afghans anxiously wait for clarity what president trump will do what it will mean for the seanad ballasts al-jazeera. protesters have clashed with police in both alona as the prime minister petro sanchez held his cabinet meeting i said to the demonstrators i agree about his decision to hold his weekly meeting in catalonia where separatists failed in their bid to session last year. independence activists have blocks within twenty roads across catalonia police have been deployed say knowledge numbers on her has the latest from basra. the spanish prime minister better sanchez said that the idea of having a cabinet meeting in barcelona was almost like a show waltz reaching out a symbolic show to try and open a way for dialogue that however this is not being received that way by the pro

independence movement a lot of anger at this having taken place on friday at least because they say the pro independence activists said that it is simply just another way to get spain to show that it is really in control or that catalogs are not in control of their own of their own autonomy this region over there are still very firmly entrenched views on either side of this argument and this is exactly the problem that the prime minister at all such it. really has is that he has to walk a fine line between those on the side of the anti depended side want him to come down harder and tougher and not budge an inch where is the catalyst and they want more autonomy they want more independence full independence even and that is really very entrenched views that neither side is willing to compromise at this point but still he has been trying to. navigate this and has been talking

a lot about dialogue and has been making strides to see it sort of symbolic shows that he is open to talking fox he stands really on a different side of this debate to his castle and counterpart the head of the president that motions running high in this crisis which has been running on for about fourteen months and there is still no middle way that can be costume this as of this month. ok still ahead sold in the program the hunt continues for the drone operators because target britain second busiest airport some flights are due i got wyck plus. just in time for christmas the european space agency reveals a stunning winter wonderland on the red planet.

hello there we've got quite a bit of cloud over the southeastern parts of china at the moment the satellite picture is showing some gray weather the low cloud mostly in a fair amount of mist and that is giving us one or two patches of rain some of them a setting out to be rather lively as we head into sunday i think that area of rain around will gradually begin to ease but instead we'll see more wet weather towards the west and again a few shop show is a likely hit the west so weather though that will be over the eastern parts of the philippines here it really does look very wet as we had three sunday out towards the west we've also got some shop showers here particularly around parts of sri lanka and the southeast components of india more wet weather is expected here as we head through the next couple of days saturday is looking particularly wet over the southern parts of india but then gradually breaks up a little bit as we head into sunday and sri lanka will see some more lively downpours instead some cloud will be pushing its way across the federal of india but further. north and looks largely fine and dry new delhi there i don't round

twenty one degrees down here in doha the winds will be picking up over the next few days so do expect it to feel a bit cooler than it has a maximum temperature of around twenty three but dropping down to around sixteen at night and still with quite a breeze it will feel a little bit chilly twenty five the maximum in abu dhabi. radicalism is on the rise across the globe. we're told it's everywhere we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything but our government policies aimed at tackling radicalisation in fact pushing youngsters to the fringes of society the impact is you don't think there's only so much we can try before you say ok that's me rethinking radicalization part of the radicalized youth series on al-jazeera.

looking back out our mind at the top stories here on al-jazeera us marks a major shift in foreign policy of the president trump announced he'll withdraw his troops from syria and hove the military presence in afghanistan. turkey's president has been a critic of american policy in syria as welcomed the announcement and in return vowed to get rid of ice and there. has been violence between police and proconsul on independence activists during process. demonstrators are angry that the spanish prime minister has held a cabinet meeting in the city. now the opposition candidate for the felix she's

a katie has called for caucus laws protests grip cities in democratic republic of congo central african countries much anticipated presidential election has once again being done eight demonstrators run it outside the headquarters of one of the main opposition parties to vent their anger against the decision. to take place on december the cashier's. commission says violence on the just ticklish use forced the spire meant after all sorts of basis from contrasts. our supporters of d.p.s. this is the largest opposition political party in the country that he needs to see just to address them and. to be calm he said that said there's a lot of disappointment over this to live the election but then they're going to wait they're going to have this election they going to have this election on the thirtieth they're going to continue campaigning but then you've also told the supporters that should there be another he should there be another shoot.

commission come back and say they're still not prepared and need more time with a student wait the supporters shouldn't wait for an announcement such as this they should just pull out to the streets and make their voices heard there's a lot of disappointment here people are saying that this is all a government a gimmick to do maybe selection as much as possible they're saying that they're tired remember this is an election that has been delayed already for t.v.'s so the people here are saying that on the thirtieth to go they're going to vote and nothing is going to stop them from doing that they also feel that the election might be symbolic even for the sake of the patmos of the electoral commission but that sanny that electoral commission. even be patient that. we're going to give you a credible election. series police of five tear gas to break up dozens of protesters in the city. bara as well as in the state of north korea foreign schools

and universities have been suspended in khartoum after eight people died in protests there demonstrations spread to the sudanese capital on thursday a state of emergency has been put in place in the cities about barra and get arrests protesters are angry about inflation now at nearly seventy percent that's one of the world's highest is pushing up food and fuel prices and see whose economy has struggled since the independence of south sudan in twenty eleven but it lost the majority of its oil output some flights have finally resumed at britain's second biggest airport after an unprecedented disruption caused by drones military technology is now being used to guard gatwick airport but the drone pilot still hasn't been found of any baka reports. thirty six hours of transport misery is slowly coming to an end a limited number of domestic and european flights were allowed to leave and land on friday but most long haul flights remain counseled the airport is coping with

a backlog of tens of thousands of passengers many forced to bed down on the terminal floor overnight the reopening of the airport is being cautiously welcomed i think is something to relate. in you know more than causing panic they've made this sort of thing you're going to madrid in an hour and they were saying that it's console one another saying we're flying so it's all quite the decision to reopen get with follow the arrival of specialists military equipment on thursday police said they would be willing to shoot the drones down if they reappear again they were thought to be at least two drones described as being of industrial specification in a much better place to say than we were yesterday in terms of the options available to us so we are in a really positive position in terms of detecting the drone tracking it mitigates in the threat that it poses secondly the last confirmed sighting was just before ten pm last night so we've had

a significant period of time where the drone hasn't appeared the hunt for the rogue drone operator or drone operators has drawn in multiple government agencies the police british intelligence the authorities say they're all following multiple leads but keeping these details of the tight control for now airport management to calling the incident commercial sabotage whoever's responsible could face up to five years in prison and we had ten thousand past is he didn't fly on wednesday we had one hundred ten thousand passes he didn't fly today we're going to see ongoing disruption today and into into the weekend and it's been a very diverse situation i just like to apologize to all the passengers who finished russian that is being posted in by this criminal act events here at gatwick have major implications for airport security around the world the union of air traffic controllers is demanding stricter regulations a more counter drone measures to safeguard airports and protect lives. the parka

al-jazeera that we cap or. british defense secretary gavin williamson says the black sea does not belong to russia off to sending a royal navy ship there to support ukraine's efforts against moscow williamson met his ukrainian counterpart during a visit to the port of adesa where the vessel h.m.s. echo docks earlier this week tensions between kiev and moscow remain high off to russia seized three ukrainian naval vessels and crews in the black sea near crimea last month accuses them of illegally entering its territorial waters a charge ukraine denies. the reason as are people that hate you massacre is here is we. want to do demonstrate that solidarity that we have reviewed crane in the brain doesn't stand alone but also demonstrating rights in order to be able to come to port such as a test for freedom of navigation for freedom for navies to be able to operate in

the black sea this isn't russia's see this is an international. twelve miners have died in a masonry explosion of a coal mine in the czech republic it's the worst mining disaster there in st decades happened about eight hundred meters underground in the city of covina hit a polish and twelve those killed were traditionally signals polish president on the edge due to has declared sunday a national day of mourning. russian hackers aggressively targeted african-americans during the twenty sixteen u.s. election campaign that is the finding of a report from the u.s. senate intelligence committee it says russian operatives list a prolific social media efforts to suppress tunnels among black voters his auditor castor explains. september twenty sixth ina was a vulnerable time in charlotte north carolina the city was in upheaval over the police killing of a black man and a us presidential election was just over

a month away and your feet was among the local activists using social media to organize protesters there was somebody to reached out and said can we share this on our or on our criminal justice reform page or something like that and i looked at the page and i had about three to four hundred thousand followers you know likes or something like that so you know i'm thinking of but black matters us was actually made by hackers working for russia's internet research agency or the i r a a senate intelligence committee report found the most prolific ira efforts on facebook and instagram specifically targeted black american communities and appeared to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black americans as assets if these people were able to chart facebook twitter you sue google cia the f.b.i. the obama administration of course they're going to trick the activists that are on

the ground there. but trick. them to do what u.s. intelligence has concluded russia wanted donald trump to win the presidency knowing that african-americans by and large were supporting hillary clinton they need to for some kind of way to intercept that leaders in the black church say russian hackers preyed on african-americans historic disenchantment with the us political system by tying that system to clinton and encouraging a paralyzing anger against her the polarized they highlighted the issues of. blacks in america and. then again it was divide and conquer the protests that filled the charlot streets garnered national attention and inflamed racial tensions just weeks before the presidential election when it came time to cast a ballot the voter turnout among black americans was down seven percent from the

previous presidential election now the question is how much of that was due to russia's influence and was it enough to determine the winner do you think donald trump would be president if the russians hadn't interfered directly targeting african-american voters in the u.s. let me think no i don't think it would be president the u.s. government says there's no way to know for sure but to the people who were targeted by russia's influence campaign the answer is already clear heidi joe castro al-jazeera charlotte north carolina. now when you think of wold kolsky places like the be a summer it's on whistler usually comes to mind is less well known is socket dollar up it is the only resort in tajikistan all for a new generation of local ski is dreaming of glory. 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 define national borders include the premier's which stretch into northern afghanistan the allée and the chin which reach into kazakstan was because stalin killed his stalin china but as you can stand has only one ski resort self it is about seventy kilometers north of the touchy capital ducharme bay 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 could also has a lesson to give he represented tajikistan in the two thousand and fourteen olympics held in sochi russia while. 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 chickens 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. 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 little tearing for another lesson eighteen year old american born 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 challenge for being downhill champions one and all. that al-jazeera suffer darryl because you could start on the european space agency has posted a christmas card or the winter wonderland on the red planet it's models express satellite sent back these spectacular images of the core left crisis filled with ice cities eighty two kilometer kilometers wide mission launched in two thousand and three and went into orbit around mars on christmas day of that year making this month the fifty year anniversary of the beginning of its science program.

i've reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera u.s. foreign policy is under the spotlight after a major shift in its military strategy president trump says he'll withdraw his troops from syria turkey's president regift tiber to one who's been a critic of american policy in syria has welcomed the announcement and in return has vowed to get rid of all the celera. so what is good is in question since the beginning of the syrian crisis with our diplomatic contacts with the us left off disappointed in terms of the results the trumpet ministration inherited problems that we experienced particularly during the obama presidency in fact to post meetings and phone calls president trump and i have seen that we shared views on a range of issues related to syria yet the translation of the agreement to the ground was open and difficult finally in recent days we have been able to see the clearest and most encouraging statements to date from the administration on president trump as reportedly ordered the withdrawal of up to seven thousand u.s.

troops from afghanistan the move would harm u.s. presence of service personnel in the country where they train and mentor afghan security forces separate u.s. forces also conduct strikes on i sort of the taliban and transshipped on syria and afghanistan was a contributing factor to the resignation of the us defense secretary james masses says he quit after falling out with trump over his foreign policy he's the latest high profile member of trump's administration to announce he's leaving. there's been violence between police and proconsul on independence activists during protests in barcelona against the spanish prime minister's visit to the city for happened to the spanish and catalan governments have been at old since last year when madrid ruled catalonia referendum for independence illegal. a leading opposition presidential candidates in the democratic republic of congo has called for calm after it was announced that sunday's planned election will be delayed any

start no large protests in the capital kinshasa the electoral commission blamed the delay on a fire last week which destroyed thousands of voting machines. and those elections headlines here on al-jazeera there's more news in about twenty five minutes time to stick with us though radicalized this coming next.

point ironic that one many governments around the wall declare that the fight against terrorism is the number one priority this hasn't stopped. the fear has continued with the attacks have continued we have to wonder why is this the case. for the past twenty years i've been working on the question of political violence and terrorism it's persistence in our lives in our times in our societies begs the question why could it be that the policies governments think will prevent violent extremism might actually be making things worse in the aftermath of the nine eleven attacks on the united states in two thousand and one you could visibly see that the

world has been securitized a certain architecture of things as materialized literally there is a certain presence of the state security that has been increased. the militarized presence has really transformed the scene of the world the wrong. there has been new legislation that has increased powers of surveillance that have given more of an ability to shrink the privacy space for citizens around the world . news alerts all the time keeping the citizen on their toes a certain friends jala g. of be careful observe with or if you see something that doesn't look right they can start tactically generally a sense of fear from. the threat has it been lessened has there been results in terms of addressing it and the paradox is that it has not quite the

opposite so clearly something is not working. we must remember that the majority of political violence is not carried out in the name of any particular religion and certainly not only in the name of one in twenty seventeen here in the diverse london area finsbury park a man drove a van into the crowd leaving a mosque saying he wanted to kill all muslims but does the securitized response reflect this complex reality i've come to ask the young people here for their experiences. i was search more than four or five times within two months i felt that i was came because of my color rather than tradition wise i was actually a few times as well in underground so-called random searches which i didn't think it was a random search it was a norm in that time and still now i think that you expect every now and then to get

a stop it's not nice. but every now and then it happens the narrative we have been going around for and such a long time writing it when i see a bearded man carrying a bag i get. suspecting that's a reality it's a sad reality you mean you have internalized yeah. it become like i said if i am a person of muslim faith and i get like that i am the same what the other people might fear as well and it's i don't think it's necessarily is the fault of the people is the responsible of the media we've done that people who offer dorothy who put this narrative out there that there bearded man or a man of certain color may cause harm this needs to change we are kind of like brainwashed to think that one. so that's the step session with security just affect muslims others feel that they are suspects as well looking at post nine

eleven and how you have been experiencing a lot of terrorism attack and so how did you live through those years and how do you look at how authorities have been dealing with it was challenging because people's perspective of the minority group had already been made up and their mindset towards people of color people of faith people from about kwame really didn't understand it was the fear of the unknown and we suffered from the collateral damage of that what's now expected of minorities after the event i feel like they're expected above and beyond decency in a sense to not be perceived as a nuisance or menace or any of these things i think it's clear and devastating in how. we're automatically labeled with do inside that city is based on person's actions is not the best example for the younger generation and if they have to walk around in fear thinking all because i look like this automatically i'm

going to treat it like this it will be like this in the future about how people leave food our race gender or what religion you were it doesn't have to always be like the more you are probably of the so is its core certainly from from and. living in this traumatized society everybody's living in fear of being judged being pointed a big key to being isolated how can we now face tomorrow knowing this is what people think of us while the british government claims to celebrate diversity many feel that their main policy against violent extremism reinforces these attitudes. given the right continue we need to. be representing terrorism because terrorism and the direction it will go to this place isn't just the it. prevents parts of the

governments contest strategy which the counterterrorism initiative at fixes for example to identify signs that somebody might be vulnerable to radicalization extremism might be looking for a change in behavior a change in social groups that you know people apart so moved for example it might be that people might sound a bit more aggressive they might. say if it's a concern from from the far right websites or the repeats in knots it could be perhaps a change in drafts and suddenly an increase would. say the top three. commission listens indeed absolutely right so. my son ten six a police officer from her via social what. a lot of questions about his

arabic teacher and what he was learning in arabic and i read in my child turning to me like well why is he asked me the same question again again and. i didn't know my rights i feel like there was this big doll hole i fell into knowing because i sent my son to school. we've documented nearly five hundred cases of individuals impacted by prevent today these cases demonstrate both and islamophobia framework operates within the policy but also we have now seen how the policy has created a collective trauma to the community including children so it's innocence the policy has created what it is that supposed to be fighting essentially you have to distance yourself from your family you just feel more and more isolated day by day

was just you share your constant fear you have to do it alone whether it's teachers or doctors your social workers anybody you have this mistrust of everybody because you don't know anymore who to trust and you don't know what will happen to your children if you go to a doctor or if they were portrayed as someone. it's very interesting to see that which george orwell was wired to go out decades has in effect now materialized. it speaks a certain language of authority and speaks a certain language of demonization of certain groups or racialized a certain approach to discrimination that is a name. growing up since nine eleven this generation

starts from a completely different perspective than other generations would one where it starts from a point of view of fear of a certain vulnerability of having to prove itself almost being paranoid all the time this. very sense of uncertainty but also of a certain vulnerability. to find out how this might affect young people psychologically i've come to meet verne introduce a psychologist who deals with marginalized young people. threat is the number worn through password really you know we're told it's everywhere we're told we're supposed to be highly suspicious of everybody and everything and i think it has a real impact on one sense of self as we know children are incredibly receptive and perceptive you know if a think that their teacher or staff are or even mental health professionals are screening them that starts to really fragment the way in which you can have

a relationship with a young person and yet today we have kids sitting in a class and feeling that they are in a policing system and the impact is you don't belong here you don't fit for a child who's developing and trying to find a way of being in the world that's a huge. sort of rebuff and i think that what i've seen then happens is that the narrative grows of everybody feeling that stiff ical with this child suddenly children and then find themselves excluded not in mainstream school they're in people refer units young people that i've worked with can find themselves there and really have a struggle you know internally about is this me is this is this the person i am well actually yes people are telling them it is that's why you're there and then i think there is this sort of gathering momentum for many of them not all of them to join gangs yet to join to join because because that's the trajectory and it's very

difficult to resist. being labeled threats leads in many ways if the person is not a threat and if they are innocent to a sense of injustice many rip. for sure that injustice and out of your nation are factors in making people susceptible to the appeal from groups like islamic states who have found ways to turn the west's glamorization of violence against itself. and go sneak a mission impossible type of movie or a homeland type of t.v. series where this is all staged and presented as the logical normal narrative of the new world we live in. the paradox of the imagery as it is literally downloaded on these youth is that it becomes internalized the look at it the process it and they themselves tend to sometimes have to find ways to act in the video games for

hours. and then many of those endings in the military.