tuesday they say that they can go a step further and that is to fundraise and also to hold gatherings before this announcement on to the any gathering of a political party more than five people was illegal that now is being allowed now the next step we're expecting in this process is going toward the election that's supposed to take place on february twenty fourth and that is on january second the lifting of campaigning that is when these political parties can really start to reach out to the people and start to send their messages of why they should be elected also around that time in the beginning of the year twenty nineteen we will also see these political parties announce who they want to put forward as prime minister candidates each party will have three and that will move forward also it's going to be interesting when that starts that happens what's going to be the political future of the current prime minister pray general to now he led the coup back in twenty fourteen he has said he wants to remain in politics but he hasn't really said exactly what so those next steps are going to be coming in just the next couple of weeks u.s.

agents arrested thirty two people during a rally at the border separating san diego from two one there in mexico about three hundred demonstrators and religious leaders knelt down in front of god to call for an end to the detention and deportation of a son m.c. most were arrested for trespass. but thousands of central americans living in camps on mexico's northern border are not giving up hope of reaching the u.s. to climb the border fence and then to claim asylum once arrested on the other side or the army met one family trying to do just that. if anything mexico's northern border is a symbol of inequality on one side a world of privileges and on the other stories of people in search of an opportunity. this family from el salvador came first in the early morning to check to situation climbing is not easy. the boys are petrified and one shouts turd my mom oh my papa.

was keep on trying i side of the american border patrol who laugh loudly. as they fade and finally walk off exhausted. this part of the wall was built nearly twenty five years ago during the clinton years it's been fortified by seven administration since the razor wire was added a few weeks ago. if the heavy presence of the american border patrol is meant to be a deterrent it's not working these young men jumped over in a matter of minutes they have nothing to lose for about an hour later another group arrived killing maldonado left honduras with her twin daughters along the way she became friends with and her three children they're relying on each other to take the leap across the border killing was hesitating at first she told her daughter

she was risking so much so they could get an education. but then. it goes very quickly the men first then one child another and yet another it's now the turn of kenyan and. it's too difficult the border patrol has already surrounded those who jumped. it's too late for them one of kellin daughters sneaks back through the bars she pushes her back into the united states a desperate gesture by an anguished mother who has little to offer one particular. i have to go to my children she keeps on repeating as a border guard carries them away the rest of the group is also led away detained but now they have the right to claim asylum. that is in pain and wonders what will happen to her eighteen month old baby she was still

breastfeeding can we ask where the children spend the night i don't know if dns server. then it slowly sinks in the children are in the us but killing an elder are still in mexico separated by the wall they will try again and again this time in search of their children held somewhere in america without the hemi al jazeera along mexico's jordan border. in the news ahead india's ruling party faces a litmus test ahead of corruption elections next year. the bells a back story behind its treasures taken from the philippines one hundred. three tranquil a rave you can use. and along comes and if any should come to. has the weather in eastern europe is cold and circulating through that

i fairly persistent code there is masses of cloud or you might imagine what happens when you get rain or snow depending on the temperature it's rain over the black sea coast it's no happily inland of ukraine and then when it's normally coming down through germany western tyron austrians evacuate that is also a star and this rotation will carry all through tuesday night and into wednesday snow falling down in turkey as well as it's a very wintry scene whereas to the west although temperatures have dropped snow isn't in the cards mainly sunshine but a breeze and occasional right mostly it's sunshine and given what's happening increasingly have a to you got this cloud streaming out of italy in through greece and that's going to carry all of the twenty four hours worth of well wind and rain through its lease through greece through cyprus and then catching our the eastern libya certainly be windy in the gulf here or quite possibly the funnels of egypt certainly running up through levantine coast that is the picture of the eastern med still relatively

stormy now most of north africa is generally fine of course indeed you go to write down the quest to find many showers but there are a few in the back of the head of africa not many but they do catch near acra every now and again. the weather sponsored by qatar and race. in countries like mine people have been killed. we in the united states have privatized the old public interest more this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past bombs do you know you will rumsfeld this meeting saddam is an interesting. shadow coming scene.

top stories for you this hour on al-jazeera the british prime minister meeting european leaders as she tries to salvage her brakes a deal just a few minutes ago she arrived in the hague to meet not groups of the prime minister of the netherlands that's her first meeting she'll also hold discussions with the german chancellor laser on. all this visit coinciding with an emergency debate in the british parliament while she's away over her decision to postpone the vote on leaving the. france's president is promising to raise the minimum wage and to cut taxes but some demonstrators say it's concessions don't go far enough the first national address since the yellow vests rallies began last month says he does shoulder some responsibility for the act. and thailand will hold a general election on february twenty fourth next year after postponing it five

times it will be the first to vote since the minute he seized power in twenty fourteen. while we're talking elections india's ruling party the b j p is facing an uphill task to retain power in three major states as the votes are counted in. regional elections the opposition congress party is set to win in chatham scar and has a slim lead in. and there's a close race between the two pradesh as well these local elections are seen as a popularity test for the b j p before the national elections next april or may we are going to talk to charlie or who is the dean of the jindal school of international affairs in new delhi it's nice to have you with us these elections i mean anything in india democracy wise it's always on a large scale how much of an indication do you think these three particular states really give us about the state of national affairs. not very much i'm afraid because you know we have twenty nine states and only five

were went to elections this time for the provincial assemblies and it's a mixed picture i mean it's not a route for a prime minister narendra modi's ruling b.g.p. they have held their vote shares in a number of states made they were ruling for the last fifteen years they have lost in a couple i think it's a mixed outcome and it's premature to read this as a semifinal leading to the final which is the national elections due in four months time but one thing is for sure i think to some of these appeal and image remain under i would have the national level but i think the people need to fix some chinks in the armor at the provincial or at the provinces at the grassroots get some of the local leadership may have you know outspent its time and have done you no service in the past that the government's record in the development required perhaps are not sufficient enough for that we get be looking forward to that's what i would read into this election going to the national elections simply talking

about welfare schemes and development and governance may not be sufficient and i think during the movie he still has the capacity to arouse the indian public using nationalism and building a larger national narrative and that is i think what will make a difference between the provincial level and the national level elections that are coming up so it sounds to me the way you describe the whole picture is that in india it is a proper mix between issues base politics and personality based politics as you say the rent of money at a national level still very popular but it's also the electorate does look beyond that sort of popularity and wants issues actually dealt with. that's right i mean you know our in political science we call it you know of our pocketbook warding and so should profit voting and india is an interesting combination of both i mean people are looking at what kind of record has the big. hippie which is ruling in most of the states in india as well as in the central government under mr modi what have they given us in terms of you know economic

benefits and development of infrastructure but on the other hand there is the already india which is you know based on caste. and regional considerations and those are often actually hurt that we give you more because you find that you know that they want to be of india the bigger piece slogan is always been to unite the country under you know a nationalistic banner and a muslim or these leadership sometimes that needs to grasp the ground realities which is far harsher and less idealistic but nonetheless i think between now and the general elections the prime minister has a star card out he will need to go beyond the novell affair is amanda populism and talk a bigger picture of all how india is rising and how the people need to see him for five more years at least to be able to carry through on the promises he began with some of these states which they are losing today i must mention i have known for fifteen years at the provinces so you know innovate change is inevitable and

democracy and maybe it's good and it's i think necessary wake up call before the big elections coming up for the national parliament in a few months very interesting hearing from you straight on some the child here in new delhi thank you to sri lanka where the ousted prime minister there is threatening to launch what he calls people power to the streets if he is not reinstated running that would come a singer says thousands of his supporters will rally in the capital colombo next week as political turmoil which began back in october when the president met the palace at a center replaced with prime singer with the former leader mahinda rajapaksa because supreme court is expected to decide later this week if his dissolution of parliament is illegal. the taliban says it is behind a suicide bombing near afghanistan's capital that's killed four intelligence officers six others were injured in the attack on the agency building just outside of kabul in parchman district the interior ministry says the target as a team from the was a team from the national security directorate and at least two people have died

when a cargo ship capsized in southwest china on monday the ship sank in the yangtze river near the city of chongqing three people remain missing as rescue workers extend their search area environmental research and say illegal gold mining in the amazon rainforest has reached epidemic levels destroying forests and polluting rivers the group used satellite imagery and government data to track the impact across six latin american countries. protesters have disrupted the u.s. government's event promoting coal on the sidelines of the un climate change talks in poland. one hundred activists interrupted the opening remarks by president of trump's advisor on energy and climate trump administration's support for coal is at odds with other government delegations that won the talks to focus on moving away from

fossil snake kluck has more of our special coverage from the sun. after the united states announced it would terminate its membership of the paris agreement beijing in china was quick to brand itself as a global leader committed to fighting climate change through green policy making the country has been investing heavily in renewables last year for every dollar spent in the u.s. on alternative energy china spent three but china is carbon emissions have risen since two thousand and fifteen coal still accounts for over sixty percent of the country's energy consumption a new coal plants are still being built a green brown as this report. the economic machine that is china needs a vast amount of power to fuel its growth engine much of that fuel is co. in order to meet the target for reductions in carbon emissions china's leaders pledged to move away from fossil fuels to clean energy even if it meant closing thousands

of factories three years almost that commitment is looking in doubt says one leading environmentalist the reasons slowing economic growth and worsening trade friction with the united states economy. is in a down cycle the growth rate is not as rapid as as before and then we're having facing a trade war. which having quite some psychological impact at least people are beginning to understand the government has a problem it is it has you know they must keep pushing to reduce pollution but they need to consider the economy they can't rush too much but they also can't be too slow. three years ago i visited this steel town in sichuan province the mill had recently shot with the loss of sixteen thousand jobs the closure was partly blamed on a global steel blood but the plant was also a heavy polluter

a symbol of the sort of industry china's government wants done with occasionally just occasionally you get days like this clear blue skies and you actually want to breathe none of this though is down to people burning less coal it's because of strong winds blowing in from and it provides a reminder of what beijing was once like. just five days earlier though beijing was like this one of seventy nine cities where air pollution alerts were ordered but there is some good news to report sales of electric cars in china are surging in large part because of government subsidies to buyers globally more than a million evey's were sold last year half of them here. the technology is at the heart of president xi jinping signature economic policy called made in china twenty

twenty five he wants evy car sales to reach seven million by then but these cars use batteries that rely on the electricity grid that still derives two thirds of its power from coal adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. three war trophy bills taken by u.s. troops in the philippines during the two countries war back in one thousand and one have been returned to improve relations between the countries the bills arrived in manila and the repacked ration ceremony will be held at. the us military to the bells after a counterattack to the killing of dozens of its soldiers and with more from. the united states considers the massacre the single worst defeat for the americans during the philippine american war between one thousand nine hundred nine to one thousand nine hundred two at the time in retaliation for a raid that filipino gear guerrillas conducted that more than forty us soldiers

killed american john the road jacobs declared that this part of samar be considered a howling wilderness according to his historians that raid led by the americans left more than two thousand five hundred filipinos dead many of them women and children but filipino historians say more than ten thousand civilians were killed since then the bells were brought to the united states as war trophies and for over half a century filipino presidents there have been efforts basically and lobbying from the philippine government to ask basically the u.s. to return these bells now on their president through the good that they're to and during his state of the nation speech where he emphasized it's return now the americans have brought it back and according to the u.s. ambassador a symbol of restored trust and respect for the country's independence. the

headlines now on al-jazeera and the british prime minister is meeting european leaders in brussels and berlin to try to salvage or bridge a deal that will be later on she's already made. the prime minister might go to him in the hague this visit coinciding with an emergency debate in the british parliament over her decision to postpone a vote on the plan to leave the. brussels. the deal is not acceptable in the united kingdom but no other deal it seems is acceptable for the european union writ large so the reason may has a place as it were she has to try and square a circle with no suggestion of are very many questions that she will face very few answers that we can see here that will be acceptable back on the domestic front in the united kingdom france's president is promising to raise the minimum wage and to cut taxes but some demonstrators say his concessions don't go far enough his first national address since the yellow vest rallies began last month in the new micron

said he does shoulder some responsibility for the anger. thailand it will hold a general election on february twenty fourth next year after postponing it five times it will be the first vote since the military seized power back in twenty four teen human rights groups are concerned about the fairness of this whole election process india's ruling party b j p is facing defeat in two major states as votes are counted for the regional elections the opposition congress party is set to win in this garden while it has a slim lead in right to stand in the pradesh the two parties are locked in a close race as well these polls are seen as an indication of the b j p support ahead of national elections in april and may or may next year and a top executive from a chinese telecom giant whale will spend another night in custody after a judge in canada delayed a decision on granting bail money one joe is accused of breaching u.s. sanctions on iran and faces fraud charges china meanwhile has threatened canada with quite serious consequences unless she is released so that's

a look at your headlines here on al-jazeera we are back with more right after the street. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after you while eight borders between five safe countries facing the realities the pain starts from the very beginning of. providing context housing is not just about four walls and a roof hear their story on talk to al-jazeera. i am from a ok family could be and you're in the stream is there a solution to gun violence in the united states we talked to members of a nonprofit organization the police it has and we want to hear your thoughts tweet us or leave your comments in the live you tube chat and you too could be in the stream. i'm shakhtar bizzaro i rate the award winning

prison diaries and you are in the stream. this year the u.s. city of chicago has been the scene of nearly two thousand eight hundred shootings a statistic that stands as a sobering reminder of a cycle of violence that shows no signs of stopping but organizes of greenery and trey subscribe to the belief that nothing stops a booklet like a job and say to end the cycle of violence you must eradicate the forces that diminish the humanity of young people. and. this is why the program. because this is the way we chinese citizens are looking. now don't nobody want to and want to go anywhere but they're. joining eight months ago. six months in prison. but somebody.

behavioral health finally getting. so what happens when violence is treated like a community health crisis instead of a crime issue well joining us to talk about this in san francisco california rami nashashibi he's the executive director of the inner city muslim action network in chicago or eman and joining us on set billy moore case manager for the green reentry program and large mcinnis a member of that program welcome everyone to the stream. gets heavy it's good to have you here our brother rami i want to show you something here a couple of tabs on my laptop one is a gun violence archive and you can see the number of injuries from gun violence in twenty eighteen another one is from the chicago tribune fifty of the most recent victims in twenty eighteen of shootings another story hey twenty eighteen was

a record year for school gun violence this is how we normally talk about gun violence in the united states statistics and deaths and not much positivity he'd be your kind of flipping the script on this when you see those stats what do you say well you know there's no doubt that the scores of gun violence in the united states is something that affects all communities your respective socioeconomic background urban you know geography whether it's urban or rural clearly an organization like ours is one that has been focusing on this issue in inner city urban communities chicago and when we look at the problem of gun violence or violence more broadly in chicago. i think what we try to do is to. deal with some of the very root causes that historically undergird that violence that in fact provide us with an opportunity demonstrate that it can be solved jobs opportunities infrastructure

capacity these are real solutions that create real alternatives for violence and we've seen that work. one of the things that doesn't get address and over is the trauma that people are suffering in our communities due to the fact that they live in these areas that this of isolated in a lot of my young men come to us and they just want to change because it's out there for them to get away from the things that they're around all day every day the blocks so we provide basically a sanctuary and will dress in a whole person who behavior health their. essential life skills we talk about transforming the thinking that. we stand in front of them also as men who have made mistakes in their lives have changed it turned it around and we

just showed them how my biggest sound is trying to fast forward a young man's thinking. right now so that he don't make the mistakes that i made as a youth. and it's hard because the only thing that exposed who is what they know what they come from but we provide that that environment that deals done. him on this unapologetic about spiritual basis will we feed the soul. as well as the knowledge in the trays which we have three trays that we. construction electrical and carpentry and with general community as well as you mentioned hoping to teach young people what to turn around away from now that you know you have it in the wisdom and you can look back and show them i want to bring up this week we got from a pastor in chicago actually and this one to you pastor donovan price writes in he

says the individuals i am honored to work with are affected in ways that people could never imagine deeper and more far reaching into their existence and whoever thought it ok to discharge a firearm could have hoped so when he talks about the ways that people are affected explain to our international audience what is that like what is it like to be a young black man in chicago. it. is hard because it's a lack of opportunity it's a lack of resources so when you when i get when i got presented were twenty like you man it was like i don't really believe that first come in is our gas from those well for me i want to live here i'm so it's like. get this person that we're trying to of here in the end we come to space like ok i'll start i want to start the program i came to the space with a bunch of guys that i don't know i don't know from

a can of paint so it was tension in a room all awesome differences that a city you don't know who know who you don't know if you won't be the next them or what but. all of our tenants are here we are here to better ourselves so once we start i want to start. actually buying into the program now as the scene because i mean i want only becoming there for just a very. old mom and to they help me be a better man that's awful awful like they have to be a better man. with the cognitive thinking how do i let you know when i really want to let me know your thoughts control how you feel and has gone out and to control your actions and we as black men on emotion we know how to really express anger because can do we condition to only express and we may we when you want to when you cry and you look when you're man grown up that's it that's an emotion that to suppress so coming up when we become man we don't know how to deal with her or pain

we go we just explode in ways that we sin so maybe in me have an opportunity to be around guys that the twenty years or gathered the thirty year that kind of messed up a life and me in the actually been to reflect who me. listen to me and them are problems and help me work those out it was like it's a real joy because it's easy for someone legion alone way not saying. it's easy for to do it so when i actually understand like the whole concept one just about. electricity or one hundred learn how to be in one just about that it was more of help wellness they cared they care more not out so desolate when i when i actually felt there and i understood they care way more than i understood the game. because come one come from

it's not no it's not a lot of time and i want to play something something i've seen a lot and it's played every time people talk about gun violence and how do we stop gun violence and this is one reason and one example of maybe how we might stop it have a look have a listen two decades ago the gun lobby pressured congress to pass a dicky i'm in effect only stopping the center for disease control and prevention for conducting the public health research that we know will save lives this lack of a public investment in gun safety research has left us woefully ignorant about many aspects of gun violence in the united states and the most effective interventions to reduce gun deaths even the original author of this restriction former representative jay dickey has publicly change his mind about the a minute bears his name and urged congress to resume public health research on gun violence. ramey there doesn't seem to be that because appetite in the us to

actually research gun violence in a way that you might be out of work out how do we stop it how do we reduce the amount to same things how do we reduce the number of deaths that can't hurt i think you know there is an increasing realization that if we don't modify and come and push simple common sense gun laws in communities whether it's urban communities or whether it's in you know rural our suburban communities across america we're going to continue to see the arithmetic carnage that unfortunately has you know been on our you know t.v. screens throughout the year so i do think you're beginning to see an increasing realization bipartisan realization that something must change meanwhile i do think that again the types of violence in this types of problems associated with violence

go way beyond simple gun laws in urban communities for instance it's about investment it's about commitment to real opportunities for communities that are under extraordinary stress and have been criminally disinvested in for decades betty you've got case not a chair on your. side now your case manager creamery entry and i'm just going to have a couple of pictures here this is an amazing selfie and i got this many people in one shot. last year. and then another great picture let me see if i can find who they are right then when we're looking at tackling gun violence as as a health issue what is it that you want to doing. well there is a disease the split in the community and if you don't approach it in the sense that you really don't understand how to cure it we have to get out in the community and

get in front of we have the wrap our arms around these young men who are basically without hope. you show me a young man with a gun so young they're what i hope so we can poor the zhang minutes of programs like him on which will help address the the systemic issues that these young men i belong with when i talk about trauma these young men have been brought up like the r.c.a. will only understand how to express anger they don't have a healthy resource of of upbringing and you know some of these young men don't have fathers or positive male role model that they had to look up to was raised by a single mother who basically had the work you know to provide for her family the one unique thing about him on in our grammarians reprogram is that we have a in a generational cohort and what that is is that we bring in old the mere who've done a substantial amount of time.