in the capital khartoum some queue for hours outside bakeries government leaders announce their twenty nine hundred budget this week including one point five billion dollars of subsidies for fuel and brit but shopkeeper hussein also says people need help now and 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 the export revenues it was a crucial source of foreign currency the crisis is deeper into this year after the subsidy cuts and the devaluation of the sudanese pound now it's an anxious wang's to see the true cost of this crisis shiela ballasts al-jazeera well song sudanese government critics calling the unrest sudan's arab spring earlier i spoke

to john temin director of the freedom house africa project he says that the government sees the protests as a real threat 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 offered since one thousand 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. more to come for you including president trump defending his decision to pull u.s.

troops out of syria he says it's time for others to step up and. also the army has been called in to search for the drone operators who have caused chaos second busiest airport. young african footballers are travelling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when east investigates thailand's football factory on al-jazeera. called the must move hussein has now been held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he's a journalist journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence wars of truth we will continue our news coverage with

professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of our colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists detained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. china could be facing a debt iceberg that's according to s. and p. global the trumpet ministration just been insisting towards the saudis and other oil producers that they want to have more production to cool down the prices we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the latest news as a free press yellow that the failure will continue to hold on in july but into the

next week with detailed coverage plastic love criticism of capitalist economics to all a fifty six billion dollar i.m.f. loan to argentina from around the world these are the victims of one of the world's most forgotten conflicts and without agent help they could become a lost generation. welcome back to square the top stories now the u.s. justice department has charged two chinese hackers for attempting to steal trade secrets and compromising the computers of western governments the pair part of the hacking group linked to china's main intelligence service or a u.s.

president donald trump has told republican party leaders he will not sign a bill to fund the government because it doesn't include money his proposed border war with mexico and at least eight people have died in sudan after protests that rising by prices and living costs spread across the country as state of emergency has been declared well in all the developments u.s. president donald trump is reportedly considering reducing u.s. military personnel in afghanistan from the current level of fourteen thousand now this comes after he been defending his decision to pull out all u.s. soldiers from syria saying they'd accomplish that goal of defeating i still live along both washington's western allies and kurdish fighters inside syria alan fischer brings us more now from washington. u.s. president has declared the war against i saw has been won 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 steal longer the white house is pushing back hard against two stories which have been circulating in washington since the decision was made first of all the president of turkey told donald trump he was about to launch an attack against the kurds in syria a key u.s. ally of 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 the sea key military officials were briefed. 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 the 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 every year they say that they are withdrawing troops from there and so far they remain there 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 going to visions 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 now sunday's presidential election in the democratic republic of congo has been delayed by a week to december thirtieth president of the congolese electoral commission said violence in parts of the country and a fire which destroyed election materials meant it wouldn't be ready in time to hold the election catherine sawyer reports on the story now 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 want to cast their ballots using new backed controversial electronic voting machines for the first time in the country we have

. election full seven days. and the election is going to take place on the tenth year of december this year. this was. due. to. technical. relief to him in just our problem. 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 while stored was barnes' down security and any boiler outbreak in the east i've also been mention of some people are angry about this position. of pain and suffering on president kabila and the

same the president we are ready to be killed for our country this man who outside the commission's office is saying. then his example would have 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're telling him he has to be he has to be the talk if i'm bold and. they have to be removed from the of a clear position because of the people of color they are fed up that they cannot have any excuse but to push for the election for sure we're going to prove that they're not 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 satin to the country catches on al-jazeera kinshasa. flights have been round the e.u. case second busiest airport more than twenty four hours now causing travel chaos after more than fifty drone sightings the british army is helping police search for the people operating the drones around gatwick airport south of london police halted flights for safety reasons on wednesday evening after drones were sighted near the runway around one hundred twenty thousand people have been affected so far and the airport's chief operating officer is saying that it may remain closed all of friday. each time we get we believe we get close to the operator we're trying dissipates when we look to reopen the airfield we drive reappears all absolutely

convinced it's deliberate to disrupt. i have never seen any airport anywhere in the world that did buy drugs in this way eighteen months ago get we had a little bit of a scare when an idiot would try to close close to forty minutes five flights diverted this is several organized orders of magnitude worse than that whoever is behind this has very carefully and deliberately targeted the world's busiest single runway airport at a time when it rethink is on the maximum straight. now apple is going to temporarily stop selling some of its phones in jan many this is off to a court in new nick granted an injunction to the tech found qualcomm over a patent rights to speak al-jazeera is domenic cain explains the implications for apple of this ruling by a court in munich up potentially quite profound at issue is the technology installed in the i phone range pacifically the model seven seven plus eight eight

plus and the i phone ten it was sold here in germany in the year twenty seventeen so this phone the i phone ten sold in germany last year the plaintiff in this case qualcomm says that its rights its patent rights have been infringed by apple this is not the case the only case that a qualcomm has launched against apple their case being to be heard in america next year but also a case that's already been heard in china for apple the will the implications are considerable already they have withdrawn the sale of these the models concern from the stalls in germany qualcomm can have a temporary ban placed on apple selling those products if it chooses to but must pay a deposit of nearly two thirds of a billion euro use for apple well if they want the to stop this ruling taking permanent effect they must appeal. opposition groups in hungary say they will be continuing their protests in the capital against new employment laws legislation

allows employers to force people to work overtime and to delay payment for that overtime for three years opponents of prime minister viktor orban call them slave laws robin forrester walker reports now from the streets of budapest. new life has been breathed into the hug area in opposition thanks to to 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 they have been to permanent tents established here outside the parliament by a hardcore of civil society activists who say they're going to stick it out throughout the christmas period and into the new year hello sabrina hi how you doing. i gather that you've been here for the last week. yeah and you've had a couple of very chilly nights it's pretty cold and you know. you want everyone to have just what you need. to stand to to have rash to stand up for it is not a democracy now it's victoria's 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 burns governments say is that in a healthy democracy opposition to this should be given its hoary and yet the media in this country is largely controlled by viktor or and his supporters that's why throne zunes 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. this sounds former chairman carlos gurn could soon be released from detention in japan he was arrested in november as part of an investigation into alleged financial misconduct and later formally charged but a court in tokyo has rejected prosecutors request to extend custody of the auto

executive and as a spokesperson declined to comment on that decision a judge in new york has refused to dismiss actual assault charges against disgraced us film producer harvey weinstein the next hearing in the case has been set for march weinstein is charged with rape and other misconduct his lawyers tried to get the case thrown out altogether arguing that police acted inappropriately cheering the investigation the publicist around the weinstein case helped launch the me to movement well three astronauts have touched down the whole earth just in time for christmas after more than six months on board the international space station the russian american and german astronauts landed safely in northern cause it stone the homecoming was delayed by october's aborted launch of the soyuz rocket carrying a replacement crew three astronauts are still on board the space station with three

more scheduled to join in january. well just a bit of breaking news to bring you now that u.s. secretary of defense jim mattis is going to be leaving his role so some news just in that he will be leaving his job at the end of february this was just announced by president trump in a tweet now reports suggest that the departure the departure of james mattis had been anticipated it was anticipated particularly since. since the recent comments by president trump that he would pull all u.s. troops out of syria and that was a very significant announcement. with regards to syria and many washington insiders. lawmakers from both parties have said that they disagree with the move but also members of his own administration have indicated that they

disagree with that move so let's now speak to mike hanna who is live for us in washington mike what more are you hearing about this. well in the latest development president trump has tweeted in the last few minutes that his secretary of defense james mattis will be retiring at the end of february this is a shock in a number of ways not beliefs the way in which it is being made public clearly james matters very upset it is said with the decision to withdraw troops from syria withdraw which many contend the president carried out unilaterally there's also be the increasing talk in the last forty eight hours of a trump inspired unilateral withdrawal from of the stan now the secretary of defense very very clear that he want to troops kept in syria that he wants the troops kept in afghanistan clearly at odds with what is an emerging policy a by his president and now an announcement by that president in the form of

a tweet that is secretary of defense will be retiring by the end of february. and just very briefly my madness has said that it's the right time for him to step down and he has made it explicit that he's doing so said that trunk can have a defense secretary with views that are more aligned with his. that is correct the james matters has been uncomfortable it is said for a long period of time he has many contend played a restraining role within the trumpet ministration on a number of levels some have described him as the last adult in the building but clearly there have been differences in their policy seems differences stretch back to shortly after james mattis became the secretary of defense there were discussions then some said heated on the question of u.s. forces in syria in afghanistan however james mattis has kept his opinions to

himself he's been described by many as the good soldier but clearly could no longer continue to do president trying to diary much my canner in washington and just a quick follow up to that mattis has also said that his core belief is that the u.s. needs to maintain a strong alliances and show allies respect disagreement with president there he say without is there more years later. you stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. young west african footballers are leaving their homes and loved ones behind and heading to. the arrive with nothing but their talent and

a dream to make it as a professional player. but the competition to get on the field is intense and discrimination and exploitation is all too common. i'm steve cho on this episode of one of many used we meet aspiring african footballers as they try to make it in time lines big league. lamenting treasure that is in which to feel cool and off on to me it's. a pleasure for let it out of the bottle as i'm a song with david always on with the broad community of the bottle a crazy thing in five days it don't you know what within us what would it go for

a place you make you. say it is a muffin lover listen i got yes i think it's all or not oh you know i'm not here is the set us off the it's gone through they had one. job as you nobody. in this job uncle fred if i'm going to. see you now put in me show up and. get him out of the alley easy you're way to much an alchemy to your madness you think they've got to get on the club. was using me as soon as it was about to do it to deduct implementers of people new to evade the fed me from your bias in.

touch through first arrived in buying call one month ago here he shares a room with fellow army to football is. very good if you do want to. get in office now then why are you for. such a nice because i'm a professor of welsh and often now i did it in a much as your employer doesn't offer you jump an idea and then they send you know i said they did if it pushes. because it's in their condo in new york their own decision and if. someone hires residents fashioned after myself and through the program of this processing. tasa route took out a fifteen hundred euro loan for this trip and entered the country on a tourist visa. he has two months left to get signed by

a club. tessa roux is one of several hundred foreign armatures trying their luck in thailand the country is on the cusp of becoming a major footballing nation in ten years it has created a homegrown footballing enterprise comprised of four professional divisions supported by around one hundred clubs. the salaries can be as high as ten thousand euros a month. the youth has turned from boxing to embrace the beautiful game of every inspiring success story there are plenty left behind. just north of the capital one team is fighting for survival. the lucky son. the lucky son isa's children is named as

a tribute to the country's poorest region. after being relegated to the fourth division between is now trained by a foreign coach. bozeman shareef good. all. his spoken thai is perfect will be with the kenyan x. and. jerry his next professional himself now turned asian football pioneer is. if you get long on. the on a. island and doing it for no. good. i mean the book in your place and i think. it probably means i left this is. what. was going. on six hundred fifty

euros a month push shareef a long way behind manchester united's manager. but he does lay claim to the title of thailand's first professional coach of african descent of all like they don't so there. are going to thailand then my good even to the goof ball in the zone known that. memoirs are not a. man i say to these guys on the go team is actually going to go look at. me long and then let them go. i low. long. legged heroes i see happening the lucky son have the smallest budget in the fourth division around one hundred fifty thousand euro which this pace is sonorous of

twenty five players a mix of time and international talent as well as a coach and his star limone long enough but tall news. and the flick of. him i found full enough in his own delights india does go up in front of them on this and if. it can't be done it's on they keep aslaksen. currently holding fifth place in the championship the team could still win promotion to the next division i am not a man of p.t. the team would propose a meal for the end of each training session. and. it's a welcome recreational break for the team. that

. i don't know if you are wrong. and i mean did you know that why would. anybody in your bicycle know. even if you know. that. if they did more than one on more than that with no matter. how. thailand has a southeast asia's second biggest economic power and its business class have ploughed investments into football. the national league is already listed at sixty million euros on the stock exchange. forty four year old ted

is a successful market speculators and has amassed considerable personal wealth. and you get up and. betrayed if you do that you can highlight your. kind of people if it. sits on the boards of several companies is also found the time to invest in a football club as the owner of the lucky sign they. are. well you have a. whole. to be done tom de lay believed other than paul good day they were clearly of the good it would. get arrogant. since its relegation to the fourth

division the lookee san has lost all of its sponsors leaving to finance the club alone. god knows when calling with them on the phantom team the. team. hall of the team lead which i you will not being able man had a line well. if a tie if a needle but one thing that bought into down in that's online they've been a lot longer than. that on high seed on the up in some of the big behind the no one. despite these financial issues still managed to find the money to buy some form of stars of the first division a guinea and striker under defender from sierra leone. he also sends coach sharif to scout for fresh talent in the stadiums of bangkok. eat. and.

drink make. later that night in rum command an homage to tournament is underway shareef m.p.t. are on the lookout for a diamond in the rough. something of. on display is a mixture of both tie and foreign players. just. players from the ivory coast cameroon and guinea are in abundance. to avoid oh no no no. i'm good from tunisia. but. coach sharif is known to most of the african players here to. say.

big log in it. alone yes i think you. need to do it with it and. he says there. is. no. competition amongst the african players as tough. those in the terraces weren't able to earn a place in the tournament like peter kenyon in a dire situation. having arrived in thailand on a tourist visa he was exploited by his club manages one thai gorge conducted we in the us asked if i have it drug industry i do have little bit cooling her little two o'clock in store again to do our much work there but i didn't leave for.