that's a good news story isn't out easier is award winning programs take you on a journey around the globe because we. only on al-jazeera. we have won against isis president trying to claim victory of i saw but some senators within his own party condemned his decision to pull troops out of syria. long. live from doha also coming up a yemeni woman arrives in the u.s. to visit her dying two year old son after fighting a legal battle to get a visa. uncertainty in the democratic republic of congo the fears that sometimes elections may be postponed. and with less than one hundred days to go the u.k.

and the e.u. each announced plans for a no deal breaks it ramping up the political pressure. u.s. president donald trump is all that a full withdrawal of american troops from syria and declared victory against isolate the country the decision has surprised his foreign allies and i'm good some members of his own republican party article had reports. 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 beaten a 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 america will remain on the ground after the physical to feed a 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 us and that is more difficult to do if u.s. troops are in his way just a few months ago the president himself has played 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 sense 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 were dramatically listen this isn't a bomb a white move 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 and to an even greater extent iran the administration and the pentagon both released statements saying the fight against iso isn't over that 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. or trump's unilateral decision

took us allies in the fight against oslo by surprise many of them believe there's still a threat to the ice and regaining ground. 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're 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 deliver the price always being the yes but it's not completed it's not completely because of course i suppose trying to find other ways to do for a lot of the world 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 un

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 would 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 allies are dismayed by the trunk decision those with very different views about the future of syria the so-called a stana group turkey russia and iran will benefit with more freedom to act inside the country james bays al-jazeera of the united nations. more explosions have been reported on the second day of a un brokered cease fire and yemen's port city of her data saudi and u.a.e. backed government forces and who the fighters blamed each other violations on the first day of the truce on tuesday the warring parties agreed on a cease fire during talks in sweden last week a date is critical over the supply of food and humanitarian aid to millions of yemenis on the brink of starvation. now a yemeni woman has just arrived in the u.s. city of san francisco to visit her dying son to a year long legal battle to get a visa seamus had been prevented from seeing him by a travel ban on people from yemen and four of the main muslim countries as well as north korea and venezuela the two a boy is an american citizen with

a rare brain disorder the u.s. granted her of these off to a civil rights group took the case to court well the council on american islamic relations which helped shamus me they get a visa get a statement shortly after she arrived. the reality is that the waiver process is that sham. there's no transparency no meaning process and no right. back up through approved her shows that there was no issue with her case to begin with and that she should have been approved months ago. so let's be clear. if she wants her believe that this week was not an act of kindness on their part. the embassy and department of state had a legal obligation to adjudicate shamus waiver within a reasonable amount of time and make the ultimate application where john hendren joins us live now from san francisco airport in california john so just talk us

through the arrival of this yemeni mother how did it go. well that is perhaps one of the most anxiously awaited delayed arrivals ever here at san francisco international ali housen the father of this young boy. who was smiling broadly which is not the way he looked when i interviewed him yesterday when his wife walked in and his wife seamus seemed a bit overwhelmed there were after all hundreds of people waiting but the family said they were blessed and in a statement to reporters an alley gone up before the microphones and said it was a difficult time for them but they were blessed to be together now but for a lot of people here it's a. shame that this process has taken so long this all began in war torn yemen about two years ago when i was born he was clearly very sick with a degenerative brain disease and he was getting really thin and he had to share hospitals with the war victims in yemen so his family moved him to cairo and it was

there that for something like seventeen months they pleaded with us embassy officials they say twenty eight times and they say all they got were automated responses so eventually when ali came here the father is a u.s. citizen and so is his son he kept trying to get the mother to come but he's been here since october knowing that his child was dying and now that his mother as arrived the child is unable to believe he's unconscious and probably doctors say will not know that she's there daryn unjoin why is this story managed to capture the attention of the world them and the u.s. state department of girls. and i think it put the travel ban into perspective in a really simple way that people can easily understand it for big people from a huge swath of the world from entering the united states for no reason other than their country of origin and in this case when they tried to seek a waiver it took so long that their child was literally at death's door by the time

the mother arrived and i think that allows people to understand a little bit in the words of many of the people we talked to here this is not a fair process you heard the lawyer there say that the waiver process is a sham so a lot of people here feel discriminated against for no other reason that they are muslim that's what they were telling us today and i think that really the whole way this came about drawn to people's minds in easily understandable way that this waiver system that this ban on travel here in the united states doesn't. have a better life for us that something historic or dumb country. the u.s. senate has passed a funding bill to keep the government running at least until the eighth of february the temper legislation was approved to avoid a complete federal shutdown after a deadlock over donald trump's plans for a border war with mexico trump has previously refused to sign the bill if it doesn't include five billion dollars for the war. 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 its clergy a report by the attorney general says the church withheld the names of at least five hundred priests and other clergy accused of abusing minors of a seventy year is chicago's archbishop cardinal blaze which responded by apologizing for the church's failure to report deals another blow to the church after revelations this year of abuse and cover ups by catholic officials in pennsylvania ellen fisher has more. well the catholic church in illinois had said that they had one hundred eighty five cases of priests that had been credibly accused of child sex abuse well the illinois attorney general's office decided to investigate and they phone that the figure was actually much higher that there were five hundred more cases that needed to be investigated in the say that the catholic church not only didn't fully investigate those allegations that came forward over the last forty fifty years in some cases they were investigated at all know the

survivors network of those abused by priests see the shocking and also see that other states should follow what illinois has been doing what other states have been following that in fact there are thirteen states thirteen other states that are carrying out their own investigation and just in the last few weeks we've heard pennsylvania say more than one thousand children were abused by our own three hundred predatory priests and in the last two days the catholic order of the jesuits came out and issued a list of priests that had been involved in credible allegations of child sex abuse going back to the one nine hundred fifty s. now the catholic bishops in the united states had gathered and they were about to issue a statement on what is in issue in wide scandal but at the last minute they stopped not was because the vatican intervened no we're expecting to see some sort of

statement from those catholic bishops at some point early in the new year now a japanese court has refused to extend the detention of form an essential human colors person prosecutors wanted him to be detained for another ten days he was arrested last month accused of lying about his salary on official documents over a four year period instance and charged. time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back threats of more strikes and a hungry over a controversial label known. and a special report from we look at the effects of alcohol and unemployment on essential asia's poorest nations more on that stay with us. had i once again rain has developed in a storm system somewhere around turkey but yes it's a pretty big dimples in cyprus in southern turkey where there is still flooding on

the drive of this road think will stay further north so the all that has brought rain through the open in syria about some you get to middle a thursday is really spread right across it's gone through syria almost except for the far north and he's lying in a northern iraq with snow on the high ground across the border in iran trying to push up towards wiser as well south of all this is a much quieter picture we're drawing a bit of a war that to give kuwait twenty three degrees the sun's out through most of iran is quite possible see the rain return possibly snow as well by the time we get to friday around the south and cusp in and beyond the arabian peninsula apart from a shower to possible in the red sea in that massive cloud there is a largely dry picture the breeze is no longer blowing harshly down the gulf there might pick up for the weekend and temperatures are but where they should be his time of year the showers that we saw only three days ago was quite heavy once the culture in the horn of africa have gone just cloud the heaviest rain he's of course where it should be now a lie from i go across to towns near madagascar but some pretty potent showers are

still there daily in the eastern side of south africa. capturing a moment in time snap shots of other nine other stories providing a glimpse into someone else's world nice. to see around. december the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls after a two year delay will be announced the winner of the already controversial presidential election join us but special coverage of the r.c. the election on al-jazeera.

welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on the al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump is over the full withdrawal of american troops from syria and declared victory against arsenal in the country the decision has surprised his foreign allies and angered some members of his own republican party. a yemeni woman has just arrived in the u.s. city of san francisco to visit her dying son a year long legal battle to get a visa they had been prevented from seeing him. on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries as well as north korea venezuela. and chicago's archbishop has apologized for the catholic church's failure to address accusations of child sex abuse by its clergy the latest revelations of a cover up involved. clerics in the u.s. state of illinois over seventy years. now an official from the electoral commission of the democratic republic of congo says sunday's elections might be delayed due to

technical difficulties earlier police fired tear gas at supporters of opposition presidential candidate. in the capital kinshasa the violence came after a ban by the city's governor on all political gatherings reports. a stage all. charged opposition supporters dancing singing and exuding confidence that this will be a fact but the ground will be fully packed by the time. only the presidential candidate could not get here. police blocked the road his convoy and support his who had accompanied him while using. family fires in protest but it was no getting through the police cordon. all the while there are new people remained hopeful. maybe i'm told

not. to. go and vote. if. we're going to hurt. and i think everything there cannot be held responsible. there were always. there what does make. this all happened after his governor. suspended political rallies in the city because of security reasons right after that a senior official at the electoral commission say to these a possibility of postponing the fandy election for a week. the main reason last week nearly seven thousand voting machines for

kinshasa why destroyed when a warehouse where they were stored was burned down only 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. opposition has warned there won't be any government protests trade unions have also pledged to hold nationwide strikes if a controversial label or a son intersect it allows employers to force staff to work overtime with payment delayed for up to three years that's triggered more than a week of demonstrations in the capital budapest. we haven't seen anything like the large scale protests of the weekend when thousands of hunger areas converged on the capital outside parliament and also. went to the state broadcaster the

hungary state broadcaster where we saw angry scenes and violent scenes where opposition m.p.'s who had entered the building two of whom were forcibly ejected and injured we actually met with two of those m.p.'s earlier today independent and peace in hungary and parliaments and they explained to us that the protest movement which has become known as the solidarity movement is spontaneous sporadic it's not centralized we have different groups involved everything from students youth movements to the neighbor unions also now to these political parties on both the left and the right of the spectrum and they are saying that there is now likely to be another large scale protest towards the weekend when this since so-called slavery little is expected to be signed into effect by the president the demands of

the protesters are not just about this slavery nor as they call it because it's going to affect many working class hungary and we sitting expected to put in perhaps an additional four hundred hours of overtime a year and not be paid for that overtime by up to three is there other to mons are also about freeing up the media in hungary which they now say the opposition is completely controlled by viktor old ban his political party and his supporters and also to campaign for an independent judiciary these are among the chief concerns of this opposition movement and they are hoping that they will. continue to maintain this momentum but they say they're in this for the long run this is not about a two three week flash in the pan it's going to take a lot of time to be able to create any significant change in the political system

in this country. the e.u. has revealed its contingency plans if the u.k. crashes out of the block without agreement the u.k. is also ramping up preparations for a no deal brigs it is not in baba explains. the government's plans for a new deal breaks it featured a 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 and 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 they're providing for extra special flights to make sure all medicines carry on arriving in the country now those prospects are worrying people like him and 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 honorable gentleman good 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 the head. of the british government to set out its biggest reform of immigration policy for more than forty years as it prepares for a post briggs and relationship with the rest of the world i was there was paul

brennan has the details. the issue with him in. gratian has been at the heart of the whole breakfast 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. the government's dilemma post bracks 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 a 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 turney 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. former soviet state stand is one of the poorest countries in central asia with many people who are lying on money being sent home from work has gone abroad mostly to russia or back home unemployment and alcohol are major problems as well as domestic violence against women in the latest in a series child stratford reports in the capital dushanbe

a challenge is that many face things are good between salim off and his wife now but for thirteen years he beat called the rover up a demotion lee abused. the forty seven year old father of four says he became an alcoholic because he got depressed after not being able to find work just like him burned the movement i drank because i thought i had no purpose in life i would come home and start fighting with the family now i know i can live without drinking you are carmen you talk with the kids it's brought us all very close. the couple's new found happiness is thanks to a pilot project by international alert the organization hopes to expand its a program to focus on educating women about their rights as well as offering them job opportunities to ease the financial pressure on families. but he was drinking a lot and beating me a lot and not respecting the children there was no calmness in the family the

situation is great now there's no more violence you finally found his path the organization international says that sixty percent of the women that interviewed in a survey said that they had suffered some form of physical sexual or emotional violence from their husbands in the last twelve years now experts say some of the reasons include poverty unemployment and alcoholism in a society that is often described as being deeply patriarchal around a million of a half men work in russia because they simply cannot find a job here many abandon their wives and never return. this woman who doesn't want to be recognised says her husband went to find work in russia seven years ago she hasn't seen or heard from him in the last five thousand or one how much. our family situation is very bad life is difficult because we need a lot of things we can have i can buy anything for my children so they have to work

when a job is available if they are not we have no choice but to stay at home. few other countries rely on remittances more than to stand around thirty percent of g.d.p. comes from tajiks working abroad and because many men can't find jobs at home alcoholism among the unemployed is high meaning women are often more vulnerable to violence especially experts say in a society where it's commonly believed they all subservient to men usually men said that's women in politics and off and we don't want them to be more empowered and we said that's why he had just i mean to talk to women to work with women we hear and know that i mean like with the family and to how the facility i mean if you will that you have the south psyllium of works as a handyman in his village. does similar work when she can find it her husband says he now talks to friends and other type of man about dealing with the financial

burdens they and their families face and how ashamed he is about the years of pain he caused. that al-jazeera tajikistan. for obama now to other stories and britain's plans to leave the european union well as briggs it looms a pro e.u. boy band is attempting to bring some harmony to the debate. and then. the five member outfit named the bring the union boys launched the video for their first single britain comeback in amsterdam although they haven't booked a gig yet the group hopes to top british pubs to get their message out the group's founder says she was inspired by the original british boy band take that. check of the headlines here on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump assaulted a full withdrawal of american troops from syria and declared victory over ice in

the country but it has surprised his foreign allies and angered some members of his own republican party the drawdown of an estimated two thousand troops expected within sixty to one hundred days a yemeni woman has just arrived in the u.s. city of san francisco to visit her dying son after a year long legal battle to get a visa. had been prevented from seeing him travel ban on people from yemen and four other mainly muslim countries as well as north korea venezuela and the council on american islamic relations which help she can to get her visa get a statement shortly after she arrived. the reality is that the waiver process it's a sham. there's no transparency no meaningful process and no oversight. that they optimally approved approved or shows that there was no issue with their case to begin with and that she should have been approved months ago. so let's be clear. if she went for her visa this week was not an act of kindness on their part

. the embassy in department of state had a legal obligation to adjudicate shamus waiver within a reasonable amount of time and then the album application chicago's archbishop has apologized for the catholic church's failure to address accusations of child sex abuse by its clergy the latest revelations of a cover up involved five hundred priests and clerics in the u.s. state of over seventy years. and election officials in the democratic republic of congo's as sunday's polls might be delayed due to technical difficulties but hours earlier police fired tear gas on opposition supporters in the capital kinshasa political rallies about security concerns. well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness statements. running is one of the most accessible sports. correspondent andrew richardson takes us on his personal journey

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