al-jazeera. and. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finnigan this is the news on live from though coming up in the next sixty minutes france strengthens its border controls as police search for a suspect in a shooting in strasbourg that left three people dead. after more than a week behind bars the chief financial officer of the chinese telecom giant away is out on bail in canada. time magazine picks its person of the year murdered

journalist jamal khashoggi is among a group of journalists will. not threaten to shut down the government is going to show just in your choice you can't get your way are you shouted down getting say something that the president had a showdown between the u.s. president and top democratic politicians over funding of a board on the mexican border. a gunman who killed at least three people in the eastern city of strasbourg is on the run. from the stepped up border controls as police tried to track him down at least twelve people were injured when the attackers opened fire christmas market in the city center speaking a short while ago the interior minister said that security would be increased at christmas markets around the country let's go live now to paris al jazeera to talk about the can tell us want to show what's the latest.

yes well as you mentioned the french interior minister christophe cast and there was speaking a short while ago in strasbourg and he gave a few more details about what happened on tuesday evening he said that it was just before eight o'clock in the evening local time when a gunman went on something of a shooting spree next to the christmas market in strasbourg shooting at various locations as you said chris of custom there confirming that three people have been killed and there are other people of course injured he said that large manhunt was underway the police were doing everything they could to try and locate the gunman who fled on foot shortly after the shooting in fact aggressed of kasztner even said that the borders had been tightened across the country the government has put the country on a heightened state of alert as they try to locate the shooter well earlier

in the evening there were reports that perhaps the gunman had been located in parts of strasbourg those areas had been cordoned off by police but kasten there at the interior minister confirmed that in fact that wasn't the case those reports were in fact inaccurate and the government is still very much a large so that must be very frightening for the people living in strasbourg knowing that somebody is out there a person who is armed and potentially could take more victims and this common is known to the police and the runs. yes that's one of the interesting details too to emerge this evening it's reported in french media that it's a twenty nine year old man born in strasbourg in the city where the shooting took place and that he was indeed known to the police he had a criminal record in fact crystal cast lead interior minister said he had

a criminal record he committed crimes both in france and germany before he was very much on the radar and he was also on intelligence services what list so how such a person came to be armed even though they were on this watch list which includes a suspected terrorist in france well there will be questions as to how in fact he could slip under the radar and carry out this kind of finance especially because on tuesday morning police actually raided his home they were tracking him for something they went into his home he did ready left but they did find grenades and weapons that they knew that he was a security threat that actually many thanks indeed as i should both of them live in paris the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant weiwei has been granted bail in canada after agreeing to put up more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport when one joe was arrested on december first on suspicion of

violating u.s. sanctions against iran china had threatened severe consequences of the us canada released money immediately runnels reports now from vancouver. senior walk away executive mung one joe has been released on ten million dollars bail by a canadian court she also has to comply with a stringent set of restrictions on her movements where a monitoring bracelet around her ankle and maintain a team of private security guards who will observe her movements at all times now what happens next is that the united states has until the eighth of january to file a formal extradition request with canada for monk to be given to the u.s. the u.s. wants to prosecute her on charges of conspiring and fraudulent lee

trying to breach the u.s. imposed sanctions on iran however the reuters news agency is now reporting that u.s. president donald trump says he may personally intervene with his own justice department in the main case and presumably try to quash the that prosecution if he said it would serve national security interests for the u.s. or lead to a more favorable trade deal with china monks released on bail comes just hours off of beijing detained a former canadian diplomats michael comfort was was working in china as a senior advisor for brussels based nongovernmental organization. president trump says he's willing to meet again with china's president xi jinping to resolve a trade dispute between the two countries it is view with the royces news agency trump also promised not to raise tariffs on chinese goods while the two sides the go see

a potential trade deal let's go live now to washington who is john hendrick good tell us more john president trump says china is buying tremendous amounts of soya beans is that will fall as in commodities trade as a c in a word no the president has long had an arm's length relationship with the truth but in this case the facts simply don't bear him out or they don't bear him out yet at least us to two sticks show that there have been no major buys of soybeans from china from the u.s. to china since those tariffs went into effect this summer and to chinese by about sixty percent of u.s. soybean exports that amounts to about twelve billion dollars a year and that robert ministration has actually had to come up with a twelve billion dollars aid package for various farmers who have been hurting as a result of these tariffs corn soybeans milk and beef have all been suffering from

low demand and low prices in fact eighty four farms in the northern midwest and five states there have gone bankrupt over the past year and it's about double the level from a few years ago so farmers are definitely hurting but they are still by and large supporters of trump in the reason for that is that the chinese knew who they were targeting when they picked people to target with those tariffs they went for trump's base in the midwest people who supported him and they still seem by and large to support him but they are definitely hurting adrian what is the president hoping to achieve with this trade or with china. well he's been obsessed with the trade deficit with china and he was determined to launch a trade war that would lower that deficit that would that would increase the amount of u.s. sales to china and decrease the gap between chinese and u.s. sales to one another and it seems to have been somewhat effective in bringing the chinese to the table he has long made the calculation that the u.s.

economy was better equipped to handle a trade war than the chinese economy and now they are in a true since december first a president trump expected to launch new tariffs on china on january first he said he would not do that for ninety days now he said in his interview that he won't do it until he knows whether the united states and china will be able to reach a deal and you mention that he was willing to meet with paying again and he says that he expects chinese to cut tariffs on autos so he really believes that the united states is going to come out better as a result of this trade war but of course there's an old saying among economists who wins a trade war nobody germany thinks john had lived in washington. here with the news out from al-jazeera still to come on the program more problems for britain's prime minister of the hope breaks a deal we'll tell you about another possible pirtle she could be facing. yemen's warring sides reach a breakthrough of peace talks and sweet. add ins for the english premier league

leaders to just enough to stay alive in europe's top competition. president donald trump has reiterated his support for the crown prince of saudi arabia trump told reporters he was standing by and i haven't been sound on despite the outcry over the murder of the saudi journalist. he described the crown prince's very strongly in power the director of the cia gina asked police to use a brief leaders of the house of representatives on her show she's death on wednesday we'll show she is one of several journalists picked to be time magazine's person of the year the group is being called the guardians a show she has being honored for speaking out against the brutality of this country's regime he was killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul in october was just journalists while lone and josue were also on it they've been detained in

myanmar for their coverage of the range of crisis the cover shows their wives holding their pictures but also on the list journalists at the u.s. navy they newspaper capital gazette they vowed to continue their work after five of their colleagues was shot dead in the newsroom in june and running off the group is maria ressa the editor of the rappler news agency in the philippines the government that accuses it of spreading misinformation and as it was was when jordan reports. two months after his murder at the saudi consulate in istanbul jamal has been honored for the very reason he was killed for questioning how the saudi regime rules every year the time editors spend months debating and talking about who they think who we think should best represent the trends of the year who had the greatest impact on the news and on the world and this year we've chosen the guardians and the war against truth. introduction and headdress graces one of four

covers put out by the magazine we didn't do anything wrong the others feature the two reuters reporters jailed in me and mark for reporting on atrocities against the revenge of the staff of a local us newspaper who survived a deadly attack by a gunman angry with their coverage of his criminal case and a former t.v. reporter turned online website editor in the philippines targeted by a president who doesn't want his behavior covered we are not against the government we are not against president detective but we do want to hold him and his government accountable for the tens of thousands of people who have been killed in the drug war for the impunity that we see online you are creating you had also a lot of the reporters recreating violence by not writing. the fake news is reacting violence analysts say press freedom is more vulnerable than ever

because politicians on six continents are attacking the public's trust in the media but they add that in washington jamal khashoggi is murder on orders of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has congress and the public taking a very close look at the trumpet ministrations priorities alliances and values. this is a moment where one understands that from a foreign policy perspective the us has to demonstrate what it stands for and because shows she killing in the fallout has opened up much of the subtle debates we've had behind the scenes in the full public view and that's why it's become so contentious time editors say and the other honorees symbolize the journalists around the world who try to hold their leaders accountable a tribute to those who question even at catastrophic risk to themselves while still in jordan al-jazeera washington speak not to call us condi who is the is a researcher in the asia division of humans why human rights watch he used to be

a journalist for the new york times and international herald tribune he's with us via skype from manila carlos good to have you with us so you've got maria ressa on the front cover of time she's one of the the people of the year does this help or hinder. the work of her and her news agency or definitely just something over the whole not just money arrests on her agency but also on the other journalists in the region who are facing persecution by their respective governments and needs a boost up the very least on the morale. of filipino journalists who are struggling every day to make sure that demographic space in the philippines keeps is kept open all right so a morale boost for her and her team but i mean does the president do to say necessarily i mean a you know having them on the front cover of time magazine and declaring them

people of the year is hardly going to make much of a difference as far as he's concerned is it. well yeah but you know need is more than a morale boost to do something that will not signify that international community that the two years of the seriousness of what's happening in the philippines and the need to take action we're talking about not just the drug war but on the effects the effect of. the criticism on on journalists like maria ressa herself. whether detective cares about this person of the year on or to this journalist really to be honest we don't really care as well i mean it's pretty much a lot of the journalists in the philippines are covering this regime more or less and they have martyrs accepted the fact that this president does not care about a lot of things but the more important point that thing is the fact that even if he doesn't care that he's going to be something that the international community will take cognizance or take notice of and that we hope that they will take actions to

make sure that press freedom in the philippines introspected and accountability for all these murderers will be will be has more is of course free at the moment to to continue her work or to reuters journalists in myanmar currently languishing behind bars how does this help them this helps them our colleagues in my former colleagues in the journalism profession the truth their journey through with this going to help them in many ways need to be able are obviously magnified the case and the suffering that they have gone through a swell of supplies of the rohingya and this also signifies to other hiren's in the region that you know actions against journalists actions against press freedom will have its consequences it may not come immediately it may not come our in the next year or so but if you come sooner or later so this is why it is important that the recognition of the work and the suffering of these journalists are are being made.

the tyrannical regimes tend to affirm each other is this not going to just make them even more determined to persecute journalists well that you know that's certainly. a very very likely possibility here as you mentioned tyrants need tensile up from each other need and do you know a body date each other an undercurrent of developed a decade to a boon stand the feet of the rulers of myanmar that is no different but. i think the turn of the of the not speaking of. the not recognizing the value of breath white. silent and white. at the moment untenable if we are to hold press freedom in the philippines and in many other countries in the region good still to come especially thanks dave cowens crumbly the from human rights watch president donald trump and democratic leaders of spot in front of the media

over plans to build a wall on the mexican border the trumpets threaten the government shutdown if the new budget doesn't include money for the war which he's repeatedly promised to build there are no further in the house a majority vote for it was no matter when or if i needed the votes for the wall in the house i would have them in one session and that would be different but it doesn't help because we did ten democrats and actually putting our first on a negotiation we have the first and we're doing this in a very friendly manner it doesn't help for me to take a vote in the house where i will win easily with the republicans on it doesn't help to take that further because i'm not going to get the vote one for the senate i need ten senators that's the there are more now from white house correspondent kimberly how kids on what led to the argument. well it was supposed to be a meeting to try and work out differences and avert a government shutdown but it was an apparent very quickly that the conversation and

the issues were not going to be resolved the democratic leaders in the senate and the house of representatives in the oval office offering donald trump one point three billion in funding as part of a bill to fund the government this would be funding for his border wall but donald trump was looking for five billion in funding and as a result the two sides quickly began sparring arguing over the facts in combative conversation you would call twenty turns to shutdown the government you say i want to shut down the government we don't we want to come to an agreement if we can't come to an agreement we have solutions that will piss the house and senate right no it will not shut down the government and that's what we're urging you to do not threaten to shut down the government prisoners you know just in every choice you can't get to where you shut it down you know if you know the stakes of the fighting occurred in full view of reporters cameras and carried on for many minutes nancy

pelosi repeatedly urging the conversation to be taken behind closed doors saying that this is a climate of destruction in the public view but it does appear that this combative conversation will continue for some time given the fact that both sides seem very far apart and there isn't much time to resolve the differences if the two sides cannot come to an agreement over the border wall funding and funding the government by december twenty first a partial shutdown will start to occur in the u.s. government essentially twenty five percent of federal agencies including the department of homeland security on a short term spending bill will begin to shut down all reports that some backbench m.p.'s from the governing conservative policy are getting ready to bring a no confidence motion to. and the u.k.'s prime minister to resign may on wednesday may spend tuesday meeting with e.u.

leaders trying to get changes to the brig's that deal that she'd agreed less than three weeks ago she was forced to call off of those in the british parliament on the agreements due to widespread opposition to the e.u. has told me the talks can all be reopened paul brennan reports. she's trying to save not just her bracks it deal but also her credibility and her career teresa mayes whistle stop tour of e.u. leaders started in the hague for breakfast with her dutch counterpart mark router the outcome productive according to her spokesman. in the german capital berlin to meet angela merkel the prime minister found herself momentarily trapped in her car . before the e.u.'s open door policy was finally restored. and then finally to brussels to explain british concerns about the irish back stop whatever outcome you want whatever relationship you want with europe in the future

there's no deal available it doesn't have that sort within it but we don't want the backstop to be used and if it is we want to be certain that it is only temporary but do you leaders point out that mrs may signed up to the withdrawal agreement backstop and all just three weeks ago and assured the other e.u. twenty seven leaders that she would be able to carry it through parliament now she's back for more facing certain defeat at home and an uncertain reception in brussels there is no room. for negotiation of course to this room if used intelligently is enough. to further clarification and further interpretations we vote open you do we've written the sentiment here exasperated at the british political chaos and grim preparedness now for the worst case scenario which would be even if the only possible agreement and we've done a lot of concessions to reach it so we sincerely hope that there can be

a majority. to or ratify the was the world agreement but they have two or ten ready for a new deal and we are preparing for it downing street says the bracks it vote perspire and from choose day may now not take place until mid january i think the prime minister is going to see things through number ten until at least christmas which in modern politics constitutes long term planning here at westminster the prime minister's decision to postpone choose days crucial votes and head off around europe seeking reassurances clarifications drawn howls of protest from the opposition parties for party leaders have friends of the main opposition leader jeremy corbett asking him to join them in trying to force a vote of no confidence in theresa may these are grim times for the british prime minister and her room for maneuver is dwindling but so are the options facing the u.k. paul brennan al-jazeera london delegations from yemen's warring sides have agreed

to swap fifteen thousand prisoners of war the exchange will be carried out with the help of amman and the international red cross talks are being held in sweden to try to end the near nearly four year conflict paul china g.m. reports. on the outskirts of yemen's capital sana'a the prisoner swap agreement between the government and who the rebels is good news for the family of khaled ohio. and then maqui call upon our brothers who are negotiating in sweden to consider and understand the feelings of the citizens and the detainees and to understand how vulnerable and weak the prisoners are the exchange of prisoners is just one of many issues on the agenda at the talks outside the swedish capital stockholm that of in. the parties have agreed to prepare a mechanism for the exchange of prisoners with the participation of the international red cross which will offer diligence tickle support to up by you know if janet in san juan we dealt with this matter from

a humanitarian viewpoint and made some concessions because our list of prisoners included politicians activists media and geo workers. another issue on the gender is the port city of hard data controlled by the who these and under attack for months by saudi and u.a.e. coalition forces a large portion of humanitarian aid is shipped to ho data the fruity say they are willing to let the u.n. oversee port operations but the yemeni government backed by the saudis a number roddy's is threatening to resume its offensive to capture her data if the talks in sweden fail. eighty thousand yemenis are estimated to have been killed by fighting or airstrikes as well as a cholera epidemic and lack of food during the four years of war amnesty international and human rights watch say coalition forces have committed war crimes by bombing and indiscriminately killing and injuring civilians amnesty also accuses the u.a.e. of illegally detaining yemenis in nearly two dozen secret prisons as well as forced

disappearances and torture u.a.e. denies all allegations the families of p.o.w. say the swap agreement is a chance to end their ordeal well i'm more and enough. we've been suffering for three years we've been hurt a lot my kids and my family are suffering only god almighty knows the volume of suffering and pain we are facing. the united nations humanitarian chief says living conditions in yemen are catastrophic where twenty million people are on the brink of famine making it the world's worst humanitarian crisis. on al-jazeera. we're going to weather update next here on the news out then good news for small business owners in cuba.

desperate pleas of new york's police sparks outrage on social media. that is for the football team from new zealand getting ready to go global at the club world cup . binny's pink skies by the time my half. hour is the sun sets in the city of angels . hello briefly there was a bit is now in shanghai as you're probably aware and winter certainly tucked in now temperature wise but was falling out of the sky is very difficult in the immediate future some writing you non corset height is turns out is snow but the most part is in sunshine cooler than it was of course in hong kong a bit of a breeze lovely sunny picture there will be more the more cloud inland and we've we're staying in single figures who hand shanghai not much beyond that but you do typical really for this time there's been

a typical recently to the south that is big area where there are no clouds in the ocean including all the philippines islands that cannot last but in the last few days it has been further west particularly sudden tallon that strip in simulation sumatra where the heavy rain has been there will be more in the same sort of areas certainly could reach funnels as bangkok this district of rains for me in march and the showers are redeveloping in the philippines as you can see or they should be focusing for the sas and they are at least returning to sort of ways he probably at least some parts of java and we've seen some pretty vicious storms there in the last week to quiet weather of course trust most of indeed as the northeast monsoon which does every now and again generates little spin or he's doing that right now the east. the with the sponsored by qatar and. when they're online when you're looking at wildlife and the solutions come together to benefit all parties involved that's where we're going to see long term success

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hello again adrian finnegan here in the hall with the news out from out syria our top stories. a plumber who killed at least three people in the eastern city of strasbourg is on the run france's stepped up border patrols as police try to track him down at least twelve people were injured when the attackers opened fire on their christmas block yes in the city center. the chief financial officer of the chinese tech giant way has been granted bail in canada after agreeing to put up more than seven million dollars and surrender her passport among one jew was arrested on december first on suspicion of violating u.s. sanctions on iran and president startle trump has reiterated his support for the

crown prince of saudi arabia trump told the reuters news agency that he was standing by him had been sound man despite the outcry over the murder of the saudi journalist jamal khashoggi. tax concessions made so-called yellow vests protesters will cost the french government more than eleven billion dollars that's according to the budget minister but it's not clear if the government has done enough to take the steam out of the protest movement demonstrations began more than four weeks ago and finally forced president emmanuel mccall to back down on his fuel tax hike on his ear as bernard smith reports. the yellow bus protesters are getting ready for christmas on the roundabout camps that have sprung up across france president emanuel micron's decision to increase the minimum wage and cut taxes for most pensioners hasn't persuaded the people here to abandon their protests as an emotional i'm not that don't convince because he hasn't addressed what the people are expecting these are only small meals and they won't be paid for by bankers in

financials did you find the president sincere not really i don't get a pity it is who i think is a. teacher of theatre. so has long experience of what we've gone four weeks ago as a protest over an increase in diesel taxes has developed into a wider campaign by people from france's towns and villages who struggle to make ends meet in one of europe's most highly taxed countries yellow vest protests across central paris to a standstill while violent elements have smashed up shops and monuments in those few weeks the movement has radicalized and these these announcements are not enough to stop the movement overnight specially as its roots go back in they kase off policy. in the qualities between their eateries and regions in france the prime minister told parliament he understood where the frustration came from. behind the

anger expressed on the way people are paid you are where we are all aware that there is something else that there is anger of being left behind on the lack of perspective that there was the choice conscious or not to lead the public that sleep that there was the choice conscious or not for years. the questions as they were arranged for example the question of massive unemployment. the government says it's concessions including scrapping fuel tax rises will cost more than eleven billion dollars that risks pushing the budget deficit to three point four percent past the e.u. three percent limit there's no official leadership or be yellow best protesters so it's difficult to gauge a majority opinion on what present mark on had to say all the concessions he made for but we may have to wait until saturday and what's being called act five to see how many people turn out and protest bernard smith al-jazeera on the outskirts of

paris a lawyer in egypt has been arrested for wearing a yellow vests similar to those made popular by the anti-government protesters in france is arrest in the northern city of alexandria comes ahead of next next month's anniversary of the two thousand and eleven. uprising that ousted then president hosni mubarak egypt has banned the sale of yellow vests to stop copycat protests a court in argentina has sentenced to form a ford motor executives for colluding with the country's military dictatorship the case dates back to the one nine hundred seventy s. and early eighty's the men were found guilty of helping the regime detain union members who were then tortured or reports from one of those. justice for these campaigners has taken more than thirty years to arrive but now a court in one of cyrus is sentenced to former executives at the ford motor company to prison for colluding with the military authorities in power for nine hundred seventy six to nine hundred eighty three. the former manufacturing director was

sentenced to ten years and security manager. to twelve years for passing union organizers details to the authorities. among them with. one of twenty five union organizers who was then detained and tortured. and. put hoods on a spy took the handcuffs off untied as were some while pushed to the ground and subjected us to a whole series of torture including thank you q sions they beat us kick this pushed our faces into the ground. and his colleagues were later released but say many union organizers from other industries they were imprisoned with not so fortunate. but he said there are about thirty comrades from another union and only three survived in our group we were twenty five and we also five to be. released from

captivity was however not the end they put us in then they said this after nine hundred seventy seven seventy eight when they let us out the suffering continued because we now belong to a group of people that no one would employ we were the weapons of that period. neither ford in the united states nor in argentina has commented on the case they continue to produce and sell vehicles but they complain and say they must bear some responsibility for their role during the years of military government this sign outside the current ford factory need when the cyrus a testimony to their suffering energy and. according to our opinion for also. engage with the military government out of italian born government were committed serious crimes against humanity for the all the purpose of obtaining more. profits from. the accused are old men now others allegedly involved since died an estimated

thirty thousand people were kidnapped and killed by the argentine military or florida keys in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's all the victims are remembered here at this memorial on the banks of the river plate the fight for justice in argentina has been a slow and complicated one but the persistence of the survivors and the human rights groups that support them is finally just in time reaping results. to zero one osiris. a man once considered this president donald trump's postal success will soon learn if he's going to spend the next few years of his life in prison trump's form a lawyer michael cohen will be sentenced later on wednesday the new york courtroom after pleading guilty to multiple crimes pretty culhane takes a look at how he got that there was only when donald trump first entered the race for president he was always there michael cohen became known to the world is more than the president's lawyer but his fixer he made problems disappear and he once said how could we take a bullet for trump that's not the case anymore cohen is cooperating with the

special counsel's probe into potential collusion between the trump campaign and russia and he's pled guilty to four other charges in new york the president has repeatedly tried to distance himself michael cohen his lie and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me that's a lie the president is named in court as an unindicted coconspirator because one of the charges cohen is pleading guilty to is paid off to women to stay silent about affairs with the president before the election at trump's direction if it come out that he committed adultery with a porn star and a playboy model he might not have been elected cohen is trying to paint his plea deal as coming clean clearing his conscience but he refused to sign a cooperation deal with the prosecution likely for different reasons i think he is less willing to throw under the bus various people and he may have made it much

more or crimes in new york and i think that. the prosecutor prosecutors penned a scathing sentencing recommendation arguing he should spend between four to five years in prison which they say would send a message to others covering up for trump could be a costly mistake political hane al-jazeera washington. google's c.e.o. has testified before congress about concerns of a previously that accusations of bias google's faced criticism from republicans including president on will trump who say the search engine has a left wing slant on monday google said the data leak had affected more than fifty two million users of its social media platform the company's also faced criticism over its plans to relaunch a sense of search engine in china the c.e.o. says that that project is still on and any time we look to operate in a country i mean we would you know we would look at what what the conditions are to

operate there are times in the past we have debated the conditions to operate and we explore a wide range of possibilities currently it is an effort only internally for us that we are doing this in china and so you know but happy to come back and be transparent connection be plan something there. are free is a reporter for technology news website rico she doesn't think that sundar pichai is testimony will satisfy google's critics. well it raises a lot of questions and doesn't give the kind of answer that human rights organizations and critics of the project were hoping for which is they would hope that he would back down and publicly drop plans to work on the project china is the world's most populous country so of course it presents an unparalleled market of users for google to reach from a business perspective additionally google c.e.o. today cited the company's mission to bring information to the world and make them

permission accessible he said he views google's mission as being lived out by reaching the china market is what he has previous interviews there are two main other areas of focus coming from congress members today the first was around allegations of anti-republican anti-conservative bias built into google search algorithms so you heard congress members saying that when they search their own names they're seeing negative articles coming up more often or higher than positive ones and that was exclusively coming from the republican side of the house and while those allegations were made they really have not yet been verified and from the other side you have democrats saying that essentially these kinds of allegations are a waste of time. they've been protests in new york in support of a woman whose one year old baby was pulled from by police offices

a video of the incident was posted on facebook aboard a barrel of criticism gabriel elizondo reports from new york. man ready the moment what should have been a routine call out turn the controversy a mother screams for help as new york police department officers try to pull her one year old baby from her arms at a government assistance center in brooklyn was right was. as the officers became more aggressive the outrage from onlookers. witnesses say the chaos unfolded on friday after twenty three year old jasmine heedless sat on the floor of a crowded waiting room with her son as she waited for a child care about sure it escalated when security staff called the police and she refused to get up jasmine was eventually arrested and held without bail charged with offenses including resisting arrest and endangering the child her son was

taken and liz grandmother's care. the outrage on social media was swift and widespread and on tuesday demonstrators held a rally at new york city hall to call for justice for jasmine and protest what they see as yet another example of police brutality by the n.y.p.d. against african-americans you know she's a young african-american woman single mother who is looking for support and to watch this woman be demoralized and disrespected by a system that is supposed to help her it's sat in the just speaks to a lot of racism that's that's perpetuating with throughout our country what mother wouldn't hold onto their child in in a situation like that for us we need to make sure that this never happens again the n.y.p.d. commissioner's reaction has been more cautious. james o'neil tweeting the video is very disturbing to me but also saying we were called to a chaotic situation and we're looking at all available video to determine why

certain decisions were made on tuesday the charges against jasmine heatley were dropped but in the statement by the district attorney of brooklyn he said he was outraged by the violence that was depicted in the video for those who were upset at her arrest in the first place this is an issue that's far from dying down gabriel's on doe al-jazeera new york cuba's communist government has backtracked on new restrictions this private own private activity that was supposed to go into effect last week. the move has come as something that was a surprise last in america and it's. reports now from. the owner of this have an apartment rents rooms to tourists just when new and highly unpopular restrictions on cuba's fledgling private sector were about to go into effect last week authorities surprised everyone. who had to have been families

from having more than one license but now they've lifted the limit so that for example we can also sell handicrafts or food. in another unusual response to public pressure plans to limit private restaurants to only fifty chairs also scrapped. thirteen percent of the workforce has moved over to the private sector many of them professionals have abandoned their jobs in state run into prizes like mechanical engineer hit. a lot of you know i would have preferred to haul for a quarter of what i am here is just to stay in my profession which i love but i couldn't even a fraction of the. family working for the state continue to move the dominant state sector is struggling to keep employees which may help explain attempts to limit small privately run businesses they're very far down that i got they want a specific thing which people will start their own businesses mean that.

in every area in any area of the economy in every sector. new demands and restrictions have been placed even on private taxis despite the huge shortage of public transportation unlike vietnam and china the communist party here still use the private sector with suspicion for many reasons including ideological social and geo political human government are afraid that a growing and increasingly sophisticated private sector well that's the us government's communist agenda here in fact. president barack obama and now president donald trump have repeatedly said that they want to help and encourage the private sector because they are as an engine for political change here but the decision to backtrack on plans to reduce the private sector even further seems to be recognition that like it or not struggling economy needs it you're seeing human

al-jazeera have to. deal with the news on from al-jazeera still in the sports one of the boers most famous friendships and rivalries enters its final stretch far away be here with thoughts of the rest of the day's action in just a few minutes. coal

reach contain the most diverse ecosystems on the planet crucial for fish reproduction and for protecting shorelines from tropical storms and tourism but the world has lost around half its coral reefs in the last thirty years and most of

what remains could be gone by twenty fifty welcome web reports from the coast of kenya. every morning kalou making hindi sets out to sea to catch fish. thousands of people here on kenya's coast do the same. some days he'll make a hundred dollars some days nothing when i'm glad you are how you work for yourself do you sell it as you choose yourself to women and people make their own money it's been a fitting everyone in this community. the fish he catches depend on nearby coral reefs to reproduce. he went to have a look now. at the world's most diverse ecosystems are found here. and there on the threat because of climate change corals are

a little bit like tiny upsidedown jellyfish in the sea temperature rises stresses them a bit like a fever and a human being and it causes them to spit out tiny microbes they depend on for their survival and they turned white and they start to die. it looks like this. it's called bleaching and it's already happened to about half the world's coral global warming causes oceanic heat waves. and with dive instructor frank witnessed one of the worst ten years ago. but know that if you loping slowly only. to coral he made a remarkable recovery that time but scientists say the heat waves are becoming more frequent and more intense what we'll see is more and more coral bleaching events which means more and more coral death and mortality and if we don't change course

we can lose up to ninety percent of the world's coral live coral within the next few decades. to support the incomes of five hundred million people through tourism and fishing. collimating among them. he doesn't make a lot of money and if the coal goes his livelihood goes to malcolm webb al-jazeera on kenya's coast time for sport is far. thanks very much it's been a nervous night for last season's champions league final as liverpool they did just enough to stay alive in the tournament the english premier league leaders meet napoli one nil at anfield most solid scoring for the home team that result means the italians go out and liverpool move into the last sixteen atletico madrid and dortmund were already through to the knockout rounds from group eight taught them join barcelona in qualifying from group b. p.s.g.

red star belgrade for one that result sees the french champions topping group c. four to one shock are into the last sixteen from group d. gala tests or i will drop into the europa league manchester city manager pep guardiola has given in passion support his striker rame sterling certainly allegedly suffered racist abuse during city's loss at chelsea on saturday chelsea have suspended for people from attending games while a police investigation takes place during put out a statement saying some media coverage of young black players was also helping to fuel racism and aggressive behavior the people who focus and it's not just inflatable unfortunately. in food will be safe but the restroom is in the area we're talking today and immigrants and refugees all around. how we treat them when once you know where lives were refugees i would give them fathers and grandfathers a mother who refuses to disassociate is unfortunate is in every word the twenty

have to fight in every day tim wellington new zealand are getting ready to make their debut in the club world cup the oceana champions play out from host nation the united arab emirates and a playoff round on wednesday river plate of argentina and title holders round the trade will enter the tournaments at the semifinal stage we are the underdogs coming into this and i think for us there is that she's got a good thing. you know as you see more of the pressures on them. formin you know. really express. you know be free and and what we do on the pitch now we'll take a slight advantage into the second leg of the south east asian championship final score two way goals in the first leg of this title decider in malaysia vietnam are in the final for the first time in ten years twenty ten champions malaysia differ cover to ensure the game finished in a two to trawl the return like will take place in hanoi on saturday. former bahrain

international football or hockey mile hour ib has been denied bail by a court in bangkok as he fights his deportation back to the gulf state our ib has political asylum as a refugee in australia but was arrested when he arrived and thailand on vacation last month our ib has lived in melbourne since two thousand and fourteen he says he was tortured in bahrain two years earlier the court has now granted the thai government permission to prepare extradition to bahrain. one a basketball the greatest partnerships and rivalries is entering its final stretch after joining the n.b.a. together in two thousand and three le bron james and dwayne wade and share the same court for the last time in a regular season game ending richardson reports. lebron james is at the start of what may well be his own last major challenges a player with the l.a. lakers his former teammates and now rival dwayne wade has said this will be his

final season the parents of the league together back in two thousand and three wade has now returned to the miami heat for franchise where he won two championships with le bron. one priority is that after winning the n.b.a. title with the cleveland cavaliers in twenty sixteen le bron is now aiming to bring back the championship to the lakers for the first time since two thousand and ten the lakers haven't even made the playoffs since twenty thirteen but le bron has brought about a turnaround in full on the lakers are sitting. fifth in the west in cold france and look to be on target for the postseason james out schooled white in this game with twenty eight points and twelve assists but waits fifteen point second half performance running close. the prone on the lakers eventually holding on for the want to wait to one of five when still in the united states i know we we always compete against each other thirty one times that we played against each other we

pushed other but you know we're not the bulls and brad type. friendship type brotherhood. you know some of the. other guys out. just been thankful pushing me and vice versa you know what it was a bonus that week with each other what we would see mays and we was the final four years ago and we want to jam it as we go to be maybe. the end game for this pairing up to sixteen seasons of stardom and achievements on the richardson al-jazeera. so lebron james gets all the headlines while dwayne wade is more low key but when it comes down to a tissue with the best player earlier we asked brandon robinson a writer at basketball society to compare it to here's the thing le bron james has won championships with two different teams he makes teammates around him better i don't think it's fair to compare the two of them i think le bron is more osgood robertson and magic johnson than he is michael jordan. in comparison to play when i

look at the clutch guys i look at wade i look at i look at kobe bryant to look at michael jordan if i want to get a last second shot given it's a ways but if i want to build a team around me. and the successful tina brown is like a man i'm putting i'm picking the brown first so it depends on the scenario i definitely think that way bring something to the table and icon the guy won multiple championships but you can't. i think le bron's story still being written wade story he's retiring at seasons and. grand opening grand clothes and. brazilian footballer mark has become the first woman to be inducted into the hall of fame at our country's most famous stadiums the six time world player of the year had her feet frozen in time at the american radio. compete in her fifth women's world cup tournaments brazil is yet to win. and that's all your sport for now more later. foreign body thanks. and here next on al-jazeera with the

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