al jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world. and syrian the. money does a richer get those people who don't think. german and american the new germans al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this news hour live from doha i'm on team dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes pressure mounts on donald trump over the murder of jamal khashoggi democrats our full investigation into how the u.s. president has handled the case. mass protests in paris

against an increase in fuel tax and president macro economic policies. a vote without an opposition why activists say grains parliamentary election is a false. image with all your sports taiwan or chinese taipei a vote on which name to use of the olympics is complicated by politics swarm that later in the program. now the u.s. president's defense of the saudi crown prince in the wake of john this jamal khashoggi is murder is facing a congressional investigation early next year the democrats to to lead the house intelligence committee when newly elected members take office says donald trump's response will be part of a probe into the president's financial ties to saudi arabia live now to washington

d.c. a correspondent there patty culhane and patty this is a sign clearly of what is to come for the president when the new congress begins its sitting in january. it really is i mean think keeping this in perspective the u.s. president has had literally no checks on his presidency for the last two years his party is in charge of was in charge of both the house and the senate and they were unwilling to check him democrats obviously taking control of the house at the very beginning of january that's going to change things and now we've seen from the house intelligence committee representative adam schiff he's already said that he's going to look at to exactly why the president is responding to the killing of jamal khashoggi in the way that he is so what does that look like for the president well right now he can simply say that the cia doesn't really have any facts they just have feelings about what happens and what the intelligence community can do is first to respond to that is they can leak which they've been doing but that's not nearly as effective as for the public pressure is let's say adam schiff calls the

cia director or the d.n.i. director to his committee under oath he says tell me what you know and even if he doesn't do that the members of this committee they have the clearance to be able to see everything as they can push just declassify some of that information so adam schiff making clear that this is not going to go away any time soon and. this could get rather personal does the committee with the committee have the power to probe into the president trumps personal commercial interests with saudi arabia. they do in this is where it's going to get very interesting because congress and these committees have the power of a legal subpoena so they can subpoena the president's tax returns they could subpoena all of his bank records and they've shown some indication that they want to go down that route now the president isn't completely helpless in this you can try and tie it up in the courts and see if the republican leaning supreme court

eventually backs him but in the past courts have been very willing to let congress use its power of checks and balances to keep an eye on the president now i thought it was interesting the president when he was getting ready to leave for his thanksgiving break kept saying repeatedly sometimes without being asked that he has no financial interest in saudi arabia was a very different story when he was running for president where he often bragged on the campaign trail that he gets millions of dollars from saudi arabia keep in mind this is a present president unlike every other president in modern history who has not divested himself from his commercial interests he says he's not running the company but there are some lawsuits in court right now saying that he's still making money from foreign governments and so those cases are working their way through and now with the democrats taking charge in just january of the house expect that they're going to start really trying to get a sense of exactly where the president's money is coming from and if it's impacting his foreign policy. live in washington thank you. well october second that's when jamal khashoggi was last seen entering the saudi consulate in istanbul and since

then many different accounts of what exactly happened to the journalists have emerged twenty badly explains. it was meant to be a new beginning for jamal khashoggi a new wife a new home and a new country but turkey was where he died an exile journalist who dared to question and authoritarian leader his death in the saudi consulate in istanbul could so easily have been missed or even forgotten had it not been for the secret audio recordings from the scene no one really knows exactly how these recordings came about either the turkish security service it bugged the consulate or a consular official with a conscience recording them in the end it doesn't really matter what matters is that they expose the lies and deception surrounding this murder but first the denials are strong on october third the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan denied all knowledge of the killings saying mr casady disappeared after he left the consulate building a lock told with the eight his brother khaled bin salman the saudi ambassador to

the u.s. repeated the claim over the twelfth according to cia sources who reported that saudi crown prince asked jerrod krishna president tom son in law why the outrage is because saudi was a dangerous islamist this anger the turkish authorities and that is when the audio recordings started to be leaked. on october thirteenth eleven days after mr casady was killed the turkish newspaper subba published details of the killing it said they came from a recording from his i watch that was sync to his i phone held by his turkish fiance outside the consulate the i watched part is perhaps not correct but the newspaper said the recording was of the journalist being tortured and then murdered this is when the picture and the response started to change with such a grim and irrefutable evidence it was difficult for this out and out culture of denial to continue and if you're over suspicious or cynical nature this is when you could believe that and agree narrative was beginning to take shape and an element of collusion was starting not just in saudi arabia on october the fifteenth

president donald trump introduces the element of rogue killers maybe being responsible he repeated maybe two days later my comp a of the u.s. secretary of state was dispatched to riyadh where he stressed the strong alliance between the two countries and said we face our challenges together the past the day and tomorrow those challenges then got harder on october the seventeenth the turkish daily yeni shafiq printed more details about the killing revealing the concerns of the saudi consulate general in istanbul he asked the hit team to do it somewhere else the paper reports that he was told to shut up if he wanted to live back in saudi saudi arabia as noted began to change at this point on october the nineteenth the saudi attorney general said the journalist was killed during a fight on october the twenty first the saudi foreign minister adel algae of their followers president trumps line and says mr khashoggi was killed by a rogue elements and insisted the crown prince had nothing to do with it it's

interesting to see who these rogue elements are according to the information available they include some of the most trusted members of mohamed bin salman's personal security team and a forensic expert and they acted under the orders of the deputy head of saudi intelligence in a country where the crown prince exercises such an bride. per hour it's unbelievable to sound that such a mission could have been undertaken without his knowledge on october the twenty second the saudis introduced a new version saying that it was an accident that mr kosofsky raised his voice the team panicked moved to restrain him and then had him in a choke hold in which he died on the same day this was dispelled by more audio revelations in the newspaper which revealed new recordings that mystic ashanti was either strangled with a belt or is fixated with a plastic bag after cia director gina hospital listened to the recordings in a visit to turkey saudi arabia changed its story once again on october the twenty fifth after more than three weeks of denials and implausible explanations the saudi

attorney general finally admitted the murder it was premeditated he later and now to the death penalty for five of the team but with no further details and stressed that the crown prince was not implicated. on november the sixteenth the cia leak their findings with one official saying it was blindingly obvious who was responsible three days later more audio details released by her newspaper revealing just before the murder exactly how the hit team was going to commit the killing and who would do what the paper said the recordings also detailed nineteen phone calls that were made to riyadh after the killing including one in which the caller said tell the boss the deed is done on the same day habit turk online newspaper reveals more from the consulate audio recordings with mr being grabbed to soon as he walked in and being called a traitor and the man who posed as his double to give the impression the journalist left the consulate saying it is spooky wearing the clothes of

a man we killed twenty minutes ago when president trump declared his support for the saudi crown prince he said there was no direct proof against mohammed bin salmen on november the twenty second harriet made the strongest allegation against the crown prince stating that the cia has an order recording between mohamed bin selman and his brother in washington ordering mystica shoddy to be silenced it hasn't changed the mind of president donald trump it's business as usual with saudi arabia this terrible murder will be remembered for the lies and deception but also the day a u.s. president gave a pardon to a thanksgiving turkey and a virtual pardon to saudi crown prince tony berkeley al-jazeera istanbul. thousands of protesters are facing off with the police in the french capital paris they're angry about the rising cost of fuel and the economic policies of president matador police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse the protesters who are wearing yellow vests some people thought to have been injured drivers have been

putting up road block a saying they want to bring the city to a standstill we can now talk to what we'll be talking to our guests in just a moment but first let's take a look at some of french president emanuel mackerels policies that are frustrating these protests in that he's been dubbed the president of the rich by his opponents and over the last twelve months the price of the most commonly used fuel in france that's diesel has risen to the highest level since the early two thousand taxes on petrol and diesel went up this year both of these increases were part of a push for cleaner cars and feel president mackerel has already pledged to end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by the year twenty forty as part of a plan to meet targets under the paris climate accord now we can speak to our guest bruno cote who's a researcher at sea and spur university in paris and he's joining us from there via skype thank you for talking to us as we're talking we're going to be looking at the

scene live bruno along the seans elisei which is got tear gas we've seen protesters being pretty much. manhandled by security forces we've seen water cannon being levelled at these protesters how big a challenge is this to president mackerel. but i think it's quite a big challenge for emmanuel mccall you know the question which is just below all of that it's the question of purchasing power that underlines all these claims that the question of the taxes on all was simply rivero i would say a drop of water that probably broke the nerd emmanuel mccall brace a lot of expectations a lot of hope that people would get better or would get better of after its election is the book of repairing from the premise of emancipation but finally

most people doesn't see the chance and you have this declasse middle class those people will not reach those people who are not who they call so keep paying the cost of any reform that still they have too much taxes so this iteration start to be extremely difficult for present markov to cut to under the situation indeed last weekend we saw something like two hundred fifty thousand people turning out to him protest. and the anything they seem to have in common is wearing this yellow jacket and can we now say that this is tend not just into a protest man but into a social movement that is actually challenging at the very basis of the mccrone presidency. this is exactly the most important question yes just people are very different yes they are just sharing wearing the jet the yellow jacket yes but what

they have in common is a huge frustration emmanuelle markov announced evolution it's the title of the book that the man you must call wrote during the campaign he was talking but repairing from that also did the promise of a big separation in france and the fiscal one of those who distributed her distribution and those people are actually joined by something which is income and they don't see the changes in their daily lives they feel a lot of frustration they believe that they pay too much tax but at the same time they don't get enough and you know one very important part in france is consultant to pay tax but we see since recently that the consultant to pay taxes trust is declining french people consider and many people can see that that they have too many times when at the same time the public. expenditure goes down so people are wondering why do they pay so much tax when they're no one's deficit reduction of

less public expenditure ups it's a very very big and quite difficult question for him and we're not home absolutely and we've seen in the paul seven way we've seen union protests on the street the unions have nearly always won when it's come to a confrontation with the french president do we think that this has the potential this movement has the potential to force. an about face if you like from the macro government i i realize that they are promising another rise in the price of diesel come debt january twenty nineteen. yes a million mark or is a very important line which is not like the previous ones didn't true just one they were always during their project when the most precious where in the street not like that we got to the end of my project so the big star is going to see next week publicly how the french government john make some concessions bruno

coulter thank you very much in david talking to us live from paris we've got a lot more to come on this al-jazeera news hour including at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising. we join a bosnian border patrol on the watch for refugees who are risking their lives for a better future. a u.s. government report contradicts president trump's denials of global warming. and real madrid hit back over claims one of their star plans failed a drug test that's coming out with peace or in sport. rain is holding its parliamentary election which human rights groups say is neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups are taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to ban them prominent members or shia dominated opposition

parties are serving long prison sentences the second election since anti-government demonstrations began in twenty eleven lower burden man the takes a look at just how democratic bahrain is and how it compares with other gulf arab countries. bahrain is holding parliamentary elections but just how democratic are they and does it fit the script when it comes to rest of the gulf states or bahrain is a constitutional monarchy and it's ruled by king hamad bin isa. he shows some power with his uncle who had been summoned. with reputation as a hardliner he's the longest serving prime minister in the world remaining in the position for almost five decades but during the two thousand and eleven popular uprisings protesters demanded he be replaced with an elected official now much of the lawmaking power goes to the national assembly and that's divided into

a lower house the general public will elect forty people into this and bahrain's upper house the shura council member selected by the king and they can block lower house decisions but the big catch is the government has banned all opposition parties so how does bahrain fare against the other countries in the gulf region kuwait is considered to be the most democratic it's a constitutional monarchy and has the oldest directly elected parliament like many gulf states it has a constitutional monarchy but unlike many its parliament has the authority to serve as a genuine counterbalance to the monic war just the south we have that's also making waves in pushing democracy it's also a constitutional monarchy with the head of state the amir shaikh to mean been hammered out then a cutter has a sure council which is made up of just thirty members and as of next year these are expected to be elected by the popular vote the other fifteen

a chosen by the emir a man is a monarchy that's ruled by sorts of can boost he's also the prime minister minister of defense foreign affairs and finance and parliament is divided between two councils that are elected by the sultan and. the general public while the u.a.e. has a federal system made up of seven emirates which form the federal supreme council it's made up of the elected members and those handpicked by the leaders but critics say the parliament has too little power and finally saudi arabia is an absolute monarchy with no political parties and all members of the shura council are selected by king solomon his son crown prince mohammed bin salman also enjoys nearly absolute power over economic military foreign and domestic policy

are listed below and he's founder of gulf masses of com he's joining us live from london good to talk to you again bill political parties are banned in bahrain but political associations are allowed of which there are sixteen what's the difference . well i mean that actually it's always been the case that political societies or political associations haven't allowed these these associations to spring up i think i think really the government is attempting to present this impression that the election is fair and open and democratic and lots of people are vying for positions now it's true that there are lots of candidates but the general feeling among most bahraini is is what's the point they see this parliament as being largely ineffectual in terms of its legislation it for example has passed at the direction of the ruling family laws that prevent people who belong to the band

of political parties such as our walk and that was a firm running in in this election meanwhile the country is politically stalemate and there is no solution since two thousand and eleven since the protests broke out calling for more reform and the economy is also stalling out so the issues that this parliament could and should be dealing with in a fair and open democracy are not being looked at at all so many many bahrainis are looking at the situation and saying why should i bother to vote and of course the opposition societies have urged their members particularly what fark and the majority shia community not to vote so the turnout may or may not be interested what the turnout is i mean the government i think it's going to be better than last time which is fifty percent i would be surprised if that's the case and bill how far is the cool from all democratic rights in bahrain driven by the fact that it is

a shia majority ruled by a sunni minority how far sectarian interests ruling the debate in bahrain. well i think if you go back to twenty eleven when the when the protests first began they were peaceful and they were sunni and shia who actually went to lulu roundabout and gathered there it was the bahrain studier square and so there was not really a significant tarion divided up point but the regime really pushed the sectarian line and suggested and i've continued to suggest that iran is behind any protests than any is sent that emerges the push for democracy well i think it comes from many bahraini z. both sunni and shia who would like to see their country functioning better and they believe that it will only function better if there is actually some movement towards a more open and democratic parliament bill law of gulf masses to come thank you

very much. taiwan's ruling pro independence party has suffered a major defeat in local elections in a city where it had held power for twenty years we're still waiting for more results to come through but voters are also deciding on ten reffer referendum issues and they include whether to allow same sex marriage another one which china is obviously watching very closely indeed that's about changing the island's name from chinese taipei to taiwan for international sporting events adrian brown reports now from the capital taipei. in taiwan they don't take their democracy for granted voter turnout in the last election was more than seventy percent this election and the referendums happening alongside it are about local issues but there's another unavoidable one china whose leaders regard taiwan as part of their

territory. with or without a weapon demand independence we taiwanese decide our own future we are always taiwanese and unlike us they are chinese. and following with a referendum to decide whether we go for independence or unification but i personally support made taney to state a school and the governments of both sides should cooperate. this election serves as a report card on president saying when he was elected three years ago china's leaders promptly cut off communications with her last month she accused china of meddling in the election campaign by spreading disinformation they are trying to undermine the reputation of the of the thai ministration they are trying to balcony is if you will or split the relationship between central government and local governments and very much excess or bache and widen the contradictions and divides that exists

within taiwan the society so as to undermine its cohesion and ability to present its all a united front against against china the. voters are also casting ballots in ten referendums five of them related to same sex marriage but the most controversial referendum is to do with a name change where athletes competing in future sporting events should do so under the name taiwan it's dividing the sporting world here with protests by supporters and opponents of the name change the international olympic committee has warned that if it happens taiwan could be excluded from the olympics. this showcase of democracy is happening on china's doorstep and at a time of heightened tensions between leaders in beijing and washington with taiwan now part of the feud which is why leaders in both capitals will be watching the outcome of this election very closely adrian brown al jazeera taipei and

a little bit later on in sport peter we'll have much more on the referendum on the taiwan name change for the twenty twenty take it eliminates says about twenty five minutes or so from now now a u.s. government report says extreme weather events are getting worse in america and climate change is to blame if frequently contradicts president trump who calls global warming a hoax mike hanna reports out from washington. the report makes clear that the wave of wildfires that's hit the u.s. is just one direct consequence of climate change the most recent devastating areas of california are part of a system of global warming that is going to get even worse in the years ahead. the ferocious hurrican that have hit parts of the u.s. and regions around it are similarly part of this disturbing pattern the report continues no area of human activity will go untouched in increasing heat for

example key crops such as wheat and corn will see declining yields which could result an economic downturn greater puppets even starvation the report has mandated by congress and it will debate the findings that should also form the basis of government planning in coming years i think this is a government very different from those of the past president trump has publicly described the concept of climate change as a hoax and that was one of his reasons for wanting to withdraw the us from the paris climate accord the paris climate accord is simply the latest example of washington entering into an agreement that disadvantages the united states and only this week the president tweeted with obvious sarcasm brutal an extended cold blast could shatter all records whatever happened to global warming this confusion between daily weather fluctuations and long term climate trends regarded by the

president's critics as yet another display of ignorance but he has the power to bury the report in its recommendations and it will be a long hard fight for congress to attempt to resurrect it mike hanna al-jazeera washington. all right it's time to return to this region the middle east it's time for the weather with kevin that's right we're going to dealing with flooding we have already been dealing with flooding in parts of iraq i want to show you what's been going on with that area and what we have seen this very heavy rain shower activity take you can settle in we're going to put it into motion for the last twenty four to thirty six hours notice the clouds over rock really staying there and within these clouds we have had some major rain showers i want to show you some video that has come out of iraq and this is not just in one location we're talking northern and southern portions of iraq this flooding has been deadly across this area and we're going to continue to see very heavy rain showers because of the system that is right here now it is going to be several countries that see the heavy rain showers over the next several days is going to continue to be the eastern portions of iraq as well as into iran kuwait saudi arabia bahrain as well

as into culture and where you see those darkest blues that is where we could be seeing well over one hundred millimeters in some locations and for this part of the world one hundred millimeters can definitely to localized flash flooding so we're going to be watching this very carefully here's a sunday map as that system begins to push across the gulf and you can see here many locations are going to be within that area so we could be watching this very carefully any travel plans in this area could be very difficult but as we go towards monday that system continues to push towards the east it will then be as well as dubai as well still portions of iran so be watching the situation very carefully. thank you very much indeed kevin. still to come here on the news hour joining forces in the congo how a new opposition alliance is determined to shake up the presidential election. it's friday it workers at the online retailers say they've had enough. and in

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investigates the surgeon hate crimes at the hands of far right groups to. ukraine repression on al-jazeera. congress take a look at the top stories here on the out. the democratic to lead the new u.s. house intelligence committee says donald trump's response to the murder of jamal khashoggi will be investigated adam schiff says it will be covered as part of a probe into the president's financial ties to saudi arabia. antigovernment

protests as a facing off with police in the french capital paris there andrea about the rising cost of fuel and the economic policies of president. parliamentary elections being held in bahrain which rights groups say is neither free nor fair the two main opposition groups are taking part after m.p.'s voted earlier this year to effectively ban. the protests as into music a pressuring the government to cancel a planned visit by the saudi crown prince because of his suspected involvement in the murder of jamal khashoggi up the cash strapped government is warning the protests could stop much needed financial aid from the kingdom. reports. today activists are calling for mass protests against a proposed visit by the saudi crown prince mohamed is on his first tour aboard since the killing of journalist. some tennesseans

a worry his arrival could undermine their newfound freedom and liberty but with. the crown prince is tainted by the killing of her late colleague jamal khashoggi and the arrest of dozens of saudi activists for these reasons we consider his visit a provocation and an insult to the values of the tunisian revolution and our democracy tennessee i was the focal point of the pro-democracy protests in two thousand and eleven that galvanized the arab world and start of the revolution known as the arab spring and lawyers and human rights activists in tunisia a mounting a legal challenge to stop the visit. but that's unlikely to happen cinesias cash strapped government is desperate for financial aid to tackle poverty instability and unemployment and government leaders are concerned protests might alienate saudi leaders at

a critical moment for them. the u.n. special envoy has left yemen after visiting the port city of her data before leaving martin griffiths met again with a high ranking who revel figure in sanaa earlier he'd said he's convinced the rebels who attend political talks in sweden next month his have agreed to hold discussions about the u.n. possibly taking a supervisory role in who data which is the main entry point for aid. important steps towards peace were taken during this trip marginal gryphus took all his questions and all questions were put to the leader of the revolution they were clear on says to promote peace he was very pleased with his visit he told me he returned with a good impression and he is well aware of the sufferings of the yemeni people and the urgent need to make efforts for peace. we look forward to rap and peace we hope that his two are in riyadh with positive results and we are in constant contact.

serbia says it's reimposing visa restrictions on a wrong after an estimated twelve thousand tourists travelling from tire all never returned is believe many of them cross the border into balls near the main target for refugees trying to reach western europe david chase there are reports now from the town of warneke that some balls nias border with serbia. are at night time patrolling by bosnia's border police the fast flowing waters of the river drain the last barrier for the refugees. the majority crossing it now are iranians the opposite banks in serbia are swept with infrared heat detectors and night scanning binoculars. but we use battery lamps rotating lights and vehicle headlamps to try and dissuade the migrants from crossing the border. but they are up against highly experienced gangs of human traffickers making

a fortune out of the refugees at this time of year the temperatures are dropping below zero and the waters are rising so the refugees are strapping together plastic bottles roping them together and using them as a raft in summer months they can simply wade across but now some of them are drowning their bodies swept onto the bosnian banks of the river which offered them such an illusory freedom. at a refugee camp outside sarajevo we met a radiance who survived the perilous journey joining the pakistanis and afghans who thought it was near was just one step away from the freedom of western europe this rainy and kurd didn't want to give us his name he says his brother was shot dead by special forces in iran fighting a growing protest movement he told us he wants a new life his wife and children bosnia tries to give the refugees a humane welcome but it's

a country without the resources to cope with this new burden really. in the last six months ninety percent of migrants came to us from serbia across the dreamer river with no documents we were worried about the large numbers of iranians coming because serbia introduced a visa free version with five flights weekly from iran so we had a huge influx some four thousand rainy and. back at the headquarters of the bosnian border police another influx of refugees but this time trying to get back into serbia. this iraqi family managed to walk into savina but were handed back to corrupt police who beat them up and for some back into bosnia smugglers have taken all their money we wrote that book. by book and had a. very. you know it's good to do anything any play you have to wait inside the police station i talked to a group of iranians too afraid to appear on camera accountants electrical engineers

fruit sellers they said the economy in iran was in a desperate state and feedom was being stifled among the kartik corridors i also met three year hinge of muslims from me and ma their families at all being killed it took them fourteen months to reach the borders of the european union they too were beaten back with truncheons david chaytor al-jazeera for nick near bosnia as border with serbia. a new alliance has been formed in the race to replace president joseph kabila in the democratic republic of congo's election next month feliks just a caddy has joined forces with another opposition leader without come a day the outgoing president is constitutionally barred from running for a third term he's backed his former interior minister emanuel shadowy one of fifteen congolese figures sanctioned by the you for alleged human rights crimes now several opposition figures have been blocked from running including the former vice

president. who's been acquitted by the international criminal court for war crimes opposition parties had tried to unite behind one single candidate the businessman martin for you but that deal collapsed off the cheese acadia and his new running mate who'll doubt many on a home takes a look at whether these new contenders can unite a fractured opposition. jubilation and kinshasa with a presidential vote just a month away many had given up hope that an opposition candidate might win the only man they felt had any chance was felix to see katie now would that not only is he going to run but another top of position leader will stand beside him. for the positive this is so positive only these two leaders can win the elections committee has forty five percent of voters in the east and they both have almost fifty five percent of voters in the middle of the country so we are sure a victory now good news for some but the announcement draws attention to

a fractured opposition sivan opposition leaders had hoped to result that in geneva earlier this month agreeing to back martin fire. but just to katie and the telkom a hip pulled out saying there wasn't grassroots support for him now the pier at a run on a joint ticket and say the door is open for others in the opposition to unite behind to them. my brother tell camaron i are going to work hard to bring sustainable peace to congo we will reconcile the differences among the congolese people it will not be a witch hunt we will install a state of law quickly to protect our citizens we will fight the corruption that is destroying our society. fighting words intended to inspire but the country he hopes to lead has been revathi by decades of interests that conflict and detects by armed groups that long term ruler president joseph kabila has himself failed to address

and i'm like to see katy's father it is security who was a titan of the opposition his son is a relative newcomer to politics he's standing against emanuel. a former interior minister and his hand-picked successor he's already been on the campaign trail more than four and a half million people in the mineral rich nation have been displaced by conflict the united nations describes it as a forgotten crisis. and come may have vowed to run congo differently and to finally bring peace but to do that they must heal divisions within the opposition and when the voting to go to a month to make that happen may down the hall and al-jazeera well i've been speaking to harry verhoeven who's a professor at georgetown university here in doha he says while the new alliance may bolster the opposition there are still many other issues plaguing the election

. the legacy of more than twenty years of rule by father and son could be has been devastating i mean the very weakness of the state to both the inability but also the unwillingness of the congolese or leads to deliver security across the territory to deliver public services thus gravely we can perhaps fatally weaken the ability of the state to also organize credible elections and this is my worry that regardless of the outcome of this election there will be violence either the presidential majority will not accept the verdict and can be there will be very afraid that the loss in the election will lead to him being persecuted or having to leave the country and so he will try to stage some violent incidents that essentially stop that in their tracks all the opposition will take to the streets and say we will do not recognize the legitimacy of an election that was only a conducted in some parts of the territory even there only partially free and fair and so they too will probably resort to violence so i'm actually quite pessimistic about where we go from here because either way whatever the outcome of this of the ballots i am afraid more violence is in store the number of technological and very

practical logistical challenges there's as i said enduring questions about the outrunning me of the local authorities who have to implement and their willingness to have to fair due to allow free and fair elections across the territory and as you rightly said there's the palm of security even the voters do manage to turn up if they do manage to cast their ballot will be able to safely do so to leave the polling station etc those are very great questions that we continue to have and that's the reason why so many people including congresspeople office mr. tributes are pouring in for a prominent syrian activist killed by gunmen in rebel held it lead province ryad father as was a journalist who criticised by the government and i saw his death as being described as an immense loss to syria victoria gave him the reports. viruses carried to his grave inkatha in bell in rebel held it late potence he was shot dead on friday along with photographer hammy janay eight gunman targeted them

from a speeding van no group has claimed responsibility both worked for a local radio station which satirize president bashar assad and groups such as eisel faris rose to prominence as a human rights activist at the start of the syrian revolution in twenty eleven was he made protest banners and shed pictures of them on social media his posts went viral and sent a powerful message around the world that the people of syria demanded freedom as the war continued he never stopped speaking out against acid and his a rainy and russian allies. you know it. acid has hit guta with chemical weapons yes chemical weapons we are humans not insects was one thousand six hundred syrian citizens and ditto shot to death but of the only viruses work meant he was in constant danger he survived an attack by eisel gunman four years

ago friends praised him for his own faltering bravery news of his death triggered an outpouring of grief own social media one person tweeted that ferris was the bravest nonviolent man i ever met another wrote his loved ones and the people of syria have lost him right eat an example a man who chose to lead and speak up despite the harshest repression. in one of his last tweets in september farris wrote about a demonstration against russia asaad and what he called all kinds of terrorism as assad and his allies we gain territory faris continued to report from syria's last opposition stronghold in dedicated his life to the fight for freedom victoria gate and be al jazeera it's called black friday that's one of the biggest shopping days of the year particularly in the u.s. and the good deals in stores often overwhelm bargain hunters as well as the shop assistants. my

goodness that was in the state of tennessee where jumpers originally ninety five dollars were marked down to thirty five can you believe americans are due to spend as much as six billion dollars in just twenty four hours. but some of the workers in europe who make sure that shoppers get their goods say that they've been turned into robots staff of the online retailer amazon for instance they walked out to condemn what they call inhumane working conditions and the hayward reports from one of amazon's biggest warehouses in the u.k. . it is a twenty four hour operation which only pauses when the ship changes packing and preparing parcels the would with a simple click i don't plan for a day with discounted prices at the online retailer stuff but amazon busier than ever. right. now i was

outside this distribution center not far from london a defiant cry from members of the g.m.b. union they claim conditions inside are inhuman and the stock are treated like robots and don't even have time to go to the toilet. when you go and work in a warehouse you do expect the monotony you expect to be a bit like a coal mine and to be in the dark for twelve hours you don't expect to be treated like you don't expect to be just driven and driven and driven and expected to perform. feasibly. all the time. the general manager at this amazon site told us his staff were treated fairly warehousing operations for twenty years and i believe that what we ask people to do is absolutely. the union also alleges that amazon's workplaces are unsafe claiming ambulances have been called out six hundred times to fourteen warehouses during the last three

financial years amazon told us the sites were safe and had fewer injuries on average compared to other similar companies there were protests about conditions in other parts of europe to with most stop at one site in spain walking out the company's certainly has changed the way many people around the world shop here in the u.k. well amazon's star has risen during the past two decades traditional shopping areas have been struggling to compete on black friday the retailer was even opening a pop up shop in a trendy area of london amazon though has long been seen as a symbol by some of corporate greed paying as little tax in the u.k. as legally possible and while the conveyor belt so moving its profits continue to rise there's no getting away from the fact that amazon is a huge machine at this site and i employ that thousand people with hundreds more

during the busiest times of yet. amazon calls its distribution sites fulfillment centers exactly how fulfilling they are to work in is a matter of opinion and he would al-jazeera to milton keynes. so to come on the news. a shot in the dark tiger woods and phil mickelson play into the night to decide the winner of a nine million dollar prize he said we'll tell you why on. the show on the liers all staring down at what humanity is done to in sales of the no one would ever know how many heroes died on your screen might have only had bodyguards it was all rod sims when the shots came from the holiday and you heard critics we heard the nobel overheard show was really just want to break off because we've got so many problems that on their terms that somehow cold war hotels

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i have in this course is now with peter thank you very much martinez you've been hearing voting has been taking place in taiwan among the decisions being made by citizens is what to call the team at sports events and outcome is expected on that shortly currently athletes compete as chinese taipei which is a country that doesn't really exist it's a name agreed on all than three decades ago by taiwan china and the international olympic committee the team also marches behind the emblem of their really not the official flag earlier we spoke with the mitzi thing one of taiwan's top swimmers she explains why the name change is such an important issue. for many people including myself and especially in mind generation we see ourselves as how many people and we call our country taiwan and i believe many foreigners they know and they are aware of what taiwan where taiwan is and the taiwanese people are

not the only people who are questioning the name of chinese taipei as chinese taipei this name is. degrade to our country and chinese taipei cannot represent our country taiwan one of the fiercest darby's in world football will be played on the biggest stage as origen time joints rather play taken back a juniors for the copper limited orders final second leg and certainly trained in front of fifty thousand of their firms this week they'll take to the field on the other side of where our side is and rivers whole stadium later it was two two in the first leg two weeks ago our team will be live there from fifteen hundred g.m.t. . spanish football giants real madrid have denied allegations that they captain sergio ramos failed a drugs test ahead of the champions league final back in twenty seventeen german magazine der spiegel has claimed that the spain defender tested positive for an empty inflammatory drug which is banned if tests or not in four testers are not

informed of its use the magazine added to european football's governing body you a fan accepted an apology from ramos and the player a blamed the club's doctor for the incident their statement. breached anti doping regulations were requested specific information and immediately closed the case as is usual in such cases following tests carried out by experts from the world anti-doping agency and u.a.e. for itself. ramos was in rails line up for the spanish league clash with abel that matches in the closing stages now three know the score to a ball meanwhile rails to biggest rivals barcelona and that lead to come the dreaded meet later a better go hoping for a first championship since winning the title in two thousand and fourteen and could go top of the league with a win loss of the defending spanish champions and league leaders they have scored more goals than any other club in the competition the season. to give us an

emotional. week later both teams have a very clear style and we will both play more or less according to our usual methods we know atletico usually starts both halves aggressively as they are likely to pressure us in our own area but they will play in their usual way where they feel more comfortable and that approach has served them well in the english premier league leaders manchester city travel to west ham later they haven't lost in the league this season but manager of airport to go there says he doesn't expect that to last heading into a busy few weeks they are not the machines there but it's a good one game we're going to lose important is competing that you are going to lose be there the target is not to be invincible. that is not sent play good every day and be happy the guys where the people are which is in the game and try to of course when the three points we want to stay longer here if we win games we're still on here meanwhile manchester united will be hoping to kickstart their

campaign at home to crystal palace second place liverpool travel to watford former premier league winning manager at any year he takes charge of full of him for the first time against southampton and tottenham and chelsea meet in a london davi. croatia could be crowned davis cup champions in the next few hours they lead france to love and will win the title if they win the doubles which has just started born a charge in marin chile each croatia in control on friday world number seven chile which had little trouble getting past joe wilfred sung the french germans being out of action through injury for much of twenty eighteen and that showed here should it be closing out a six three seven five six. and earlier charter which got croatia off to a flying start with another straight sets win the world of the twelve beating jerry shirley six two seven five six for the. injured golden state warriors star steph curry has been worrying he's team again in the n.b.a. champion was in a car crash on his way to training in oakland on friday currie emerged unhurt and

stood in the rain waiting for the police after hughes porsche was in a collision with two because neither of those drivers hurt either curry has been out since november the eighth as he continues his recovery from injury it did make it to training off to the start. and he also took a seat for the game as well no worse for wear golden state trying to snap of four game losing run and they did it in style kevin durant's leading the drive here. the end of the thirty two points as they beat the portland trailblazers one hundred twenty five ninety seven. the owner of the n.f.l. as used in texans bob mcnair has died at the age of eighty one but may have brought the n.f.l. back to euston in two thousand and two of the oilers left the city in one nine hundred ninety six and he's ownership the texans won four division titles and their stadium hosted two super bowls in two thousand and four and the game in twenty

seventy rugby's november test matches and on saturday world champions new zealand will be looking to bounce back from a defeat to ireland when they kick off against italy in the next few minutes but the headline fixture will see two thousand and three world champions england host australia in london the australians have lost their last five tests against the english the wallabies have also lost ten of the last fourteen tests it was billed as a dramatic duel between two former world number one golfers over a nine million dollar prize in the end the match between tiger woods and phil mickelson divided opinion for those who were able to watch it just seven hundred invited guests were allowed on the calls everyone else had to pay twenty dollars to see god's first pay per view broadcast when it came down to it to go office who hold nineteen majors between them couldn't be separated until the fourth extra hole woods had best part to extend the match and the temporary lights but missed so it was mickelson who tap today in for birdie and the big money prize.

and that's where the sport marty thank you very much indeed lots more to come here and our desire to don't go away. the lights are on. and there's nowhere to hide isn't the easiest way to solve this to allow u.n. observers who you invited into the country earlier this year to finish the job i haven't said it's a right wing conspiracy or anybody's conspiracy straight talking debate do you think we're going to see some kind of sea change in the u.s. relationship with saudi arabia we have an obligation there is a journalistic integrity and then to end this case it was betrayed totally up from its own al-jazeera. stories of life. and inspiration. a series of short documentaries from

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