torch in the desert outside of cairo. one of europe's top rated academic institutions says it's being forced to shut down that's after hungary's government refused to license the central european university critics say it's because right wing prime minister viktor orban wants to stop independent thought in the country general reports from the capital but a central europe was not colonized by for close to thirty years the central european university in budapest has dispensed world class degrees to students from more than one hundred countries but it's days in hungary are numbered. the hungaroring government started and all i was campaigning against liberal intellectuals in fact intellectuals far of any stripe. and has been limiting academic freedom in state owned and state run universities for a long time c.e.u. is a private institution of the government's refusal to renew its legal certification means courses are moving to vienna but first by way of

a protest campus outside parliament. it's not quite the hungary an uprising all over again but they want people to know that their government is threatening to close a university on european soil for the first time since world war two once this becomes true miscible here it becomes permissible anywhere anywhere in europe anywhere in the west that it will be a catastrophe for hungary and i just don't see what sort of a government would destroy that so why is it so tristrem to them suppose they don't want independent thought they don't want the use of hungary to be able to assess critically their propaganda so here is a grand european democracy and academic freedom side by side of course in political science would teach that they are mutually dependent on one another but here in hungary they're in mutual decline. the battle to save c.e.u. looks likely to be lost the latest defeat for hungary's beleaguered liberal forces opposed to prime minister viktor orban and his populist nationalist policies. for

ban has targeted not just free thought and speech but also immigration and foreign n.g.o.s his most recent election campaign was fronted by posters of hungary and born billionaire george soros with claims that soros plans to flood europe with illegal migrants and refugees the see you was founded and is funded by george soros and one of its alumni is government spokesman zoltan kovacs why i now choose to go after this institution that source found. and nobody is going after one particular institution as i mentioned to the higher education will always apply couple to all universities and institutions operating under but this university is going to find it difficult to function in the future as it probably for the reason that it was privileged in an undue way that privilege is not going for any other university or higher education institution in this country. if not the last nail in the coffin

certainly one of many don't know how al-jazeera budapest architects some across the globe are in amsterdam competing for design glory at the world architecture festival event recognizes some of the best buildings and future projects in the world and as there is any barker reports from amsterdam where the overall winner has been i'm back. this is the worldbuilding of the year the company admiralty in singapore it's a vertical village for the elderly with care facility shops and lush gardens all under one roof it sets an example for what's possible in of the sprawling cities it's an attempt to create a community of senior citizens who live in social housing but rather than being isolated in a little sort of elders ghetto they'll be part of a very vibrant mixed news he mixed use development more than two thousand architects gathered in amsterdam to exchange ideas that's

a lot of fashionable spectacles. among them one of the most distinguished designers in the world and british architect david who doesn't wear glasses architecture is a kind of tribe is like a sort of no camp. jays work includes a provision in england joe south korea a university in moscow and the museum of african-american history in washington d.c. the work goes beyond excellent construction it's about big ideas who are we what are our aspirations in the last hundred years we know how to build so that is no longer the issue and we've taught many people how to build but what really becomes the issues how do we make architecture relevant to people how do we engender relationships to people with their architecture and environment yes don't feel like they're machines just in the background successful architecture needs to work for

people and in the case of this year's winner of the amsterdam architecture prize lots of people. the dutch capital has a new spine the north south metro line is ten kilometers long and has eight gleaming stations it took decades of planning fifteen years of construction and required a catalog of engineering in. vacations to deal with the cities maybe canals and declares a model. there is a transients about train stations which means that we often miss many of the details that go into desired a much of the effort that goes into engineering but perhaps that's half the success of good architecture but we don't know what it is doing to us as it takes us on a journey from a to b. . regardless of how functional some architecture appears or how seamlessly it blends into the background it all aspires to quietly improve the way we live. the baka al jazeera absa down time on

a short break here now to zero when we come back we'll look at why tourism is booming in the holy land and what it means for palestinians unfun violence in argentina see spain being chosen to host the cup at liberty tourist final but the two finalists have appealed against the move to madrid that's coming up with paul after the break more on the state. a father should be a protector. for. he was her tormentor. betrayed for years she carries the evidence inside her. but will this be enough to find justice in afghanistan's patriarchal society. a thousand cows like me. a witness documentary on al-jazeera and hundred forty

one of on al jazeera u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry riverbed like this one five years on the syrians still. field battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the you're. welcome back time for the sport his poll thank you very much defending champions cameroon have been stripped of the hosting rights for next year's africa cup of

nations after a meeting of the continent's football confederation and gonna calf announced an actor on friday that compliance conditions had not been met by cameroon those include delays with construction as well as an escalation of the violence in the southwest the northwest of the country now two of the planned venues a new bidding process has been opened with morocco seen as favorites to host next summer's tournament well earlier i spoke to african football rights and gary al smith who was one of the journalists out the meeting in our current he said cameron had fallen victim to the expansion of the tournament from sixteen to twenty four teams. also want to come in and state television on the lifestream on you tube. and that our announcement was given and it hits the streets and it was absolutely must seem disappointed on the streets of commerce and let's not forget that this is a country that hosted the twenty sixteen woman's african cup nation is saying man

it's the biggest and the best anybody has seen in africa i mean have people. come in from western europe and they were saying that they wished western europe would get such a reception for a woman's african cup of nations ok might do what they could do or do would do for that african cup for men i don't think that they thought they could lose it anyway i think that they genuinely thought they could be given time to finish it because don't forget. we have to be honest and say that things have been a bit unfair to come aaron because one day one debate it was for a sixteen team tournament only for a mob to win the cup presidency and then the decision to expand it to into four teams went the way or originally prepared for sixteen teams as well so i mean they always thought that because of these factors they'll be given enough time to to finish the way that they started as well and finally from the political point of

view miracle have always always been reasoned out and makes everything that. has been available to go through the africa cup of nations put into the most people i saw at that meeting today feels that you know what this is definitely a great swimmer who and i'd be surprised if he doesn't the main sponsor of afghanistan's women's football team has cut ties with the national federation over claims players were sexually and physically abused by male officials the former head of the afghan women's football department co-leader popal told al-jazeera that's men from the federation allegedly abused the female players during a training camp in jordan nine members of the side with then kicked off the team after the camp in february danish sports what company hummel is the sponsor that has ended its association then are calling for the immediate resignation of the federations president face investigating the claims as well. the decision to move the copper lever to dora's final to madrid in the wake of fun violence in buenos

aires has been met with opposition by the finalists baka juniors and river plate south american football authorities announced on thursday that the second leg would be held thousands of kilometers away in the spanish capital that's after the rivalry between baccarat and river ended in the pocket juniors bus being attacked last week and the match being pursued by him twice barca have appealed the decision saying they want river plate disqualified while river also opposing the decision not to hold the match at their monumental stadium santiago solari said welcoming his fellow argentines to madrid brought with it some sadness. a little less. i can't stop making reference to the causes that bring this match here that the match gets played with an ocean of distance from born a series after breaking lots of hearts which is what happened it's a real shame overall as an example for the children it's a shame that part of our society is dedicated to break everything and that nothing works. but i mean

a bit of you all regrettably for me this match is lost transcendence in my heart is what i mean it's lost a bit of interest and it's a shame to say that but it's the reality and i repeat i hope the final at the bernabeu helps to give a dignified closure to such a match and that the best team wins ben haywood is a spanish football journalist based in madrid for the evening standard newspaper he says it's going to be difficult for fans from argentina to get to the game. i've been on the science of the spanish federation it's morning asking about it could it's asian they don't know what the plan is yet you know you could sing the security imagine it's going to be a big police operation to you know plan for this game after everything that's happening when a senator is madrid is of course used to hot hosting big games the kind of world cup final the better bell bit a long time ago champions league finals big big games so i suppose this city is

prepared for that but i'm not sure it's prepared for a river against barca i mean there are one hundred thousand arjun times in spain there or thereabouts so that you know a lot of those potentially could come to the games but the real hardcore fans i suppose that years are going about in winter so it is in other parts of argentina a probably going to find it very difficult to travel this time of year you know flights are already very very expensive it's the holiday season coming up i've had a quick look this morning flights return flights from winter centers to madrid over a thousand euros already average arjen time wage is around four hundred euros or a little bit more it's a lot of money to come out just for one game we actually huge game and it is going to be very very difficult for the fans with limited you know flights available perhaps they can chance of more planes and organize fans to travel out that way but it's very little time it's going to cost them a lot of money to come and watch that scene and the united states atlantean ited are through to major league soccer's championship match in just the second season

as a franchise they were crowned m.l.s. eastern conference champions on thursday that's despite losing one nil to the new york red bulls on the night atlanta wrapped up the two match final three one on aggregate they'll now host the m.l.s. cup on december the eighth where they'll be hoping to win just the city's second professional sports title and the first since the atlanta braves on baseball's world series in one thousand nine hundred ninety five. alonso will face the portland timbers in the final they wrapped up the western conference with a three two win over sporting kansas city after that stunning equaliser from sebastian blanco diego valarie made sure of the victory with his second goal of this game in the ninth minute of stoppage time this is the second time in four years paul and have reached the m.l.s. cup they want it in twenty fifteen. south africa's former rugby world cup winning hooker drought ski is in a stable condition after being shot three times by intruders he charged at the

three robbers and tried to force them from his brother's house outside pretoria he was taken to hospital in a critical condition after being shot in the chest and abdomen but was stabilized in intensive care lindsey vonn has delayed her retirement from skiing into next season after a training crash left her unable to compete in her favorite world cup avenge this year vonn posted a video of the crash to her you tube channel on friday she sprang to ligament in her name meaning she can't compete at lake louise where she's taken eighteen of her eighty two world cup victories the american is aiming to beat him our stan marks record of eighty six that soyuz port for now we'll have more later on full thank you very much indeed now the holy land is experiencing the highest number of tourists in years israel says october figures were record breaking it's exactly what bethlehem needs as palestinians struggle to make ends meet. stephanie decker

reports now from bethlehem. there has to be right now in the city about what. the holy land pilgrimage is a multi billion dollar industry right now but it was a very good guess that right. it's been struggling over the last few years not in our trade well you know us as far as i know i think this year has been the best and years and they were so happy to see people coming from all over the world oh actually in the market out of thin air all of them willing to well this pilgrim from brazil tells us everything is wonderful for you ladies from taking in from kenya is this your first time in bethlehem number second i'm born oh how are you finding the place then a nice little holy virgin what do you call better lammas in the occupied west bank and the ongoing political tensions between israel and the palestinians have a direct effect on the tourism industry and the stores are going to important.

reason for the polygamy and that was to come through the not just the bethlehem or to the hold on the region and. this year was somehow. if you want to compare it with other years outside the main attraction pilgrims wait their turn to go inside but most of the visitors who come to bethlehem are religious tourists retracing jesus' steps including to where they believe his life began beneath what is now the church of the nativity but a different type of tourist is also starting to come attracted by big name art and it's raising awareness about the political complexities here the anonymous british artist banksy has been drawing attention here with his hotel next to the controversial separation barrier and boasting the worst view in the world his multimillion dollar art appeared on the separation wall last year from my point on have your it's or not of

a good idea to have this well over. for the region the two peoples whose are necessary will solve the problem this french family tells us they came here because of the artists' work that they were shocked at seeing the wall. of yes or like the others as you i'm christian and i can't accept that on a land that so symbolic that you build a wall it's not possible they has to be another way the new wall and to terrorize a population whether the visitors are here for religion politics or art palestinians tell us they haven't seen this many foreign faces in bethlehem for a very long time and hope they will continue to come stephanie decker al-jazeera bethlehem now the first day of the g twenty summit ended with dancing song and yet another group photo. all world leaders attending the g. twenty gathered for the evening show which much the summits themes dances performed

in front of images of wildlife and solar panels the show reportedly brought argentina's president mockery to tears and then the leaders headed off to a god a dinner to end day one during the visit of also receive a specially made chocolates wine and bracelets as gifts from argentina all the news of course on our website there it is on your screen all the latest on the g. twenty and the argentine cup winners are as well that's it for me daryn jordan is up next with more of the day's news such a tough subject but. the latest news as it breaks and our.