where every. a ceasefire comes into effect in the yemeni port of the data but reports speak of sporadic fighting. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from. dennis also coming up in the program. china celebrates forty years of economic reforms as it in gauges in a trade war with the u.s.

. a new report revealed the power and reach of russia's election meddling efforts and say they didn't end with donald trump's white house victory. in the pristine landscape on the front line of the global war on drugs we have a special report from to. come into effect in the yemeni city of his data but there are reports of sporadic fighting still going on in places around this strategic port the fighting is between saudi and government forces and hoofy rebels the warring sides had agreed to a truce at peace talks in sweden last week international observers are due to arrive to monitor the cease fire now today there is a vital entry point for food and aid into a country where millions of people are on the brink of starvation. well i've been

speaking to hussein who is a shoe feature on this based in the yemeni capital sana'a he says the ceasefire is holding but sporadic fighting could block a from getting in this is one of the problem of the sweden agreement because it has actually linked the flow of humanitarian aid with the security situation in her data to be honest they should have actually opened for the aid of all that they should allow food and medicine first come into into the data even though both the in control because as the united nations have said before that it is five percent of we had an aid coming to yemen is coming through the day there so there was no problem of the present in our data but now it could take a long and i believe that the saudi if there is any difficulties in the step for withdrawal from both parties the saudi keep maybe they will keep blocking

humanitarian aid from coming into yemen in using the excuse of the president of the host the data but at least i mean we now we now we see that they are all holding to 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 set up the withdrawal and the mechanism over with those drawn from the data and hopefully everything will be. the u.s. travel ban on people of mainly from mainly muslim countries is preventing a yemeni mother from seeing her dying son the two year old is in a hospital in california with a rare brain disease the council on american islamic relations has appealed to the state department to issue a way that but there's been no response mike hanna reports from washington. the first 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 same as 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 and other son. for the one last time. time time is there any now please help us to my family together again. the stark arts facing a mother who wants to join her husband and dying son statistics reveal only two percent top requests for a waiver succeed mike hanna al-jazeera washington china's president or celebrated the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transformed the country from one of the world's poorest to the world's second largest economy she jim paying promised open up to the world even more big a few details he didn't refer directly to the trade standoff with the u.s.

but he made this veiled reference so. there is no textbook of rules to follow for the reforms and opening of china a country with five thousand years of history civilization and with a population of more than one point three billion people no one is in a position to dictate to the chinese people what should or should not be done. more now from our correspondent in beijing adrian brown. well this was a speech where many were looking for signs from president xi jinping as to whether he was prepared to offer more concessions to the united states to try to end the trade war between the two countries there were no concessions other than a vague promise from china's leader to continue the economic reforms the done shopping began exactly forty years ago with a speech in this same setting president xi struck a defiant tone he said nobody in future would be able to tell china what to do he

also said that china would continue to set its own course and that no country had anything to fear from china's rise in the audience were many foreigners that president xi jinping said had helped in china's development it was forty years ago when dan had outlined his ambitious plan to radically change china's economic model and since then of course china has gone on to become an economic miracle president she said that in that time the poverty rate in china had been reduced by more than ninety four percent but no mention was made of the fact that some eighty million people are still living on less than two dollars a day and the online holiday rental company air b.n. b. has denied making a u. turn and its decision to ban listens of properties in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the company made that announcement last month that israel's tourism ministry has since said the air b.n. b.

has backed down after threats of legal action in israel and in the us s. cole live now to our correspondent stephanie decker she is in west jerusalem and steph so this is a very confused picture isn't there it seems very much as though this this chant of the story began with a facebook posting by the israeli tourism minister. that's correct he posted that the company air b.n. b. was going back on its decision to no longer advertise listings in the illegal settlements in the west bank there was also a hebrew statement from aaron b. by its israeli spokesperson saying similar things so this is where the confusion arose martin of course is a lot of backlash to this all over social media that air b.n. b. was succumbing to israeli pressure very soon after that there was a statement saying that no because basically this delegation here the vice

president of air b.n. b. is in jerusalem he met with the tourism minister yesterday he is meeting again with the tourism minister today their statement is this they're saying that there's been no change in policy that they're talking to all sides with they're making it clear is that this isn't part of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement the b.d.s. movement that of course israel is incredibly concerned about so basically saying that this is a political sit decision that this seemed that this is a decision that is based on human rights but again we're going to have to wait and see if there's any further statements today after those meetings but i think it goes to show it highlights just the pressure of the israeli lobby and also the pressure on israel when it comes to big companies high profile companies like air b.n. b. deciding to no longer operate in the west bank right i think we've lost we've lost help with also sound to stephanie decker sorry sorry stephan i lost the sound to you for a moment and i was a parent get all skewed about the fact that on the one hand a b. and b.

is putting itself on the on the side if you like of israeli palestinian rights when they're saying they're not going to list homes in occupied west bank but on the other hand it seems as though they're going to the other side of the argument and not supporting b.d.s. . it seems that they're trying to keep everyone happy and it seems as if they're learning the hard way of the complexities of when it comes to operating in this region and in this story than the backlash from the israelis when that announcement came out in november you know they threatened legal action against air b.n. b. they threatened to pull out the company from the entirety of israel of course remember this is only like you said it's only specific to the settlements in the west bank illegal settlements under international law it doesn't apply you know whether it's in tel aviv or other areas of israel proper so. the n.b.a.

always rejected the accusations of anti-semitism and so i think this is why they're here to try and establish a dialogue because of this sort of you know angry and serious messages going back and forth there's also been a letter sent from american legislators to area b. and b. so you know there is this very powerful israeli lobby anti b.d.s. if you will even though this is not a b.d.s. movement according to air b.n. b. but it highlights just the complexities in the sensitivities of this issue and i spoke just recently to one of the researchers of human rights watch a part of this report looking into rentals in the west bank this was just before every need make that statement and they told me that they believe that perhaps there was no change in policy at the moment from air b.n. b. or have to wait and see whether that changes but i think for now it still holds having said that the listings are still online martine it's going to take some time for them to come down we understand all right for now thank you very much stephanie decker live in west. now the u.n.

says two tunnels allegedly dug by hezbollah fighters in lebanon cross the demarcation line into israel in total four tunnels that were discovered by the israeli ministry which led to the un peacekeeping agency that is crossing the border violate a cease fire agreement that ended the two thousand and six war if further technical investigation conducted independently in accordance with its mandate unifil at this stage can confirm that two of the tunnels crossed the blue line these constitute violations of un security council resolution seventeen or one this is a matter of serious concern and unifil is technically investigations are continuing the un peacekeeping mission has requested the lebanese authorities toward shore urgent follow up actions in accordance with the responsibilities of the government of lebanon. still to come here and there is even more breath of

uncertainty if the opposition labor party in the u.k. calls for a no confidence vote in prime minister to resume a. u.s. says its war planes have killed more than sixty five years in somalia. from the waves of the south. to the contours of the east. however still two areas unsettled weather in europe ones down around the g.n. this circulation is a developing another one behind my head yet another storm system from the atlantic no two are coming together against what is rather settled cold in the middle not as colors it was in austria because it was off in poland hovering around the freezing mark so this is a line of cloud then some of it produces a bit of snow but the main action is down here rain in thunderstorms through greece

and then into turkey running your overnight now into wednesday the same time the storm system which is all rain runs through the british isles leaving doublethink temperatures but running at five in zurich but it's now on the high grounds of the alps but snow is largely at height right in the lower levels what's on the ground in austria where we stay there because the temps hasn't come up fantasies gondar in warsaw so distinct areas of weather in europe which are affected distinct areas of weather so the side of those storms fly through they might just catch libya or egypt in the next day or so the winds coming with them is quite telling not to think keep things quite rough sea and not very warm inland but rebel such about twenty one degrees ahead of the next lot of rain which comes in as cloud on wednesday and wants more more rain developed in the eastern med so levant. the weather sponsored by qatar raise. fresh perspectives new possibilities c.l.s.

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the rebels. china's president has celebrated the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transformed the country from one of the world's poorest to the world's second largest economy president xi promised to open up to the world even more but a few details. and online holiday rental company air b.n. b. has denied making a u. turn on its decision to stop listings of properties in illegal settlements of the occupied west bank. the 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 all a still going on unofficial 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. senate 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 in some of the more indictments of shown certainly not but it's really important thing to separate out

affective ness 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 present donald trump has both criticize possible russian interference and describe 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 take 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 former f.b.i. director james k. me has called on members of donald trump's republican party to stand up for the values of the country questions in congress came he said president trumps constant criticism of the f.b.i. it's harmful to the rule of law president trump says investigations into alleged links between russia and his election campaign are illegitimate witch hunts. 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 all at

some point someone has to stand up in the face of fear of fox news fear their base fear of being tweets stand up for the values of this country and not slink away to retirement but stand up and speak the truth that russia is re-inforcing military bases on a chain of islands at the center of a territorial dispute with japan the russian and japanese leaders have had numerous face to face meetings to try to settle the sovereignty dispute since the second world war barracks have been built for russian troops and bases are being prepared for. the four displeases islands in the north pacific ocean and known as the southern koreans and russia and the northern territory's in japan sri lanka's parliament is reconvening after the reappointment to run a wicked are missing or as prime minister has managed to put together a cabinet which he hopes will move the country on from the political crisis

triggered by his sacking been there for the end as reports from the sri lankan capital colombo. said that it planned as a fight for justice this rally in colombo became a celebration of running of the committee his reappointment as prime minister and the man who's been at the center of the two month long constitutional crisis was in his element of it and i am i guess that the only people that they were his strength in the historic fifty one days the appointment by president mighty policy to say no of mine the rajapaksa to replace victor messina wrote to get the a fractious united national party angry at what they called a blatant violation of democracy the party and its alliance partners rallied to protect their leader so did party supporters. opportunity one lp up each and we voted against mahinda but the president ought to mean it's that pain they need to defend our rights that's brought people here. it's become missing his fifth time as

prime minister he's being careful not to criticize presidents it is cena despite scathing attacks by him party leaders are following his cue realizing they have to work with the president for at least another fifteen months they can missing had told supporters that mistakes had been made during his three and a half year government the fifty one day political crisis has given run over her missing her and his political partners a shot in the arm helping them bring together the largest political gathering that they have had in recent years they have admitted shortcomings when they were in government and promised to correctly i believe that. the prime minister ministers and parliamentarians must get closer to the people and we acted against corruption but legal action has been slow we will address this with the former president and now former prime minister mind of rajapaksa says he resigned to ensure the stability of the country and allow president series ina to appoint

a new government something the president vowed never to do with become a singer at the helm and on sunday he insisted that his personal stance was not to appoint wickham a singer but said he was doing so to respect parliamentary traditions. serious in his bid to dissolve parliament and call snap elections was ruled unconstitutional by the supreme court last week become a singer says a new political alliance will be formed to safeguard the country a possible reference to plans for his new government and elections that will be tested when they go ahead in the coming months in f. an endless al-jazeera colombo. u.s. air strikes have killed sixty two people in somalia commanders say they will fight says the pentagon and says the weekend attacks on gender were in coordination with somalia's government has been fighting to overthrow that government for more than a decade. and has been from washington the u.s.

military not giving out a ton of details but they do say that on december fifteenth air strikes were launched at about forty kilometers southwest of the capital mogadishu and that thirty four fighters were killed air strikes the following day on the sixteenth killed another twenty eight fighters for al shabaab the u.s. military says they don't believe any civilians were killed or injured in the bombing campaign the associated press is reporting that sources inside the somali government say that the reason for the attack was they believed al shabaab was about to launch an attack on a somali government military facility so the air strikes were called in we've seen a pretty sizable increase in the number of air strikes in somalia since u.s. president donald trump came to office he's given the u.s. military pretty much across the globe more authority to launch air strikes this will be the most airstrikes in recent memory in somalia conducted by the u.s. in cooperation with the somali government this brings the total to forty six

airstrikes for the year. britain's prime minister is set for another meeting with her divided cabinet after announcing the parliamentary vote for the divorce steel will be held in mid january the main opposition leader jeremy corbin submitted a mission of no confidence in their leadership for brennan reports 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 have a 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 trust it into more 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 justice 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 am about to table a motion which says the following that this house has no confidence in the prime minister due. to our failure to allow the house of commons to have a meaningful vote straightaway on the withdrawal agreement and framework for future relationships during the u.k. and the european union and that will be tabled immediately mr speaker thank you to . the procedure now is that confidence motion is tabled by the opposition will take precedence over government business and its parliamentary convention that any such

request. he granted this week that seem to be winding down into a christmas holiday just warmed up again brennan al jazeera. and now to what's described as a frontline in the global war on drugs the southern border of judge e.q. strong tons of heroin opium and marijuana a smuggled from neighboring afghanistan every year charles trafford reports on why international efforts to stop the narcotics trade a failing mina's of not a guess was a heroin addict for seventeen years she's getting treatment at this government health center in tajikistan's capital to show. her husband used to smuggle heroin into the country from neighboring afghanistan by swallowing sealed bags of the drug shows we're also watching more dish many young people are using drugs and going down that road despite knowing they will be sick i don't understand why no one told me when i started using heroin we thought tara was just about enjoying ourselves

tajikistan is a front line in the global war on drugs a war that the international community is struggling to win in some places along the one thousand three hundred kilometer border with afghanistan the villages set among the premier mountains are so close you can see and hear children playing on the other side. the u.n. estimates around twenty percent of afghan drugs pass through to markets around the world all that separates afghanistan from tajikistan certainly in this region is the pond river which as you can see in places like this is literally just a few meters wide now international experts say that despite hundreds of millions of dollars having been spent to try and stop the smuggling of drugs from afghanistan across this border the effects indeed the success of domestic policies with international assistance has been minimal tajikistan's anti narcotic

agency was keen to show us how they deal with the drugs the c.s. bags of opium blocks boxes of heroin thrown into an incinerator. the government says more than three tons of heroin has been intercepted so far this year. that. drug traffic bite down town is getting lower this shows to better at controlling the situation but the u.n. drugs agency and the u.s. and european governments regularly accused as you can stand of not doing enough the u.s. says it's believed much of the drugs that move through the country do so with the help of corrupt police and government officials. some international reports estimated drug smuggling accounts for almost a third of tajikistan's economy last year a record nine thousand tons of opium was produced in afghanistan mainly by armed

groups including the taliban almost double the amount from two thousand and sixteen and with little sign of peace in afghanistan it's expected tajikistan will remain a major transit route for drugs on the way to russia china and other countries around the world chance stop at al-jazeera on the tajikistan afghanistan border. tough as a take a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera a u.n. brokered cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni city of her data but there are reports of sporadic fighting still taking place in the embattled border between saudi and government forces and the rebels china's president has celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the saga of the communist transformation from one of the world's poorest countries into the second largest economy now she jumping promised

china will expand efforts at opening up and ensure the implementation of major reforms but he gave few details he did warn though that no one can dictate to the chinese what they should or shouldn't do but didn't directly address the trade tariff disagreed with the united states. online holiday rental company air b.n. b. has denied making a u. turn on its decision to ban this ins of properties in illegal settlements of the occupied west bank israel's tourism ministry says had backed down after threats of legal action in israel and the us russia is being accused of using every social media platform possible to influence the twenty six presidential election in favor of donald trump the two new reports for peds for the us senate say moscow is still working to support president millions of social media posts have been started former f.b.i. director james comey has called on us republicans to stand up for the values of the

country answering questions in congress came he says president donald trump is constant criticism of the f.b.i. is harmful to the rule of law and 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 that make any sense. at some point someone has to stand up in the face of fear of fox news fear their base fear of being 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. crucial vote on bret's that the government is dismissing jeremy colvin school as game playing today those are the latest headlines the stream is the next. stories generated i'd like to. separate the spin from the facts.

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