate change it's a reminder that a country which is built its prosperity on coal must look to renewable energy for its future with its demand for energy china is still burning about half the world's

coal but that is fast changing the government has promised to spend three hundred sixty billion dollars on clean energy by twenty twenty and the difference is clear to see quite literally. beijing and other cities in northern china have been enjoying blue skies this winter largely because of a restriction on coal burning it's a controversial policy that's left many people shivering without enough alternative energy sources but it's given a glimpse of a smoke free future without coal back in the coal mine and power station can be seen beyond the solar panels. and used to work that but says the soul of twice as much as happy to ground. my son also works in industry it's got a job putting panels on people. pots of

a huge folds that will eventually number in the millions finding a clean a life in queen energy mcbride al-jazeera province china. still ahead an al-jazeera low a go to bonds is back from injury to claim the world cup super g. title has been already.

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is a step closer to a seventeenth grand slam title the spaniard beat argentina's diego schwartzman to book a place in the quarter finals of the australian open in his home and reports there's little that can stop rafael nadal when he's in his best form and argentina's diego schwartzman appeared to have the steepest of challenges ahead of him i after winning the first set six the raid nidal suddenly appeared human in the second schwartzman the twenty fourth seed took a set off the world number one the first time in this tournament. but that was the last of his victories the da powered through the last two cents six three six three eventually prevailing in three hours and fifty one minutes. was a good test. at the same time. i said before i preferred the winning two hours on and four but being gone i still. moments like this

helps to be more confident in yourself in your body. the often controversial nick kerry also charmed local a strongly in fans in his run to the round of sixteen. he'd based on his ball gary in a pointed grigor dimitrov to win the brisbane international two weeks earlier but there would be normal people foreman's as the third seed prevailed after four tough sets the forty two year wait for an a strongly in men's champion in melbourne will continue. to me trials next aparna will be great britain's kyle letterman and the world number forty nine secured his first appearance in a grand slam quarter final the foresaid victory over italy's andreas seppi. was you have to believe it i mean that's was. i'm in the quarter finals because of a toll on the corner believe i'm going to win and caroline wozniacki will feature

in the quarter finals in melbourne for the first time in six years the day needed just sixty three minutes to get past mentally now ribeiro kober in straight sets watching the akhi could possibly find the world number one ranking with victory over spain's calloused warez navarro in the last eight relays home and al-jazeera from tennis to football no and an own goal from tottenham cost them the chance to catch up on the top four in the english premier league as they drew with southampton on sunday daven certain sanchez hit the back of his own net in the fifteenth minutes of put southampton ahead but it was harry came to the rescue with the equaliser just three minutes later that happened to be he's ninety ninth premier league goal taught them to come away with just a point and they remain in first position in the standings. i would again was in great were from i was was in the vis. i think the game was even.

great to soak onto them because defied i think they play well and i think it's fair to respond in one piece through the massive chances with that we've had in the last minutes with hurricane. but i thin and then if you analyze the game of fitness from england to spain now and european champions real madrid have dished out a beating of note in the spanish league their struggling in fourth position on the table but they took out all their frustrations on deputy on sunday not sure fernandez gareth bale and christie on a rebel though all scored twice in a seven one and nial ation actually laid one though at one stage would you believe rail off five points behind valencia who are third but they do have a game in hand. and league leaders barcelona extended their lead at the top to eleven points with a big win over raila bettis real sociedad were beaten two one by

a celta vigo and in the days of the match and leganes drew two two rory mcilroy says he's happy to be back playing golf after recovering from a rib injury but the four time major champion didn't quite have a fairytale ending to return in abu dhabi the former world number one hasn't won a title since september twenty sixth but he did put in a solid performance of finishing a share of good place out in front was defending champion tommy fleetwood the european number one rolled in five birdies on the back nine to make it back to back victories that this course finishing two strokes ahead of ross fisher. golf's first major of the season may still be three months away but the current masters champion sergio garcia has begun he season on a winning note the spaniard won the singapore open shooting a three under par sixty eight to finish with a five stroke lead over sean morris and such quarter you'd shared second place. it's always great to start to start like this there's no doubt that starting with

with a win it's always great to do it here at this golf course. you know against. a good feel here in asia. condition is that when easy and nowhere did it it's important so you know hopefully we can write that so a skill or a good has won the final world cup super g. race before the winter olympics good made up for lost time having spent the last eleven months recovering from knee surgery it was the twenty fourth world cup when i moved to the top of the rankings in the super g. conditions in italy were not ideal though there were several crashes the worst of which involved austria's needing face to head to be stretchered off of the picking up a suspected knee injury from this nasty from. sweden sandra naslund. and germany's poor could have won the men's and women's ski cross world cup finals respectively fanaa salutes the win in canada means she remains at the

top of the overall world cup leaderboard while it gets to easy limit on the mains overall standings managed to come in ahead of austria's christe of. and overall the lead of mark of bush off berger who finished it. and that's all the sport for me will have another update for you again later on. laura call's going to be here in a moment with the latest on all these stories and rob matheson thanks for being with me by phone. news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have the brain a good logical rational person crazy monster and misinformation is rife dismissal. well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on

al-jazeera and monday put it well on the. us 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 full dry river beds like this one five years on the syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. now he's here and many kids here keep thinking good kind of man i still and afghanistan for some taliban fighters a new call to arms for taliban leader is a threat to their authority they just see the law such other lives it's their fault for that they could study all the stuff they were only that but it's unprecedented access i still and the taliban at this time on al-jazeera. this

is held to a most dangerous and most vicious way the slightest error means a one way ticket over the realities that men are coming back to more homes we may not reach children braving tough conditions facing death at every turn there are certain serious here trailers out here they'll gamble with their lives just to punish them risking it all on al-jazeera. we have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward that would be acceptable for both sides of the us government shutdown is off to rival.