just explode they have been on explosion for a while now. a state of emergency was in forced an app or a after the headquarters of the ruling party was set on fire the curfews and force and schools are closed. a few hundred kilometers south down the river nile protests are placed by queues and consume a lot officer than most of the living conditions in sudan is deteriorating we have queues everywhere for fuel and at a.t.m.'s you can't even pull your money out of the bank you can't get your salary everything has become so expensive and we don't know what is happening it feels like there's a ticking bomb and we don't know when it'll explode sudanese feel the inflation through the price of brit the cost of a loaf has tripled in some areas and they are brit and fuel shortages nationwide in the capital khartoum some queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announced their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point four billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and brayed but shopkeeper who sign osmonds

says people need help now but what they're gonna. situation used to be good in the purchasing power people had was reasonable but conditions are bad now the goods are expensive and so people are unable to buy them the sudanese economy has struggled since the succession of south sudan in twenty eleven sudan lost three quarters of its oil output accounting for ninety percent of export revenues it was a crucial source of foreign currency the crisis is deep into this year after subsidy cuts and the devaluation of the sudanese pound now it's an anxious white to see the true cost of this crisis chela ballasts out his era. a russian president vladimir putin has compared the poisoning of a double agent in the u.k. to the killing of saudi journalist. briton impose sanctions on russia after accusing it of using a nerve agent to attacks in march we can says while western countries punished

russia saudi arabia has faced little penalties over the ashaji case. as for the scruple of fear there's nothing for me to comment on and to show gee he's been assessed knighted there is evidence everyone has recognised it as a scruple well that's another matter entirely so one thing has led to a whole heap of sanctions and the other to complete silence that is the politicized russophobe because pro-choice there is yet another pretext in order to mount another attack on russia if there'd be no scruple incident they would have come up with something else there is only one goal or see behind it and that is to constrain russia to prevent it from developing because we're seen as a rival. now lexie klebnikov is a middle east analyst at the russian international affairs council he joins us now from moscow thanks very much for being with us so does the russian president have a point here are there double standards when the west deals with russia

to a certain extent of course yes because basically as you rightly described in the beginning that in one case where there were allegations of no hard evidence is for. those two russians and. the spies and squid paul and it's poisoning after the end scruple is alive and or skilled in actually even the top brass as in. security services they confirm confirm that there was no action. done top words with regard to saudi arabia because it is a crucial ally and u.s. partner so apparently there are some double standards here. are countries like the u.k. really russophobia. well . if you look back. for several years now you can see that this kind of russian. retore is on the rise not only in the u.k.

but throughout the western world and of course it is majorly connected with. with crimea and eastern ukraine and previously. late zero zero. back to russia georgian war so it's kind of a continuous. thing where russia has been pressed and pushed. from the west on something which they disagree and as russian president uses it as a it was a phobic attempt and actually he. calls the main the reason for that is the russia has kind of. started to. be more developed it's basically restored it's a military potential and economic might after the collapse of the soviet union and basically those approaches from western countries are aimed at basically kneeling

down or limiting russia's development capabilities that's what the a fish show kremlin view is what do you say to those who argue that the russian president is is is using this is an excuse sanction he's trying to deflect the conversation away from russian misdeeds abroad because the description of cases it's not the first time that something like this has happened there was of course that the poisoning death of alexander litvinenko who was a. russian double agent and defector and the u.k. blamed the russian state for that as well. of course one can argue that that might certainly be a russian no behind points word that he tries to deflect attention from self but

also it's kind of important to notice that after the show was a case russia didn't voice i mean well the muppet wars and criticize saudi arabia because actually it's quite important part of growing important part for russia in the region and. another important thing that russia doesn't interfere into the internal affairs of other states that's one of the most important lines which russian leadership is pushing russia in the face and what is pushing so this is why it's kind of very tricky substance to talk about on the one case you case is interference in its own internal affairs how shocked is. assassination is also kind of interference in in it was done on the soil of so it's very complicated substance and it's very hard to navigate and basically draw concrete lines in who is doing what and trying to deflect from what foreign attention could to speak

of you alexei joining us from moscow thanks for being with us now yemeni woman is visiting her dying son in the u.s. after winning an almost two year long legal battle to get a visa the u.s. travel ban on business from mainly muslim countries prevented her from going to california a two year old son is on life support in hospital there with a rare brain disease john hendren was there when she landed. at san francisco international airport a long delay finally came to an end neither distance nor war nor the u.s. travel ban could keep this mother from a last farewell with her ailing son nearly two years after applying for a u.s. visa and twenty three months after the trumpet ministration banned visas from yemen and six other countries seamus whelan has arrived this is the vehicle time for our family but we are blessed to be together the journey to san francisco began in war

torn yemen and ends at this nearby hospital there her two year old son of dylan lies on life support with a degenerative brain disease and doctors say only days of life left but this is what a bill is father pleaded with the u.s. state department for twenty eight times i want his mother to be next to him while he was going through and because he was a lot like. bond with them with the mother although both only and abdullah haasan are american citizens the u.s. government granted shaimaa a waiver only on tuesday a day after her son appealed directly to the american people in a news conference the families lawyers say it did not have to take this long shame a they say was clearly eligible for a waiver there is a sham process and this basically shows that the issuance of our visa this week was not an act of kindness on their part. that embassy and apartment of state had a legal obligation to adjudicate shamus waiver requests within

a reasonable amount of time and they failed on the application but it is the most bittersweet of reunions the visit took so long that little ability is now one hundred years on able to bring in by himself an unlikely to know his mother was there she says i want to go to the house without take my child home now would she got right she's not going to take his side of the home we're going to take his child to the grave because he's done when shaimaa received her visa on tuesday only said she wept for the first time in months for joy to his gran of happiness to come see her son and to his status and sound that she's going to see her son. go away now after waiting two years they wait for the end together john hendren al jazeera san francisco. thousands of central american asylum seekers who wanted to reach the

u.s. have had their hopes dashed many were turned away at the u.s. border some said they had not been given the legal protections they're entitled to all of that i mean has more or less on the mexican side of the border. it's late afternoon that the chapel of the shelter starts filling up a mix of people brought together by their quest to enter to us. it it's opinion low says a hairdresser from guerrero one of the most violent states in mexico she owned a small cell and every week she was forced to pay five dollars in protection money to the local cartel. violence has been around for a long time but we took the decision to leave in two days because suddenly one saturday they asked us to pay one thousand us dollars or there would be consequences for my family like many wishing to go through legal channels they were turned away from the border but by mexican authorities given a number and transported to the shelter. about forty five minutes later

a second bus arrives among them several deployed tease. this young man was caught while trying to cross a load through to surrounding mountains he was sent back to mexico on the same day others here didn't want to speak on camera but told us they were deported on the spot despite claiming protection from u.s. authorities they didn't get what is known as a credible fear interview which should be guaranteed by u.s. law one man said his american dream lasted just thirty minutes. this also when asked and his two children little close if he misses her mom and hold back in el salvador they were part of the so-called caravan and got lost on their way so ended up here instead of the one of. them is hard to leave the family my wife didn't want to go she couldn't find the courage to do it and she said she will follow i don't know if as a father with children is more difficult or not. the door opens again

this time we meet twenty three years old. this he is one of the so-called dreamers children of undocumented migrants living in america he was. reported for driving without identification but he says fear was always embedded in the front grill you're in now. and went through the. use of is very rebellious. little. india and the chapel was packed two hundred people turned back here low it doesn't matter where did they went through the legal border to try to sneak in there all spending the night together and tomorrow some will leave war will come back. but at that hamid al-jazeera will gallus. this is address the let's get a round of now of our top stories u.s.

president donald trump has defended his decision to pull out american troops from syria he said it's time for others to fight in the middle east his decision surprised foreign allies and some members of his own republican party. russia's president vladimir putin has welcomed trump's decision he says russia must normalize relations with the united states speaking at his annual news conference he says the u.s. military presence in syria is illegitimate he added his forces have not seen any sign of awards draw yet. than the view is for defeating arsal i generally agree with the president of the united states with the chiefs of major advances when it comes to defeating the terrorists and we have struck a major blows against terrorists of syria there is a danger that those terrorist groups may now and filtrate the neighboring regions for example afghanistan and other countries for example the countries of origin that is

a great risk for all of us including russia in the us asian and see drew asian countries presidential candidates in the democratic republic of congo have been discussing whether to accept a proposal to delay the election electoral commission says it is technically unable to hold a vote on sunday as planned it is blaming a fire that destroyed voting machines and then ebola outbreak disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein has arrived in court in new york for a hearing that could decide the future of his sexual of the sexual assault case against him his lawyers are trying to get the case thrown out they argued the police acted inappropriately during the investigation and egyptian court has acquitted forty three workers of nongovernmental organizations in a retrial they were accused of illegally receiving foreign funds to spread dissent during the twenty eleven revolution that toppled president hosni mubarak the americans europeans energy efficiency were jailed in two thousand and thirteen. one

person has been killed as protests are spreading in sudan over the soaring prices of food and fuel a state of emergency is being enforced in two cities a bar and gadara following riots in the northern river nile state. those are the headlines we're back with more after the stream. december the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls for yet do we know the winner of this already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the osses election. al-jazeera. ok and join the stream today as we wrap up twenty eighteen with take a reflective look back at the year that was highs the lows the chaos and the hope

as we head into a new year and i'm really could be will be joined by a special group of faith leaders to have this conversation about the global news of twenty eighteen and we want you to be a part of it too as always share your thoughts in our youtube chat or on twitter stream. it has been a tough year in global news the brutal war in yemen grinds on children caged on the us mexico border the chaos of it continues palestinians shot down by israeli soldiers on the gaza border hair raising climate change warnings issued saudi journalist jamal khashoggi was brutally slaughtered by his own government but there were also positives north and south korea about of formally end their decades long hostilities the first muslim and native american women were elected to the u.s. congress again scientists developed a plastic eating enzyme that could be an environmental game changer so how do we

reconcile the good with the bad with us today we have the right bishop gene robinson vice president of religion at the shore to quad institution that's a nonprofit education center in dallas texas. the man is founder and president of the kean institute for assignment research and in new york rabbi daniel rottenberg is rabbi in residence at that work of jewish leaders welcome to the stream everyone it's really good to have you. i feel truly blessed today excellent having your hair i want to show you a picture this is mom and this is on the texas border and. can you tell us where you were what you would doing what you were feeling. so we as a group of faith leaders are actually went down to mccallan texas in the immediate aftermath of the family separation policy and unfortunately what we saw down there

were warehouses that have been converted into immigration detention centers that are now housing children literally in cages and we managed to intercept a bus of children that was coming out of one of those warehouses we realized even though you could sell not picture the windows very tentative but we realized those children were were in their hands as we realized we all just kind of rushed towards the bus and started to show those children love. i consider that you know i've had the blessing of doing a lot of work in refugee camps and working in various places where there's been disaster and things of that sort that's probably the toughest moment of my life and recent memory because though i could you know i'm a pretty tall guy so i could reach up and i could reach the windows and children were putting their hand on my hand and they were looking at me and crying. and i was praying for them and it was deeply disturbing moment because i couldn't ask

them what their names were i couldn't touch them i couldn't comfort them beyond simply putting my hand on the glass and that to me defines the dehumanisation of particularly those that are seeking asylum at our border trying to escape conditions that we've helped create as a nation and we have reduced them to images that cannot be accessed i belong to a remarkable group of senior fellows at the auburn seminary we sort of think of ourselves as revolutionary love warriors and we go to places just like this we go to the border to stand with refugees and asylum seekers.