tween presidency and president trump not yielding fruit there was another drop when there was disagreement between president trump and democratic leaders over the looming shutdown so we're seeing a very unsettled market right now and then the other issue is interest rates going up and other moves that the federal reserve the central bank here in the united states are taking to sort of weaned the markets off of supports that were put in place after the recession on wednesday the fed chairman jerome powell raised interest rates a quarter point and signaled that the fed would slow down its rate of raising rates into two thousand and nineteen but even that was a concern for investors who are really worried about a softening khana me globally and what impact that could have investors are also watching the bond market right now and stocks are uncertain and people tend to power money into the bonds but the ten year yield bond rate has been coming down

and it's fast approaching the yield on two year treasury bonds and that's seen as another sign of inflation if it gets to the point what they call an inverted curve . that's a sign of a recession coming historically so all of this is weighing on investors' mind even as the economy here is fundamentally strong there is worry that things will move forward so we're hearing from the president's advisers economic advisers they've been kind of going out and speaking to various media outlets attempting to calm concerns about the economy and about the markets. playing that down. where this ends up in the coming year you know we don't know even as the economy here in the u.s. is strong but right now the united states is on the verge of having its worst annual return in ten years at the rate that we're seeing here in december in detail significant moves in the market. a thank you very much for bring us up to speed

with what's happening there life a meal kristen salumi well in all the developments president trump has been defending his decision withdraw all u.s. troops from syria and to end the campaign against i.c.l. this announcement has alarmed both washington's western allies and kurdish fighters inside syria is say the move will allow the arm group to gain more ground there trump says it's time for other countries to step in alan fisher has more from washington. u.s. president has declared the war against i saw has been one in syria we've beaten them and we've beaten a badly and he's taken to twitter to reject the idea the decision was unexpected writing getting out of syria was no surprise i've been campaigning on it for years and six months ago when i very publicly want to do it i agreed to stay longer the white house is pushing back hard against two stories that have been circulating in washington since the decision was made first of all the president at the one of turkey told donald trump he was about to launch an attack against the kurds in

syria a key u.s. ally and the u.s. had to get out of the way not true the sea and that no one in the washington establishment knew this decision was coming not true they say key military officials were briefed. donald trump called for the withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria and april but was convinced to delay by military and security officials this time he wouldn't be dissuaded from fulfilling a campaign promise it's good for him there's no doubt about it i think he could have done it in a better way don't forget anti isis coalition is composed of some sixty nations that even consult with their one key ally israel insisted it would step up operations in syria when america withdraws and will continue to act. in syria to prevent iran from two military entrance it's over against us and russian president vladimir putin welcomed the decision but still isn't convinced the

americans will go. but the united states have been present in afghanistan for how long seventeen years which is every year they say that they are withdrawing troops from there and so far they remain so far we see no signs of withdrawal of troops from the on capitol hill there's an effort from members of both main parties to have the president reconsider it is in our national security interest not to withdraw at this time in my view because if you do so now the kurdish fighters the kurdish forces will be decimated by turkey assad or maybe isis it is clear to me that if you withdraw now based on the dishes on the ground iran is a big winner inside syria donald trump insists the u.s. gains nothing by continued presence in syria his big decision is about to be put to the test alan fischer washington still ahead for you in this news hour from london . delays sunday's a long awaited vote blaming it on

a fire which destroyed voting material in kinshasa. denmark's parliament approves plans to send foreign criminals to a tiny island once used to research contagious diseases and leaving the water for the last time a five time a limpid gold medalist retires at just twenty three has that story in sports. at least eight people have died in sudan after protests that rising bread prices and living costs spread around the country a state of emergency has been declared in several places the protests began on wednesday in the city of daraa where a mob torched the headquarters of president bush years national congress party they've now spread to the red sea city of port sudan baba in the north and the hoed in the west and kordofan region it's also reached the capital khartoum where riot police dispersed hundreds of protesters calling for the downfall of the government

show that has more. outraged over rising food prices sudanese much to the base of the slogan freedom purchase of a ruptured 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 his chant people want the government down echoing the calls heard in the arab spring revolution seven years ago this has been the sudan's long awaited out of spring because. the government has not been listening for quite a while but in the last few months they have also the economy has just gone downhill in the very bad way i mean the situation that you just explode they have been on explosion point for a while now. a state of emergency was in force an app or

a after the headquarters of the ruling party was set on fire because he's in force and schools are closed. a few hundred kilometers south down the river nile this long queues and growing concern a lot of officer bon marche 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 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 brit but shopkeeper hussein osmonds says

people need help now but what they're gonna be when the situation used to be good in the purchasing power people had was reasonable but conditions are bad now the groups 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 whites to see the true cost of this crisis charlotte ballasts al-jazeera. let's now speak to john tammany his director of the africa program at the independent watchdog organization freedom house thank you very much for speaking to us so if you are hearing in the report there that have been protests in a string of cities across the don including now in the capital hard to help us to understand how harmful the rising cost of living particularly with food prices has

been for so many people in the country. well and it's not just the food prices it's also the currency which has lost a lot of its value compared to the dollar and it's just the overall difficulties that so many sudanese face on a daily basis particularly concerning things like health care and education the government really devotes very little of its money to those sorts of public services but on the flipside devotes a lot of money to security services in particular the other part of the story here is just corruption in sudan which doesn't get a lot of attention but which is truly massive and i think that's part of what's motivating people to come to the streets and really driving some of their anger. we we're hearing just about some of the context of the situation here because economic problems in sudan not new. i think the past three decades also the economy has

struggled to some extent all the other but tell us how much the situation deteriorated to the secession of south sudan in two thousand and eleven it deteriorated substantially the south sudan had the bulk of the oil in what was united sudan and that oil fueled so much of the economy and so when south sudan seceded it seceded along with a lot of that oil and the civil war that engulfed south sudan shut down a lot of the oil production so it stopped flowing almost entirely so that really crippled the sudanese economy there were high expectations in sudan that the economy would improve when u.s. sanctions were removed recently but in fact the opposite has happened those sanctions were removed and the economy plunged even further. so tell us more then

about how sudanese president omar al bashir has been positioning himself amid this economic crisis because presumably he does see this as a threat or at least these protests could become a threat to his government surely they do see this as a threat what's really important to watch here is how the sudanese government responds to these protests in two thousand and thirteen there were very large protests in response to fuel price rises and the government crackdown brutally and there were reports of up to two hundred people killed in those protests in two thousand and thirteen so that's something very much to watch the other piece of it concerns president bashir himself he there are elections scheduled for two thousand and twenty right now president bashir cannot run due to term limits but there is movement now to try to change the constitution to allow him to run again he's been often since the one nine hundred ninety three so quite some time and i suspect some

of what is driving people's protest now is also that prospect of president bashir staying in office even longer past two thousand and twenty well thank you very much john temin director of the africa program for freedom house joining us there from washington. well now we go to sunday's presidential election the democratic republic of congo well that election has now been delayed by a week to december thirtieth the president of the congolese electoral commission said violence in part of the country and a fire which destroyed election materials meant it would not be ready in time al-jazeera is catherine sowing now reports from the capital kinshasa. it's been a long and difficult day for the democratic republic of congo's independent national electoral commission semi election officials have been preparing for a march and dissipated presidential and parliamentary paul that has been delayed for two years now on sunday voters were to cast their ballots using new but

controversial electronic voting machines for the first time in the country we have . election for seven days. and election is going to take place on the tenth year of december this year. this postponement is due. to. technical. related to him in just. it's a logistical nightmare millions of ballot papers i get to arrive in the country the last box on the gets to kinshasa on saturday the president of the electoral commission has said that the delay is mainly because of a crisis in kinshasa after a warehouse where the city's voting machines were stored was barnes' down security and any boiler outbreak in the east i've also been mentioned that some people are angry about this position. of pain and suffering on president kabila

and the semi president we are ready to be killed for our country this man who outside the commission's office is saying. then his executive board had held in margins your meetings with presidential candidates the catholic church and government officials to explain why it's impossible to go to the polls on sunday three main candidates a man will show diary of the ruling party felix just a caddy leader of the country's largest opposition party as well as martin for you the kind of quality. did not show up we are telling him he has to be he has to be told if both he and the mistake they have to be removed from the occult was because of the people of color they are fed up that because of . too forceful the election for sure we're going to put the nod to this because

this is kind of you know. of a a we all for you know all of the respecting people. on wednesday the governor of conciousness suspended all political rallies in the city for security reasons this campaign period has been chaotic and violent delaying the election only adds the tension and insight into the country catching so many al-jazeera kinshasa. intelligence from denmark says that i still could be behind the killing of two scandinavian terrorists in morocco four suspects have been arrested after the bodies of louisa vester aga just person and learned were found on monday the pair from denmark and norway were discovered in an isolated area in the in the atlas mountains are all complete say evidence points to what they describe as a terrorist motive. well now some news from saudi arabia where the country is

created three organizations to improve intelligence in the kingdom following the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the new government bodies are meant to ensure intelligence operations align with saudis national security policy international law and human rights treaties the khashoggi mudda sponsor international outrage prompting king soundman to order a restructuring of the kingdom's intelligence service in october last week the us senate blamed crown prince mohammed bin salman for the killing. the u.k. second busiest airport will remain closed for at least an all the eight hours as the search continues for drone operators who've been deliberately disrupting its aspace for more than twenty four hours now the british army is helping the police in the search around gatwick airport south of london police halted flights the safety reasons on wednesday evening off to drones first sighted near the runway passengers are now being advised not to travel to the airport around hundred twenty thousand people have been affected so far. each time we get we believe we get

closer which will disappear when we look to reopen the airfield. convinced it's deliberate to stop going to see any airport anywhere in the world affected by drugs in this way eighteen months ago get we had a little bit of a scare with india through drug cheap price close to forty minutes by flights orders and this is several orders of magnitude with whoever is behind this has very carefully and deliberately targeted the world's busiest single runway airport at a time when the briefing is on the maximum straight. still ahead for you on the news. a pilot project on is claiming some success in battling alcoholism and its devastating effects. we'll get the latest from sri lanka where the president has installed a new cabinet in an attempt to restore some order after a lengthy political crisis and then later in sports a heated clash on the ice no holding back as the pittsburgh penguins take on the

washington capitol. day one of a new era in television news we badly need at these moments of leadership and this encampment that we're in today it didn't exist three weeks ago now there's at least twenty thousand for him to refugees who live here. i got to commend you all more i'm hearing is good journal. as a person interested but as resides. there i. am all for all the laws the attempts of coverups and the high water diplomacy just loved ones what some form of closure we saw the syrian army flag course that high in the city as well as posters of syrian president bashar assad has been recalled because. of it's a good scene missiles are planted about a hundred meters away from us we're on the frontline but it's under attack and that

the market doesn't happen now but politically. kidnappings and murders in crimea since russia's full stomach sation of the black sea. i don't understand why he was kidnapped. schools of crimea into tas have been arrested tortured and killed most believed by russian security forces. crimea russia's dirty secret on al-jazeera. after joining the greenpeace income painting to protect the weddell sea in antarctica we're now in australia for the outcome we're the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. but we may be the last to be able to do something about it in another thread

special find out if the effort to create the largest sentry on earth has succeeded thrice on al-jazeera and monday put it on. us 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.

it was a news hour live from london i'm mariam a look at the top stories at least eight people have died in sudan after protests in response to rising bread prices and the cost of living a state of emergency has been declared as the protests have spread in cities across the country including the capital khartoum. the u.s. justice department is charged two chinese hackers for attempting to steal trade secrets in compromising the cold cases of western governments a pair of part of the hacking goodling to china's main intelligence service. the us president donald trump and the republican party leaders he will not sign a bill to fund the government because it doesn't include money to his proposed border war with mexico. speaking a short time ago donald trump defended his demand for border wall funding. certain people want open borders which allow potentially a mess of crime our nation has spent trillions of dollars and sacrificed thousands

of brave young lives defending the borders of foreign nations i am asking congress to defend the border of our nation for a tiny fraction tiny fraction of the cost now the trump administration meanwhile has been making other announcements including one the migrants seeking asylum along the southwest border will no longer be released into the us while their cases play out the major policy change will mean they'll be forced to wait in mexico while their side requests have processed mexican foreign ministry has agreed to accept them it says it still has the right to admit or reject the entry of non mexicans into its territory human rights groups have condemned the decision let's go now to john heilemann who is in mexico city for us and john you have spent some time recently at the us mexico border and you've certainly been speaking to migrants who are trying to claim asylum in the united states what does this new will this change

in policy by washington mean for many of those migrants. i think as much as for them this is a really big deal for mexico and for the united states what happens quite a lot as you briefly summarize there is that people do cross the border illegally but they're crossing the border to then hand themselves in as soon as possible to lure them foresman agents in the united states and ask them for asylum now what this change does is it says that those people then do that and hung themselves in till now they've been kept in detention centers the united states or they've been allowed to go free while the case is person processed but there's such a backlog in those cases in the us that can take months or years obviously if you're a hardline anti migration of ministration like they were in the united states that doesn't look good sir for them from their perspective this is

a win to send those people back across the border to mexico most them from other countries in central america while their case is being processed now in terms of those people this is obviously a big problem because we're talking about people that are vulnerable we're talking about people that are penniless and they're being sought to carted back especially if they're left at the border area in a part of mexico it's very dangerous mexico just this year had its most dangerous year on record and a lot of those areas especially entirely person even. one or itself or a lot of people are right now from the migrant caravan they're quite dangerous areas so this is something that mexico is going to have to look hard on now that it's agreed to do it how exactly is going to count cater for people and keep them safe. or if indeed measures are taken to keep them safe as you say this means that some of the most vulnerable people could be in a frightening sort of limbo because of the challenges that mexico is facing from

drugs and drug related violence what appears to be happening john is that the u.s. is sending them to mexico and. mexican same lachine they're saying that they too have the right to remove non mexicans from the country so they might not even get to stay in mexico. the mexican government put it when they. statement today basically agreeing to do what the us has suggested and saying as well that it's temporary so there is a sort of get out clause for them with people that maybe they don't want so much with the new president under his manuel lopez obrador he won't want to be seen as taking a hard line on this in the same way as president trump he's a leftist he's a populist and definitely he won't want to be seen to be playing the same card which might be one of the reasons that mexico's agreed to do this one of the other

reasons might be that the u.s. administration the trump of ministration said just this week that they've been giving more than five billion dollars in development aid to southern mexico and central american countries now president will preside over a door said that that's what's going to curb migration if you try and help those countries help them in terms of programs and to rise up in terms of the economy and that's what's going to stop migration to there was the other thing given to president obama's obrador maybe to sweeten things up earlier in the week but it remains the case that mexico has quite an underfunded refugee agency most of the migrant shelters if you go all the way up the country from private organizations there from churches there for charities it really doesn't have the infrastructure right now to deal with maybe almost a hundred thousand people in a year or two previously under this measure would have been in the united states

now being in mexico it's really going to have to step up it's going to try and deal with. this as you're saying john these. programs to join the help migrants in their naturalized countries i mean that sort of thing is going to take time to implement and then for it to actually take effect in the meantime you have many people who continue to travel continue to travel into mexico with the hope of gaining entry into the u.s. what about the reaction of local mexicans in those border towns just next to the united states what sort of reception have migrants been getting. i think the big one there is three one that's been the town in which of the traveling all the way up through metz going getting in general from what we saw a really good reaction from it skins in terms of what those people in the caravan

would have hoped for they were given food they were usually staying in places for a couple of nights i'm really those towns did what they could to make those days as comfortable as possible even though they were sleeping out in the open then you get to one or it's the both to make really no good days because they're not going to food into the united states and they don't want to go backwards towards the countries that they've flee poverty or run away from violence and so that really has become the town in which has been a lot of mixed reaction some locals coming out to try and show solidarity a lot of people worried that crime is going to go up in the towns that their towns are going to get at the towns are not going to benefit really from a population that hasn't got a lot of money who might be there for quite some time now this measure obviously isn't going to help that it's just going to mean that move people are in those poor areas and it's difficult to think that mexicans supplement them at least on going

to have the same sort of reactions as some people in the united states when they see people coming from other countries being there for a long time is going to be worries about crime worries about jobs all of those things that come with it all right well thank you very much john holman with all the latest on that story from mexico city want to bring you more on one of our top stories this hour now the u.s. cyber hacking accusations that have been made against china today jodi westby is chief executive of global cyber risk and joins us now from washington thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us can you explain how the chinese hackers have managed to have managed to breach high level government and private sector entities in the way that the u.s. is alleged today. well they've certainly done it a number of ways but in this very stealthy manner according to the news reports and they've been doing this for a dozen years so these are highly experienced cyber criminals

a reported lee working for a chinese intelligence agency or on behalf of the chinese government so they they're likely using malware and other types of tools that are out there on the internet but they may also be using specially developed. cyber tools of their own in any event they are operating in a stealth mode meaning they're difficult to detect but the other problem too is that many of the companies and governments don't have the types of cyber security controls they need to have in place to protect highly sensitive information and intellectual property you know it's just going to ask you can measures be taken to prevent these types of attacks. well there there are things that that you can do you know even in the best airgap networks take stucks net for example we

breached an air gap network to get malware in those irradiance systems because we compromised an individual to go in and and compromised the system so there is always the an opportunity to try to compromise an insider but there are controls there are very clear steps that can be taken in arras sest ment's when we look at security programs we commonly do not see the types of protections that need to be around intellectual property researchers are often they work in an open science environment the the controls just are not there so that's one thing that needs to happen the other thing i think is that the governments do need to continue to make . these kinds of gestures certainly indicating this isn't just intelligence gathering this is economic espionage and it's criminal activity so there's a lot of things that could be done on the government side as well as on the private

sector side to try to deter this but perhaps one of the most effective things that we could do is to start banning the products that would could have been used with these technologies from the countries that steal it so if they're stealing the technology and they're coming up with products that they want to sell in the global marketplace maybe those should be on the on the control list as interesting to get your thoughts on this appreciate it showed us the chief executive of global cyber risk joining us there from washington thank you now alcoholism and domestic violence are common problems in tajikistan the poorest country of all the former soviet states relies on remittances from workers abroad and for the unemployed left behind life can be drunken and violent traffic has more now from the capital. things are good between salim off and his wife now but for thirteen years he beat corder over 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 with him by no 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 calm and you talk with the kids it's brought us all very close and the couple's new found happiness is thanks to a pilot project by international alert the organization hopes to expand its aid 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 your organization international says that sixty percent of the women that interviewed in a survey said that they had suffered.