al-jazeera correspondent. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter dhabi you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes. we have won against isis donald trump declares a victory over some of his own party senators condemn his decision to pull troops out of syria. uncertainty in the democratic republic of congo and the experience that sunday's vote may be. a big blow to america's

catholic church the illinois diocese is accused of failing to name five hundred clergy accused of child abuse. and the u.k. and the e.u. prepare for a possible parting of the ways without a deal. going a disaster in the making that's how some u.s. politicians are reacting to president trump's decision to withdraw all american forces from syria now in a tweet mr trump declared victory over i saw the armed group that once controlled vast areas of syria and iraq but is now confined to small pockets the drawdown of an estimated two thousand troops is expected within sixty to one hundred days the u.s. defense secretary jim mattis had pushed for american soldiers to prevent eyesore.

maria much of and several prominent republican senators are opposing mr trump's decision the news of the pullout follows turkey's president rushed up time threatening a new offensive against u.s. backed kurdish forces the syrian democratic forces in man beach and are calling for demonstrations against the trump decision from washington assoc o'hagan begins our coverage with this report it's a massive move that will dramatically change the landscape of the war in syria and one not many saw coming the u.s. president tweeting out that isis has been defeated and that was the only reason u.s. troops were in syria and we have won against isis we've beaten them and we've beat now badly we've taken back the land and now it's time for our troops to come back home. but according to the u.s. government the islamic state of iraq and the levant is not actually defeated a point stressed by the president's own state department just last week i think

it's fair to say americans will remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeatism during the move comes after a phone call between president trump and president urged one of turkey he's made clear he wants to target the kurds who have fought beside the u.s. and that is more difficult to do if u.s. troops are in his way just a few months ago the president himself is fully heralded as a sacrifice the kurds have made and we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds we're trying to help them a lot so they fought with us they died with us they died we lost. tens of thousands of kurds died fighting isis now many worry what will happen to the kurds what this message sends is we don't stick with people our friends without the kurds in the syrian democratic forces we couldn't have beaten isis we couldn't have taken back and rock of course we were not willing to commit all of those troops that were necessary others say that should be a concern for the u.s. first time in my lifetime we have a prayer a president with the courage to declare victory and bring the troops home this came

as a surprise for many on capitol hill some senators calling this a big mistake it's hard to imagine that any president would wake up and make this kind of decision with this little communication with this little preparation if this decision is a withdrawal of all of our forces in syria or dramatically less this is an a bomb of life is now that the u.s. has withdrawn or is going to withdraw from syria we have left basically turn the country over to russia into an even greater extent iran the administration and the pentagon both released statements saying the fight against iso isn't over the u.s. is simply transitioning to the next phase of the campaign they didn't say what that phase might look like. al-jazeera washington. well donald trump's unilateral decision took us allies in the fight against eisel by surprise us we've been hearing many of them believe there's still

a threat of gaining ground war now from a diplomatic james bays. here at the u.n. in new york and in the capitals of the u.s. is closest allies this news was not expected and not welcomed a u.k. minister making it clear in a tweet we live in his view eisel has not been defeated a view shared by the ambassador who chairs the security council committee that tracks the group his latest reports reveal eisel still has about twenty to thirty thousand fighters in iraq and syria would be able to buy so it's being a fear of being yes but it's not completed it's not completed because of course i suppose trying to find other ways to do for a few months before president trump says the troops were only in syria to fight eisel but people here say they also performed a number of other roles including diplomatic leverage on the assad regime. u.n.

special envoy stefan de mistura is back in new york and will brief the security council on thursday one of the lever's being used to get the assad regime back to the negotiating table was the fact the u.s. military controls a large swathe of the country rich in agriculture and energy it's now a job that will be even harder one of the main aims of president trumps foreign policy will also be affected the president back strongly by prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel has been trying to constrain the regional activities of iran and their u.s. decision and respect any decision made by the administration we have our concerns about syria or the presence of a venue and troops there in syria and we will do what every necessary to protect our people regardless if you have american troops russian troops or any other nations so while the u.s. is our allies are dismayed by the trunk decision those with very different views

about the future of syria the so-called a starn a group turkey russia and iran will benefit with more freedom to act inside the country james bays al-jazeera of the united nations ok let's talk now to get an oscar he's with the people's democratic party's representative to the united states of america he joins us on skype now from brussels where the kurds on the ground do you think inside syria surprised by this donald trump as everyone else. well thank you for having me on both of the i've definitely would say yes they are probably the most surprised because from what i've been hearing had absolutely no warning beforehand this kind of a decision was coming just like many of the agencies of the u.s. government this does seem to be purely a decision purely bill and expressed by the president and so and this has definitely not just taken because one supplier's but i think the first feeling is

that all disappointment in regards to what trump said only just a few weeks ago where. he said that he's not the one to forgets the sacrifices that the kurds made in the fight against isis in the fight against islamic state there was a u.s. report last week saying there are still fourteen thousand people on the ground in syria who nominally have described themselves as being members of eisel does this tilt the fight against eisel in a different direction not necessarily the positive we've one direction that mr trump seems to believe in. well i think we can definitely make that conclusion because. we know the u.s. policy against isis was that of and ensuring that the now we have an event and achieve a territorial defeat a complete territorial defeat by states yet we know that the violence is still

going on in town such as night i'm gene in which the men and women the kurdish men and women fighting in the white p.g. and white d.j. under the umbrella of the ex the act are battling in the streets of the town of baiji right now as we speak so we don't know where the determination or whether the conclusion you know was made that isis will has been defeated and this battle has been won because the two steps one that's editorial defeat and definitely the enduring if he has not been succeeded how will the kurds react across the board do you think if the turkish president mr herder one sees this as something of a green light to do whatever he wants to do and risk pivoting or desirably on his part maybe pivots towards a more aggressive approach towards what he's seen these as a big negative as you. well i would say that although the kurds are very much surprised by this abrupt decision they're by no means unfamiliar to be

left now to draw i have by international powers in their history this is happened to them several times many times before and so not many will take this is a huge shock as i as the kurds as a people that i speak for all the time we're always half expecting something like this to happen birds the kurds now rule i mean the u.s. was an f. in the beginning anyway as we know the u.s. contributed to the final against isis now after two thousand and fourteen in the town of cavani where they join forces with the kurds so it marked the beginning of the end of isis but before that since two thousand and twelve the kurds have been fighting and defending their territory the against of both regime attacks and also the attacks of islamic fundamentalists and so the turks were successful because all the u.s. was there obviously u.s. contribution yes support was

a manual for the fight against isis but the kurds don't do still have options and i think this night there to morrow and a time to come the current will be pondering what kind of options they have now what kind of alternatives remain. completely withdrawals get an oscar on there and the hey thanks very much. plenty more still to come here on the news hour including preparing to vote in the shadow of violence we'll have the latest on the election and. the woman from yemen is due to arrive in the u.s. to see her dying son after being exempted from donald trump's travel by. manchester united. save their season we'll tell you more. in the sports news in about thirty five minutes. more explosions have been reported on the second day of a u.n.

brokered cease fire in yemen's port city of who data. backed government forces and who fights is blamed each other for violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday the warring parties agreed on a cease fire during talks in sweden last week the data is critical of the supply of food and humanitarian aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of starvation from. pictures emerging from her data on tuesday show a relative calm at who the checkpoints documents were requested before people were allowed to pass in some areas the streets were largely empty in others the traffic slowed. and we are optimistic about the ceasefire decision but who is implementing the resolution brokered by the united nations who is implementing the decisions taken during this week in negotiations the saudi aggression did not implement any of the decisions made in sweden yemenis are

suffering what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis where millions are facing starvation. aid workers say the situation remains desperate around her they did the main gate way for eighty percent of much needed food and humanitarian aid in sweden last week representatives from the who the movement and the saudi u.a.e. backed government of president abdullah gul months old had agreed not only to withdraw fighters but also to establish humanitarian corridors and to allow for the deployment of un supervised neutral forces the redeployment from the ports of ho data salif russy send critical parts of the city associated with the humanitarian facilities shall be completed within two weeks after the cease fires entry into force the full mutual redeployment of all forces from the city of her data and the ports of her data salif and russy so shall be completed within a maximum period of twenty one days after the cease fire enters into force it is

a responsibility of the parties to fulfill the agreement and local leaders in her day to say they're determined to ensure the truce no matter how fragile it is holds . and the would have the i don't have sending the agreement that was discussed thank god we in the province of the data and the local authorities are committed to the ceasefire but there are somebody nations aircraft that are still flying over the city despite the reports of explosions and sporadic fighting yemenis in and around the besieged port city are for now at least feeling some small semblance of hope how much. an official from the electoral commission in the. elections might be delayed because of technical difficulties earlier the police fired tear gas at a crowd of rock throwing supporters of the opposition presidential candidate martin for you know in the capital kinshasa the violence came off by the city government on all political gatherings is catherine soy. a stage.

charged opposition supporters thing. and exuding confidence that this will be. backed by the time. the presidential candidate could not get. along. the road his convoy and support his who had accompanied him while using. family in protest but it was no getting through the police. all the while there were people remained hopeful. that.

we're going to. be held responsible. for. their one. suspended police. security right up to the. commission these appeal. possibility of postponing the fandy election for a week. the main reason last week nearly seven thousand voting machines for kinshasa y. destroyed when a warehouse where they were stored was burned down on a five thousand replacement devices from other regions have arrived in the capital and they still have to be reconfigured. it's been

a chaotic and violent campaign season and many people here are concerned that this could escalate action is disputed catch we saw al jazeera kinshasa. being counted in madagascar as presidential election runoff it started as soon as the polls closed the former president's mom my mama and three. vying for the country's top office is the first time the two have faced off since two thousand and nine when mamma was forced from power by protests led by his opponent results in the runoff are expected before the end of the year. parliamentary elections in togo are going ahead despite deadly riots and a boycott of the opposition the west african country has been engulfed in a political crisis for more than a year now protesters one president for not saying day to resign his family has ruled the country for nearly four decades his poll to judge him. in the days leading up to legislative elections in togo the number of people killed by security

forces is on the increase. the military has been blocking streets to stop the deadly protests and one of those just killed was a thirty two year old father an electrician named cebu saw the suit. we were on our way to buy food when military men started shooting guns with real bullets saudis who were shot two times on his chest and cheek him much to mr t. un counted this morning to buy food and he was cute but it was flowing from his body by the time they brought him home he was already that. president for nursing babies family has been in power since a coup in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven the president's father general nothing but ruled with an iron fist for nearly forty years. his son took the presidency in two thousand and five and more than one thousand people were killed

during those elections total ease have been calling for him and his government to resign for years now fourteen opposition groups have created a coalition there asking their supporters to boycott the elections they say the ruling party will pass legislation to let the president run again in two thousand and twenty and then again in two thousand and twenty five. these elections cannot help but trigger violence morning and a lot of suffering if you've had enough here in togo this is why we keep on saying that the government was not told these elections we should have prepared to unilaterally and whose results it ready no absolutes. no doubt. a regional group of mediators from ghana and guinea have led talks to resolve the crisis the opposition had agreed to participate but wanted an overhaul of the electoral commission and to set term limits but they didn't get what they were promised will do aunt deel sue deja in togo people are being shot and parliament members are here and remain

silent some others just keep on campaigning not a single judge has taken hold of this case is it we're living in a lawless state where an ordinary citizen can be broken and even killed and no one says a thing this is the lord the jungle. the rising tensions have prompted all religious groups in togo to call for the poles to be postponed but the ruling party will not budge. the legislative elections will take place with nursing babies union for the republic party looking set to win what remains to be seen is how many citizens will be killed as the country's long time ruling family holds on to power. on al-jazeera . the roman catholic church in the u.s. state of illinois has been accused of failing to report the full scale of alleged child sex abuse by the clergy a report by the attorney general identified accusations against at least five hundred priests and other clergy not been publicly named or properly investigated

chicago's archbishop cardinal blaise subpoena responded by apologizing for the church's failure to address the abuse the report deals another blow to the church after revelations this year of abuse and cover ups by catholic officials in pennsylvania following that story for us out of washington is the attorney general's office speculating alone as to why there's such a big difference between reported figures and actual figures when it comes to what the church itself was saying about this. well the church in chicago is saying that the one hundred eighty five members of the clergy who are credibly accused of child sex abuse the attorney general decided to investigate and said that number was more than five hundred so that's a significant increase they say that part of the problem is that we're going back to the one nine hundred fifty s. credible cases where either not investigated properly or not investigated a toll the survivors network for those abused by priests say that this is shocking

and they also say that other states should follow illinois lead and carry out an investigation well the thirteen other states are doing exactly that and they're doing that on the back of this investigation but also what we know of went on in boston in what was captured in the very famous oscar winning movie when the newspaper broke the news of the child sex abuse scandal in massachusetts but also just in the last couple of weeks we had in pennsylvania where the investigated there and found out that more than three hundred priests had been sexually abusing more than one thousand children and the religious order of the catholic religious order the jesuits put out a list just a couple of days ago that said there was an extensive list there of people who were guilty of child sex abuse so what you can be almost certainly guaranteed of is that these investigations are going to go ahead now the bishops in the united states met to discuss this scandal and we're going to issue a statement on that just

a couple of weeks ago but then the vatican intervened and so we're not expecting an official statement from the catholic church on this scandal all encompassing scandal national scandal until early in the new year and this seems as well according to the attorney general and have been a particular degree of nastiness folded into this given that she's claiming that some people within the catholic church there in illinois went out of their way to discredit people discredit what they were saying. i would certainly fit into a pattern no when people made allegations of abuse if they reached any sort of settlement with the church they were then forced to sign nondisclosure agreements many people look at the catholic church and think they have done everything possible to cover up this scandal which stretches back fifty sixty years and they say that even though with all these investigations they're simply not doing enough to address the issue they're not doing enough to be open and transparent well the

courts are known volved the legal system is no involved and that could well open up the catholic books the catholic history and the catholic church to extensive investigations over exactly what went wrong who covered water up and who was responsible for something this stretches back as they see almost sixty years thanks very much. brazil's going president michelle turner is facing new charges of corruption and money laundering he's accused of taking bribes in exchange for extending contracts to port operators it's the third time and has been charged with corruption previous cases were dismissed by the congress but this time he's likely to face court proceedings after stepping down as president on the first of january the e.u. has revealed its contingency plans if the u.k. crashes without a deal the plan covers fourteen areas most likely to be affected and is designed to protect the vital interests of a group of twenty seven countries now the u.k.

is also ramping up preparations for a no deal is not in baba. well the government's plans for a new deal broke soon consider heavily in prime minister's questions here in parliament on wednesday what we know is that they're stepping up those preparations with the least two billion us dollars of extra funding to try to get the country ready for that scenario if the u.k. doesn't have a deal and leaves the e.u. next march they are for example putting three and a half thousand troops on standby there providing for extra special flights to make sure medicines carry on arriving in the country now those prospects are worrying people like him five of the biggest business organizations in the u.k. you visited a joint statement saying they're looking on with horror of what they call functional infighting here in westminster and are saying it's up to politicians to really find a way forward and avoid that no deal scenario the labor party official position and

also said that that should be taken off the table the prime minister is recklessly running down the clock all in a shameful attempt to make your own bad deal look like the lesser of two evils. thing to the right on it would gentleman do it while until the deal has a day and has been ratified it is the responsible position of government and it is it would be the responsible position of any government to put in place contingency arrangements for no deal so there's lots of worry both in terms of immigration policy and in terms of the damage and no deal breaks it could bring. in the u.k. government to set out his biggest reform of migration policy for more than forty years as it prepares for post breaks of relationship with the rest of the world paul brennan has the details. the issue of immigration has been at the heart of the whole debate with the european union's freedom of movement rules limiting the u.k.

government's ability to pick and choose who can enter the u.k. government. post breck's it is how to visibly reduce immigration without damaging the economy the future system is about making sure immigration works in the best interests of the u.k. we are absolutely not closing our doors we're simply making sure that we have control over who comes through them. the new law will scrap the current limit on the number of skilled immigrant workers such as doctors or engineers it will allow low skilled immigrants to work for up to twelve months before they would be forced to leave again and suggested minimum salary threshold equivalent to around thirty eight thousand dollars for skilled e.u. migrants is being deferred for further consultation and the whole system would be phased in from twenty twenty one a new twelve month visa would be used for individual unskilled workers from specific low risk countries they would not be allowed to settle or bring their

relatives with them and it seems destined still little for better integration but it is an explicit recognition from the government that despite anti immigrant sentiments some sectors of the u.k. economy have become dependent on cheap unskilled migrant labor using a salary threshold to define skilled and unskilled workers is worrying to hospitals and health care providers the starting salaries of nurses paramedics and midwives will likely put them below the threshold that's a problem in a service where twenty one percent of nurses and health visitors are non british and thirty percent of doctors come from overseas axel and tony is a german born accountant who built his business up in the u.k. his frustration at the treatment of e.u. workers here let him to co-found the campaign group the three million e.u. citizens are generating about two thousand three hundred pounds more in tax than the average adult in the u.k. seventy eight thousand pounds net contribution after all costing it take into

account over the lifetime. prime minister theresa may emphasised her commitment to immigration control with a visit to london's heathrow airport on wednesday to see border guards at work but reaction to the government's proposals has been mixed some predict an imminent skill shortage in key sectors western as one opposition m.p. pointed out society javid the example of cabinet ministers shows that being highly paid and highly skilled do not always go together paul brennan al-jazeera london. still to come here on the news hour a dangerous year for journalists as the number killed in retaliation for their work rises sharply. also ahead a blogger on the run we'll look at why a chechen activist in poland might be returned home despite facing threats to his life. and a winning streak victory in denver brings the nuggets wrong seven the highlights in the sports news in about fifteen minutes.

from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. hello this is not traditionally a wet time of the year anywhere in china so to see clouds streaming across think even you have to think what's going on well that is the remains of a tropical cycling believe it or caught up in the air came across the bay of bengal only about forty eight hours ago has already brought significant rain for you now in the still some more to come further east but even reach shanghai so the significant compared with the average is virtually nothing but it's still unusual and is still hanging around as occasional showers but i may get to friday that has dried up in situ on a unanimous u.c. and all the way back to the high ground to us back then which was only two days ago soaking wet so unusual weather for the sas is a bit more normal now we've got more showers gathering in the central and southern

philippines and few a heavy ones in the southern parts of thailand over this in the lazy they're still there but not quite as concentrated as they were maybe the biggest ones are coming back to where you'd expect to be no further south i'm a lazy or more especially out into the easy in fact jakarta's right in life is a dark green which always suggest some pretty big thunderstorms they've been around after all the last couple of weeks and have caused some flash flooding and landslides in java might return. the weather sponsored by qatar airways.

arts. on line i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us. there was a rush of adrenaline this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has legal protest strike to police to disperse the crowd everyone has a voice. for lots of different reasons what's different types of bricks join the global conversation on how does iraq.

al-jazeera. this is the news the top stories donald trump out ordered a full withdrawal of u.s. forces from syria a victory against in the country the decision has surprised his foreign allies and angered some members of his republican party. an election official in the democratic republic of congo says sunday's polls might be delayed due to technical difficulties hours earlier the police fired tear gas on opposition supporters in the capital kinshasa after political rallies were over security. and chicago's archbishop has apologized for the catholic church's failure to address accusations of child sex abuse by the clergy in the u.s. state of illinois he was responding to a report by the attorney general that said the church withheld the names of hundreds of priests and other clergy accused of abusing my. a yemeni woman's on her way to the u.s. to see her dying son after a year long legal battle she's been prevented from seeing a child because of

a travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries as well as north korea. and venezuela the two year old boy is an american citizen with a rare brain disorder the u.s. granted her a visa after a civil rights group took the case to court john hendren travel to oakland california to talk to the two year old's father. here in a california hospital the u.s. travel ban his left a two year old motherless as a rare brain disorder carries him into the final days of his life but his second day in the u.s. took him to the hospital and they were shocked how skinny you were as they were us were those doctors and the nurse. when they were seen and like this all time this is what's happening back in yemen like his father an american citizen is among the youngest immigrants to suffer from the american travel ban since he arrived in the u.s. in october of dollars you many mother has been unable to see him because of the trumpet ministrations ban on travelers from yemen and six other mostly muslim nations on

tuesday the u.s. granted his mother's waiver and a chance to hold of dilla once again but for two years nothing happened until monday when ali hassen in the council on american islamic relations called a news conference to appeal directly to the american people you know we've got a lot of foreign service officers deployed all over the world that are making these decisions on a daily basis and they're trying very hard to do the right thing at all times for the house and the wait has been traumatic all the husband says it's hard for him to tell such a personal story but he decided if he didn't go public his son would die without ever seeing his mother again and she would regret the day that she did it to me on september that's when the last time she said she would regret everything so if you had not gone public. what would have happened. i would just see my son dying

on the on or taking off our mayor mom on. without his mother without his mother. after marrying his wife shaimaa two years ago ali was told her visa would soon be approved then came the trump travel ban which brought protesters into the streets and airport waiting rooms until a few months ago little of delish stayed with his mother in yemen growing thinner sicker and sharing hospitals with thousands of victims of the war in yemen. desperate ali brought his son to cairo and then the u.s. for care of my son going through. it's really hard for him i mean he was never from the mother and then his face in just it's crazy you know no matter what color you are. a family should be together no amount of this fall the bill is stopped breathing on his own then closed his eyes for the last time and stop responding entirely doctors say the end is days away

a bill is strength in the speed of his mother's plane will determine whether on wednesday evening the hudson family will get that chance john hendren al-jazeera oakland california the family of a guatemalan girl who died in u.s. border police custody is calling for an independent investigation seven year old jake lynn call died from shock and dehydration a family says she wasn't given medical attention despite feeling unwell she was then put on a ninety minute bus journey to a medical facility bought by the time she arrived she'd stopped breathing and later died. the un's world food programme is cutting food aid to nearly two hundred thousand palestinians living in poverty in gaza and the occupied west bank is blaming a severe funding shortfall because of a lack of donations thousands of palestinians will lose access to food and other basic services in the coming year palestinian leaders say the decision will have a grave impact libya's internationally recognized government says the country's

biggest oil field will reopen after the prime minister convinced protesters at the facility to stand the fires also raj traveled to the south an oil field on weapons day to meet demonstrators that included tribesmen wanting more development in the region and security guards demanding their salaries in tripoli government has approved a development fund for the area. hungary's opposition has warned there won't be any letup in anti-government protests the hung garion alliance of trade unionists has also pledged to hold nationwide strikes if a controversial labor law is signed into effect protesters are condemning what they call a slave law allowing employers to force staff to work overtime until the payment for up to three years the laws provokes more than a week of demonstrations in the capital but the past. now for journalists it's becoming increasingly a dangerous world the number of revenge killings nearly doubled this year the new report from the committee to protect journalists found that thirty four reporters

were murdered in retaliation for their work sixteen more than last year nineteen others were killed when covering conflicts and violent protests the committees blaming a lack of international leadership on the rights and safety of journalists i'm sorry profile killing was at the washington post columnist in the saudi consulate in istanbul on october the second thirteen journalists were also killed in afghanistan this year making it the most dangerous country to report from however the number of reporters dying in war zones actually fell to its lowest level for seven years robert mahoney is the deputy executive director of the committee to protect journalists he joins us live now from new york robert mahoney the headline is getting more dangerous for reporters why is that. two reasons one there is growing authoritarianism amongst governments around the world in the jailing journalists. very much higher rate and also journalists that are doing

investigative work being targeted because there are uncovering corruption and uncovering criminality and then they're being murdered for that as you mentioned you know the numbers of murders this year has almost doubled and that's in part because of individual killings and also in the case of afghanistan suicide bombers targeting journalists in double suicide attacks put this in context for us though that headline figure offset against the number of reporters dying in war zones is that good use of technology or is it that it's the reporters don't go near certain conflicts now because they are just too dangerous. yes indeed you know it's so it's so dangerous for some journalists to go into conflict zones of just not going but they are relying on the local journalists to give them the information and it's the local journalists that are getting targeted as is the case in afghanistan and in syria the headline here though is that the numbers of

journalists being killed continues to grow and that it is deliberate targeting whether it's in the european union in the case of a slovak reporter and a maltese reporter or with saudi arabia brutally killing a critical journalist in the istanbul consulate you'll soon you'll report mention what happened with the capital because that newspaper in maryland how much of this is responsible i mean difficult to get empirical figures on this i guess but how much of this is responsible because of fake news the keep the killing in the the capital because that maryland was to do with a disgruntled. reader who went after that newspaper and you know the people that were killed were anything to do with the complaint of that particular person i think the fake news adds to the terrible toxic atmosphere that's being created

by president trump and other leaders imitating him around the world which serves as a backdrop and undermines the work of the press and makes journalists more vulnerable to criticism and in some cases to retribution whether it's in the form of being jailed or being attacked physically undoubtedly the most high profile death of a reporter slash journalist slash writes in the past twelve months of tip of the second jamal khashoggi why does his death continue to reverberate and his death i guess he's now more famous than he would ever have been for trying to shine a light in certain areas certain regions in the part of the world where i'm sitting . well there are several reasons one is he was a prominent columnist for a well known these paper the washington post so that gave him a very high perch from which the from which to write also just the sheer

gruesomeness of the way in which he was killed and then the way that the took a show thorough as these leaked out the information bit by bit day after day keeping the news focused on this mood and also the fact that it saudi arabia which is very close to the present trumpet ministration including that the president's son in law jared krishna so if you put all this together it makes for a very good international story and it helps shine a light on the terrible risks that into the investigative journalists taking all that produce this incredible cocktail and we're still talking about it now three months afterwards and i'm sure it's going to resonate for many more months to come as details emerge from tookie rabbit mahoney in new york thank you very much. the most popular video blogger in chechnya is facing deportation from poland if that is years ago after receiving death threats from government leaders but now he may be

forced to go home human rights activists say it's a situation thousands of chechens are dealing with. a story. to so abdulrahman novas an online sensation but offline he fears for his life a popular blogger from chechnya has been living in exile in poland for the last three years he's terrified of what will happen if he's forced to return home searches you know to be back in chechnya just the very thought of being deported to russia it's something i try to not even think about in august one of his you tube videos got two million views in it he's allegedly threatened by one of the most feared men in chechnya the speaker of parliament my goal met the golf drums on kind of as the chechen leader he is reverb by supporters and feared by opponents they say he's notorious for running a brutal regime was rule through corruption torture and murder abdurrahman all fled

to poland after he says he was threatened by the leader's cars and he told me let us meet up next time and i will take you to rahm's on capital and if he tells me to kill you i will kill you if he tells me to put you in jail i will put you in jail and if he tells me to let you go i will let you go. he's been hoping to receive asylum in poland ever since without success kadyrov and his security forces have warned asylum seekers that they will pay for their criticism if they return. this is good in chechnya favorite people fear the authorities they fear each other people start to fit everything the state of affairs is practically the same as maybe in germany during hitler's time or in russia during stalin's time. the chechen government accused up iraq not know of an involvement with iceland syria stamps on his passport to prove otherwise he says and now security concerns in europe are complicating the status of chechens who fled the polish government says thirty one hundred people filed for asylum in the first nine months of the here

about two thousand of them were russians mainly from the chechen republic only sixty three were granted asylum for many chechens it's a matter of life and death. through the option i've been getting messages about this there have already been deportations and brenda berg germany many are worried they're calling in to see if it's true they're really scared right now i've dropped my knowledge has managed to hide from chechen security forces but he doesn't know for how much longer katia lopez saw the jaan al jazeera germany is marking the second anniversary of the attack in berlin a truck driver plowed into a christmas market killing twelve people and injuring dozens more as dominic came. berlin police stand guard outside a mosque this week their investigation into illegal financing of the war in syria has brought them here intelligence led actions like this have become much more common in the last two years following the twenty sixteen attack on the bloodshed

plaids christmas market the worst atrocity in germany for decades on wednesday survivors and relatives of the victims came to pay their respects. years ago i was standing at the blue vine stall with my mother when the truck drove through the fence and destroyed everything i was severely injured and my mother was killed that's why we remember the victims today it is hard for me to come back here but in two years i have grown strong it's been important to me to personally process this in the end everyone has to find his own way. for the security services finding their own way meant securing more funding and then prioritizing preventative action one analyst told me another factor was the defeat of eisel in syria and it's in suing effect here in germany well it really is a generational change and we've seen this in many many terrorists movements and comparing. the you move from the first inspiring leaders to the second imitators to

the third generation adventurers who are still dangerous but by far not as well organized and capable as the first second generation. now the christmas market in bloodshed platts is one of the most secure in germany police vans stand at the main entrances and exits foot patrols are regular and conspicuous a sign of law and order in action which in caps relates the changed approach across the country a glance at the figures in recent years shows the effect in twenty sixteen there were seven violent acts against civilians killing twelve and wounding sixty last year there was just one killing one and wounding five so far this year there have been none which is just what people like deca want to hear she's had a stand in pride child plants every christmas for the past thirteen years as a deacon danielle. people still come here despite what happened and i'm not afraid

for myself we will not let ourselves be defeated by this act. and that spirit is apparent on the faces of many of the visitors here now. it's clear the memory of what happened here two years ago house not for he did but because there's been no repetition of such a major violent incident in germany the perception of the threat level has it's also clear that the authorities wanted to stay that way dominic kane al-jazeera berlin. police in south africa have approached interpol to help in the arrest of zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe is accused of hitting a woman with an electrical cord in a hotel room in johannesburg last year the wife of the former president robert mugabe says she was acting in self-defense. has more now from the capital harare. the government spokesperson here in zimbabwe said that we have not received any written communication from south africa when we do the government will consider it

according to the laws of zimbabwe what we know is that grace mugabe is in them in zimbabwe right now she was in singapore where she was getting treatment she's being protected by the state because she's a former first lady and as far as we know the last time she was in south africa was when that incident happened last year now what is the risk mean internationally it basically means that if she travels to a country anywhere in the world that country could arrest and hand over to these other african zimbabweans here call her good she grace because she loves to shop they joke that she spends our time on planes and so they know that she loves traveling now that means her travel options could be limited if certain countries take this serious want seriously all eyes are now on the zimbabwean government if they're receive this written communication. are they going to hand her over given the fact that she is a former first lady. coming up in the sports news white middle east broadcasting rights or attracting the so much attention of the world trade organization.

he asked. now we start with football and gareth bale he scored a hat trick as real madrid booked their place in the final of the club world cup in the u.a.e. so how malik's reports. winning the club world cup could be the bright spark lifted what's been a disappointing season for real madrid so far. brown who is struggling down and full of the league oh look shaky early on in the semifinal against you pounds.

gareth bale settled the nerves however after some clever work by marcel it was just the start of what was to be a destructive spell. the welsh when back in a quick fire eleven minute trip was he was helped on his way by some comical defending i it all seemed a bit too much because she was manager to handle. there was no luck however about bale's third marcello again with the assist to end any serious hopes of a comeback was because she did go though with thirteen minutes left. but it was all too little too late rally winning it thirty one the spaniards now turned their attention to iraq to start their lane but they'll face saturday sunday so while malik al-jazeera. tottenham have been arch rivals arsenal to book their spot in semifinals of the english league cup spurs winning two nil away at the emirates

chelsea have also made it by beating bournemouth one nil both join third tier side burton albion and holders man city in the last four. manchester united have named their former striker ole gunnar sole striker as interim manager following the sacking of jos a merino the norwegian played for the club between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and seven after retiring from playing he became reserve team manager the only other top level role he's held in the u.k. it was with cardiff city a short lived spell back in two thousand and fourteen so shire will manage united until the end of the season alex ferguson's former assistant might feel and was appointed first team coach the world trade organization says it's launching an investigation into allegations that saudi arabia failed to protect sports broadcasting rights saudi arabia is one of the countries blockading qatar and have done since two thousand and seventeen and since then qatar is banned sports content has been blocked in the kingdom be as content has recently been rebroadcast under the brand b. out q the qatari network holds regional broadcasting rights for much of the world's

high profile events including this year's world cup saudi arabia has claimed the sports broadcasts are blocked for national security reasons and it says the has no standing to hear the case. now earlier we spoke to lars under bird from nordic content protection and an organization working with t.v. channels to prevent piracy he says the piracy crimes will only get more sophisticated. well it's getting bigger and bigger and they're also depends on the evolution of the internet connection to the high speed so we're seeing ahead many more criminal organizations getting bigger and bigger and taking her illegal outcome of this. ip cheapie streaming in some countries it is a problem but that there is no consensus between countries on which also a chill appliance or this kind of criminality so there might be adequate loss in

one country since many jurisdictions can't be involved in this criminal activity that has a need to have it proud about broader understanding of which laws and needed to to cover this crime it's obvious that if you're not able to join forces in the right way you. loss to international cooperation it will be easier for the criminal us to have their it illegal revenue out of this so there's a lot of neat fun for bringing the laws or to speak and also have a much higher possibility of international cooperation trying to force this a landmark agreement has been reached for kim and baseball players allowing them to sign with teams in the united states without defecting talks of been under way between cuba's baseball federation and major league baseball since the obama administration relaxed sanctions on cuba born from the embargo which started in one

thousand nine hundred two it's a big boost for players in cuba which has a rich history with the sport they are three time olympic baseball champions. and in the n.b.a. the denver nuggets have extended their home winning streak to seven games beating the dallas mavericks one twenty six twenty team it's the best start for the nuggets since the one nine hundred seventy six season serbian center nick joke at tuesday's when with thirty two points in the fourth quarter jamal maria took a walk back up court for a two pointer to seal the win after dallas had rallied a fourteen point lead down to four points the nuggets topped the western conference closely followed by the golden state warriors. there was also a win for the atlanta hawks the washington wizards jeremy lin was the standout player scoring twelve of his sixteen points in the final period for atlanta final score one eighteen one ten. and that's all your sport for now more later. mr jordan will keep you company in the coming hours i will see you bright and early

from twenty three g. . xenophobe ache violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's fastest growing far right organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine appends national. generation a two. part two of a special two college investigation on al jazeera and monday put it well on. u.s. and british companies have announced the biggest discovery of natural gas in west africa but what to do with these untapped natural resources is already a source of heated debate nothing much has changed they still spend most of their days looking forward to for the dry river beds like this one five years on the

syrians still feel battered or even those who managed to escape their country have been truly unable to escape the war. they wanted forty three billion dollars worth of weaponry that was six billion pounds intermission. there is no hope of any more because there's always a small hole of people for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function more shadow on al-jazeera. al-jazeera as their what has always breaks but it's also dead to see what happens next actuation i'm sure one of the fired by the barriers for a model barricaded all seventy three that we need to hear the movies now is what about change people have gone hospital here the area the mission of the national

army is to search the entire complex and i'll just do a story is about telling it from the people's perspective what they think is happening in their culture. we have one against isis president declares victory of i saw but some senators within his own party condemn is decision to pull troops out of syria. and jordan this is live from doha also coming up. uncertainty in the democratic republic of congo feels that sunday's elections may be postponed. the catholic church in the u.s. faces fresh accusations.