behind the scenes ok thank you for those updates john holliman in mexico city after struggling for months to see her dying son a yemeni mother has arrived in the u.s. to say goodbye to him the boy was born with a degenerative brain disorder but his mother had been prevented from traveling to the united states because of the white house travel ban on citizens from gehman and a number of other countries john hendren has more on what became a pretty emotional story from san francisco 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 trump administration banned visas from yemen and six other countries shamus we let 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 dillard 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 family's lawyers say it did not have to take this long cheema 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 department of state had a legal obligation to adjudicate shamus waiver requests within

a reasonable amount of time and they failed on the application. it is the most readers should read every union the visit took so long that little ability is now one hundred years unable to bring in by himself and unlikely to know his mother is there she says i want to go to the us with our take my child go home now would she have a right she's not going to take his child 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 sadness and sandbags 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 and pays in denmark of approved a plan to send a sign and see kids who've committed crimes to a remote islands supporters say the new policy illustrates the danes tough stance

on immigration but critics go up as high as the un human rights chief lopez has more. this is land home the small deserted island at the center of denmark's immigration debate it's set to become home for about one hundred asylum seekers whose applications have been rejected because they've committed crimes including murder and rape they say they risk being tortured or murdered back home in denmark deports them the remote location is symbolic some ministers say it's meant to make people feel unwelcome and for decades of the island has been home to animals infected with contagious diseases where scientists research swine flu and rabies. denmark's immigration minister is a leading advocate of the new policy the danish people's party known for its strong stance on immigration posted a video on social media which says until we can get rid of them we will transfer them to the island opponents say the plan is shocking and will feel division and

hate we have seen the negative impact of such policies of isolation and should not replicate this policies also feeling vulnerable are danes living near the island asylum seekers sent there will be allowed to leave during the day they'll be able to take the ferry to kill the head where people fear a drop in tourism and sales we've already heard from some of the real estate people . sales have been cancelled because of this imagine the one hundred fifteen million dollar project is scheduled to open in two years katia lobos of the yuan al-jazeera . still ahead for you on al-jazeera the latest special report from tajikistan we'll look at the effects of alcoholism an unemployment on families in one of central asia is poorest nations and a new deal gets cuban players a chance at the u.s. baseball dreams but will the trumpet ministration scuttle the deal.

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 lighter rain even in the early part of friday the following that the sun comes out the wind drops the temperatures not that high but 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 south of that generally looking fine maybe the normally breeze it's just been picking up and down the gulf states becomes a bit more substantial drop in attentions 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 it the heaviest rain in africa is for the sas as it should be for this time of the year so anywhere through d.r. see unprosperous zambia towards tanzania is where you get some fairly heavy downpours we have had recently iraq on the edge of your screen you must see a secular nation which is a tropical site and coming close to us and hearts in the rains in madagascar as for south africa a few showers nice to all the rice far. whether online i want to start here on my laptop with a tweet or if you join us on sat there was a rush of adrenaline will be felt this is the moment that we have been waiting for this is a dialogue the government has cool face i may go protest i will start to police to use force to disperse the crowds everyone has a voice for votes to fish lots of different reasons what's the difference types of

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they're on the news i hear at al-jazeera and these are the top stories the united states has announced criminal charges against two hackers who allegedly work for the chinese government they're accusing them of waging a cyber campaign that focused on large scale theft of commercial intellectual property targets were entities in the u.s. europe and asia. the presidential election and democratic republic of congo has been delayed until december thirty first have been scheduled for sunday but the ball outbreak in a fire that destroyed polling machines in the capital being blamed for the delay. and u.s. president on the drums defended his decision to withdraw american troops from syria he made the announcement wednesday while declaring the defeat of unsold meanwhile the views of turkey and iran so they'll be working close together on syria in the future. protests are spreading against rising food and fuel prices in sudan the state of emergency has been enforced in the cities of darth and in the capital ha

turned police fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators near the presidential palace the full story now from charleville us. outraged over rising food prices sudanese march to the beat of the slogan freedom protests have erupted emotional cities the largest store in the city of akbar god sudan is a flashpoint over rising inflation now at nearly seventy percent it's one of the world's highest i. purchased as chant people want the government down echoing the calls heard in the arab spring revolution seven years ago this has been sudan's long ago if you die out of spring because. the government has not been listening for quite a while in the last few months they have also the economy has just gone downhill in a very bad way i mean the situation that you just exploded they have been on explosion

point 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 in force and schools are closed. a few hundred kilometers south down the river nile this long queues and growing concern a lot officer van marsh if 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 a bridge and fuel shortages nation weiss in the capital khartoum some queue for hours outs. bakeries government leaders announced their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point four billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and brit

but shopkeeper hussain osman 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 dallas our jazzier. now a prison cell in senegal the unlikely headquarters for an opposition campaign to stop the reelection of the president. accused of eliminating challengers so he can stay in power when his rivals as the former mayor of the capital jailed for what he says a trumped up charges of corruption nicolas hark with that story. it is from

a prison cell that the once popular mayor of the car continues to challenge president mikey cell and campaign to stop his reelection this supporters such as besser we saw and are going house to house collecting the mandatory signatures from voters needed to become an official candidate. rules a rules this is an important election because our country is at a crossroads political adversaries supporting with thought the meca will be an alternative but it seems the president is trying to cling to power and making things worse. the former mayor of the car was sentenced to five years in jail for corruption a charge he denies saying it is politically motivated to eliminate him from the election he's appealing to the supreme court to. water another challenger to the president was sentenced for corruption two he's also barred from running and is in exile in qatar both remain defiant there are hundreds of political parties every

one of them believe that their candidate is best suited to stall president mikey self from winning another term in office the opposition is not united but divided with each character day saying their struggle to get their voice heard i am listing international is calling on the government to immediately stop intimidation harassment of opposition leaders and crackdown on dissent supporters of president cell deny any wrongdoing saying all is in place for a smooth election and. we are confident and that institutions the opposition contest everything all the time it's now time to convince the sinegal people on the ground that i have policies that will make the last bitter. senegal's economy is booming becoming one of the fastest growing on the continent during marquee sales president's. address in the opposition. has come at

a cost to political freedom because. sri lanka has a new cabinet after weeks of political upheaval ministers was sworn in by president might. offer the reinstatement of the prime minister sucked it is running from a singer who was initially replaced without parliament's approval provoking a two month long political crisis you know finance reports now from. it's been a challenge for the new prime minister had to decide who's in and who's out of his new cabinet however to compromise and a whole lot of negotiation twenty nine people being sworn in to their positions this morning now strange we hear from reports inside that. sort of the ceremonial swearing in in the sort of chamber of the presidential secretary building behind me . an old parliament we hear that today swearing in happened on an individual basis

. to present his office one by one. to the new cabinet we hear that there had been a fair bit of wrangling with president seriously need to agree on the composition of the cabinet to be had insisted that no members of his own freedom party to. be accommodated in the new cabinet should. support for. now this is the end of the road even though the entire country is hoping that after the sort of tricks over the last two months things settle down and the country returning to normal there are essentially issues that need to be resolved the composition of parliament who was the opposition leaders posed. really how this country goes forward as the prime minister has said he's priority is the resto namo see and then move on with development opposition groups in hungary advance

a return to the streets of the capital on friday against new laws which critics say damages the country's democracy the protests were triggered by a so-called slave law passed by the far right prime minister viktor orban last week it allows employers to force people to work overtime and to delay payment for up to three years for us to walk or with more now from budapest. new life has been breathed into the hug area in opposition thanks to sue controversial laws passed by victor audubon's governments in the hungarian parliament behind me the first law would create a parallel court system where the justice ministry would appoint judges and human rights groups say there is a further erosion of hungary's independent judiciary the second piece of legislation is a labor law which is really fired up a number of different organizations groups and political parties from both the left and the right because what it would mean would be that companies can demands more

working hours from their employees by up to four hundred hours that's an additional day for every week of the year is the interest of the biggest employers like the state itself but also these big multinational companies it's definitely not the interest of the country and people that have been to permanent tents established here outside the parliament by a hard core of civil society activists who say they're going to stick it out throughout the christmas period and into the new year hello sabrina fading. i gather that you've been here for the last week john wright is the first of yeah and you've had a couple of very chilly nights it's pretty cold and you know you need to. go down yesterday and you want everyone to have that's what you need. to stand to to have rash to stand up for it if you're not a little christian now. victor is the government says that these laws are necessary

and that this legislation is in line with the sorts of laws that you see in other european union countries and they also point out that amongst ordinary hungary and they still have high popularity rating they won a two thirds majority in parliamentary elections earlier this year. but what opponents of victory over governments say is that in a healthy democracy opposition should be given. and yet the media in this country is largely controlled by victor and his supporters that's why thousands of people went to the state broadcaster on sunday into monday and we saw two opposition m.p.'s forcibly thrown from the building they were trying to get their demands on air hundred ten thousand passengers have been affected more than seven hundred fifty flights to strop disrupted in a day of chaos at britain's second busiest airport gatwick is all because of

a drone that caused all the chaos police hunting for the operator of two drones in fact after they were spotted flying about the southern perimeter of the airport south of london they suspect the operator was deliberately causing a quite expensive disruption twenty four hours later the airport still closed we spoke to alex much terrorists a little bit earlier and ideation and most he says the u.k. needs tighter laws on drone activity. this is extraordinary and no timidity 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 what it was makes me laugh is one of 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 well as they should marry pretty much stationary drone hovering 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 today the question is the first

question that people don't is why hasn't it been shot down and myself 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 authorities 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 these drones 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 in the u.k. you don't actually need a license if you're just using it if you one for example they sell them at gatwick airport if you bought a drone it out with 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. a judge in new york to request to have a sexual assault case against disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein dismissed the sixty six year old whose alleged crimes inspired the me to movement is charged with rape and other sexual misconduct weinstein's lawyers tried to get the case thrown out at a hearing on whether they argued police acted inappropriately during the police investigation and so a pretrial hearing has been scheduled for march today here in new york we saw the first steps toward justice together we stand in solidarity with all survivors everywhere frankly we are relieved that harvey weinstein failed in his efforts to avoid accountability for his actions and we are very happy that none of the charges were dismissed you know appears to

me that mr weinstein's public relations machine is working overtime to attempt to potentially impact the jury pool that ultimately will be chosen to suggest that somehow there's something wrong with this case. when obviously the grand jury after listening to the testimony felt that it should go forward. still ahead. the last time a five. twenty three.

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