tackling radicalisation in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is huge i think there's only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization of the radicalized youth syrians announces the era. political. reports of sporadic fighting in yemen as a ceasefire comes into effect in the ports of call data. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and i'm betting you navigate also ahead donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn is to be sentenced as part of a high profile russia investigation iran russia and turkey agree on a five point political plan for reform in syria 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's. hello a un brokered cease fire in yemen's key port city of her day that has been largely holding but there have been reports of sporadic fighting throughout the day yemen's warring sides agree to a truce that peace talks held in sweden last week homage to 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 in this is one of the problem of this we didn't . agreement because it has. the flow of human he did it

with the security situation and. to be honest they should have actually. allow food and medicine. into a video oh the. united nation has said before that it defied but isn't over a dead end. 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 do remains desperate. imitation to get access to care to see key. data in. two cities for example. for data. access to care. from data 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. standing by for us at the united nations and despite that fragile cease fire holding somewhat james you've seen a draft u.n. security council resolution on yemen what does it say. well the idea is that u.n. security council should take that ceasefire and the agreements in stockholm and in dorset and then it'll be harder for people to break it if it's indorsed in a security council resolution it's the u.k.

they've come up with this draft of a resolution it's been circulated to all of the fifteen members of the security council clearly they may well have input on this and there may be changes but there's a say it endorses what was agreed in stockholm it endorsers the timelines of the cease fire and is very clear that everyone needs to abide by those it also calls for more information from the secretary general of the united nations about the redeployment of forces about the monitoring mechanism that he's going to put in place now i can tell you parallel to them doing the negotiations about the resolution which they hope to pass by the end of the week the secretary general is coming up with his plans for the monitoring of the ceasefire because in many ways what happened in stockholm is the talks went much further and much quicker than anyone expected and so they are i think trying to catch up with this monitoring plan i can tell you that the very first members of the monitoring mission the

assessment team a small team will be arriving in yemen in the next twenty four hours to look at the situation on the ground and based on what they find on the ground they will then work out how many monitors need it and then they have to recruit those monitors from various countries around the world they have to volunteer to come forward and then of course the un will deploy them very high risk thing for the un to do the nearest comparison we have is back in twenty twelve in syria when kofi annan the former secretary general was the special envoy for the united nations there were monitors sent into syria to monitor the situation on the ground that is the nearest comparison with what's planned here it's not a comparison that the u.n. and particularly making because that mission in syria was a complete failure. and we know james that the u.n. is also preparing for talks on a wider truce than a framework for political negotiations those are supposed to take place in january

is the feeling amongst the u.n. security council members that if the cease fire and what they that are currently underway does not hold then that may and the process in january i think they really are hoping that this will hold for two reasons one to create some goodwill and some momentum and two for nonpolitical reasons humanitarian reasons who data has been declared to be the lifeline of yemen it is the main port without it the humanitarian situation which is already the worst anywhere on earth could get even worse and we're talking about words that the u.n. has mentioned like imminent catastrophe imminent famine so i think with that in mind they really do need this to hold but as you say one of the benefits of that is that the next round of talks could then take place in january i'm told not in sweden somewhere else next time around that has not been announced but the next

round is going to be much harder because they're not just trying to deal with the flash points on the ground they're trying to deal with a lasting political settlement for yemen again something that's referred to in this draft resolution that they've got to come up with a lasting solution but that is going to be difficult particularly because the who thiis control a very significant part of yemen including the capital and they're going to want some concessions made if the going to give that up all right james bays thank you. now the former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn is about to be sentenced as part of an investigation into the alleged russian collusion during the twenty sixteen presidential election the retired general pleaded guilty a year ago over lying to the f.b.i. prosecutors are asking for probation and community service instead of prison u.s. president donald trump denies any collusion with russia to secure his presidency

and has called the miller probe a witch hunt shihab rattansi is joining us from washington d.c. where that sentencing is due to take place well what are you hearing about what's going on in the courtroom. this is way more heated and dramatic than you might have expected we knew that the special counsel had recommended that flynn negligible jail time perhaps none at all because of his extensive cooperation with the special counsel's prosecution but the judge is very very angry disdainful off michael flynn's crimes and it would appear his conduct since he reached a plea agreement with robert muller the lawyers for michael flynn in recent weeks suggested that it was entrapped in some way to do pleading to pleading guilty for his original crime because when he had his initial interview with the f.b.i. investigators in the white house they hadn't explained to him what they were up to you hadn't explained to him the gravity of lying to investigators at the time so

the judge seems rather annoyed by this and was suggesting well wait you say you were entrapped so are you actually pleading guilty or are you suggesting you were entrapped to this when the back and forth for some time michael flynn admitted that he would least affirm that he did plead guilty that he did not feel he was entrapped then the sentencing hearing began in earnest and that's really where everything began and the judge being very very derisory very it's just not hiding his anger at slim for what he said was effectively selling out the country being the national security adviser. united states but being a registered foreign agent lying to investigators in the white house know that he's very angry by that and he said that he's not going to guarantee flynn won't face costs aeration of some sort and now they recessed for the well they'll be back in court in about twenty minutes time is another opportunity to flip to talk to his lawyers but things are very very dramatic right now in court to have been dramatic in the last hour or so in the court and interestingly. just

a short while ago tweeting that he wishes flynn good luck at his sentencing. yeah and that's interesting for on several levels unlike some of trump's other associates michael cohen his former lawyer and comes to mind trump has always been very very complementary about michael flynn even though flynn has reached a plea agreement with robert mueller flipped very early on and robot mode is going to be said he's been very helpful in several in several investigations trump apparently not too bothered but by that so that's interesting but this isn't a breeze for michael flynn as some might have thought because of all the the cooperation he's been giving the special counsel so now we're all in suspense sort of see what happens next in twenty minutes when the court convenes once again whether whether the judge is going to accept the sentencing recommendation of guidelines from the special counsel between zero to six months but but but at the low end of zero to six months which could mean no jail time at all but the judge doesn't seem to be terribly happy right now all right you have a chance he will speak to a little later thank you the key power brokers of the syrian war say they will work

towards convening a committee to negotiate a new constitution in syria next year the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met to discuss the plan in geneva on tuesday but they went for syria war and there is still some way to go to ensure a credible commission is established reports. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because at this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to restore it when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from opposition groups but this other fifty there's a been a lot of haggling on who should be on this committee and who shouldn't be on this

committee and they clearly haven't been able to agree the final names it was perhaps particularly for straightening for staff and in this story because as he spoke to the press here this evening this was his last statement to the press who report to the u.n. secretary general but he's leaving the post and handing over to a norwegian in the new year these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace or death treaty and a conference and everybody embraced of each other it is actually a process that may go on and on until all death and hopefully in the best way for develop people the two constants in this conflict over differ a lot for year one there is never been a constant moment of anything there being constant shifts of what they're being the military events and the facts on the ground and a political position just look where we were four years ago and where we are today

second constant there with always being the syrian people suffering. well the u.s. special envoy for syria jim jeffrey has confirmed the deployment of kurdish fighters from northern iraq into northern syria the unexpected move came after turkey threatened further military action in mendez if u.s. backed kurdish fighters don't leave the area zana to reports from istanbul. turkish military reinforcements have already been sent to the border with syria president to measure up to 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 geoffrey said he told the turks their plan offensive is a bad idea u.s. support for the y. peachey has strained relations but jeffrey confirmed arrangements are being made to address turkey's concerns. the. deployment across the border was done with our understanding but also with the understanding of 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 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 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 that 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 have to say whether they are enough to prevent military action. still ahead on al-jazeera the landscape on the frontline of the global war on drugs we have a special report from. there's more snow when it's right for early winter not surprised first the turkmenistan tajikistan this general area of cloud is moving will faeces and

lifting of the high ground the next belt of rain to current events already started the picture wednesday shows it rather more concentrated in lebanon and particularly syria with snow at height over turkey's a big circulation circulation area of low pressure that has tend to stay where they are that into throw their rain east was exactly what will happen to wednesday and says at that rate of crew across syria into northern iraq across the border as well high ground produces snow to the east of that misurata looking fine to the south walla q it's a twenty three degrees i suspect qatar will be in the middle twenty's as well record low thirty's in western society this is all looking quite weather as rape in peninsular but your eyes probably drawn to this the last three days as shown frequent chats really across the culture there was a horn of africa and they're there for wednesday they're a little lost that comes to stay but it's the right time the if for rain to be from the horn of africa down towards mozambique in their days the major rushes shout has been from angola across d.l.c.

towards sudden tanzania and madagascar we've had some pretty big shots recently around the eastern cape and there are more of those to come. arts.

hello again the top stories on al-jazeera a u.n. brokered cease fire in yemen's keep port city of pro day that has been largely holding but sporadic fighting has been reported in the besieged city between saudi and u.a.e. back government forces and the rebels former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn is about to be sentenced as part of an investigation into the alleged russian collusion during the twenty sixteen presidential election the retired general pleaded guilty a year ago over lying to the f.b.i. prosecutors are asking for probation and community service instead of prison. the key power brokers of the syrian conflict say they will work towards convening a committee to negotiate a new constitution in syria next year the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met to discuss the plan in geneva on tuesday. she chimping has the clare no

one will stop his country's 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 slowing growth and trade tensions with the u.s. our china correspondent adrian brown reports from beijing in one nine hundred seventy eight the overall impression of china was one of backwardness a big stream potty with workers doing jobs machines could do better the country was still recovering from the chaos and cruelty of. 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 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 and 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 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. 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 since said air b.n. b. backed down after threats of legal action in israel and the us stephanie decker has

more from the illegal israeli settlements of frost's in the occupied west bank. the fact that a delegation from air b.n. b. came to jerusalem to meet with israel's tourism minister gives you 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 it from this is one of the settlements there are still listings in a fraud and also one across the west bank really everybody 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 hair 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 wasn't a political move and that it was told and. what it understood was what they called

a complicated and emotional issue and so i 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 that moment the listings continue to be advertised russia's president is threatening to create a groan based weapons system if the u.s. withdraws from a nuclear missile treaty vladimir putin suggesting for the first time that other countries could join the treaty which helped end the cold war president donald trump warned that russia's constant breaches of the treaty could force america's withdrawal. riot police in hungary have struggled to control a fifth successive day of anti-government protest against so-called slave labor laws crowds outside the state broadcaster demanded the opposition be allowed to read out their demands on t.v. new legislation could see the return of a six day working week and in forced overtime now to what's being described as

a frontline in the global war on drugs that's the southern border of tajiks don and central asia tons of heroin opium and marijuana are smuggled from neighboring afghanistan every year charles stratford reports on why international efforts to stop the narcotics trade are failing the minister 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 shop. her husband used to smuggle heroin into the country from neighboring afghanistan by swallowing sealed bags of the drug shows and also. 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 harold 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 pommy a mountainous 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 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 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 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. will remain

a major transit route for drugs on the way to russia china and other countries around the world that al-jazeera on the times you can stand afghanistan border. qatar is celebrating its national day with a military parade airshow and fireworks it's the second one since saudi arabia the u.a.e. behind and egypt imposed the blockade on qatar. has this report. the annual national day festivities took off in the usual grand style and this year after eighteen months of a land sea and air blockade by former arab states qatari celebrated not only their leader but also their culture. because all. signs of patriotism wrong show everywhere as was

a sense of national unity and pride as well as the fire. saudi arabia the u.a.e. rein in egypt cut diplomatic relations and imposed their blockade on qatar in june of last year doha strongly refutes their allegations that it supports terrorism a resolution to the regional crisis looks no closer to a meeting of the gulf cooperation council in riyadh last week made no progress people celebrating on tuesday appeared not to care and credited the amir come in. overcoming the isolation today is the day that we all even citizens kotori as we also celebrate are we all so how much will of qatar we all share what. we're always happy no matter what everyone is very proud of the camera a few holiday marks the dates in eight hundred seventy eight when safe just something mohamed al bunny succeeded his father as the new year and lead the

country toward unity and it is that you're a few that is on display here today this was the main event a military parade along the corniche in the capital. three times larger than last year. a fireworks display was the finale of the public celebrations those guitars and expatriates coming together in a country that continues to thrive despite facing adversity. dorsetshire bari al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera un brokered cease fire city of her day that has been largely holding but sporadic fighting is being reported in the besieged city between saudi and u.a.e. back government forces and the rebels yemen's warring parties agreed on a truce and u.n. brokered talks last week in sweden the former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn is about to be sentenced as part of an

investigation into the alleged russian flues and during the twenty sixteen presidential election they retired general pleaded guilty a year ago over lying to the f.b.i. prosecutors are asking for probation and community service instead of prison the key power brokers of the syrian conflict say they will work towards convening a committee to negotiate a new constitution in syria next year the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met to discuss the plan in geneva on tuesday well the u.n. special envoy for syria stefan de mistura says there are still some way to go to ensure a credible commission is established. in close consultation with the secure general i believe you did. a extra my to go on an extra mile to go home in that mode on effort to ensure did mississippi package for a credible balanced and include leave constitutional committee in for

including a balanced chairing arrangement and drafting body and voting. to be established under the u.n. auspices in geneva 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 jinping promised to open up to the world even more but gave few details britons are being warned to perhaps to prepare for a no deal brix it after the prime minister met cabinet ministers the government's ramping up preparations to crash out of the e.u. without any deal for the future britain's deadline to leave the e.u. is in just over one hundred days those are the latest headlines on al-jazeera inside story with laura kyle is coming up next.

a ceasefire in yemen that well it's home to millions of yemenis facing famine hope so it wants an end to almost four years of war. says a loss in political settlement that means for the saudi led coalition this is inside story. in a welcome to the program. it's hoped to be the saucing point four years of civil war in the yemeni.