radioactive isotopes from underneath the car roll well with it. really they were not just the marshall islands we're talking to hold the solution. a ceasefire takes effect in yemen small city of the data with only scattered reports of fighting. hello welcome to our jazeera live from doha i'm martin denis also coming up china's president says his country will not be dictated to by anyone as the communist party celebrates forty years of free market reforms. new reports reveal the power

and reach of russia's election meddling efforts and that they didn't end up helping to put donald trump into the white house. also the south africans who say they're fighting to save three hundred years of heritage from the developers. come into effect in the yemeni city of but there are so reports of sporadic fighting in and around this strategic port area saudi and government forces have been trying for months to capture her data from the rebels where the warring sides had agreed to a truce at peace or peace talks in sweden last week international observers are due to arrive to monitor the seas for the who data is a vital entry point for food and aid in a country where millions of people are on the brink of starvation.

diplomatic editor james bays explains the challenges that will face international observers. 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. camera. will lead the dutch general patrick camera 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

they'll look at the security situation 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 well i've been speaking to hussein now because the journalist based in the yemeni capital sana'a he says the ceasefire is holding but that sporadic fighting could end up blocking aid 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 before they therefore

they should allow food and medicine first come into into the data even though oh the in control because they knighted nation 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 withdraw 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 hold these and that's all that coalition will form some committees to do to set up the withdrawal and the mechanism of the with those that are all from the data and hopefully everything will be. the u.s.

travel ban of people from a name muslim countries is preventing a yemeni mother from seeing her dying son that she wrote is in hospital in california with a rare brain disease the council on american islamic relations has appealed to the state department to see her waiver there's been no response mike hanna reports from washington. post travel ban was imposed just days off to president trump took office it faced 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 be 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 has 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 beza 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 another son. for the one last time. time time is there any 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. china's president has celebrated the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms which transform the country from one of the world's poorest to the second largest economy paying promised to open up even more but ek few details he didn't refer directly to the trade standoff with the us but he made a veiled reference to not being dictated to him brown reports from beijing. in one nine hundred seventy eight the overall impression of china was one of backwardness and extreme poverty with workers doing jobs machines could do better the country was still recovering from the chaos and cruelty of chairman mao's political campaign. china's current president xi jinping was twenty five and a postgraduate student china's leader then was done shopping and on december the

eighteenth in the great hall of the people he delivered one of the most important speeches in china's history outlining a radical plan to reform and open up the country stagnating economy allowing foreign investment from rivals like japan and the united states the southern city of shenzhen next to hong kong would be the crucible of that change the tiptoeing into capitalism had begun. forty years on president xi delivered another keenly anticipated speech unusually sitting down and he struck a defiant tone no one would stop china's rise neil curry from the meeting there is no textbook to follow that no one is in a position to dictate to the chinese people what should or should not be done. china's development he said pose no threat to any country given the current sino us

trade friction that's begun to her china's economy this was a timely address but other than a vague promise to continue the reforms that dung began president she didn't address the trumpet ministrations concerns that there be less state control in china's economy. in this space park we found contrasting views about whether life had got better for all. my biggest feeling is that our speed keeps going faster and faster we getting more and more airplanes and reaching out to more destinations and no country has conveyed our high speed trains i think this is side is only good when the disadvantaged people benefit as well not just for the rich ones china's leaders have proved one thing you can improve livelihoods and grow an economy without political reform adrian brown al jazeera beijing. 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 two of the sixteen two reports released by the senate intelligence committee and giving a much bigger picture of moscow's this information campaigns which the studies are all a sell 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. 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 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 sixteen 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. still to come late here at al-jazeera the pristine landscape on the front line of the global war on drugs we have a special report from down and away with

a pregnant woman and her family scaling the border fence to find a better life in the u.s. . hello the rain doesn't seem to be as heavy now as it was two days ago this is particularly true for the southern philippines of peninsular malaysia and borneo clearly there are still showers in obvious bands but i think the focus for the next couple of days at least twenty four hours is going to be more in the philippines is darker green here heading towards the south and philippine islands could produce some pretty big storms and there's a good scattering of course through indonesia and back through sumatra to singapore kayo and peninsulas is still southern town just not as heavy as they were and there's the philippines to watch now i suspect and jakarta of course there in

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didn't come in through the front entrance that was what happened to the people who were shot they came into the wrong end of the nightly power of took pics of the furniture to. show the scale out of your sorry a holiday and hotels on al-jazeera. time versus take a look at the top stories here about in syria a un brain could cease fire has started in the yemeni port of her data but sporadic fighting is being reported in the besieged city between saudi backed government forces and toothy 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 she brought mr open up to the world even more but gave few details russia's being accused of using every social media platform possible to influence the twenty sixteen presidential election in donald trump's favor to new reports for a pair for the u.s. senate say moscow is still working to support the kremlin has firmly denied the allegations. human rights watch says it's gathered evidence of violent acts being committed against asylum seekers crossing the border from turkey to greece the organization interviewed twenty six people who crossed over in the northeastern region of ever arses share and they describe being pushed back over a river into turkey and some made even more serious allegations such as being beaten by greek police in detention and being stripped of their clothes human

rights watch wants the e.u. to urge greece to end for sports parents and to investigate claims of assault. only half of the central americans who were part of a so-called caravan of asylum seekers have entered the u.s. most of them are waiting to get in through the mexican border town. u.s. authorities say that almost three thousand people have now crossed illegally they're being held in custody on their asylum claims are reviewed how to abdulhamid reports. the border patrol has been in position since early morning. trying to discourage asylum seekers from taking the leap. instead in a matter of minutes to him and five teenagers and three children had to touch u.s. soil and quietly surrendered to the guards who seemed preoccupied with the presence of journalists operating on the mexico side a times using a threatening tone is what some people say their reporters are helping them from

the sounds of the just wrong it's against the law. but also coming under pressure from american citizens you know separate children from their parents was one of my girls was last week border patrol care. with each day that passes more asylum seekers are crossing illegally into the u.s. it's a scene that happens in many spots along mexico's northern border just a few days ago we witnessed several people crossing from this exact point in the meantime a second layer was added to the wall and it's nearly doubled the height making it more difficult to scale and riskier to jump off on the u.s. side. but a few kilometers away it's still possible and it follows a pattern get over the wall then look for the border patrol to take you away see federal leeway in my explains that months in custody in the u.s. is better than one day back at home in the salvador and safe she has already done

this once before in june and was deported back to her country she fed. again under threat and now hopes to be accepted as a refugee. this time she's with eight months pregnant everyone who wants to get turmeric or before to be being born american will give the baby opportunities she never got in life it's a practice that president trump was to put an end to the herd that honestly i'm not afraid now but i might get never said that very moment now i'm calm. brief moment to side stare at each other every one of these people and off they go there's a little hesitation. a sense of urgency evidence father is worried about. over there more to. come on darling you can make a t. says. it looks like she's not feeling

too well she either hurt yourself while getting over that wall or maybe it was just too much stress for her pregnancy. we don't know but evelyn is taking away the rest the question they will spend the night in custody one of the rare times where detention represents the possibility of a new life. but at the hammy along mexico's corded border. be online holiday rental company air b.n. b. has denied reversing its decision to ban listings of properties in illegal settlements of the occupied west bank the company made the announcement last month israel's tourism ministry has said since. backed down after threats of legal action in israel and the us seventy deca has more from west jerusalem. the vice president of be in be is in jerusalem talking to the tourism minister this led to some

confusion on tuesday initially air b.n. b. putting out a statement in hebrew by its israeli spokesperson indicating that it was going back on its november decision to stop listing homes and properties in the illegal settlements in the occupied west bank now the israeli tourism minister also hinted at that well soon after air b.n. b. put out a another statement saying that this was incorrect that basically its policy and its decision had not changed it did however clarify that it didn't agree with the b.d.s. movement the boycott divestment and sanctions movement that cesar israeli products boycotted or this settlements in the west bank these kinds of things are distancing itself from the political movement of when it comes to boycotting israel but saying that it was talking to all sides and it was trying to understand what was a very complex and emotional issue it is of course i think air b.n. b. is learning just how complicated the situation is here remains to talk to the

tourism minister on wednesday we'll wait and see if there is any other statement but certainly it shows you the pressure that the israeli lobby has the power that it has and also the pressure and the concerns israel has when you have such a high profile international company like air b.n. b. saying that it will no longer advertise it will no longer work with the settlements in the west bank which are of course illegal under international at the moment from what we understand its policy has not changed it will continue not to list them but they continue to be listed on its website basically because from what we understand there's a complicated legal issue to remove the listings in the settlements but again it just highlights the complicated nature of the situation on the ground here. the leaders of kosovo and serbia have traded accusations at the un security council over kosovo's decision to turn its security force into an army the announcement

last friday has angered serbia who push for the security council meeting un peacekeeping chief as young p.l.o. chua called on both sides to refrain from making the situation any worse the president's standing firm but hinted that they could talk garber got them of course of the has made a mistake it's only that we had it for five years unnecessarily to establish an army the decision for the army might be belated but in no way is it the wrong one it's believed it because we waited for good well from those that never showed any good will towards cassava we are free seeing more and more difficulties in the area of course when we talk here and i have to say the time very much worried very much concerned and a bit even afraid of the future and for the future not only. for my people of our country serbia but of an entire region and now to what's

described as a frontline in the global war on drugs the southern border of jiji castonguay tons of heroin opium and marijuana smuggled from neighboring afghanistan every year charles shefford reports on why international efforts to stop the narcotics trade a failing menas 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 and 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 arab was just about enjoying ourselves. stan is a frontline 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 un 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 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 and 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 they seize 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. drug traffic by down from gastown 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 estimate a 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 child stop at al-jazeera all the time as you can stand afghanistan border a controversial court case between an historic community and a land developer is underway in 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 in the houses but locals have been protesting and even preventing construction vehicles from entering the site from cape town for me jamila 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 a system because our growth that really is the fact the building of such a 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 consider 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 the series heritage is important for all south africans because it tells the story of slavery the forced removal of people under part dates of racial laws as well as the country's cultural diversity

architects started 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 a cultural resource is under threat and that's why here are teachers being the key word in protest movements in for car identity religious life of unity large social institutions urban fabric all of that. as as has been under threat the cape town government now says surprise it will. the area being sold to heritage site but first needs to consult the people here at the community says it's also a 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. let's have a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera a u.n. brokered cease fire has started in the yemeni port of her data but sporadic fighting is being reported in the besieged city between saudi and government forces and to the rebels china's president has celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the start of the transformation from one of the world's poorest countries into the second largest economy. paying promise china will expand efforts at opening up and ensure the implementation of major reforms he gave few details though he warned

that no one can dictate to the chinese what they should or shouldn't do and didn't directly address the trade tariff dispute with the united states so. there is no text book 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. online holiday rental company has denied making a u. turn on its decision to ban listings of properties in illegal settlements of the occupied west bank israel's tourism ministry says back 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 kremlin his family deny the reports f.b.i.

director james comey has gotten us republicans to sound up for the values of the country on string questions in congress he said president constant criticism of the f.b.i. is home for to the rule of law and the president of the united states is lying about the f.b.i. attacking the f.b.i. and 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 being tweets stand up for the values of this country and not slink away to retirement but stand up and speak the truth and britain's main opposition leader has submitted a motion of no confidence in prime minister to resume a after she delayed a vote exit all right today those are the latest headlines coming up next here it out there is war hotels. china could be facing a debt iceberg that's according to. trump ministration insisting towards the saudis

and other oil producers that they want to have more production to cool down the price we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the huddle holiday in the for hotel was our hollows. people were shot dead on the entrance to the hotel. i do remember a time when hotel was a shelter and it started but. it is in your old fellow you called but you know the rest of us to. try. and turn to the camera man i said look that's good they're allowed if you know. how this place continued to function shooting thena.