one months on from the velvet revolution that brought down the government armenians are preparing to head to the polls and we report on zimbabwe struggling health system in adult to strike and growing cholera problem. and over again are the good feels very summary that in victoria in fact even south australia is cried she is continuing to stream might suggest a frontal system was already gone through had an effect in melbourne but you still got to continue the fact despite the light no sleep weighs a mere twenty degrees on so it's better now late but not that much better in sydney or indeed in brisbane in fact you could argue that purses are in the best of them when there are some big showers in some parts of western australia and i guess you want to ride maybe substantial but not repeatable and then we gone one day for the

monday night and on monday it's still twenty in melbourne i can't help you all the real wet and potentially stormy in warm weather is up in queens and here it could be damaging storms. now that streaming clouds that you saw morris go across tasmania now the tasman sea is of course heading for south island she's in a lot of clouds but not a lot of rain the forecast for sunday twenty degrees in washington but come science and you just got more rain on the western shores sunshine everywhere else and that's even more universally true on monday with the temperature around the twenty mark lightish breezes not much clout no rain but sunshine. it begs well and doesn't require diplomas. that's why so many in macao work for the casinos. in but for those who struggle it school.

dropping out has become the less evil in perseverance greater gamble. future gamble part of the viewfinder asia series the notice era. arkham by just a quick recap of the top stories now u.s. president on all trump says his chief of staff john kelly will leave the administration at the end of the year trump is in talks with vice president mike pence is a nick a is to replace kelly french interior minister says yellow vest protests are

now under control but police levels could remain as they all until sunday or than six hundred people have been arrested. and that yemen's who sees rebels say the main port city of data should be declared a neutral zone. speaking on the sidelines of talks in sweden aimed at ending the four year war the iran backed rebels also suggested that the united nations could play a role in the running of sun port. out of there are reports now from rimbaud north of the swedish capital stock. it's a stumbling block just of the time when hope so for old world growing. yemen's rival factions are entrenched warning if their demands are not met the talks will fail and as the negotiations continue the who things have controlled sun and the northern part of the country say they are willing to join

a national unity government if president obama so hardy steps down so a lot of. the political solution from our point of view should be a new transitional period that has a time frame and must have consensual executive power including the presidency and the government and must work on certain pillars like security and military operations in sharing food control over the yemeni state and solving unsolved problems. the proposal was swiftly dismissed by the government had the loyalists say the houthi rebels seized power in a coup in two thousand and fourteen and therefore their surrender is a prerequisite for any future deal if you know what i can make. it hard to goes do you think that would solve the problem the problem is cool leaders was elected and it's elections that will decide his fate but if he resigns now that will be

dangerous there will be a power struggle there is a third party that is not involved in the talks but his influence has been on the rise in yemen seized a thousand and eleven. these are the sassiness. it movement that wants to break away from the north they are protesting against what they describe as a society occupation of their land but the separatists themselves are divided between those who want independence and those who want the tunnel me within a federal yemen the talks were always going to be long and strenuous but the millions of yemenis who have suffered bombings starvation and inaction hope the warring factions will give diplomacy a chance so that the war comes to an end has about al-jazeera rambo on the oscar. well now china has warned there will be strong consequences if huawei executive men one joe isn't released from custody and canada prosecutors want to extradite head

to the united states which accuses her of breaching sanctions on iran but the rest raises questions about whether the current temporary trade between america and china is likely to hold christensen in your reports among china's business elite among ones who is considered royalty the daughter of the founder of telecom giant way a company c.f.o. and possible heir to the throne but to the united states mom is a wanted criminal the charge confirmed in the canadian court on friday fraud specifically using an unofficial weiwei subsidiary to do business with iran in violation of u.s. sanctions china's foreign ministry has condemned her arrest and demanded the evidence. you do what i can tell you is that neither canada nor the u.s. have provided any evidence to china that the person of the cases violated the laws of the two countries until now. canadian prosecutors acting on behalf of the us

argued against freeing mongan bail saying her wealth made her an extreme flight risk while her lawyer said she'd never do anything to embarrass her family or her country in court filings the united states argued that mung was likely to flee to china if released on bail the united states believes that one way officials have been avoiding travel to the united states since april of two thousand and seventeen when they became aware of the investigation and furthermore that they have been moving u.s. based employees out of the country who could have been called to testify in the case that's why when they became aware of her travel to canada on november twenty ninth they requested her extradition. mom's arrest comes amid mounting trade tensions between the u.s. and china and news of her arrest rattled investors the dow closed down more than five hundred points for the week racing gains for the year but experts say the case is not about train i think it's very much sanctions issue and the desire to make

sure that people know that we aren't kidding when the u.s. imposes sanctions nevertheless it could complicate trade relations as the two countries attempt to work out their differences kristen salumi al-jazeera saudi arabia is getting ready to host the gulf cooperation council as annual summit on sunday the six nation block will be meeting in riyadh capitals emir has been invited by the saudi king sound none to attend but doha hasn't confirmed whether he will catch or is currently under a blockade by four arab countries led by saudi arabia the flag could be seen in riyadh ahead of the summit well my job's wary is the director of the gulf study center at capital university and told us that the saudis may try to focus on a possible end to the war in yemen to deflect attention from the murder of janice jamal khashoggi no i think riyadh will try to bring to bring that again and saying look we want. to move on we need peaceful negotiation

we need the war to be and i think that is a message to washington this is serious i think that is to reduce the level of pressure on them and hush of the case so that it's appearing on different cards on the same table meanwhile iran's president has called donald trump's decision to reimpose sanctions against his country economic terrorism the oil and financial sanctions came into force a month ago off to trample out of the two hundred fifty nuclear deal in may speaking at a conference on regional cooperation hassen rouhani warned the measures would deprive iran of the benefits of international trade and energy security. i warn those who impose sanctions that for rand's ability to fight drugs and terrorism are affected you will not be safe from a deluge of drugs asylum seekers' bombs and terrorism. out armenia the country is heading to the polls on sunday in the first vote since mass protests led to the

downfall of the ruling republican party opinion polls suggest a landslide victory for the man who led that so-called velvet revolution and call passion young and his my step alliance robin for say a walk up brings us more now from. commemorating the armenian earthquake of one thousand nine hundred eighty eight in which at least twenty five thousand people were killed acting prime minister nicole ended his election campaign with a promise that if his party wins you marie armenia's second largest city will become his priority thirty years ago the city was a disaster zone and successive leaders have failed to fix it. when we say restoring the disasters we need to understand not only meeting the housing needs of the people not only restoring schools and kindergartens but also restoring this city's economic potential. the potential for change nationwide

brought cynical person to power in mass protests this spring. is open style including regular facebook live posts has delighted many armenians. and reinvigorated armenian politics this first live t.v. debate pitted him against all other party leaders nicole person yet has for many months enjoyed the power of the street popular power he now wants that power in parliament through what he has promised will be free and fair elections sunday's election will be a test of that promise. some believe that promise has already been broken with passion accused of using aggressive language and tactics nor uppermost fear or fear is acceptable during the election it's unacceptable to

organize intimidations of candidate of compare universe. hate speech is forbidden in the country but nevertheless it's happening every day back in khumri. he lost his niece in the earthquake believes passion yan will accomplish what previous leaders failed to achieve. passion yanez a man sent by god for the armenian people yes with all my heart i will vote for him . armenians have high hopes there will be disappointment if those hopes are not realized in for a steelworker al-jazeera yerevan a new outbreak of cholera has killed at least five people and infected hundreds of others in zimbabwe this puts more pressure on an already weak public health system which is struggling to deal with the fallout of a junior doctor strike how much hassle has more now from mt darwin.

health workers to speak the cholera outbreak in mt darwin started here they say a gold mine is used water from a nearby river that's believed to be contaminated petra statoil this is the area where he works is remote and the roads are bad that's why he said some people didn't get to hospital until it was too late. after i finished eating i started feeling strange and i knew something was wrong but they kept on working in the mine thinking it wasn't serious when it became serious i can do or spittle tests were done and confirmed that that call a lot. more than two hundred cases have been reported so far in the magdalen area doctors and nurses are encouraging people to get treatment early. make the patient rescind with before meeting in the. rear which is restored turtle so. if the.

the treatment success rate it's almost a hundred. but a shortage of essential drugs and equipment in many public health centers makes it more difficult to deal with the disease some junior doctors are also on strike over pay and work conditions and nurses are threatening to do the same more than fifty people died from cholera in september that was in the capital harare this latest outbreak isn't contained our fears this disease could spread opposition leaders say zimbabwe's health sector has suffered and the years of corruption and mismanagement but government officials deny the allegations insisting sanctions imposed by the west and the economic crisis in the country are to blame. some of these miners planned to go back to work is the only job they can find they know there's a risk of reinfection but say they and their families need the money. dahlan zimbabwe thousands of people have rallied in malaysia in support of the

government's decision not to sign a un convention to eliminate racial discrimination the protests were largely made up of malays the country's largest ethnic group who were worried the convention would strip away their economic and religious privileges lawrence louis has. this rally was initially organized as a protest march to demonstrate against the government's decision to ratify a un convention to eliminate racial discrimination and the reason there's a backlash against this here in malaysia is because the majority race the malays who make up more than sixty percent of the population are concerned that this would lead to a low tide of special privileges and threaten the position of islam as the main religion in this country the privileges granted to the malays and other indigenous groups give them advantages in a range of things from business to education to. affirmative action all of these were put in place decades ago because the malays even though they were the main

group considered economically disadvantaged compared to the chinese and indians the other two main races in this country and the government mindful of the backlash reversed its pledge to ratify the convention but this rally is still going ahead people here tell us they want to send a message to the government that they will reject anything that threatens the malays special privileges a point. that we've gone through and all that we know enjoy will be a factor that is what we don't want that. there's already an agreement made between the military and the chinese and it was in trying to into the constitution there's no need to change anything we already have human rights or equal rights in malaysia but this is also about politics this rally is organized by the two largest opposition groups in the country one is an islamist group the other is a party that had led to malaysia since independence for more than sixty years until its defeat in the general election in may well and it's also intended as

a reminder to show the government and the supporters that they are still relevant. japan is set to bring in a radical overhaul of its immigration policy by allowing in nearly three hundred fifty thousand foreign workers the contentious legislation will come into force in april will open doors to blue collar workers from outside the country the government says the measure also aims to address wider problems in japan of a falling fertility rate and shrinking population. to cuba now where the government is defending a controversial new decree that tightens control on musicians and artists it's known as decree three four nine and it gives government inspectors the right to shut down exhibits and performances which are found to violate cuba's revolutionary values it also requires artists to be registered to provide services in public and private spaces but whereas before this was only the case in public spaces artists and musicians say the move amounts to censorship and could stifle their creativity

. now i want to tell you about. some countries that are honoring african art there is a new museum that has just opened in senegal to showcase one of the continent's largest art collections the museum of black civilisations is filled with impressive works like ancient skulls and intricate sculptures and delicately carved masts mostly from west africa so also hoping to reclaim thousands of artifacts looted during the colonial era and currently living in the european museums. just a quick recap of the top stories this hour u.s. president donald trump has confirmed that his chief of staff john kelly will leave the white house at the end of the year the retired marine corps general spent sixteen months in the role and was initially brought on board to provide a steady hand to the trump of ministration though he reportedly had

a difficult relationship with the president which filled expectations of his eventual departure. john kelly will be leaving resign but i don't know if i can say retiring but he's a great guy john kelly will be leaving at the end of the year will be announcing who will be taking john place it might be ordered it debases obvious nouns in that over the next day or two but john will be leaving at the end of the year he's been with me almost two years now as you know between the two positions so. we're probably going to see every little while will trump is currently in talks with nick a is an aide to vice president my pen's to replace kelly in that role as said to be working on the terms of a possible agreement but a is currently says he is unable to commit to doing the job for two years because of family commitments in our all the headlines the french interior minister says the yellow vests protests and now in the control police levels could remain as they are until sunday thousands of protesters rallied across

the country in a fourth weekend of demonstrations which began as a movement against a fuel tax but it become a challenge to the presidency of emanuel macron. yemen's hoofy rebel fave the main port city of data should be declared a neutral zone the iran backed rebels also suggest the united nations could play a role in running some airports that he's made these comments on the sidelines of talks in sweden aimed at ending the war in yemen. and china has summoned canada's ambassador over the arrest of a top executive of tech giant huawei and warned there will be strong consequences if she is not released may one joe will remain in custody canada over the weekend as prosecutors seek to extradite her to the united states which accuses her of breaching sanctions on iran but the arrest raises serious questions about whether the current temporary truce between america and china is likely to hold that's it from the team here in london if you find asia is next in nepal

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