zero. zero. you're watching the news hour live from headquarters and. coming up in the next sixty minutes as a fragile cease fire holds in yemen the u.n. prepares to implement its plan to keep the peace donald trump's former national security advisor awaits sentencing for a lying to the investigation into russian meddling as the judge questions his action in. the first steps towards

a post-war syria where the constitutional committee set to meet early next year. and i'm. just a marine who is sacked by manchester united portuguese point sway with the english giants so after they would start to a season in twenty eight hughes. fellow un brokered ceasefire in the yemeni city of her data appears to be holding despite reports of sporadic fighting in the area the country's warring sides agreed to a truce at talks in sweden last week how data support is the main entry point for aid and food into yemen and who the rebels have been fighting the internationally recognized government backed by a saudi america coalition for more than three years mohammad on june 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 actually linked to the flow of humanitarian aid with the security situation and the data to be honest they should have actually heard they dump all of this would allow food and medicine first come into into the data even though oh the in control because they know i didn't have said before that it is five but isn't it dead and eight coming to yemen is coming out of a day that. yemen is suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis aide workers say the situation around her they do remains desperate. indication to get access to

care to see key. data inside to see key that says where to c.t. for example we open gates and. intercept four for data because there was no exit. from the two again which is almost. a road. 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. let's cross over to james bays and his our diplomatic editor is standing by for us at the united nations and james martin griffiths had said that a presence was required quickly on the ground but with no u.n.

troops on the ground right now to monitor that cease fire how's the u.n. planning to hold accountable. they're trying to move as fast as they can in fact in the last hour we've been listening to a briefing by the spokesperson for the u.n. secretary general he made it clear that the secretary general was the person who was most keen to get those monitors to yemen and who they in fact he said the secretary general was breathing down everyone's necks trying to get them there as quickly as possible my understanding is the man who's coming up with the plans general patrick camera is going to chair the first meeting of the coordination commission committee of the two sides so he'll have the yemeni government who have the who these on video link kilby in new york that'll take place here on wednesday and then going forward he himself will travel we believe by the end of the week to

yemen with a small team and they'll be the assessment team trying to come up with a plan for exactly how many monitors they're going to need on the ground all the problems the u.n. is facing here is that the talks in stockholm actually achieved much more than they were expecting and so the u.n. is in a real hurry to try and set up this monitoring team and find the monitor monitors from a number of different countries my understanding is these people will be people from a military background but we're also hearing that they will go into this hostile area this fragile cease fire in place so a dangerous place for the u.n. to deploy and they'll go in unarmed and we understand not wearing military uniforms and what kind of preparations if any are bridge being put in place right now for the talks that are meant to take place in january and sort of a wider truce and more political negotiations. well certainly the u.n. is trying to prepare for those ongoing talks and the u.n.

security council is also trying to do its bit concerning that monitoring mission and the future talks and that's why there is this draft resolution that has been drawn up by the u.k. and circulated to the other members of the security council they're hoping to get a vote on it by the end of the week the idea to endorse what was decided in stockholm make sure it's in a binding security council resolution that everyone sticks to it but also looking forward as you say to a last peace deal because in many ways that's much harder trying to come up with some sort of power sharing agreement bearing in mind of course that the yemeni government believes it should be running the country and yet right now the who seize control of very significant parts of the country including the capital sanaa all right james bays reporting from the u.n. thank you and speaking of sanaa let's cross over there bring in steven anderson who is the world food program's country director in the amman thanks for speaking to us

on al-jazeera we know that's one point eight million children are acutely malnourished in the country malnutrition taking a heavy toll on civilians in yemen with that ceasefire right now in place in her data how much relief does that provide to those who are suffering from malnutrition in the country. well the situation is extremely grim right now in yemen it's considered to be the world's worst humanitarian crisis and it is quote we're going to require sustained access in order to to turn the tide against the. vast hunger and malnutrition which is gripping the country already about seventy percent of the yemenis are considered to be hungry. or about twenty million people the world food program alone we're trying to ramp up to reach

twenty twelve million of the most acutely affected. families people across the country but now the fact that there is this cease fire in place this gives us hope that we will in fact be able to ramp up to to the twelve million people who desperately need our support already we have a ship that's just off the coast of the data and hoping to come in any day now with about twenty five thousand tons of meat which is sufficient for about one point eight million people who are a month so that's going to come in and we're hoping that we would soon gain access to the red sea mills cilla these which is in the southern part of the data city which has we pee wee sufficient for and about three point seven million people for a month and of that phase are in does not hold then what is at stake for your work

and for the country. well if the cease fire doesn't hold this will mean ongoing tragedy for the first and foremost for the people who live in in the data got going or it's in the city itself they are struggling living hand to mouth i mean today we saw some signs of normalcy which we choose extremely welcome change but there's places also to the south of the city such as the hague and. he me is districts have a valid one hundred twenty thousand people there who receives very very limited assistance and i can only think of the worst if we cannot if fighting prevents our assistance and that of other humanitarian agencies getting our rights as steven anderson we thank you very much for giving us the update from sun up. now former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn has appeared in court as part of the investigation

into alleged russian collusion with the twenty sixth the interim presidential election campaign so the retired general david dill to a year ago to lying to the f.b.i. in the last few minutes the judge agreed to a request from flynn's lawyers to delays sentencing in the case you have potentially joining us from washington d.c. so do we know why that request was put through and why there is now going to be a delay in sentencing. because it seemed pretty clear from what the judge had been saying all morning that he wasn't inclined to accept the recommendation the sentencing recommendation from special counsel robert mona that flynn serve a sentence of between zero and six months and perhaps no jail time at old for lying to investigators it became pretty clear as soon as the sentencing hearing began that the judge was angry with flynn disgusted was the word he used at one point not just for the crimes for which he has pled guilty but also the conduct of flynn and

his lawyers since the plea agreement was reached with the special counsel that is suggesting that he may have been entrapped in some way to lie to federal investigators and that's why he was pleading guilty so there's a low exchange where the judge was saying you are pleading guilty right you haven't been entrapped unsafely have to say point blank no no you have been entrapped he did accept his guilt but then the judge just went off and said look he was disgusted he accused flynn of effectively selling out the us he accused flynn of things actually which he isn't guilty off which in the end the judge had to apologize for for example being a registered foreign agent while he was national security advisor when wasn't still a foreign lobbyist for turkey while he was national security as well he was national security adviser to president trump the judge would have to apologize for that when when at one point in the court hearing but it became very clear that the judge wasn't necessarily going to take robot mode his recommendation for a sentence and let's face it flynt could face up to five years for lying to

prosecutors so the judge said look. to the prosecutors is there any more cooperation that flynn could give you and the prosecutor said yes there's a possibility that there's more cooperation so the judge said to flynn's lawyers look. if there is more cooperation we can delay the sentencing and any cooperation you give subsequently to the prosecutors that will then perhaps work in your favor when i sentence you and so he gave flynn that the opportunity to consider that for half an hour in a recess so that his lawyers came back and said they were going to take the judge up on that offer there is a case that was just unsealed on monday so we assume it's about that perhaps that two associates of flynn have been or have been charged with being underage foreign agents for turkey which is against lobbying rules here in the u.s. something that slim is also guilty off but under the agreement he's not being charged with so it seems that they didn't give me more cooperation between flynn and prosecutors i'm on some other investigation and then we'll have

a another sentencing hearing or you know the status update in three months although the judge did say he wasn't making any promises that and the future cooperation flynn may give prosecutors would make the sentence he was going to give flynn anyway today any different and clearly this is all on the president's mind because he tweeted about six hours ago which is early for the u.s. east coast he tweeted that he was as good luck at the sentencing. right i think a lot of supporters are members of the trump administration fox news were pretty chipper about this actually if they thought that flynn was going to walk free they also actually have an assumption it would appear that this judge would probably would lay into the f.b.i. and lead to the prosecutor underhand tactics that simply didn't happen seems the judge is very angry with flynn and his lawyers tactics throughout this investigation but they were quite chipper that were questions as to why i don't feel is still sort of friendly with michael flynn given that flynt has given so much cooperation to the special counsel but not too concerned about that always

supporting michael flynn always saying he's been very justly treated but this is going to run and run though it seems for another three months at the very least all right thank you so all of this is happening the donald trump foundation that's a registered charity has agreed to shutdown the attorney general of new york state has been investigating its operations for months the investigators say the president's foundation had no charitable functions and that it acted as an extension of the president's business and political campaigns defense lawyers deny that gabriel is on the following the story out of new york for us how significant is this well it's significant because it's the first time we've had a sitting president that has had their foundation closed down because of this illegal activity and you know normally presidents open foundations and nonprofits after they leave office well because trump was very wealthy before he came into office as a businessman he had this foundation it was investigated and now it's found by the

attorney general to be just did things not correctly illegally and so the fact that trump is was forced to essentially shut it down is very significant and that way among others what are some of the allegations gabriel because it just sounds like this really goes to the heart of what trump has done with campaign funds. yeah it has it dead this this is significant because the allegations are essentially that trump used this nonprofit charitable foundation for non charitable work and used it in the name in the words of the new york attorney general barbara underwood as simply more than to pay. legal fees for his most private business the one term bought a piece of art using money from his foundation and also made an illegal political contribution with money from his foundation this is all very illegal because there

are very strict laws in the united states on how you use money from nonprofit foundations is that he just wasn't accounting for it at all barbara underwood the attorney general of new york said at the it's a very shocking pattern of illegality involving the trump foundation and she said the trump foundation in a statement functioned as little more than a checkbook to serve mr trump's business and political interest so that pretty much gives you an idea of where she came down on it. thank you. on to more head on the al-jazeera news hour including human rights under the spotlight in saudi arabia activists are being interviewed over allegations they suffered torture and abuse plus. i'm sure such a part of the qatar national base calibration where the country's military put on display for everyone to see. surfing has a new world champion peter will have the details coming up in sport.

but first the key power brokers in the syrian conflict say they hope to convene a committee to negotiate a new national constitution next year the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey have been meeting to discuss the plan in geneva but the u.n. special envoy for syria is warning there is still some way to go to ensure a credible commission is established bernard smith 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 culture to tional committee 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 of this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to the store 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 over 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 the store because as he spoke to the press is deceiving this was his last statement to the press you report to the u.n. secretary general but he's leaving the post and handing over to a norwegian in the new. these conflicts never ended with a wonderful peace order treaty and a conference and everybody embraces each other it is actually a process that may go on and on until all this and hopefully in the best way for the very people the two constants in this conflict over differ a lot for years one there's 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's always been the syrian people suffering and stay with syria the united states our voyage and jeffrey has confirmed us back kurdish fighters will move from northern iraq into northern syria the unexpected move comes after turkey threatened further military action in the city of members that's near the turkish border unless u.s. backed herders fighters leave the area and then i heard reports 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.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 beach in 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 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 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 trump

administration's 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. istanbul online accommodation rental company air b.n. b. says it is not reversing its decision to ban listings of properties in the occupied west bank the company said it would no longer list homes in illegal settlements last month israel's tourism ministry has since said air b.n. b. has backed down after threats of legal action in israel and the us stephanie decker

has more from the illegal israeli settlement of ephrata 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 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 was in a political move and that it was told and decides 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 will education workers in a number of u.s. states are complaining that their work contracts include language preventing them from supporting palestinian rights in texas a federal lawsuit has been filed on behalf of the speech pathologist named about a week she says she was forced to leave her job in a public school district the contract offered required her not engage in any boycott of israeli products because as required under laws recently introduced in some states now a majority of u.s. states have put in place anti b.d.'s legislation in recent years as of november twenty sixth states have twenty six states have laws preventing individuals and

corporations from announcing a boycott of his really own businesses thirteen other states have also introduced or have similar laws pending for approval. senior political analyst says these policies pushed by pro israel organizations run counter to american values. america without its freedom of speech america without its fundamental principles of democracy is no more than a junior partner of china america will be worthless without its democratic principles and freedom of speech and the sort of laws been extra enacted in texas and elsewhere are an offense against the freedom of speech the freedom of americans to express themselves as they wish to work at whoever they want to boycott in that way in that way and manner nonviolent as it is but these sorts of laws are meant to curtail their meant to limit a certain public discontent with israel and its policies notably the policies of the right wing government of benjamin netanyahu and that we've seen. not only

among americans in general but also among young americans and in particular among young jews and even among young evangelicals who generally quite influential in the likes of the state of texas so in order to limit the emergent influence of more projects this in palestine trained in american politics we see these laws enacted with the help of the pro israeli organizations and here let me just just in two words summarize that for you there are some five hundred plus organizations meant to large size in the united states that make israel one of their prime themes that they lobby for and those five plus organizations jewish organizations evangelists all organizations and other sorts of organizations do influence politicians on the state level in order to act these laws that basically

are against the spirit of american democracy. still ahead of the rings hour the pristine landscape on the frontline of the global war on drugs we have a special report from tajiks don. and james harding lifts the houston rockets to a fourth straight when in the n.b.a. more on that in sports with peter a little later. there's more snow and it's right for early winter not surprising first the turkmenistan tajikistan this general area of clouds moving will faeces and lifting of a high ground the next belt of rain to come into levant already started the picture wednesday shows it rather more concentrated in lebanon and particularly syria with snow at height over turkey is

a big circulation circulation area of low pressure that is tend to stay where they are that industry are there rain east was exactly will happen through wednesday and says that right accrue 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 wallah curates a twenty three degrees i suspect qatar will be in the middle twenty's as well record low thirty's in western side this is all looking quite weather as rape in peninsula but your eyes probably drawn to this the last three days has shown frequent showers from across a culture there was a horn of africa and they're there for wednesday they're a little lhasa comes but it's the right time the if for rain to be from the whole of africa down towards mozambique and there it is the major russia showers has been from anger across the sea towards sudden tanzania and madagascar we've had some pretty big showers recently around the eastern cape and there are more of those to come.

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hello again the top stories on the hour a u.n. brokered cease fire. appears to be but sporadic fighting is being reported in the city between. government forces and rebels. a u.s. judge has postponed the sentencing of donald trump's former national security advisor michael flynn until march he's pleaded guilty to collusion with russia during the twenty six thousand election campaign the judge told him that he'd sold his country out. 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 have been meeting to discuss the. human rights commission which reports to saudi arabia's king is investigating the alleged torture of detained women's rights activists the wall street journal is reporting the commission began interviewing activists this past month and according to them some of the detained activists have been subjected to torture such as waterboarding and electrocution the saudi government dismisses the allegations as wild claims that many of the activists were campaigning for women to be able to drive a car let's speak to toby cadman in sarajevo he's an international human rights lawyer thanks very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera. are you encouraged by the news of this commission or is this some sort of political maneuverings by the kingdom toby cadman are you with us. our apologies we seem to be having problems with our connection too sorry you know we

will try and bring him back a little later in the program well the outgoing u.s. ambassador to the u.n. has accused the united nations of being hopelessly biased towards palestinians against israelis in her final address to the un security council in the caylee added that the only way forward is a peace process driven by the u.s. presidents it is time we face the hard truth both sides would benefit greatly from a peace agreement but the palestinians would benefit more and the israelis would risk more it is with this backdrop in mind that the trumpet ministration has crafted its plan for peace between israel and the palestinians i don't expect anyone to comment on a peace proposal they have not read but i have read it and i will share some thoughts on it now unlike previous attempts at addressing this conflict this plan

is not just a few pages containing unspecific and unimagined of guidelines it is much longer it contains much more thoughtful detail just a few moments ago we were telling you about the human rights commission which reports to saudi arabia's king said. who's investigating the alleged torture of detained women's rights activists and we were going to bring in toby cadman i believe he's with us now he's joining us from sorry you go he's an international human rights lawyer toby cadman are you encouraged by news off this commission in saudi arabia investigating legit torture of human rights activists or is this some sort of political maneuverings by the kingdom considering the recent events will be murder. well i would have to say i'm skeptical as to the outcome of any human rights investigative commission in saudi arabia right now. obviously we would have to look at the the mandate of the

commission what powers it has what level of independence and impartiality. but it seems to be coming at a time when saudi arabia is under increasing pressure internationally because of the the murder of jamal khashoggi and also because of the conflict in yemen and a whole host of human rights violations that we see daily occurring in in saudi arabia so the fact that it reports to the king as well does not really inspire us with confidence and particularly as one of those individuals who is allegedly responsible or has some involvement with the torture of these activists is is closely connected to the king's son mohammed bin solomon so i think we have to be skeptical as to as and the legitimacy of this and all in all likelihood it is another political stunt that we've seen increasingly in the last

few months and do you believe that all of the the investigation of the commission's work can be carried out at all in an impartial and transparent a way and what would you regard as a fair and transparent investigation in a country that is quite strictly controlled. well this is the problem is that it is it is incredibly controlled there are a a small number of individuals who who have immense power over the entire country and . whether we are going to be able to see an independent report coming out discussing the systematic torture of female activists. does obviously raise significant concerns i think what we would like to see where there are very credible allegations of torture of obvious attention of

disappearances there are there are a number of special reporters working groups on the level of the united nations that have of course requested to to carry it to saudi arabia in the past and have never been given full and proper access that would have some credibility if it had some level of international oversight by a rule commission that is going to report their findings whoa obviously we would have to look at what are the consequences do they have the authority to produce criminal charges do they have the authority to remove individuals from office who have allowed a system of abuse to to occur when many of these things appear to be unclear and that this seems to be the fictive effectively window dressing and i think that's where the real concern lies and where does the role of the international community come into play here i mean some say that the international community has turned a blind eye when it comes to human rights abuses in the kingdom but things might

have changed after the murder. i think the way that the international community regards the kingdom of saudi arabia has changed. that does still seem to be a bit of a position of turning a blind eye we've seen some very worrying statements coming from the u.s. administration particularly from prison trump but we have seen a number of european countries reevaluating their diplomatic relation with saudi arabia we've also seen moves in in the senate in the united states in readdressing their relationship and their trade relationship so i think things have changed the question is what are they going to do about it what concrete action is going to be taken we hear talk of a international investigative body being set up to investigate. the murder of jamal khashoggi we we hear about reports coming out daily as to hundreds if not thousands of civilians being killed in yemen we hear of hundreds of journalists from

activists disappearing being tortured. and being executed in saudi arabia but where is the action that is being taken that's what we need to get to know statements of condemnation have little value if it's not followed up with concrete action the there needs to be a serious discussion about sanctions against the kingdom of saudi arabia because the if you want situation is the worst possibly the worst in the world all right to be cadman we thank you for speaking to us on al-jazeera electric voting electronic voting machines are to be used for the first time in the democratic republic of congo during sunday's elections but as catherine sawyer reports in the capital kinshasa many voters don't know how to operate the machines and the opposition fear they'll be used to rig the results. the conversation in tea shops such as this one on the edge of the river is all about sunday's election and electronic voting

machines. are concerned 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 leaves next to this polling station has similar concerns about. people in my village know nothing. expression. 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 they're asking how will we know if we have been cheated so some in their areas have not even seen us 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 are 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 both immaterial the us still being distributed to different parts of the country but a warehouse. where the fetus machines were being stored was burned 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 fire. the various problems eye increasing election tension and white he at this don't. they

just want a fair election as well as a leader who will help make their lives a little more bearable cathy zoi al-jazeera kinshasa. one chinese first provide proof to back up the accusations. now to what's the scribe as a front line in the global war on drugs that's the southern border of in central asia tons of heroin and marijuana are smuggled from neighboring afghanistan every year stratford reports on why international efforts to stop the narcotics trade are 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. 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. 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 of mountains are so close you can see and hear children playing on the other side. the u.n. estimates around twenty percent of afghan drugs pass through to markets around the world all that separates afghanistan from tajikistan certainly in this region is the 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 the c's bags of opium blocks boxes of heroin thrown into an incinerator. the government says more than three tons of heroin has been intercepted so far this year. drug traffic by down town is getting lower this shows to better at controlling the situation but the u.n. drugs agency in 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 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 on the tajikistan afghanistan border. a moment's.

hello again tom for the sports news with peter thank you very much manchester united have thanked her jones a marine or for his work during his time at the club and wish him success in the future the english giants second the portuguese as manager following the club's worst start to a season in twenty eight years united were beaten three one by liverpool on sunday which left them sixth in the table lee weddings takes a look back at what went wrong for marine year when jones a marine you arrived at manchester united in twenty six steyn fans were hoping he would prove he was still the special one but he's going to old trafford was not special instead it will be remembered as a disappointment of a his sullen defensive and argumentative approach you know what these men three knew but also mean sri premierships and i won more premierships alone

then in one thousand managed to get. this is really for me not for them receiving respect and respect for respect i think it was clear there was a problem between the reality star players mainly paul pogba a hero for france in their world cup win but failing to produce his best form for united and outspoken against his boss on social media and united soccer at their worst start with things in the needy thirty years but it was with reluctance that the clubs were close of american owners the glazers decided to sack another manager they'd be criticised for the failures of david moyes and louis van all of the 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 drawing 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 the players are not playing for him so hopefully we'll see a different. yeah hopefully see if different weather play to change i mean look at look at his demeanor look at look into the back of the way he's an absolute misery this guy. criticizing his own players in public. is signings. often when you're least manchester with substantial financial compensation having had a contract until twenty twenty one on 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 league joins me now live from london why was mario unable to replicate the success as a daughter chelsea and mentor man at manchester united i think this is absolutely crucial to the job as a marine you're a manchester united story that when he arrived trafford of course he'd fallen out and lots of leave chelsea a few months earlier with huge problems off the pitch you remember in the last few months at chelsea had a very strange demeanor yes he had some more successfully first went back to that club but after that no so then what manchester united did is hire the man on the reputation of than the man that was in front of them and that she wasn't a great surprise that marino was unable to replicate the success of his early years i'm success all over europe the players clearly didn't like playing under him his

demeanor publicly and sometimes just for the players in the dressing room it just clearly wasn't right and that's why it's really been painful to watch this over the last few weeks and months knowing that inevitably in the end reluctantly the the guys as they were in the club and at woodward were going to have to part company you did briefly mention they his reputation where does the first scenario leave marino on that front. well eventually arena will be in a position to get a job again in fact he's had a lot of criticism for this some people saying well he wants to be sacked because he knows he'll have a huge payoff these accumulating money are not so sure about that this is obviously a very proud man with a big a go i mean he would have wanted definitely to turn things around of majesty nice of course he'd have wanted to do that i think it felt like he really believed he could after nearly being sacked two or three months ago but those players just still didn't come with him and it's not as if he didn't have the players at his disposal he spent in his writing alone over four hundred million dollars on the

eleven players obviously paul pogba is at the center of that and i think what you'll see is every chance of pope pope akbar actually playing much better for another manager which will kind of rub it in a bit more for josie marino but he'll come back and manage again and what are you hearing about who might be the next man in charge at old trafford what is most likely to place for the three step process the man in place right now michael carrick not for long then most likely target would be only going to so shut until the end of the season but if it's not him just a caretaker manager because not just united need to get it right they want so you invest the time to making sure they get their man we know that they have a huge amount of time for project say no spurs there are other people that would be in the frying like still is it that india has to be on a who's done such a good job at that if i would trade but i think there's going to be a lot of talk about whether they can get and that might take time because he

certainly wouldn't leave at the moment he willing to leave it there thank you as always. so the south american champions river plate are locked in a tight battle with elena of the united arab emirates in the fee for club world cup semifinal in abu dhabi the host club actually took the lead before the south americans were able to hit back and take the lead themselves a minute turned around also it's still two two and these two teams are involved in extra time as we speak now defending n.b.a. champions the golden state warriors cruised to a one hundred ten ninety three win over the memphis grizzlies on monday kevin durant top scored with twenty three points while steph curry added twenty to become just the fifth player in warriors' history to reach the fifteen thousand career point landmark in all james harden lead the houston rockets the victory of the utah jazz or unschooled forty seven points including those three points or with thirteen seconds left on the clock one hundred two ninety seven the final score was the rockets four straight wins. the oklahoma city thunder made it three wins in

a row as they eased past the chicago bulls one hundred twenty one ninety six paul george scored sixteen of game high twenty four points in the final five minutes of the second quarter russell westbrook added thirteen point six three rebounds and eleven steals for his one hundred and the career triple double. australia's cricketers have won their first test match since a ball tampering scandal in march they beat india by one hundred forty six runs in perth to level the series that won all india who won the first test in adelaide were chasing two hundred eighty seven for victory they began the final day on one hundred twelve a five but were all out for one hundred forty four match series continues in melbourne on the twenty sixth of december. the world of surfing has a new champion gabrielle medina won the title in hawaii on monday the brazilian clinched the second move crown for the semifinal victory of the judy smith at the bonzai pipeline in hawaii even aged out of straight is julian wilson in the final

round to win the pipe most of the competition and medina is planning on adding a gold medal to be struck the cabinet to. take on title fuse amazing it's hard to say because they just won you know. maybe when we're. going to take a shower when they realize what i just did yeah as being really i love you know we serve you. i used to to watch a lot of soccer and other sports and today we talk about soccer and surfie and something else you know and. i just feel really you know to to get in-depth point. it. gets to watch shows. root for those you know if you've got a lot of support hopefully i can. i can qualify next. for the early picks in being japanese surfers it's new but. just the

effect we're going to go they represent our country and you know it's a beat i beat think because all the good stuff is going to be there so. it's going to be a big show ok we'll leave it there for now most would again later during all right peter thank you very much for that while qatar has been celebrating its national day with a military parade airshow and fireworks it's the second once in saudi arabia the u.a.e. and egypt imposed a blockade on the country for such a bari has this reports. 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. the. signs of patriotism wrong show everywhere as was a sense of national unity and pride as well as the fire ants. saudi arabia the u.a.e. reign in egypt cut diplomatic relations and impose 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 all serbs. are we all so how much will of qatar we all share what is good or. not there 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 some been mohamed al bonnie's the feet of his father as the new year and lead the country towards 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 it was three times larger than last year. a fireworks display was the finale of the public celebrations both atari's an expatriate coming together in a country that continues to thrive despite facing adversity. thanks for watching the news hour on there are other mornings coming up in just a moment to stay with us.

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