we together can create the change we want. by speaking out by standing up by taking action to be the leader you are looking for stand up for human rights. reports of sporadic fighting but the ceasefire in yemen's port city of her data seems to be holding. live from london also coming up for misses from russia iran and turkey reach accelerate their efforts for a political solution in syria. press excessive to joseph kabila report from the democratic republic of congo on campaigning that

a long awaited election. and one of the world's most successful football managers is fired one of the world's biggest comes. sacked by manchester united. and begin in yemen where a un brokered cease fire is largely holding for the key port city of data despite some reports of sporadic fighting and he rebels say one civilian has been killed by coalition forces and district well coalition forces say three civilians have been killed by hoofy shining in today to district yemen's warring sides agree to a truce for her data peace talks held in sweden last week. reports. as the ceasefire 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 this is one of the problem of the. agreement because it has actually linked to the flow of humanitarian aid with the security as it was and our data to be honest they should have actually. up or there's a allow food and medicine first. even though oh the in control because i. have said before that if i but isn't over a dead end aid coming 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 day that remains desperate. imitation to get access to care. in focus a key that. the city for example.

for what it is no 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 un supervised neutral forces for now many yemenis hope that this truce will hold no matter how tenuous the situation on the ground remains. a far mrs of russia turkey and iran have agreed to accelerate their efforts to find a political solution to the syrian civil war that they say they will work towards convening a committee next year which would negotiate a new constitution for syria but the un envoy for syria said much more work remains

to be done in close consultation with the secure general i believe you did receive a extra my to go on an extra mile to go on in that effort to ensure that necessity package for a credible balanced and inclusive constitutional committee. in for including a balanced chairing arrangement and drafting body and voting. to be established under the u.n. of business in geneva let's go live now to james bays at the united nations james tell us more about this constitutional committee. well this has been the effort of mr de mistura since the beginning of the year in sochi they came up with this plan with everything else going nowhere in syria the whole idea of having talks and negotiations and going nowhere they decided to focus on one part of the

problem and that was to come up with a new constitution for syria it was agreed at the end of january that all the parties the result she would come back with names for a constitutional committee so there was supposed to be three lists one from the syrian government side one from the syrian opposition and one a list of civil society and those three lists would come together meet in geneva and come up with a new constitution syria the problem has been those lists the opposition has agreed it's a list the syrian government has agreed in its list of who should take part it's the civil society list that's proved the problem and it's the syrian government that's been putting objections in the way stefan de mistura the special envoy is coming to the end of his job he wanted to give a final push to this and hopes were raised in the last twenty four hours when we heard that the russian iranian and turkish foreign ministers were heading to geneva had the russians managed to persuade the syrian government to agree to

a list of civil society members well that hasn't happened it seems that the russians are rain ians and turks have agreed a list with the syrian government but the u.n. is not happy with that list and the u.n. wants some additional members added to this constitutional committee the civil society element of it so again we have deadlock really not good news so are you suggesting this isn't really any kind of real progress toward peace. well i think there are some on the security council who are questioning whether the whole idea now of doing the constitution as the next bit is the right way forward because the syrian government have certainly been dragging their feet on this for months and months and in fact to come out with statements like the constitution is something that the syrian government to decide not anyone else so i think they'll be big questions about the way forward staffan de mistura has been in the job for four and a half years he's tried local ceasefires he's tried the international community all

coming together the international syria support group he's tried face to face negotiations the last year has been working on this committee proposal he has a successor who has been appointed gary pedersen will he follow on the constitution part of it or will he look at a different part of it as he takes over we're told by the u.n. the two special envoys at this time or other like in athletics in the relay race they are running together as they hand over the baton certainly they're working very hard but what where are they going to go next where mr patterson is going to take this isn't clear james bays thank you very much well the u.s. special envoy for syria jim jeffrey has confirmed the deployment of kurdish fighters from northern iraq into northern syria and the unexpected deployment came after turkey threatened further military action in member if u.s. backed kurdish why p.g. fighters don't leave the area then heard a report from istanbul. turkish military reinforcements have already been sent to

the border with syria president treasure 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. the f. is mainly made up of the y.p. g. or kurdish people's 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 jim jeffrey to ankara last week geoffrey said he told the turks their plans offensive is a bad idea u.s. support for the y.p. g. has strained relations but jeffrey confirmed arrangements are being made to address turkey's concerns. deployment across the border

was done with our understanding but also with the understanding of the ocean so. that's one of the various steps that are being taken. the white peachy and the peshmerga are viable kurdish forces but kurds in northern iraq are allies of the u.s. 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 probe and g.'s y. p. g.'s territorial continuity alongside the turkey's border and turkey is planning to infiltrate into this syrian territory the white peachy already enjoys self rule which turkish leaders reject because they believe the white peachy 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 b.g. is an important element in washington's syria strategy and the trumpet ministrations only syria giving its 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 white peachey 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 senator al jazeera has stumbled. 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 second largest economy she promised to open up even more but gave few details he didn't refer directly to the trade standoff with the u.s. it did say that china would not be told what to do a jim brown report 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 new york refel meet there is no textbook to follow 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 u.s. 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 paging park we found contrasting views about whether life had got better for all. our biggest feelings airspeed keeps going faster and faster we getting more and more airplanes and reaching out to more destinations and no countries can be to 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 though have proved one thing you can improve livelihoods and grow an economy without political reform adrian brown al-jazeera beijing still to come on al-jazeera a former trump advisor is to be sentenced soon for lying to the f.b.i. about contact with russia and online vacation rental company b. and b. deny is reversing its plan to stop listing properties in illegal israeli settlements.

bit more snow coming through its generous action the bay of bangor 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 for the researcher who handles shanghai and between wednesday and says these are mostly an overnight feature it's exactly what it'll do is a line of cloud developing rain rain not snow because the height and that's as up there on to 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 but it's just 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. in malaysia schooling is a luxury for children of writing or muslim refugees but for. every child deserves an opportunity for faith and creativity the arms them with the skills to overcome any hurdle and seize the threat to his schools existence as a test of his face. school of hard parts of the viewfinder asia series it's

on al-jazeera. and i'm going to remind the top stories here. a u.n. brokered cease fire is not really holding the yemeni port city of data despite some reports of sporadic fighting the truce was agreed by hoofy rebels and the saudi backed government after a breakthrough in peace talks last week. the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran have agreed to accelerate their efforts to find a political solution to the syrian civil war the committee will be convened next year to negotiate a new constitution for the country. the online hard

a rental company b. and b. says it has not reversed a ban on listings of properties in illegal settlements in the occupied west bank for the claim by israel's tourism ministry which stated b. and b. had backed down from its decision after threats of legal action in israel and the us company made the announcement to delist in november that the deca has more from the illegal israeli settlement of efrat in 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 and also all across the west bank really erin we always said at the time november when it made the statement that this would take time to implement but

interestingly certainly it shows how israel 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 that this was in a political move and that it was told and all sides and what it understood was what they called a complicated and emotional issue and so i have to wait and see of any other statements i made but at the moment air b.n. says everybody says it meant tames its policy that it will stop these listings that moment the listings continue to be advertised one of us president donald trump's former advisers is facing sentencing this hour for lying to the f.b.i. about contact with russia michael flynn served as president trump's national security adviser less than a month at the start of the administration guilty to lying to investigators in a case stemming from the inquiry into possible collusion between chump's election

team and russia in the run up to the twenty sixteen vote. she had the chance he joins us live from outside the courthouse in washington with much of the background to the case she had. of the special counsel investigation into allegations of collusion with russia in the election f.b.i. investigators came to interview michael flynn who was then the national security advisor. defenders say they did so in an altogether far too casual way and didn't make it clear to him that actually any lies that he told them would be taken very seriously and could result in prosecution that's another story that's interesting and bubbling away on the surface the f.b.i. and. we should know that you can f.b.i. agents when they're going to be problems as part of those discussions there he was all specifically about his contacts with the russian ambassador to the u.s. . and flynn denied having conversations with kids however it has transpired that

the conversations did take place during the transition period between the presidential election. inauguration two conversations specifically we know about one about the sanctions that the obama administration had levied on russia as a result of alleged interference in the election and the other conversation which is particularly fascinating is a conversation. about a a u.n. security council resolution that was being condemning israel for illegal west bank settlements it seems that israel contacted the trump transition team and. then contacted michael flynn to say look the russians to see if they can delay over this u.n. security council resolution which for the first time as obama was on his way out of the office the u.s. is going to let that happen the u.s. is going to abstain. because we had all the speculation about possible collusion with a foreign power this is actual collusion with a foreign power in violation of the logan act which means that you can't mess

around with a foreign policy of a sitting administration that's exactly what they were doing you don't hear much about that perhaps it was about israel and russia. about these conversations with f.b.i. agents and finally have to come clean so that's what he's being sentenced for here today but because he's. given so much cooperation to robert mueller the special counsel the recommendation is that he serve minimal jail time of any jail time at all thank you very much indeed you have a chance in reporting that. well than forty million voters in the democratic republic of congo go to the polls on sunday using electronic voting machines for the first time electoral commission says the devices will cut costs and speed up the voting and counting process but opposition civil society groups and some averred observers fear the machines are not practical in a huge country with limited transport and electricity and they could be used to rig an election catherine story is on the ground for us and so is this report from the congolese capital kinshasa. the conversation in just this one on the edge of the.

election and the electronic voting machine. by the general lack of information and what's expected on them on voting day. we don't know what to expect we might do the wrong thing they should have told us what to do before now we'll just learn on polling day. in another village on the outskirts of kinshasa. who lives next to this polling station has similar concerns about what people in my village know nothing. explained. and hope for the best some opposition leaders and civil society groups fear the south korean voting machines being used for the first time here could be manipulated to wreak the election. people across the country have never seen this machine and that's why we're all worried we're

asking how will we know if we're being cheated in some areas i'm not even seen as money on the place i'm concerned the election is already set up for dispute and violence the electoral commission says the process is fairly simple and takes about a minute one hundred five thousand machines being installed in eighty thousand polling stations a logistical nightmare for africa second largest country with bad droids limited electricity poor security and any demick in the. on top of a fire in the capital is causing controversy voting material the us still being distributed to different parts of the country but a warehouse here in kinshasa where the fetus machines were being stored was gunned down last week destroying most of the material the want to be used on fourteen day the building has been. investigating but politicians. are blaming each other for

the. by the various problems are increasing election tension nationwide he are the stone cutter the steel shop they just want a fair election as well as a leader who will help make their lives a little more bearable catherine sorry alda's iraq kinshasa. a mother who was unable to travel to the u.s. to meet her dying son because of donald trump's travel ban has received a waiver shamas relay a yemeni is technically banned from entering the u.s. due to travel restrictions on mostly muslim countries imposed by shops administration her husband appealed to the state department to sign a waiver so that she could see her son who's on a life support machine in california the council of american islamic relations now says swilley will be able to land in america and is booking a flight to san francisco. that i'm a putin has suggested for the first time that other countries could join a cold war era arms agreement between russia and the u.s. the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty is at risk of unraveling after

washington gave last go sixty days to comply with the agreement or warned it would pull out western denies it's in violation of the treaty but speaking at a military event putin said other countries which currently possess missiles could be asked to join the agreement. a human rights commission which reports to saudi arabia's king solomon is investigating the alleged torture of detained women's rights activists according to the world will street journal a top aide of a crown prince over source some aspects of the torture and threatened at least one jailed woman with rape and death the saudi government dismissed dismisses the allegations as wild claims many of the activists were campaigning for women's right to drive or lynn maloof the middle east research director at amnesty international says she's concerned the saudi investigation will not be transparent. we have called on the authorities to conduct prompt and impartial and investigations into

the reports of torture of the of the detained activists now our concern is 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 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 an under it is 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. for trying not to ask her about the elections in a democratic republic of congo across from catherine sorious now able to join us live from from contrasts are catherine any indications yet on who might win the election. it's very hard to tell more and a lot of people here are running into actual competition we've been seeing the main presidential candidates going all out coming up across the country accompanied in of course the ruling party hard it is a monster diary has some advantages you have the trappings of power behind me at the support of our the president junior of the law but many of the presidential kind of it as. it's free and they have a chance to win back something else more and

a lot of people are talking about it's controversial voting machine and joining us to discuss. a presidential candidates in iowa john thank you very much and with all the problems you know everything people are talking about the one thing missing. the real election. a lot of people stuck to the thing have no information about what is expected of them. and going to carry out its capacity to carry out this election and the capacity to carry out its connection with this question yes i do believe that this is any has been stating that it is ready to organize the election on december twenty third two thousand and eighteen with my view is that many things we meant to be done for example some of the electoral agents or who are supposed to be. showing people how to use the voting machine have not been trying to get you know addition to their electoral voting card their witness card which came to be signed by the agents in every

single voting station those recall to have not been delivered to the voting station in the country and as you know we have eighty thousand putting situation in the congo in some of those voting stations i'm looking at a given area which are not accessible by you wrote very easily so if they have not believe of those report cards to the voting station i don't see how the of that can be done within the next five days but you know i didn't today we still have divided opinion on the use even of those voting machines because many people believe that they have been prepared to risk their lives in favor of a presidential the ruling party candidate in my view if the election were free and fair there is no chance that mr should that he was representing prison computers the party can win but what do you thing. police don't need to know in this very short time frame i do believe that this thing has to take their time and i think

probably they do have to pull all good things they sure can get it the civil society the national with the minister foundation and also the international organization of the french speaking of our countries which had conduct their audit of. devoting all of our you know addition to that also we have convened so that we can agree on the way forward ok thank you very much that was one of the presidential candidate he's also. asking that the electoral commission perhaps with all hear the election for another three months because something many people here in the democratic republic of congo do not want to hear because the vote as a reading been delayed for two years catherine so i thank you very much. and has united football club as far jersey marine years its football coach with immediate effect the club for the full time whistle on marino after a dismal start to this premier league season manchester united are in sixth place after losing away to rivals liverpool on sunday when the favorites to replace

marina is former world cup winning an x. ray on the grid to manager dan. rogers there's at least one in that joins me now so . a hugely successful what will this mean for him this is been coming for a long time lauren he never properly settled on a couple of relatively minor trophies but there's always been this cloud over him since he came into the club yes he's got a brilliant track record over many many years but he's tom it shows he was poisoned by the end of it we got into a situation there with off the field issues so by the time mentioned united hired him i think they were hiring him on past reputation rather than recent achievements and he just wasn't getting on with some of the star players they might say well he's the manager he just tell them what to do but someone like paul pogba the french well aware of who is simply gloating over merinos departure they never got on radio never got the best out of him and you have a situation where manchester united weren't playing the kind of attractive football that the cops are they want supply as well as getting the results as well as

winning trophies. we could talk for longer but thank you very much added i thanks very much indeed. the main stories on. cease fire is largely holding the yemeni port city of data despite some reports of sporadic fighting say one civilian has been killed by coalition forces in district. three civilians are being killed by. a district a truce was agreed by warring sides after a breakthrough in peace talks last week the foreign ministers of russia turkey and iran have agreed to accelerate their efforts to find a political solution to the syrian civil war. next year for a new constitution for syria. there's a top stories do stay with us if you find asia is coming next. thanks watching in a bit.