some over some scar you can skew to speak out as a surprise but. this job isn't just about what's on the script or a piece of paper it's about what is happening right now. sporadic fighting continues in yemen's port city of data despite a un backed cease fire coming into effect. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm martin dennis also coming up china's president says his country will not be dictated to by anyone as the communist party celebrates forty years since it introduced free market reforms. new

reports reveal the power and reach of russia's election meddling efforts and that they didn't end with donald trump's white house victory. over the south africans who say they're fighting to save three hundred years of heritage from the developments. cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni city of her data but there are still reports of sporadic fighting going on in and around the strategic port that the fighting is between saudi backed government forces and rebels in this area the warring sides have agreed to a truce at peace so it's out in sweden last week international observers a jews who arrived to monitor the seas for the who data is a vital entry point for food and aid into a country where millions of people are on the brink of starvation. well there are

many challenges on the ground for these international observers as they come into the data as our diplomatic editor james bays it's things from the united nations the u.n. security council has started work drawing up a draft resolution that would indorse what was agreed in stockholm last week and give a mandate for a u.n. monitoring mission in yemen news that has been welcomed by the spokesman for the u.n. secretary general it will be. i think it will send a strong signal from the international from the international community in support of the un's work of this where mr griffiths has done what mr cameron general camera troops. will lead the dots general patrick cameras who's leading the monitoring mission has been briefing the un secretary general antonio good terrorists on his plan i'm told the first members of the monitoring mission the assessment team will

be on the ground in yemen on wednesday the watchwords i'm told or form follows function will look at the security situation to see what functions they need to perform and then decide on the form the number of monitors they're going to need to come from member states the united nations people with military experience but people who operate on the ground in an unarmed capacity one of the problems the un is facing here is that the talks in stockholm went much better than expected so the un is having to pull together this monitoring mission at very short notice all right now we can speak to her saying. journalist he's joining us live from santa that's the capital of yemen thanks for talking to us what is your understanding then of the situation regarding this cease fire in the area of a danger. to be honest. till now the ceasefire seems to be holdin but sometimes there are some single shot or

a machine gun in the surrounding area of data but there is no any is strike or a saudi bombardment on as well there is no hope he called drone attack as it used to be before the ceasefire here in yemen actually they are they they have been hope this time because it's the first time for example that there is a ceasefire and they are not here in the fight that so we think that this will be good this step for the coming step that will be taken in a day that relief to open hood up or to allow him and her aid coming to yemen ok. well let me get higher than anyone else let me interrupt you just for a moment what about these reports then about sporadic fighting specifically reports shelling government forces in the eastern part of of who date or.

this news mail is in the saudi backed media. to be honest i have read some news that the hotel has broken this is the heart of an hour before the ceasefire started but of call some friends and her data they say is totally calm is totally quiet and it seems to be that all the side hold in this ceasefire but of course we will hear this kind of report from the saudi media because as always they they might know they want maybe to enter loved this ceasefire and some of this report is coming from the so-called government media and we know that the only person that is going to lose if there is any agreement in yemen if there is any new government will be formed in yemen it will be heidi because he will not be a part of any solution all right and what is your understanding then of the terms of this cease fire. the forces likely to withdraw from their positions.

yes as it was agreed to. in sweden there will be further withdrawal from the saudi backed forces from south of the data and then hold the forces who will withdraw from the port of or they are from the city and the one who are on the other thirty the local authority which is now in her day that it will be in full control of the city out of the port of the airport and how long i mean this is speculative on your part but how long do you think it will be if this cease fire holds before regular and constant supplies of of aid vitally needed aid can can be distributed to the people who date or. this is one of the problem of the sweden agreement because it has actually linked the flow of

humanitarian aid with the security situation and her data to be honest they should have actually opened her they'd up or they should allow food and medicine first come into into the data even though the in control because they needed nation have said before that eighty five percent of we had an aid coming to yemen is coming through her data so there was no problem of who the president in her data but now it could as you mentioned it could take a long and i believe that the saudi if there is any difficulties in this step for withdrawal from both parties the saudi keep maybe they will keep blocking humanitarian aid from coming in to yemen in using the excuse of the president of. the hoa the in our data but at least i mean we now we now we see that they are all holed into the cease fire so this is a good step first and i hope that the united nation as well who's this and that's all that coalition will form some committees to do to set up that withdrawal and

the mechanism of the with the withdrawal from our data and hopefully everything will be ok thank you very much hussein al to kite he took interest life from the yemeni capital sana'a now the u.s. travel ban of people from mainly muslim countries is preventing a yemeni mother from seeing her dying son the two year old is in hospital in california with a rare brain disease the council on american islamic relations has appealed to the u.s. state department to issue a waiver but there's been no response mike hanna ripples from washington. post travel ban was imposed just days after president trump took office. it face numerous challenges before the current version was upheld by the supreme court earlier this year it prohibits the citizens of iran libya somalia syria and yemen from traveling to the u.s. without a special waiver and among those barred from entry is the mother of

a two year old boy dying of a rare brain disease in a california hospital abdulla her son was brought to the u.s. for treatment by his father early he's now being kept on life support so his mother can bid farewell but despite numerous requests there's been no way that issued by the state department now we see the muslim bend the fact in the most dehumanizing way and we're running out of time we're calling for the department of state to issue a muslim ban waiver to allow seamus will of the wife of a u.s. citizen the mother of a u.s. citizen to hold her child one last time until allow her to mourn with dignity and a direct plea made by a grieving father my wife's economy every day wanted to kiss another son. who. for the one most hang.

time. times are in me now please help us to my family together again the stark odds facing a mother who wants to join a husband and dying son statistics reveal only two percent top requests for a waiver succeed mike hanna al-jazeera washington. now rusher is being accused of using every social media platform to blur the lines between fact and fiction to help donald trump win the white house in twenty sixteen two reports released by the senate intelligence committee and giving a much bigger picture of moscow's this information campaigns which the study is war on a still going on our official reports. if you can think of a social media platform there's a strong chance the russians used it to try to influence the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election from you tube facebook and twitter to read it and instagram

and more to reports commissioned by the u.s. an intelligence committee says russia's internet research agency or i r e tried to capitalize on divisions in u.s. politics it pushed more than ten million tweets more than one thousand you tube videos and their own one hundred sixteen thousand instagram posts all together that translated into a potential of reaching more than one hundred forty million people. one of the reports concluded what is clear all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the republican party and specifically donald trump but one expert says it's not clear if just pushing the message had any impact the russian certainly tried to interfere in american elections and continue to try and interfere in american politics are they actually making a difference it's not clear what they're doing legal or in some of the more indictments of joan certainly not but it's really important thing to separate out affective mess from legality and morality right these are all survive different

issues and difference of stakes a place reports say that the russians push conservatives on key issues like gun rights and immigration while sending misinformation to largely democratic supporting african-american voters are doing them to boycott elections and they support u.s. intelligence reports of russian interference and the action of special counsel robert miller who's investigating possible russian collusion in the election to indict a number of russian hackers and officials president donald trump has both criticized possible russian interference and described it also as a hoax president putin he just said it's not russian except our intelligence community his conclusion that russia is meddling in the two thousand and six election took place the reports also criticized the tech firms who provided data to the investigators saying that they seem to provide no more than the minimum information required and will add to pressure on those firms to do more to prevent

election interference the report does not cover any potential action in the recent mid-term elections the committee's leading democrat mark warner says it's time to get serious in addressing the challenge of interference and he hopes there could be legislative action to follow alan fischer al-jazeera washington. we can no longer come here it out there including no breaks it down seventy in the u.k. as the opposition labor party calls friend no confidence in the prime minister. the us says its war planes and killed more than sixty hours fighters in somalia. hello again it's good to have you back well here across the western part of love and we have been seeing a lot of messy weather with the storm systems that are coming in off the

mediterranean and over the next you days that is only going to be getting worse from tuesday as well as into wednesday you can see that storm system really affecting parts of greece and turkey well as we go towards wednesday a lot more rain comes into play and it's going to be windy as well so we can expect to see some localized flooding in certain areas anywhere from turkey down here toward syria maybe even jordan as well as into lebanon temperatures a little bit cooler than average would syria seeing temperatures in aleppo at about thirteen degrees and beirut well maybe about seventeen degrees for you they're not looking too bad for much of the gulf over the next few days not a lot of clouds in play but temperatures look quite nice for doha as we go towards the holiday here twenty five degrees here on tuesday as we go towards wednesday we are looking at about the same here but temperatures down here along the coast for sala you are going to be seeing the rain ending by the time we get to wednesday but more rain is going to be a problem over here towards parts of somalia there very quickly as we go down toward southern part of africa we are looking a better conditions down here towards the south heavy rain up here towards harare

at twenty four degrees and over here towards madagascar we're looking at partly cloudy conditions with a temperature of about twenty six. when the shots came from the holiday and we heard cracks we heard some noise. this was no no sniper alley is one of the most dangerous intersections i'm sorry. he didn't come in through the front entrance was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong and the nightly power of took pics of the furniture to. show the school the hell out of sarajevo holiday and hotels on al-jazeera.

to take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera the un brokered cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni port city of who data but there are still reports of sporadic fighting between saudi and backed government forces and the heavy rebels russia is accused of using every social media platform possible to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election in donald trump's favor. that china's president has promised his country will open up even further as he hailed forty years since the ruling communist party began to embrace global markets the anniversary coincides with china's trade standoff with the united states their president she didn't address that directly but he did say that no one can dictate to the chinese what they should or shouldn't do china's reform and opening up

policies were introduced in one hundred seventy eight transforming what was then one of the world's poorest countries into what's now the second largest economy in the world let's talk to deborah now who's the executive director at the asian trade center she's joining us live from singapore thanks very much for joining us deborah . so forty years ago these measures were taken these reforms were introduced and they have been truly transformative haven't they in terms of the way the chinese economy has developed in that time they have been i mean if you look at the number of people who've been lifted out of poverty if you will almost any metric you can imagine the number of people out of poverty kilometers of high speed rail the number of people who have been moved into urban settings the calorie intake per person the number of years of schooling i mean any almost any measure that you can think of are has been transformed in china in the

forty years since opening up and what did you make therefore of president she's address on this particular occasion when china is locked into what seems to be a pretty damaging trade dispute with the united states. well i think that there. is the chinese leadership they're threading a very difficult. issue here on the one hand they want to celebrate china's past achievements and they want to set a a path forward and so they want to continue to argue to a domestic audience that you know things have been fantastic and things are only going to get better in the future on the other hand they are being buffeted by some really strong challenges the likes of which you could argue are more challenging than they've seen in least in recent times especially coming from the u.s.

and donald trump where they are they are facing some real obstacles a lot specifically of those challenges and what what does beijing need to do in order to get out of them because notice that most of the west of have been quite they've been quite silent about donald trump raging against chinese trade practices because the west and countries agree. well i think that the many countries would agree with the broader u.s. objectives which is to say that china has been. at the very minimum skirting around some of the broader types of commitments around what it means to be part of the leadership of the global community into in other words it you can't point to that many specific instances where they have violated very clear rules but they have certainly skirted around the spirit of some of them if not the specifics and

that's always been a bit tricky so around issues of of of taking intellectual property rights of copying of counterfeiting of force technology transfer that the united states is claiming is a real challenge there seems to be fairly broad sympathy around that but then what do you do about it and that's where the diversion is between the united states on one hand and other countries who are less enthusiastic about the protests the united states is taking and if you're china you're trying to figure out ok well what do i need to do about this and how quickly do i need to address that and the challenge for china especially in a speech like today is some of the steps that you have to take to address what seems to be u.s. concerns conflict with china's own ambitions to be a world leading power you know the next decade to two decades and so that's part of the problem that china has how do we continue our progress forward while dealing with the united states that is less and less enthusiastic about

china's ambitions in the medium to longer term right thank you very much. the u.s. air strikes have killed sixty two people in somalia the military says all of them will fight is from. the pentagon says the attacks over the weekend. were in coordination with somalia's federal government a somali intelligence official has been quoted as saying that military vehicles and the camp were hit there's been a shopping crease in the number of strikes in somalia since president trump took office in the u.s. . a french court has ruled against three former high school students of african descent who were accused the police of racial discrimination they said they were stopped and searched whilst on a school trip because of their color that about their explains why the judge disagreed. it was a visibly disappointing verdict for these french former students they had sued the state for racial discrimination for an unexplained police stop and search in paris

after high school trippin twenty seventeen but a french court ruled that the police had done nothing wrong. the judge said there was no discrimination because the students were in a class where there were other so-called ethnic minority students of a young french people who were black and arab so because the others were not search but have a similar physical appearance they couldn't be racial discrimination. this injustice makes me want to fight more this verdict makes me through shocked and outraged it was a paris's gal do you know train station that police officers took aside the three students after their train arrived from brussels they had to open their bags and hand over id cards in front of their classmates mamadou said the verdict sends a message the young men like him are second class citizens. but this is do not foresee a bucket of france's motto is liberty equality and fraternity but i don't think

it's the same for everyone it depends on what you look like where you grew up and your origins racial profiling is illegal in france but some young people say that they feel singled out by police because of the color of their skin according to france's human rights many young french men of african and arab heritage are twenty times more likely than others to be stopped and searched by french police without an explanation. you cannot even if it happens to me you are hanging out in town the police come and search you the last twenty minutes they stop you without any special reason the case is thrown a spotlight on the often tense relationship between french police and young men from the suburbs those here say that although the verdict was unexpected they will continue to exercise their rights and appeal the decision the al-jazeera paris.

riot police in hungary have struggled to control a fifth successive day of anti-government protests against so-called slave labor laws crowds at the state broadcaster demanded the opposition be allowed to read out their demands on television the latest protest against the right wing government was sparked by new legislation which could see the return of a six day working week in forced overtime and years of delays for workers' pay. the britain's prime minister is preparing for another tough ride with her divided cabinet after announcing a mid january parliamentary vote for her divorce steal the leader of the main opposition meanwhile has submitted a motion of no confidence in mrs may something the government has dismissed as a time wasting game paul brennan reports. that the prime minister theresa may adamant there would be no meaningful vote on bracks it until january parliament appeared almost pointless on monday but having failed to make any concrete progress in her talks with european leaders in brussels last week this is may was judy bound

to report back to the lawmakers in london she acknowledged the widespread hostility to her plan but she warned bravely against holding another referendum another vote which would do irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics because it would say to millions who trusted internet prosy that our democracy does not deliver. another vote which would likely leave us nose further forward than the last and another vote which would further divide our country at the very moment we should be working to unite around the threat of a no confidence vote in the prime minister organized by the opposition labor party appear to have been neutralized and theresa may set the week of january fourteenth for the rearranged meaningful vote to just as proceedings drew to a close labor leader jeremy called and decided to go for it so mr speaker as the only way i can think of of ensuring a vote takes place this week i'm about to table a motion which says. the following that this house has no confidence in the prime

minister to. do to her failure to allow the house of commons to have a meaningful vote straight away on the withdrawal agreement and framework for future relationships through the u.k. and the european union and that will be tabled immediately mr speaker thank you. the procedure now is that confidence motions tabled by the opposition will take precedence over government business and its parliamentary convention that any such request be granted this week that seem to be winding down into a christmas holiday just warmed up again. al-jazeera. a cycling has made landfall in southeastern india local media is blaming the storm for the death of one man who was killed by a landslide the winds blew into the coast of andhra pradesh at around one hundred kilometers per hour they've been heavy rains as well a boom in electronic cigarettes in the us has prompted calls for more regulation to

stop them getting into the hands of young people a new survey found twice as many high school students a using nicotine electronic cigarettes or vait compared with last year medical experts warn that nicotine is harmful to the developing brains of teenagers a controversial court case between an historic community and a land developer is going on in south africa's cape town the community of book cop is worried its molay heritage which dates back more than three hundred years is being lost to big business developers want to build new flats and houses but locals have been protesting and preventing construction vehicles from entering the site out as areas for me to mill or reports. these protests are being held every day people living in the poor cop community are angry about what they say is the gentrification of their neighborhood most demonstrations have been small and

peaceful but this one turned violent when attempts were made to bring a construction crane into the area. well karp is in the heart of cape town it's a prime location and the developers dream but new and expensive buildings are out of most locals price range the cheapest apartment in this block will cost a hundred and thirty five thousand dollars but they say if they're fully there to be an island of the thirty thousand foot in the fries or over the rail we ask what traffic is this one because our growth our love really is the fact the building of the obstruction vehicle even parking woke up became known as the mill a quarter in the eight hundred thirty s. when freed slaves from indonesia madagascar and india moved in it's now famous for its distinctive architecture and cobbled streets people here can fit a book up to be the cradle of islam in southern africa it's home to the oldest mosque that dates back almost three hundred years but they also say this there is

heritage is important for all south africans because it tells the story of slavery the forced removal of people and up our dates of racial laws as well as the country's cultural diversity architects sadek tofor was born in book carpenter's live joe all his life he says in recent years new laws have allowed for zoning scheme which supports business friendly developments in the city. here it is is is activated when the cultural resource is under threat and that's why here are teachers being the key word in protest movements in your car because identity religious large community large social institutions urban fabric all of that. as as has been under threat the cape town government now says it will support the area being so on to heritage site but first needs to consult the people here but the community says it's asked for protection for years and the city has been slow to respond coming from a working class background the status of become law and more and affordable for

working class people because instantly the value of properties will go up according to the value of high developments a court has ruled that for now the construction crane cannot into bore camp for people here a tiny victory in the fight to preserve sin trees old history. or al-jazeera walkup cape town. look at the top stories here it is era a u.n. brokered cease fires come into effect in the yemeni city of a data there are reports sporadic fighting taking place in the embattled port area between saudi backed government forces and to the rebels china's president promised his country will open up even further as he hailed forty years since the ruling

communist party began to embrace global markets the anniversary coincides with china's trade standoff with the united states not addressing that directly president xi said no one can dictate to the chinese what they should or shouldn't do. u.s. air strikes in somalia have killed more than sixty people the military says all were pfizer's from the group al shabaab the attacks on gen desh a more in coordination with somalia's federal government russia is being accused of using every social media platform possible to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election in favor of donald trump two new reports prepared for the u.s. senate say moscow is still working to support president. former f.b.i. director james comey has called on us republicans to stand up for the values of the country altering questions in congress komi said president trumps constant criticism of the f.b.i. is home for to the rule of law the president of united states is lying about the

f.b.i. attacking the f.b.i. in attacking the rule of law in this country. how does it make any sense. at some point someone has to stand up in the face of fear of fox news fear their base fear of the tweets stand up for the values of this country and not slink away to retirement but stand up and speak the truth britain's main opposition leader has submitted a motion of no confidence in prime minister to resume a after. a crucial vote on the deal to leave the european union the government dismisses that his game playing is may's facing intense opposition to have proposed agreement and has postponed the vote in parliament until next month but i'd have to say those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next it's talk to ash is there.

we understand the differences. and the same a lera g.'s of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it al-jazeera will bring you the news and current events that matter to you al jazeera. says. he served germany as vice chancellor and more recently as foreign minister signal gabriel has been very outspoken on the issue of german soldiers in afghanistan and has also questioned the us is counterinsurgency strategy that after visiting hebron in the palestinian territories in two thousand and twelve gabriel said the palestinians were systematically discriminated against what he called israel's apartheid regime in addition to his strong views on the middle east the german politician is not less opinionated when it comes to europe russia the us believe in nato. but with.