his daughters who has cerebral palsy and needs medical assistance look describe what happened in the embassy here and. killing my yeah i had been so you know you've had us so you know because she was born after she became a citizen his youngest daughter could be issued a passport but his wife and two other daughters needed visas. and then after which time went on best fear. and how did you feel when you got there and you can learn how to now put it in the helmet of the if you see now is to not. let you see can you show me the papers. of and talk so fucked in the end if you have. a lemon of home and the only thing you have to deliver on how limited to the old me how he had the look on me let me have it of them.

it's very powerful and of course that episode is available online and in full it is one to really sit down and watch properly if you've got the time between war and the band it's from the award winning fault lines team it is in the documentary section at al-jazeera dot com. now just a couple quick questions that have come through particularly on the democratic republic of congo story remember we're waiting for a news conference from the electoral commission they're finding out if it's been postponed or not barbara has asked is this the place where all the polling machines just went up in flames in a huge warehouse fire yes it is and that happened paul about ten days ago now and the electoral commission at the time said no we will be able to press ahead even though documents ballot papers and machines were in that warehouse fire i think they're finding now that was maybe a little ambitious and isaac was asking when is the election supposed to happen sunday sunday was supposed to be the day of the actual vote but as we've been pointing out two years in the making has been delayed for two years so in one sense you could say ah well they could just wait a few more days but i don't know how much more patience the people of the d.l.c.

have certain that's what malcolm webb was saying to us earlier it's a very tense situation they hope that answers some of your questions the hash tag is aging you screwed now if you are part of our facebook live audience welcome we've got a story just for you now during the break about india's rigid caste system and how it plays out when it comes to getting married and then later one of the u.k.'s busiest airports grinds to a whole just five days before christmas nothing to do with the weather we'll have more on the drones which are brought gatwick to a standstill. however the last belt of rain that came out of the eastern med in turkey can be seen very clearly on the satellite picture it brought rain through lebanon syria and north near iraq where it's still likely to rain even in the early part of friday the following that the sun comes out the wind drops to temperatures not that hard to

eighteen in beirut and forty in aleppo east of that and briefly we have a bit of rain and snow streaked across iran it disappears he's was not a very strong system we're left with nine degrees in the sunshine in tehran sun so that generally looking fine maybe the northerly breezes. just been picking up and down the gulf states becomes a bit more substantial drop in attention as well as a result the time we get to saturday this gray cloud hint to the possibility of a shower think probably not more likely in the red sea possibly the sudanese coast or maybe eritrea again nothing much to the heaviest rain in africa is for the size as it should be for this time of the year so anywhere through d.r. c. and prosperous and be a towards tanzania is where you get some fairly heavy downpours we have had recently iraq on the edge of your screen you must be a secular nation which is a tropical site and commit close to us and hearts in the rains in madagascar as for south africa a few showers nice otherwise fine. when

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and on some other very dot com and what's trending as well that in a person held his annual press conference today welcoming the u.s. troops leaving syria all the secrets were in for him and his influence there which has been. enormous relief for years now hasn't it and then not verifying a motive if you have a tourist in iraq or that story have an interest in that one myself that's gone quite high on the list have a look for yourself if you're interested that is what's trending this say that al-jazeera dot com. united nations special envoy for syria stop. and a mr is giving his final address to the u.n. security council right now briefing members on his meetings with iran and turkey and russia which happened in geneva james bays is of course our diplomatic editor who's been keeping an eye on that speech what's he been saying james well it's

an important speech because this is the last time that the special envoy will brief the security council the syrian war has been going on for nearly eight years he's been trying to find a negotiated settlement for four and a half years he's pointing at some of the things that have been achieved he's talking about twelve into syrian principles that have agreed to eleven parameters. six in the sites that will be useful for his successor but the reality is there's no peace in syria in fact there are so many people being displaced so many people have been killed and in a long speech just does deciding exactly where things are in terms of the plough must see right now including the withdrawal in the last few days the out sort of the withdrawal of u.s. troops it's pretty clear that the special envoy like the two before has failed in his basic mission this is how he explained that. the vision involved for four years in four month almost exactly the length of the

first world war they viewed him people a been enduring a conflict for thurman and a half years longer than the thick on world war this conflict as being and remained a tragedy put it he them people it is being dirty brutal horrific war so we're going to have to leave that story there i'm afraid and james bond is as well rob rodenstein the u.s. deputy attorney general is speaking this we believe has to do with questions of chinese espionage let's have a listen including intellectual property and other confidential business information. when hackers gain access to m s p's they can steal sense of the business information that gives competitors an unfair advantage the indictment alleges that the defendants work for a group known to cyber security experts as a p t ten these groups are designated as a.p.

teaser advanced persistent threats because they use malware to gain access to computer networks and to exfiltrate or steal data over an extended period of time. these defendants allegedly compromised m.s.p. clients in at least a dozen countries the united states and eleven other countries the victims included companies in banking and finance telecommunications and computer consumer electronics medical quitman packaging manufacturing consulting healthcare biotechnology automotive oil and gas exploration and mining the defendants allegedly committed these crimes in association with a chinese intelligence agency known as the ministry of state security this is not the first time that the partner justice has accused chinese state actors of stealing commercial information since the indictment of five uniformed members of

the people's liberation army in two thousand and fourteen our department has repeatedly cast a spotlight on china for its state sponsored criminal activity targeting american corporations more than ninety percent of the department's cases alleging economic espionage over the past seven years involve china more than two thirds of the department's cases involving theft of trade secrets are connected to china in the last few months of this year alone our department has announced charges in three separate cases alleging crimes committed at the behest of a branch of the chinese ministry of state security. it is unacceptable that we continue to uncover cyber crime committed by china against america and other nations in two thousand and fifteen china promised to stop stealing trade secrets and other confidential business information through computer hacking with

the intent of providing competitive advantage to companies in the commercial sector but the activity alleged in this indictment violates the commitment that china made that was a commitment they made to members of the international community to the united states to the g. twenty and to apec now we want china to cease its illegal cyber activities and honor its commitment to the international community but the evidence suggests that china may not intend to abide by its promises for example chinese so that's what rosen sunni's the u.s. deputy attorney general we had heard about is happening a question over chinese espionage was the wood that's used and just before we just missed the top of his speech but i'm reading here what he said the department of justice announcing a criminal indictment of two hackers associated with the chinese government for attacks on dozens of companies in the united states and around the world which is get a little bit on this with patty callahan our cars one in washington d.c.

it was pretty heavy listening there. probably need to know a bit more about espionage inside with the techs than i do but what did you take from that. well sorry i have to admit that i couldn't hear the very beginning of mr rosenstein comments ken though put this in a larger context of this is likely going to roil the financial markets because if you keep in mind they have been down more about eight percent this is the biggest annual drop since the great recession of two thousand and eight and all of that is because of these increased tensions between the u.s. and china as you know president donald trump has launched a trade war against china increasing tariffs china followed suit really hurting american farmers they looked like they were going to have a pause in the trade war they were going to negotiate they gave themselves ninety days but since then we've seen developments as suggesting that it's just going to get more tense for example in canada at the u.s. request the canadian officials arrested

a very important tech executive from china on charges that she violated the iran sanctions now we're seeing this a concerted effort we believe we're going to hear similar announcements from different western capitals so this is likely going to further increase tensions that are already pretty rampant between the u.s. and china ok thank you for that context with patty cohan there on developments with relations between u.s. and china. one hundred ten thousand passengers stranded more than seven hundred fifty flights disrupted it is a day of chaos at britain's second busiest airport gatwick closed because of of all things a drone alert to a sponsored flying around the airport perimeter south of london police are hunting the operator for causing a deliberate act of disruption you can only imagine what this is costing the airlines millions and diversions missed connections cancellations and a heavy price being paid to travel headaches for a lot of people stuck there at gatwick so here's what the twitter account was

saying a little bit earlier the airfield was closed at twenty one o three so nine pm wednesday night through until three in the morning on thursday morning and was then closed again forty five minutes later at three forty five and as i just checked the twitter account right now they have posted just an hour ago saying it's still closed so that's going to be hitting on for a full day now i also checked the. me flight to read out twenty four hours and this is a screen shot from earlier in the day but it just gives us a good visual of how things were being affected at a very busy part of the world so that's england lots of planes up in the air at about nine o'clock this morning and then we go in a little bit tighter this area here is heathrow airport and you can see the line of planes coming straight in there i suspect some of them diverted there further south this is way that wake airport is and will soon even further and you say nothing happening in fact those little icons you can just see her on the on the tameka just trucks and cars i believe so as you can imagine

a lot of people at that airport right now not very happy. we get we believe we get close to the operator the joint dissipates where we look to reopen the airfield which will reappear sell the absolutely convinced it is a deliberate act to disrupt gatwick airport. yeah we've had hotels offer then take a back. to the. information coming out from gatwick is being scanned and that's being generous. always a pleasure to have alex materials with us in studio this time actually you know that's clearly you weren't flying from gatwick. so let's i mean this this just can't happen. there are any number of reasons why it would have to be close terrorist threats. whether all these sleeper drone this is extraordinary and ultimately this is the biggest amount of disruption to gatwick airport this airport has faced since the volcanic ash cloud back in two thousand and ten it's unprecedented it's nothing that the industry ever prepares for more always makes me

laugh is when i'm at these airline and aviation conferences where they're talking about how they're going to get around the challenges that they'll face in the coming year while a stationary pretty much stationary drone above the airport and just having sightings isn't something factor into that scheduling so we often hear about travel chaos this is the definition of travel chaos right before the christmas holiday five days in that i just keep thinking shouldn't there be some sort of technology to combat this. something that jams the signal or does for good reason to shoot it down almost something i don't know it just shouldn't be something so small with the technology that's available absolutely and you know today the question is the first question that people don't is ok why hasn't it been shot down anomaly self was wondering ok if the police have the ability to do that because there are ways in which for example in the netherlands they're up with ortiz have worked with the regulators to ensure that they can down any unmanned drones through the use of nets they're also training eagles to go in and take away and this is actually

happening this is a very rare circumstance but ultimately my worry is that this thrown into the spotlight just how vulnerable the world's one of the world's busiest single runway airports can be because of the sighting of a drone should we underestimate though the danger that the passengers could be in if the drone was to end up the need to an aircraft where you get bird strike don't shoot and that is clearly all sorts of dramas imagine if can get pretty big as well the industry is still trying to work out fully the exact kind of impact that a drone. i would have if it was for example ingested into an engine but you only have to look at what a bird strike is capable of doing to know that it's dangerous territory so i know that drones flying when it is regulated you need a license and training in all of this but. clearly not doing the thing because once someone's got the permission to fly it they can fly it to a degree wherever they want to while in the u.k. you don't actually need a license you're just using it if you bought one for example they sell them at gatwick airport if you bought a drone at that we kept but you don't need

a license so they don't actually know clearly who is operating these drones and year on year we have these near misses with aircraft the u.k. needs to get tough on legislation when it comes to drones there needs to be licensing there needs to be a system so they know exactly who owns what and where automatically this airport is closed almost twenty hours now and the police still say they are none the wiser they're asking members of the public to help out for flight disruption this is a nightmare as i'm. sure is always a pleasure thank you very much for coming in to appreciate it just a couple of other stories from around the world now sudan i want to tell you about where protests are spreading against rising food and fuel prices a state of emergency has been enforced in the cities of at the bar and get out or if and in the capital khartoum police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators near the presidential palace the full story from charlotte bellus. ok. outraged over rising food prices sudanese much to the base of the slogan freedom protests of erupted emotional cities the largest store in the city of at burra was

sudan is a flashpoint over rising inflation now at nearly seventy percent it's one of the world's highest i purchased this chant people want the government down echoing the calls heard in the arab spring revolution seven years ago this has been sudan's long awaited out of spring because. their government has not been listening for quite a while thought in the last few months they have also the economy has just gone downhill in a very bad way i mean the situation that people are just on explode they have been on explosion point for a while now. a state of emergency was enforced an app or a after the headquarters of the ruling party was set on fire.