ethiopia will begin moving its troops from the border with eritrea and the latest sign of warming relations between east african nations eighty thousand people died during the two year war between ethiopia and eritrea which ended in two thousand ethiopia's prime minister ahmed offer to withdraw the troops in september it's possible list of reforms already transforming the political landscape in the horn of africa. or now to the d.r. see where the youngest survivor has officially recovered from the virus baby benedict was just six days old when she showed symptoms of the disease mother who also had died during childbirth health workers gave the baby round the clock care for weeks and it's worse because she's now been allowed to return home to her family. it's a good story to have for you on the program. a. mexico's new president for is open the door as his official residence and is inviting the public. and there's

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business updates brought to you by qatar oh we're going places together. a comeback now a presidential palace in mexico is usually off limits for the country's new leader is changing that. he has opened up the residence to the public john home and joined a talk in mexico city. at the presidential residence los pinos has always been shrouded in secrecy sealed off toward larry mexicans last week that

suddenly changed new president under his money the door opened the gates since then crowds have been swarming in to take a look at the imposing buildings and to even brome around the president's private office celeb it's excellent a privilege for all mexicans to go in here and join the wonders we were all missing out on because it was always close palatial houses cabins and look tree conference room with all the fittings of the beyond of alaska's was taking full advantage for a fifty birthday photo session the all important can see on us the way. this is ours really we built this with our own money so it feels good that they've opened the doors. the new president says most people's will become a cult true center to live instead ms own house it's part of his history to drive which is also seen him selling the presidential plane and traveling to his

inauguration and his old folks like injector epifanio who traveled from two hours away to visit formerly a proves to me the noise still come to you that's why the next in people made the change because of so much corruption and poverty officials enjoyed the best planes the best shoes for their children while the poor in the hills walk barefoot but his wife rosa isn't so sure about opening up most people's p.o.v. think it was look at that dirt over there that are in it intimidates come ok he's opened it up well it's a very nice but give it a year it's going to get very dirty. there's certainly a lot to clean not just the extensive grounds and houses but a few extra features this is the private cinema built underneath the main presidential residence and the guides who tell us the directors themselves used to occasionally show the president the films there and there's another interesting room if you move along this corridor. this is the bunker built by former president

felipe calderon and he might have thought that he needed it because the so-called drug war started shortly after he came to power after seeing all these little students weren't sure if the new president's gesture means much or is just to show not since you know what i'm i don't know if it's really a good idea if he really wants to do it or if it's just to get points to show he lives like the people and then he may feel the same about a populous president whether they agree with lopez obrador as decision or not there's certainly no shortage of visitors john holdren al-jazeera mexico city. sam after all this bought with santa. thank you very much marion we're going to start with one of the best performances of the n.b.a. season so far the bron james went on to take the houston rockets but it was a raucous james harden who showed why he is the league's reigning m.v.p. braun had led the lakers to win the last two games but his twenty nine points on

the night that meant little in the face of a savage display from harden this one set the tone as he barreled through the lakers. for his first points of the game and that with a fifty point triple double the fourth of those in the career and the most and now of any player in history the braun kept l.a. inside to of the rockets but he couldn't card an out of the game final score rockets one hundred twenty six lakers hundred eleven. the dallas mavericks dirk of it steve played his first game of the season after recovering from an ankle surgery the german no wasn't called for just six minutes and making one jump shot but it marked his twenty first season for dallas an n.b.a. record unfortunately this came against the team the phoenix suns or who ended the ten game losing streak suns winning ninety nine to eighty nine is the seventh

straight victory over the mavericks football now in spanish and israel madrid could move into second place in league on saturday if other results go their way to wall if their city rivals that lead to cora beach and i don't need to answer and chad will scholars that men. very connel in second place it will be there is but it's complicated the current second place side that severe only play on sunday rails form has improved since allies took over os a disastrous start to the season. cheek letter said i was going to get him which i did to brian via kano have many good out tributes they manage very well with the ball they will not give it away easily and they usually start very well so we need to get out there to win from the very first minute with the support of our fans with the terminations with energy with strength in an orderly way and with all the qualities we've shown over the last few games in order to beat them it's obvious that the day's action against real sociedad that ketek will visit the reality i had

to lead the club the brazilian legend right now though has invested in and host balance and the late kick off it was from a league champions most city are aiming to return to the top of the table when they face everton on saturday city could see the return of said job where off to a four match absence with a groin injury. he did. in the last two tourney sessions with the transition yesterday because they had to game minister today's friday thursday thursday to transition with a team he has not been and he's injured so. much to going to the site and all the matches to face us in the meet burnley at wembley for them host in-form west ham in the london dobby but leaders have a poor will be in action on sunday. well football matches in the french league have been under for the second week of running due to security around the yellow vests

protests. stripper to dijon is one of five games called off due to the civil unrest in france must says hosting of bordeaux has also been affected beat red star belgrade in the champions league in midweek and are thirteen points clear at the top of french domestic standings. it twenty eighteen feet for club world cup second round kicks off on saturday in the united arab emirates the african champions s.p.l. also will say is the hosts align for the right to face a south american champions at river plate madrid will await the winners of. and. it's a huge responsibility for us to compete at the level i think the team is ready to play at this level and we are motivated we have to do what we know we are able to do which is attacking and keeping position of the ball we don't want to change what we know how to do what it did not do you. play is all very good and strong i

haven't played against a mexican team before they have many mexican players and they have very different tactics to what we are used to after analyzing the way they play i really believe that they are very good. the first gymnast to speak out against former usa gymnastics national team doctor lara nasr has received an award from sports illustrated magazine rachel hall and was given the publications inspiration of the year award on wednesday to visit in two thousand as a fifteen year old has been a census to up to one hundred seventy five years on charges of sexual assault. but it's really a sign to me that the world is paying attention that sexual assault matters and that we're going to listen to survivors this awareness for everyone. straight is batsman shared the century partnership for the first a wicket before india hit back in the second test that perth the hosts ending day

one on two in the seventy seven for six three hundred centuries on the score card the for the all these india won the first test at adelaide last week i think the first four not tomorrow to do any crucial if you can get them out but look return to the now we're back in the game and if we can bat good in the first innings then then we have a good chance but the important thing for the first forsworn on next next morning and i'm sure that the pacers would come on mexico's fight as has the chance to win a world title in the third weight division on saturday. is a unified to middle way to world champion after beating. goal of ghana in september the mexican is moving up to super middleweight to fight a rocky fielding in new york fielding is five inches tall and has a four and a half inch reach advantage you also look at this i know the challenge i have in

front of me i know that i have a tough fight so it wasn't like challenges and i know we're going to make history. earlier we spoke to adam wilbon who's the combat sports analyst who says that moving into a different way division could be a great thing for us. well i think it's going to be huge. increases. people's awareness of him he's you know well the biggest box on the planet right now and moving up to his next weight class could be incredible weight because you could all be championship fighting. surely dream of privilege. though agent skin superstar spent on the third super g. of. world cup season that had in italy on friday it is the double limpid gold medalist thirty six a world cup victory is seventeenth in the super g. the thirty five year old finished in one minute twenty eight point six five seconds

to take it first place he is a two time overall world cup champion and he now leads the world cup super g. and overall standings. the may as well serve league title is going down to the wire and hawai gabrial the dia of brazil is one of the three surface chasing the championship at the pipe masters he needs to win or finish one robber to claim his second title and that's a former hedge about to marry a thank you santa on out the miss universe beauty pageant is set to feature its first ever transgender contestant angela ponzi is competing as mrs payne says she's proud to be making history as the first transgender woman in the competition sixty six year history of miss universe organization lifted a ban on transgender contestants in two thousand and twelve on the will vie for the crown in bangkok on monday. you're going to it but i keep

a i think to being here being the image the voice and talking about women's issues especially those of transgender woman and minus i think it's allowing me to into many houses many homes through the t.v. and the priests and to create debates within families conversations about something that is neither being talked about and that is very positive. well wraps up the news out but i will be back in a moment with a full person stay with us. and sharing stories generated thousands of headlines with different angles from

different perspectives kara fanny's fact helpful e-mail and a highly dangerous one of the major issues before voters is the institution president trump cannot stop talking about the news media to separate the spin from the facts the misinformation from the journalism the shock of a.b.c.'s reporter try to leave the listening post on al-jazeera one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much and put in contribution to a story a feel we cover this region better than anyone else would get what it is you know is that it turns out they believe but the good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real story so i'll just mend it is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. running is one of the most accessible sports in. al-jazeera correspondent andrew richardson takes us on

his personal journey of discovery when you find yourself out in the middle of nowhere and run is hosting a washout not just stop exploring the growing popularity in science he pushes the limits from kenya to the antarctic. in search of answers to why the wrong. correspondent. aid packages arrive for the people of the data fighting breaks out on the outskirts of yemen's vital city.

oh i'm maryanne demasi in london you know with al jazeera also coming up on the program. after weeks of political. prime minister and the rajapaksa says he'll step down to end the crisis he directed me to make the payments to donald trump's former lawyer says the u.s. president knew it was wrong to make money payments during the elections. and britain's prime minister and says she'll get an extra special get extra clarification she needs from the e.u. of a back seat deal. welcome to the program our top story reports that we need fighting has broken out on the outskirts of her data a day after yemen's warring factions agreed a cease fire in the port city earlier aid agencies took advantage of the truce to distribute desperately needed food and humanitarian supplies to her data the

international committee of the red cross delivered more than three thousand passports to the city the cease fire was agreed between who see rebels and the yemeni government un back talks in sweden on. the presence of our delegation in sweden is very important and we've sent a message to the world that we're with peace and we want to achieve peace the talks are successful with us on the right path to peace and to improve the humanitarian situation all the human tragedy in yemen is unprecedented. the un special envoy to yemen has been briefing the security council on the outcome of talks and sweet martin griffiths is warning the task to end yemen's four year long war still a daunting one despite the breakthrough in talks a diplomatic editor james space has more from the united nations in new york. the day after an interim peace deal in yemen a u.n. negotiator at the talks warned the security council there was still

a long and difficult road ahead mr president i also come before you today with a call for caution our collective achievements this week were you will agree a significant step forward but what's in front of us is the option to ask another server. in the context of such negotiations or realizes that the end of the goetia that the hard work is only about to begin. the u.n. senior humanitarian official warned against complacency he said a quarter of a million people were on the edge of a phase five food emergency the technical term for that stage is catastrophe so i can confirm again what humanitarian agencies have known for a long time a terrible tragedy is unfolding in yemen and it's getting worse the special envoy revealed that general patrick kamma of the netherlands a veteran of the un who's commanded peacekeepers headed inquiries and written

reports for the united nations will set up a team of monitors who will deploy to yemen as soon as possible it's believed general comet's team will be unarmed and we tossed would provide incredible monitoring of the cease fire in the port city of her data the monitoring mission will have to be endorsed in the u.n. security council resolution that is likely to be difficult to negotiate with passed resolutions saudi arabia has put pressure on members of the security council including the current arab member kuwait to try and shape the words of the resolution to their interest james byrd's al-jazeera the united nations. anger against saudi arabia has been rising in the united states with the senate voting on thursday to condemn its long standing ally of the war in yemen and its role in the killing of jamal khashoggi the washington post is running a full page ad keeping up the pressure over the murder of a saudi journalist who is

a regular contributor to the paper the post says it will continue to push for meaningful action of a saudi arabia's role in his killing friday's ad is part of a larger campaign planned for two thousand and nineteen. well to the political turmoil in sri lanka now the disputed prime minister mentor rajapaksa has announced he's going to step down the country's been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after a court suspended rajapakse and his cabinet following the loss of two confidence votes and the heywood reports. less than two months ago he was being sworn in as sri lanka's new prime minister but after weeks of political turmoil mahinda rajapaksa has to resign to ensure his son said on twitter the stability of the nation rajapaksa was previously sri lanka's president for decades bringing to an end the country's long civil war with the brutal final assault on the tamil tiger rebels his appointment as prime minister though has been controversial from the

stars and plunged the country into a constitutional crisis was it began in october when the president matter of policy or a saner appointed rajapaksa and unceremoniously sacked ronald become sanger within days thousands turned out to show that it's or saying his decision since then there have been demonstrations supporting and opposing rajapaksa. sri lanka has now been without a functioning government for nearly two weeks after call suspended rajapaksa and his cabinet when they lost to no confidence votes i don't see lanka's highest cause the decision by the president to dissolve the parliament ahead of its term and call a snap election january was unconstitutional rajapaksa his decision to step down as

unlikely to mean that sri lanka's political landscape could more turn to a kind of normality any time soon mahinda rajapaksa is expected to address the nation on saturday and the heywood al-jazeera. there is men elfin and as has more now from sri lankan capital on what's been happening that. mind the rajapaksa running out of options the former president and soon to be former prime minister basically announcing his decision to step down on saturday when he met party representatives who had a meeting with president my three policy ricin earlier on friday now he's some number rajapaksa a century confirming to me when i spoke to him a short while ago that his father had decided to step down to ensure the stability of the nation they see that mine the rajapaksa and his supporters agreed to take on the premiership set up a government with the understanding that it would be a sort of a caretaker government that would ultimately be working towards elections in the

short run but with a historic verdict yesterday from the supreme court that found the president might require serious scene had violated the constitution but by dissolving parliament and calling snap elections essentially in the raja pakistan's checkmated there is also a petition before the court of appeal challenging his authority and the authority of forty eight of his ministers to hold office and in the meantime till it's heard mine the rajapaksa has a restraining order preventing him from acting in that role. oh a transformer lawyer says the president told him to pay hush money to two women during the two thousand and sixteen presidential elections in full knowledge that it was wrong michael cohen was giving his first interview since he was sentenced to prison this week can really help it has that story. as the courtroom drama surrounding donald trump's former personal lawyer came to a dramatic conclusion this week michael cohen was largely silent not any more so i

knew what i was doing was wrong in contrast to his earlier statements cohen now says trump knew about the hush money payments he was making to two women alleged to have had affairs with trump according to cohen the payments were directed by trump in an effort to influence the outcome of the twenty sixteen presidential election nothing of the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr trump he directed me to make the payments he directed me to become involved in these matters the payments were in the hundreds of thousands campaign finance law caps contribution to a campaign at twenty seven hundred dollars making the payments and the legal donation to trump denies he ever directed his former lawyer to break the law i never directed him to do anything wrong whatever he did he did on his own he's a lawyer a lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing that's what you pay them

a lot of money on wednesday cohn was sentenced to three years in prison his crimes include making false statements to congress tax evasion and arranging those payments during the twenty sixteen election he will begin serving his sentence in march he denies he's speaking out to embarrass the president but instead to further the probe into possible ties between the trump campaign and russia the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and. hopefull there's a substantial amount of information that they possess that corroborates the fact that i am telling the truth soon done with a lie i am done with the law and i am done being loyal to president trump cohen's conviction and scandalous revelations come as president trumps political and potentially legal problems are compounding cohen's cooperation also suggest the russian probe under special counsel robert muller is accelerating can really help

get al-jazeera the white house china is suspending additional tariffs on us made vehicles and auto parts as part of an ongoing traitress with washington the tariff halt will last three months and it starts on january the first. chinese imports of u.s. vehicles fell thirty percent in the first ten months of the year but authorities say they're expecting volumes to pick up in the new when it comes as disappointing growth data sent china stocks tumbling and raised fears for its economy new figures show china's november retail sales grew at the slowest pace since two thousand and three china's industrial production was also its weakest in nearly three years because of a slowdown in domestic demand and issues in the auto and property markets but a spokesman for china's national bureau of statistics insists economic growth is on track to achieve its annual target in two thousand and eighteen while the us and canada are saying that they are committed to keeping politics owsa the extradition

case involving qualities chief financial officer china's call from a one jos immediate release by canada where she was arrested on december first on a u.s. request secretary of state might on by has been meeting canada's foreign minister in washington says he's hoping for a good outcome. the united states is engaged in an extradition process this mang travel to canada the canadians have taken her into custody now released her on bail pending extradition and the extradition hearing. will continue to engage through legal processes to get the just outcome that's connected to that. we have a set of trade discussions that are ongoing with the chinese as the chinese have said or we're working on that wall all the other issues not just this particular issue of lots of complicated issues going on with china today all around the world and we work on each of those to get good outcomes for the people united states of america and respect.