al jazeera. where every. fighting dies down in the polls that you have a date of birth the warring sides largely abide by a child truce. logs or what you want you all just over lost my headquarters here in doha also coming up president xi jinping says his country will not be dictated to by anyone as china celebrates forty years since opening its economy to the world. of online vacation rental company a b. and b.

denies reverse his plan to stop listening properties in the listing properties and illegal israeli settlements. and has a marine who has been sacked as the coach of english chance manchester united. welcome to the program a un brokered ceasefire in yemen's key port city of the data has largely been holding but there have been reports of sporadic fighting throughout the day yemen's warring sides agree to a truce a peace talks held in sweden last week. and reports. as the cease fire officially began on tuesday night sporadic fighting was reported to have continued for a time in and around the besieged port city of data as the hours passed the situation appeared to become calmer but it remains fragile some worry that could block much needed aid from getting in this is one of the problem of the. agreement

because it has. the flow of human he did it with. allow food then. even though. i have said before that if i but isn't over. is coming today that. yemen is suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis aid workers say the situation around her they remains desperate. indication to get access to care to see key. data in. the city for example. for data. access to care. from. which is almost.

in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government the president. agreed not only to pull back fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of you in supervised neutral forces for now many yemenis hope that this truce will hold no matter how tenuous the situation on the ground remains. an associate professor of called for the resolution of the institute for graduate studies and joins me in the studio what's going to be with us the ceasefire is holding tentatively we sort of holding our breath over the scenario how important is it for it to hold hold hold the humanitarian needs it poses a whole range of questions about talk show jewel to the end of january there is no doubt this is a myth. breakthrough in the conflict in yemen because for one important reason that

this is the fifth time in four years we are seeing some sort of an agreement between the two partners however as you know this has an agreement of a humanitarian cause not a political cause so the politics have has not been tested so far in this conflict and we are at this thing now is to see how much to what extent the parties will work together on trying to avoid a humanitarian disaster that's for yemen if this fighting continues so despite that there's a humanitarian agreement it is important because it's the first time in four years indeed there are no u.n. troops though this whole deal has been brokered by the u.n. but there will be u.n. observers how important is it for retired major patrick comair to get his personnel on the ground and be able to monitor and try and maintain the peace between the

parties it is on very shaky ground from a sustainability point of view it's important the agreement emphasized who is going to be administrating the whole day the poor it will be the yemen is the local forces themselves so again this is for the sustainability this is great the nose because it's the yemen is the locals who on this implementation of the segment and they will be able to on this. for the future however this is this is this comes as a package because of his question to what extent the locals can be neutralized not be poor ised by the parties by the whole by the government this isn't this is not easy because they will always be accused by this party or the other party that they're there for their. they have favoritism and if we have. troops

this will give better chances for the agreement to succeed and to be implemented because they're external to their outside this conflict and they can maintain that independence from the top part of his wife the will cause them invulnerable to the politicization and the pressure that comes from that too far senior u.s. officials would perhaps not want to entrench their troops into a conflict like this right now until they can really perhaps fathom how serious the sides are into coming to some sort of negotiated peace deal should there be those talks in january how important is this period in terms of leading up to those talks in seeing how. sincere the sides are to wanting those talks at the end of january because it only takes one shooting one missile to be launched and it's all over yes there are many benefits for this humanitarian cease fire to succeed and that will

help the political process later in january the very first major one is that this is going to be if it succeeds. confidence building measures will be built between the two parters because then it's not only about the statements it's about the actions and that if the two parties sure that they are willing to deliver on their promises and on what this sign forward then we are building some sort of confidence building measures when the two parters let's not forget that for the first time also happening the government representative and the holders of britains of in sweden they were shaking hands they were promising that things will change so in terms of confidence building measures i think this is good but and the other one is that for this would give us that there's something that they can build on for

january and that's why it's important for this to succeed and january talks help or just see what does of the moment from the doha institute thanks for your time thank you. the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey arrived in geneva for un led talks on syria most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that would negotiate a new a syrian constitution the committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society ben smith has the latest from geneva the hope is that russia iran and turkey have agreed the final fifty names will be added to another hundred that will form this constitutional committee that will then discuss constitutional amendments or changes to syria's constitution before elections are held fifty names came from the syrian regime fifty names from opposition groups and these last fifty russia turkey iran a bit haggling over with the u.n. hoping to agree them by the end of today so they can be approved by the u.n.

secretary general now when this committee meets the was a hope that they might meet before the end of the year although that seems rather optimistic but this committee of one hundred fifty people must somehow come to agree the terms or changes to syria's constitution before there are elections as regime has already said he's not prepared they're not prepared to have a new constitution or only take changes so given our bloody and divisive this war has been it's going to be an enormous challenge for one hundred fifty people to agree to those changes to syria's constitution. now the u.s. special envoy for syria jim jeffrey has confirmed the deployment of kurdish fighters from northern iraq into northern syria the expected move came after turkey threatened further military action in monday if u.s. backed kurdish wife fighters don't leave the area so how to reports now from istanbul. turkish military reinforcements have already been sent to the border with syria president to tell you border guard says

a cross border operation against what he calls terrorists can begin at any moment the target is the u.s. backed syrian democratic forces the s.d.f. is mainly made up of the y.p. g. or kurdish peoples protection units it won't be the first time the turkish military has confronted the kurdish armed group on syrian soil but if this offensive does happen it will be the first time turkish troops are targeting the group east of the euphrates river where its nato ally the united states stations its troops. are two guns announcement followed a visit by u.s. syria envoy chip geoffrey to ankara last week jeffrey said he told the turks their plans offensive is a bad idea u.s. support for the why peachey has strained relations but jeffrey confirmed arrangements are being made to address turkey's concerns. deployment across the border. with our understanding but also with the

understanding of. one of the various steps that are being taken. the white beechy and the peshmerga are viable kurdish forces but kurds in northern iraq are allies of the us and turkey they are likely to be deployed along the borders between syria turkey and iraq the y.p. she controls a continuous strip of territory from iraq to the eastern banks of the euphrates river almost thirty percent of syria's territory the first one is aiming to prevent p. y. g.'s y. p. g.'s territorial continuity alongside the turkey's border and for kids planning to infiltrate into this syrian territory the white peachy already enjoys self rule which turkish leaders reject because they believe the white peachey is an extension of the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which is fighting for kurdish autonomy in south east turkey. for that we have said

and we are saying it no we will begin our operation to rescue the east of the euphrates from the separatist organization within a few days turkey says any operation would not target u.s. troops but the white is an important element in washington's syria strategy and the trump administration's only syria giving leverage and influence in any political settlement turkish leaders know that and are treading carefully so as not to rupture a relationship with a strategically important ally. the u.s. envoy for syria is now stressing washington's ties with armed groups in northern syria are tactical temporary and transactional such a description is unlikely to please the wife or satisfy turkish leaders but the u.s. says steps are being taken turkey has had to say whether they are enough to prevent military action there is. still ahead here on al-jazeera human rights under the spotlight in saudi arabia activists are being interviewed over allegations they

suffered torture and abuse. on the pristine landscape on the frontline of verbal war on drugs we have a special report from tajikistan. hellas bit more snow coming through its generous action the bay of bengal cloud here is just coming into the high ground in sichuan at the moment and that's the forecast for wednesday so there's a hint of it spotting is rain on lower ground further research hunt was shanghai and between wednesday and says these are mostly an overnight feature so exactly what it'll do is a line of cloud developing rain rain not snow because of the height and that's as up there on certain rain probably in shanghai temps hasn't changed very much at all there was just a burst of rather secure cloud still quite well in hong kong at twenty five degrees

which is rather better than delhi to be honest now there's the clouds it's come up through the bay of bengal currently giving rain in eastern the poor bhutan in northeastern india but look what's happening down here having just seen one tropical cyclone running through and for dash the next one appears to be thinking about developing again the circulation here somewhere around for lanka could be worth watching course over land mostly dry picture but that's as a worth watching comes this day to the west the arabian peninsula is quiet now not particularly breeze you know particularly wet but if you're looking at the horn of africa that's where the wet is. getting to the heart of the matter how can you be a refugee after a while it borders between five safe countries facing the realities that from the very beginning got there by. providing context housing is not just about four walls

and a roof hear their stories and talk to al-jazeera. of like you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories the u.n. brokered cease fire started in the any port city of her data but sporadic fighting is reported in the besieged city between saudi. government forces as well as who through the rebels. also the foreign ministers of russia or iran and turkey arrived

in geneva for u.s. led talks on syria most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that will negotiate a new syria constitution committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society. she has declared no one will stop as countries rise as he spoke on the fortieth anniversary of free market reforms that made china an economic powerhouse but the president didn't announce any new initiatives to counter slow growth and trade tensions with the u.s. china correspondent adrian brown has more 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 campaigns 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 meet 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 feelings l.s.p. keeps going faster and faster we're getting more and more airplanes in reaching out to more destinations and no country has conveyed our high speed trains i think this is sad is only good when the disadvantaged people benefit as well not just for the rich once china's leaders though have proved one thing you can improve livelihoods and grow an economy without political reform adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. online holiday rental company air b.n. b.

has denied reversing its decision to ban listings of properties in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank the got believe made the announcement last month israel's tourism ministry has since said there be a be back down after threats of legal action in israel and the us seventy deca has more from the illegal israeli settlement of the occupied west bank. the fact that a delegation from air b.n. b. came to drew slim to meet with israel's tourism minister gives an indication of just how much pressure the israelis are putting on the company to reverse its decision and there was some confusion on tuesday initially indicating that air b.n. b. may be reversing its decision to stop its listings in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank you're looking at a fraud this is one of the settlements there are still listings in a fraud also all across the west bank really are will be always said at the time november when it made the statement that this would take time to implement but interestingly certainly it shows how this role is concerned about one of these major international companies highlighting the issue of illegal settlements so this

is what the delegation is doing here i made it very clear in the statement tuesday evening that this wasn't part of the b.d.s. movement boycott divestment and sanctions and this wasn't a political move and that it was told and you saw it's what it understood was what they called a complicated and emotional issue and so we have to wait and see if any other statements in may but at the moment air b.n. says everybody says it meant tames its policy that it will stop these listings the moment the listings continue to be advertised to europe now of britons are being warned to prepare for a no deal break set after the prime minister met cabinet ministers the government's vibing a preparations to crash out of the e.u. without any deal for the future with just over one hundred days until the planned leaving day in march trees may has delayed the vote by and p's on accepting or rejecting the e.u. divorce agreement until the middle of next month. russia's president is threatening to create a ground based weapons system if the u.s.

withdrawals from the nuclear missile treaty but it may putin suggesting for the first time that other countries could join the treaty which helped end the cold war donald trump's warned that russia's calls to breaches of the treaty could force america's withdrawal. of the bases you used an issue in the current context the i.n.f. treaty acts as a stabilizing factor and works to maintain a certain level of predictability and restraint in the military sector in case the treaty is broken by the united states we will have to take additional measures to ten hamper our security. a human rights commission which reports to saudi arabia's king solomon is a vestige of milledge torture of detained women activists the wall street journal is reporting the commission began interviewing activists this past month for the holdings of the some of the detained have been subjected to torture such as waterboarding and electrocution the saudi government dismisses allegations as wild claims many of the activists were campaigning for women to be able to drive

a car the maloof is the middle east research director thomas t. international she has concerns about the transparency of the saudi human rights commission investigation we have called on the authorities to conduct prompt and impartial and investigations into the reports of torture of the of the detainees activists now are concerned as a balance the impartiality aspect of this how do we know i mean we need to you know we need to keep pressing it's good that the if the reports are true that these investigations are indeed taking place we need to make sure and monitor that these investigations and the results of these investigations are being led in a transparent way we need to know that the families of the activists are in the know of the process of the investigations how this is being reported on and any steps that are going to be taken afterwards based on the findings so that means and the accountability measures people who have been found responsible for these abuses should be held accountable and redress for the victims and more than that saudi

arabia is under obligation because if it's because as a as a as a signatory of the convention against torture it is under the obligation to conduct this investigation but it's also and under it is it does have the responsibility to protect any of the complainants or the witnesses against any ill treatment as a consequence of their providing the testing would cetera what we know today is that these women and men are still in prison. to what's being described as a frontline in the global war on drugs in southern border to g. can stand tons of heroin opium and marijuana are smuggled from neighboring afghanistan every year. reports on why international efforts to stop the narcotics trade a failing in central asia. not a guess was a heroin addict for seventeen years she's getting treatment at this government health center in tajikistan capital to. her husband used to smuggle heroin into the

country from neighboring afghanistan by swallowing sealed bags of the drug. many young people are using drugs and going down there despite knowing they will be sick i don't understand why no one told me when i started using heroin we thought it was just about enjoying ourselves. 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 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. 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 see. bags of opium or hasheesh block 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 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 moved 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 to stand will remain a major transit route for drugs on the way to russia china and other countries around the world charles stratford al-jazeera on the tragic istana afghanistan border. right place the hungry have struggled to control a fifth successive day of anti-government protests against so-called slave labor laws crowds outside the state broadcaster demanding the opposition be allowed to read out their demands on t.v. the legislation passed by the rightwing government could see the return of a six day working week and forced overtime and years of delays for workers being

paid. the presidents of kosovo and serbia have traded accusations at the un security council over kosovo as decision to turn a security force into an army the announcement last friday was has angered serbia who pushed for the security council meeting un and peacekeeping chief. called on both sides to refrain from making the situation any worse the presidents are standing firm but hinted that they could talk. the english football club manchester united has sacked its battered chose a review his departure follows the club's worst start to a season and twenty eight years the wailings takes a look back at what went wrong for you when joe's a marine your arrived at manchester united in twenty six dane fans were hoping he would prove he was still the special one but he's right the old trafford was not special instead it will be remembered as a disappointment over his sullen defensive and argumentative approach you know what

these men three knew but also me in sri premierships and i won more premiership alone then the other one being managed to get. see for me it's all for them receiving respect that is a risk rather than respect so i thought it was clear there was a problem between the radio or the star players mainly paul pogba a hero for france in their world cup win but failing to produce he's best for the united and outspoken against his boss on social media and united sucked at their worst start with things in the nearly thirty years but it was with reluctance that the club's reclusive american owners the grazes decided to sack another manager their big criticised for the failures of david moyes and louis van gaal after thirty eight trophies in a glorious twenty six year reign of alex ferguson marino was successful in portugal italy spain and twice in england with chelsea particularly his first writing from

two thousand and four he had a different energy about him in those years but the second spell at chelsea and it with his dismissal in twenty fifth day in a job that was marred by off the field issues he's treatment of the club's medical staff mainly ava kenya oh that's a court case and the discrimination settlement in her favor this didn't stop united appointing him and there were bright spots in the marine air united as they won the english league cup and the europa league in successive seasons but united are used to winning bigger competitions and the executive in runs the car bed woodward has the card after much success in business deals with better football and trophies but when you're least manchester with substantial financial compensation having had a contract until twenty twenty one and the reported salary of more than twenty million dollars per year but his reputation as a world class coach and serial winner has suffered considerable possibly irreparable damage al-jazeera. to cape canaveral in florida where the space

x. falcon nine rocket is about to take off is the latest launch by private space company this time the rocket is carrying a next generation g.p.s. satellite for the u.s. air force making it the first national security mission for space x. . closer to home is celebrating its national day with a military parade airshow and fireworks as the second one since the saudi arabia the u.a.e. as well as egypt imposed a blockade on the gulf state the gulf cooperation council meeting last week and we had made no progress on solving the crisis. the reminder of our top stories the u.n. brokered cease fire in yemen's key port city of the data has been largely holding but sporadic fighting has been reported in the besieged city between saudi and

u.a.e. back government forces and who the rebels yemen's warring parties agreed on a truce that you had broken talks in sweden last week. the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey arrived in geneva for u.s. led talks on syria the most important priority is to agree on how to set up a committee that would go she to new syrian constitution the committee would be made up of one hundred fifty people representing most strands of syrian society. 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. promised to open up to the world even more but gave very few details online holiday rental company a b. and b. has denied reversing its decision to ban listings of properties and illegal settlements of the occupied west bank the company made the announcement last month israel's tourism ministry has said since that back down after threats of legal action in israel and the us britons are being warned to prepare for

a no deal broke said after the prime minister met cabinet ministers the governments be ramping up preparations to crash out of the e.u. without any deal in the future. russia's president is threatening to create a ground based weapons system if the u.s. withdraws from a nuclear missile treaty putin suggesting for the first time that other countries could join the treaty which helped lead to the cold war donald trump has warned that russia's constant breaches of the treaty could force america's withdrawal. of but just the united following the club's worst premier league start had been in charge old trafford for only two and a half years with media at effect of course so stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com the new script with read up a gator is up next in half an hour stay with us here on al-jazeera. young african footballers are traveling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players but

they risk discrimination and exploitation. when used investigates thailand's football factory on al-jazeera. and here in the stream today the stigma of hiv aids in the middle east and north africa how misconceptions of. the spread of aids. and water attitudes towards hiv aids like where you live share your comments with us through our live chat or via twitter. when it went out to start. with an. industry. in the middle east and north africa the topic of. still considered to been for many people because there are also many misconceptions and difficult.