red turnip. problem is quite clear to me that inequality at the grassroots some town capitalist thailand's military government quickly responded to pump on it and the wealth reports when you look at the data the real data come from many countries table six have only forty country that country when in doubt but even look at all country around it will be the number one so for those ties at the lower end of the wealth chart it's not just about having few or no assets or even a low income it's about the lack of opportunities and resources so their chances and hope of changing their environment working their way up are extremely low a great deal of industries in retail in thailand are controlled by a select few firms or families they're well connected to the government ensuring their position top. top up lim chip doggone runs a craft beer company but he says he had to shift his brewing out of thailand because of regulations that favor the too large beer companies huge production

minimums and strict advertising laws he was even arrested emanuel. you cannot do it because someone already told superior to fire then you are in the country that you know oh man i'm not going to. really hold up i think it's possible for them too many people live at the moment it's all their money. according to economists pump and it those unfair advantage is given to people who are already at the top of the wealth chart are the most damaging to the economy and the country. but it takes money away from others.

being. the world's most famous ski resorts less well known as it's the only resort town where a new generation of local skiers is dreaming of sporting glory forgot his went out to take a look at least fifty percent of the stone is over three thousand meters above sea level it's one of the most mountainous countries in the world mountain ranges that defy national borders include the palm is which stretched into northern afghanistan

. and the chance to kazakstan was because stalin killed his stahmann china but as you can stand has only one ski resort sulphate is about seventy kilometers north of the times you can still do. it was built during the soviet era but has been renovated and expanded in recent years after the first big snow fall of two thousand and eighteen olympic slalom skia aleesha. has a lesson to give he represented tajikistan in the two thousand and fourteen olympics held in sochi russia. whenever i'm teaching the kids i feel great because this is my sport i teach them from the bottom of my heart because these kids will become flag bearers of the g. kids then. aleesha teaches these children for free the kids come from poor families who can't afford the latest warm clothing but that doesn't in any way dampen the children's enthusiasm. i have been skiing for one year i want to ski in other

countries i want to be the best at this poll out there may be only a couple of runs on these mountain slopes but they are enough to challenge these young learners and some who are considerably older now i haven't skate for twenty five years but i cannot tell you how much of a pleasure it is to be skiing again for the first time and especially here in tajikistan. back at the ski school children up a tear in for another lesson eighteen year old metal bone helps them tighten their boots and ski bindings. from early childhood i had a dream to ski and so now my dreams come true because for six years i've practicing i've always wanted to represent my country and of course get the first prize. despite the uphill struggle of living in one of the poorest countries in asia these

children have the enthusiasm and potential charland for being downhill champions one and all. al-jazeera suffer darryl tajikistan and time for sport with ana thank you very much. in the last couple of hours mad to say knight his new caretaker manager. faced the media for the first time since replacing josie modi in your who was sacked this week you know to face a car this on saturday and now currently six in the english premier league table nineteen points adrift of leaders liverpool. game thinking about getting my principles into the voice get the players to understand how i want them to play how we want to play it. as a team and work together and then let's take the results later on to see how many points we can gather this clubhouse. and made up many many points before but i'm

not going to set the target now because you've got to go game by game to start with . well he's so put you know is one of the favorites to succeed is a sole share as permanent manager of united however his club tottenham have taken a zero tolerance approach to reporters linking him to the job they blocked any united talk targeted at the argentinean at a news conference which was intended to be about tottenham's next game against everton while pitino hasn't landed spurs a major trophy has got them into the chant is the for the past three seasons. who are. the common side. and if you notice in the match if anything you just mentioned you know to be fair. the same conversations i'm not prepared to manage. it's not a press conference don't you but it's not. your mans he will choose to answer some

questions so. why don't you to move on with respect. in this respect. because we invite you to preview football match and you're coming in you don't you know manager manager. i'm sorry that. was not to. be the place right now. everything. i would say not. so yeah. that's. my spanish. one win away from winning the said consecutive club will cup title they face host a lion in saturday's final in the united arab emirates had trick from gareth bale a so ryall accruals pasta in the seventies but there were worrying signs for the

wales winger in training go on thursday he dropped behind the rest of the squad and then was seeing stretching on the sidelines away from the majority of his team mates. will be hoping bale is fully fit to face ally who had been the surprise package of the club world cup so far. not worried i mean i expect them to be competitive of course. no one can arrive to do to the final of the club's world cup without competing with so they score many goals in every game. and they were able to be to climb from. of three wasn't. new zealand i'm sorry i'm sorry it's my my but from new zealand and then the. the b three will play. there in the final so they're different in the final because

they deserve it. for australia cricket captain steve smith says he hopes to be back playing for the national team before next year's wall cup on friday the twenty nine year old addressed the media for the first time since his cheerful apology and the aftermath of march's ball tampering scandal smith is currently serving a twelve month ban from international a state level cricket in australia for his involvement in the incident in a test match in south africa. i'm just moving forward day to day and doing what i need to do to prepare hopefully get another opportunity to play for australia and if that's well cup and ashes so bad and no doubt the english crowd to be incredibly hostile i'm ready for that if that happens but you know nothing's to say. working hard and if i get that opportunity again then that will be. back from an early deficit and the houston rockets five game winning streak in the n.b.a.

the rockets james harden is called eleven points in the first quarter to help the visitors to thirty three to twenty one lead but the heat fired into life in the second to get back to within two things quickly and ravelled for the rockets one of the stop players a crisp fall suffered a hamstring injury earning him out for the rest of the game he took advantage and went on to clinch the one hundred one ninety nine. and there was also win for the l.a. clippers over the dallas mavericks investors by the mavericks teenage sensation luca corning a career high thirty two points in the game. gave the mavericks a three point lead with less than a minute remaining but the clippers would go on to educate hundred twenty five two hundred and twenty one. in the n.h.l.

the tampa bay lightning extended the points three to eleven in a shutout win against the calgary flames the lightning came back from three goals down on the ridge to stephen stand cos i legs care on and all scored for time by in regulation to tie the game at four for forcing it to shoot out the goalie. was on fire he made thirty four saves including seven in overtime. j.t. millis called in the seventh round of the shootout the five four when. they went on. i'll swear the philadelphia flyers were in great form against the nashville predators that breaking their four game losing streak in the game was tied at one zero in the second period but the flyers quickly turned things around the clock jew with the win of these twelve a goal of the season making it to one nashville were unable to find the time goal

and drop the ninth consecutive game. three time and pick champion cutting dominated day one of the last sun swim cup all thursday the hungaroring a one three races a two on the meta backstroke two hundred meter medley and two hundred meter butterfly it was also a good day for another triple elim pick champion normie chroma with all of the netherlands she won both the fifty metres backstroke and the fifty meters a butterfly. and that's when we will have more for you later on but for now it's back to a show on it thank you very much. of call is not really a typical typically good gift for christmas but one in that families and south korea some of them are really grateful to have thousands of charcoal briquettes are being handled by u.s. troops to households north of seoul as colas motivated for heating and cooking during the winter months and it'll help make christmas just a bit happier for people struggling to make ends meet. the very first to do this

because in traditional american spirit across the world this is the season for giving. we're glad to be a part of. the line on just looking at the brick it's delivered here makes me feel warm and wealthy whenever i see them i will feel like i'm a rich person living in a warm place are truly appreciate it. and that's what the holiday season is all about when you get a moment visit our website out. dot com much more news to come on the other side of the parade thanks for your time.

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take shots even when they should not i believe that sometimes what the saudis have been. the story behind the deadly attack by the saudi led coalition forces on a school bus in yemen which killed forty children. yemen the sot a bus bombing on al-jazeera. another shock move from donald trump he is reported to be pulling thousands of u.s. troops out of afghanistan just days after announcing the u.s.

military was needing syria. hello i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. everything that indicates stability everything that indicate straight everything that indicates knowledge. is leaving this administration disagreements over the mideast pullout spark and now the high profile resignation from trump's white house defense secretary james mattis is quitting plus. unrest and also learned protesters on the march as the spanish national cabinet meets in the castle and regional capital. long awaited elections in the democratic republic of congo are hit by another setback.

we begin this hour with reports that president on hold trump has ordered the drawdown of up to seven thousand u.s. troops from afghanistan in two thousand and one president george w. bush launched a military campaign to topple the taliban government following the september eleventh attacks the drawdown in afghanistan comes on the heels of trump's announcement of a full military withdrawal from syria that's true criticism from america's allies and u.s. defense secretary james mattis has quit his post over a difference of opinion with trump said trumpet deserves a defense chief whose views align more closely with his own kurdish syrian democratic forces are meeting in paris for talks in the wake of trump's abrupt decision france has said it will stay in syria. then what are dr joins us now live from the turkish town of. the border with syria they know what kind of reaction have we seen from kurdish fighters who've received so much u.s. assistance in the past. well the kurdish led syrian

democratic forces issued a statement really questioning the u.s. president donald trump's decision to withdraw troops from northeastern syria saying it's just not the right timing according to the us if it is the decisive phase in its ongoing war against iceland this could affect the war against isis but this is much more about the. men taining and protecting the territories it has gained over the years the u.s. military presence was significant you're talking about two thousand troops in an area thirty percent of syrian territory it's militarily significant but the their presence was at the terence at the allowed the pro kurdish. the two men tain autonomy and to maintain self rule so right now. is in a very difficult position is exposed it's it's vulnerable turkey has threatened to

launch a cross border operation into the area east of the euphrates to clear that area from the y p g a kurdish armed group that turkey considers a terrorist organization at the border right behind me it's quiet but it's tense the turkish military still on alert but it seems that this military operation is put on hold at least for for the time being we understand is that there are some sort of negotiations taking place between syria's stakeholders to see what in fact they're going to do with this territory this this enclave which makes up thirty to thirty five percent of syria's territory and then a lot of speaking to us live there from the turkish syrian border thanks anna. as we've mentioned there's been another major shake up in the trunk administration with the u.s. defense secretary quit saying james massa says he's stepping down so the president can have a defense chief with views closer to his iron mike hanna reports from washington d.c. . like you says here is the real deal is the real deal the president

trump initially surrounded himself with generals james mattis the secretary of defense michael flynn as national security adviser followed by another general h.r. mcmaster and of course john kelly who was moved from homeland security to take over as chief of staff all are now gone or going back to some particular seen as a central figure in keeping a largely dysfunctional white house party functional secretary mabus was one of the few symbols the few items of strength and stability in this administration everything that indicates stability everything that indicates strained everything that indicates knowledge is leaving this administration when president trump criticize nato and threaten to leave it matters was the one reassuring allies behind the scenes he helped push the president to moderate his position on the g.c.c. crisis. and he was able to get the president to make an open ended commitment in

afghanistan while loosening restrictions on u.s. troops fighting there. and when trump tweeted out that he was banning transgender service members matters slow rolled the order until courts put it on hold. the president's disenchantment was inevitably made public i think is sort of a democrat if you want to know the truth it would appear the final straw for james mattis was what many believe was a unilateral executive decision to withdraw u.s. forces from syria the secretary's resignation letter coming less than twenty four hours later making clear the core difference in his belief in multilateralism and respect for allies and the president's lack of either the letter continues because you have the right to have a secretary of defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects i believe it's right for me to step down from my position this departure is different from the many that have gone before highlighting like no other the maverick nature of

a president that critics insist increasingly spurned said vice even on the eve of a possible partial shutdown of government one that announces the resignation of a respected if not revered man who served his nation for decades in a tweet. mike hanna al-jazeera washington well she had her tansey joins us now live from washington d.c. she have it's been quite the whirlwind of withdrawals including this one from the white house what sort of reaction are we seeing in washington to mass as resignation. shock in the political class the political establishment of washington there really is this sense now that hope trump is out of his box off the box that we have contained him with and look for the political establishment especially for the republican establishment trump was was was acceptable because despite his rhetoric despite what he said on the campaign trail he was surrounded by establishment figures like mattis who were keeping him in

a foreign policy book so he wasn't actually doing what he said he would do on the campaign trail we should also remember that mathis i mean he did do a great deal on the trump trump gave him a lot of leeway and the civilian casualties on the mat is exponentially risen because trump basically said do what you want bomb whoever you want in afghanistan and in syria and iraq in somalia and as a result and not just what ok civilian casualties are going through the roof we should remember this matter is really did was given by trump a great deal of leeway and power to try and win some of these wars and as far as we can see right now there hasn't been that much you know much more much of an impact on the ground in some of these companies areas except for huge civilian casualties and we should remember that by the way but having said that there's enormous shock we have these two narratives that don't weigh one that trump was acting very impulsively has a lot of political setbacks recently and so he decided all right let's pull the plug on syria let's pull the plug on afghanistan the other doubts of which we have

is that actually these debates have been underway for some time for several weeks now and last friday trump finally made that decision based on three main main points one the as far as serious concerned the u.s. is strategic relationship with turkey is way more important than it is with the. he was very concerned and some of his advisors and those realist in mr concern and in the military of mission creep in in syria that increasingly with special people like john bolton and jim matheson hates iran there was increasingly the risk of mission creep to try to stop in front. iran more and more in syria as the islamic state was vanquished and thirdly the decision was look if syria's a mess we're back to that old trump rhetoric we're wasting huge amounts of money in the middle east we get no benefit in return of other people want to fix it let them we're not going to we're not going to win we're going to waste we're going to go down that road any longer so that's the other directive that we have huge shock there in washington as as politicians begin to come to terms of the fact that perhaps now donald trump is off the leash he's doing what he said he would do which

by the way does have a certain amount of public support that is there is fatigue in amongst the us population for these was seventeen years of war in the middle east sabotage speaking to us that live from washington d.c. thanks you have. tensions are once again running high in spain between boston and the central government a year off to snap regional elections pro castle and independence activists are holding protests in barcelona they coincide with prime minister pedro sanchez holding his cabinet meeting in the city so now dr joins us live now from boston on sunday at those protests and looking pretty huge why is this meeting being seen as so provocative that it's able to draw such a large crowd. the fact of the matter is that people here with pro independent. opinions activists about are furious at the decision by the central government to hold this cabinet meeting

here they say it's chaos the city has an effect you've gone to the central part of the city the downtown area complete lockdown you look the presence of some nine thousand police officers from the national news will suddenly local police all forces as well and that's causing no one's allowed to get any when it's that aren't having that cabinet meeting as well and so if you'll just look down in there as well just behind us you've got in effect one of the civil societies of probably depend civil society is holding its own version of what it says is a people's capital meeting as well to voice that frustration that i got that there is that the spanish government would be taking to taking this particular meeting they say it's a civil balik provocation however the spanish government itself says that it's a symbol of you know a lot of trying to ease tensions between madrid barcelona and the spanish prime minister ever such as himself has said that there really is this sort of affection

towards capsule out society but that's not a french really has gone down like a stone here among those who would think otherwise so new remind us of catalonia status now and if the spanish prime minister is that. only way to be able to resolve any of these outstanding issues. there are many issues at stake here not least in the middle of it is kerry's position all of spain's prime minister he is reading between a rock and a hard place he is surrounded by opposing voices within even his own party as well as those from the right wing parties as well who are vehemently against crossing any kind of easing of tensions with the past like government their red line was that this referendum that took place across a legal really is a legal issue as well and they believe that the prime minister should be taking a much harder stance than he has right now is to sanction is of

a different opinion he says that there needs to be some form of dialogue and that is something which is also being echoed by the castle and government as well as there was a meeting on thursday night between the capital of president and thought i missed it and the prime minister they agreed to continue dialogue but they both have very different stances however of the rhetoric not only homes from the opponents of this but also from the past like on the side of self the president has also said some things which are quite inflammatory this one is even advocated a slovenia solution for catalonia of course referring to the power slovenia got into hiding except the beginning of the yugoslavia was not really for those who were requiring a kind of more. moderate solution to this they weren't really appreciative about very inflammatory remarks so where you fall you've got a desire for dialogue but you have really two sides which still on in trade.