in two thousand and fifteen the white b.g. enter tel aviv under the pretext of fighting isis but they forcibly displaced the autopen looted their homes they started to impose the kurdish language and what they call democracy cloak like preventing us from practicing religion. the y.p. she could lose the autonomous enclave government in north eastern syria a plan to pull out of american troops will leave it vulnerable the group controls an area rich in oil and agricultural land valuable economic assets for the government in damascus which is struggling under sanctions president bashar assad has repeatedly said he wants to retake this corner of syria either by negotiation or force the y. p.g. may be trying to cut a deal. the us is no longer planning a rapid pullout turkey has reportedly convince president donald trump to coordinate the withdrawal also that there will be no vacuum u.s. and turkish officials will meet in washington on january the eighth it seems ankara

wants the enclave to be handed over to representatives of arab majority towns that have been under the control of the y.p. . turkey believes the y p g is linked to the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which has been fighting for self rule in south east turkey. turkey doesn't have that authority or ambitions in syria and they want to end the subsurface project there and it wants to end the threat along its southern border it will cooperate with the syrian opposition who will convene to give up its agenda and couplings with. a military option is still on the table president to tell you border guard says a new operational strategy to eliminate both the y.p. g. and i still is being worked on turkey and the u.s. may be in agreement on what happens next but there are other players in syria including russia that will also want its interests secured. a check on the

turkey syria border. or glow our ill again is the president of the middle east research institute and he joins us now from air below in iraq thanks very much for being with us so how do you how do you feel about this hour the kurds being left behind in turkey as a result of president's trumps decision i think this is a general feeling and at least in syria because the partnership with the united states to fight isis and reduce it down to what it is now has been a long protracted process that cost a lot of lives on the ground and a lot of sacrifices and there were a lot of promises from the united states that they would stay on until there was an enduring. retreat of isis or defeat of isis as well as stabilizing syria and finding a solution that would be win win for all plus there are other long term strategies

in the region but this sudden withdrawal decision has left the kurds very exposed and left them very uncertain about this relationship as well as their future and the united states has provided no explanation how this is going to be managed in the long term or whether they would be allowing turkey to actually repeat what was done in our free in and that is turkey invading along with the proxies. the syrian free army where they witnessed a lot of destruction looting and the management now clearly this sudden decision without consultation of anyone whether on the ground or europe or even the american establishment taken everybody by surprise so there is a general feeling of betrayal among the syrian kurds and of course and certain future so this is undermine your confidence then in the united states as a partner in the future in their in their reliability. i think they

had it been a kind of an isolated incident with proper management and of expectation as well as the american pledge to use its soft power to make sure that the kurds are not exposed and isis would not come back and people populations will not be displaced all that would have come down and reassured people but now with the weights it's managed and done as well as communicated it brings back memories where the kurds in one hundred seventy four to five they were heavily backed by america and american allies in the region and the fight against saddam and the the move the kurdish movement reached a climax where suddenly the united states pulled back and led to a total collapse of the iraqi kurdish movement it took about sixteen years for that trust to be rebuilt because people in the region lost trust in american commitment here but this time mr trump decision has made even the european allies to lose

trust in this in this administration so i imagine that if mr trump tries to persuade everybody in middle east or in europe to support him in his efforts to isolate iran over the nuclear efforts nobody would be willing to go all the way thinking that america would do america would do what mr trump decides and that is to pull out a soonest america realize that their interest is protected they no longer need their partners on the ground they would pull out so why would they sacrifice at the moment a lot of non-state actors are in alliance with america and america is actually using them and reassuring them but the way that this is been managed will leave people in great doubt about the future whether they should believe anything any pledge from this administration i want to know someone certainly saw it in iraq through our because our time is unfortunate limited but i want to ask you because we talked earlier there about how president trump arrived at this decision that it was the phone call with the turkish president. and that but that basically is

what is what did it for and what does that tell you about the way he makes decisions and this whole idea that he's swayed by by authoritarian leaders at the expense of his own advisors. but basically this is a becoming a predictable pattern from mr trump where the diplomats here as well as the military guys on the ground they're finding it very difficult to feel that they represent american decision making process they find difficult or a show partners there that what they are talking about the future what they provide whether it's plausible reliable and whether this will be something that america would honor and of course the diplomats would be trying to put a brave face on explain things but actually they were taken off guard and by surprise as well as the pentagon and a hence the chaos inside america remember that mr trump things that because an isis

has been ninety nine percent of standards have been reduced therefore they affect everyone but actually only the territories are one back ninety nine percent buddhist whereas the the capability of the military capacity of isis is still there pentagon says that there are thirty thousand fighters half of them in syria they're perfectly capable of recapturing all the territories as soon as there is a vacuum and the vacuum will be created because once the kurds feel threatened from the north there will be definitely isis coming back taking back these territories that cross even america a lot of sacrifices a lot of resources so essentially even turkey was not ready to go back in mr trump behave like a bad businessman here because mr erdogan went for the maximum again and assoon as they asked for that instead of going for a halfway house a delay to process a tactic to allow adjustment instead mr trump immediately accepted immediate withdrawal then even mr advani thought to be only one said that he was shocked by

that so turkey's turkey is not ready to move in yet america is ready to move out this is a vacuum created nobody will fill it in and that's where i believe that europe should take leadership because it concerns them the refugees and i.d.p.'s will be heading towards europe europe need to come in and provide leadership instead of america and otherwise europe will be paying the price as well as the region as a whole. thanks very much for being with us now two car bomb attacks in somalia as capital have killed at least fifteen people and wounded twenty five the injured reportedly include the deputy mayor for security and a member of parliament one of the explosions targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace katia lopez whole diane reports . the first car bomb exploded at a military checkpoint soldiers and civilians among the dead. moments later

the second explosion also a car bomb bodies were scattered on the street just a few hundred meters from the somali presidential residence in mogadishu the go out one look at me i was at the scene of the attack at first i saw a vehicle driving back and forth and we tried to stop people walking here and there and then within the blink of an eye the vehicle exploded causing havoc the police say government officials have been trailing in the area earlier in the day now the road is covered with charred cars and debris we know explosion today up in mogadishu somalia capital and the first xplosion was your suicide bomber and targeted security just points. in the national neighborhood issues somalia but eventually told us and then got local who surely is stationed in the area and it is a very get in a blaze. mogadishu is afghan targeted by the al qaeda linked group al-shabaab its

members want to dislodge the government and impose islamic law the group maintains a foothold in some regions of somalia that was forced mogadishu in two thousand and eleven. thousands of somalis have died in this divisive decade long battle many of them civilians cutty a little piece of the young al-jazeera. i'll take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world now the head of the u.n. monitoring team has arrived in yemen patrick come out landed in ad then where the internationally recognized government is based his job is to oversee the u.n. brokered cease fire between who the rebels and the saudi and the rotty backed yemen governments the retired dust general will travel to santa to meet her at the representatives before arriving in her day there on sunday. on the b. funerals in gaza for four palestinians killed on friday by the israeli army hundreds of mourners were at the burials of the men killed during weekly protests

against the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territory palestinians have demonstrated at the border every friday since march. and palestinians say they are increasingly frustrated living in the occupied west bank and there's a growing feeling of helplessness they've told edges either it's made worse by greater israeli military presence and their own palestinian leaders stephanie decker reports from ramallah. it's been especially tense few weeks in the occupied west bank palestinian shootings in israeli incursions have killed people on both sides palestinians tell us they had not seen this amount of israeli soldiers on the streets of ramallah in years ramallah is the seat of power for the ruling palestinian authority and supposedly under full palestinian security control its outage an already pessimistic atmosphere. needed is that the palestinian authority stop security coordination with the israelis stop working together we don't benefit

anything where a lost people. the situation has become very bad every time i come to. it's so hard to reach checkpoints all over the roads the traffic is a nightmare we hope that the world will do something to change this political situation a recent poll across the occupied west bank and gaza indicates that almost two thirds of palestinians want the resignation of president mahmoud abbas and other shows it increasing support for half particularly off of the escalation here in the west bank and also in gaza and the poll also suggests that the idea of an armed intifada as opposition to the occupation is gaining support that's moving away from diplomatic negotiations. he carried out the survey he says the palestinian authority and president mahmoud abbas are facing increasing questions about their credibility the lack of palestinian unity between the rival political groups fatah and hamas is a major issue significant. for the lack of progress on the

reunification efforts most of the public today blames the two to one the blame is being placed on the bars on the people rob a ban on hamas this is a significant change from the past in the past most of the blame was being put on hamas most people here say that if palestinians were united they would be stronger to deal with israel everybody hoping for peace but you know everybody knows other side is better stronger israel is very strong every time we come a closer to make abuse then they stop it some six accuse all the time they have excuses our viewers they are ready for peace but the other side are not ready you see the smile is seventy six years old and has lived in the ramallah all his life but there has been the palestinian authority to is controlled by israel just like us they should be a sovereign palestinian state every time the israeli want to read the terms they go in they go out they do what they want. as another year draws to an end palestinians

say they seem to be moving further and further away from their hopes of one day achieving their own sovereign state stephanie decker al-jazeera in the occupied west bank iran's revolutionary guards have conducted military drills in the strait of hormuz the passageway for nearly a third of all traded or oil traded by sea. the annual exercises come a day after iran's army trailed a u.s. aircraft carrier that entered the gulf on friday iran is under increasing pressure from the u.s. after the trumpet ministration renewed sanctions over its nuclear program. nigerian police say they've arrested the suspected boko harm mastermind of the twenty fifteen bombings in the capital they say malik and several others they detained have confessed to their roles in the twin blasts fifteen people died and dozens

more were injured more than thirty thousand people have been killed and millions forced to flee from boko haram violence in northeast nigeria now there are fears of renewed violence in the eastern region of gorno but action has long been opposed to the central government it has its own culture and languages but it is ignored by those in power in the capital in the latest in his series from inside than charles strafford traveled to choro where the army was sent in after protests earlier this year it takes fifteen hours to get to the town of cork the capital of the semi autonomous gorno but action region in eastern tajikistan the broken road winds its way through the premier mountains bordering afghanistan the people here have long complained their demands for better infrastructure jobs and respect for their distinct culture or ignored by central government the mountains about action of

provided a natural defense against all those who try to impose their wealth already or on this region for centuries the chinese the russians the british all have struggled to control a people with a distinct culture a distinct identity and recent protests here in horror suggests that the government intrusion bay is facing similar challenges even today the majority of going about actions approximately two hundred seventy thousand population. in september there were demonstrations against what protesters say has been gears of neglect and intimidation by the predominantly sunni muslim government. unemployment is estimated to be around fifty percent there are no major industries which could offer jobs. president and will mali rock on whose roots as you can stand for more than twenty five years has banned opposition parties imprisoned political leaders

and journalists and crushed any independent media across the country he's also criticized local leaders often described as warlords as well as regional government officials for what he sees as their failure to crack down on drug smuggling from afghanistan it's a national and seen all cults exegesis say corrupt officials are involved. tons of heroin and opium a smuggled across the border every year. this government mind refused to let us interview anyone on the streets and wanted names of anyone we had tried to talk to . we contacted one person by telephone and recorded disk on the sation. quite.

unleased say president is aware of the risks of a crackdown in gorno box on a region that accounts for almost hauffe of to. but. the people of that action are easy to mobilize it's a conservative society it's enough to just call someone a brother he didn't bring a thousand five hundred people from his village to support the authorities know it is a risk of crossing a line that's what president rahmani scared of president sent me into the region in two thousand and twelve off the bottom intelligence chief was stabbed to death around fifty armed men civilians and soldiers were killed in the fighting that followed the risk of renewed violence he's testing the government again one that critics say has to be year is relied on its intelligence services police and army

to silence dissent. zero hawg tells you christiane. now you can get in touch with us we want to hear from you on this and all the other stories we've been covering you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter using the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram at plus nine seven four five zero one trip or one forty nine there's a number of top screen this is the news good and if you're watching us on facebook why we've got a bonus story for you about a team of black disabled women turman to find racism sexism and abel is. also ahead on the show the family of the guatemalan girl who died while u.s. custody making a plea to the government. i am. hello

again and welcome back to well let's start this hour here across parts of the vod we have seen some choir days and that's going to continue over the next few days that's some good news there but the temperatures are a little bit cooler take a look at these temperatures here on sunday tehran is going to only get to about ninety degrees there not too many clouds on the forecast map but coup at nine in kuwait city winds are coming out of the northwest so we don't think you're going to get above twenty if that and as we go towards monday pretty much the same forecast for you there well here across the gulf we are looking at some a big cooler conditions for the overnights and of course the daytime highs only getting to about twenty two here in doha as we go over towards abu dhabi though maybe a few clouds in your forecast here on sunday but looking a little bit better as we go towards monday misguide a nice day if you are twenty four and is looking quite nice also at about twenty seven degrees well down here across parts of the southern reaches of africa we have some clouds down here along the southeastern part of africa making their way

towards durban a few showers could be a problem there but we are watching a psych load here in the indian ocean that is going to bring some very heavy rain possibly to more riches not making landfall there but we will be watching as it passes towards the east as we go towards monday afternoon some war heavy rain across parts of madagascar with a temperature of about twenty eight degrees. medieval western society was a feudal society so it took till you keep the lot above the law and as soon as to pull ended his speech some people stood up and said god will sit down and the entrance to the city was horrific they killed people in the streets in their houses and in. the crusades an arab perspective at the sold one shop at this time on a. a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman thought that she could selectively

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taking a look at and then the most popular stories trending on our website. dot com and. number one the pentagon chief mattis quits was from a couple of days ago still proving very popular number two iran says a u.s. presence in presence in syria was wrong from the start this is iran's of first first official reaction on this the foreign ministry are welcoming the decision by president trying to pull u.s. troops from syria and lots more there for you on our web site al jazeera dot com. people have been killed in sudan of the days of protests against rising prices

there two cities are. under emergency rule with schools and universities in some states closed protesters have been on the streets for four days now angry at nationwide cash shortages and seventy percent inflation some of the demonstrators are calling for the removal of president bashir hiper morgan has been following this for us now and she joins us from the capital khartoum so what is the latest there. well as you have said has them right now the death toll stands at that temp people killed and dozens injured but the state of emergency is not just in the cities of and and and a lot of but they also have the whole state of white now state which is in the south of of the country under emergency rule there are also several other cities that are under curfew where which means that basically once the sun sets people are not allowed to move shops have to be closed the government is quite worried that

people will try to mobilize themselves and that has indeed happened today this is the fourth day of protests not in the capital khartoum as much as places like for today and in place lexan are and places like northern kurdistan where the ruling party's headquarters was put into the ground and basically the governor and the commission were forced to basically as the protection from the police to avoid being heard by the protesters is getting a bit tough with the protests the government's finding a hard time to try to calm them down there they've been talking to the protesters on the radio national television telling them to calm down that they're trying to look for for reforms to do is economic crisis because we're not talking about just bread prices we're also talking about the fact that people have been queuing for days at a.t.m.'s and banks trying to access their own cash and they could they can do it with inflation even if they can do it many of them find that the money is quite worthless not enough for them to buy what they want because of the rising food commodities they also have to line up for fuel at petrol stations so the people are coming out to the streets to protest not just the hikes in bread prices

but also the general economic situation and all of this presumably putting a lot of pressure on the government there have they responded. well they basically called out to the protesters this welcome to the protesters like i said over the radio over national television telling them to calm down but they've also been responding with tear gas and lifeless which is what resulted in the deaths of the temperature's who have been killed and the injures the injuries of the of the dozen protesters now they have also made it very clear that while they understand that the protesters are frustrated that they want a better economic conditions they're not going to tolerate the fact that there are properties public properties that are being burnt that there are people being injured and that basically the protesters are going head to head with the security forces they said that that is something they will not tolerate that they don't want the protesters to basically try to be more violent to try to burn down shops or try to burn tires on the ground or block streets which is what has been happening so the government made it very clear that while they understand why the protesters are

out on the streets they're not going to tolerate and so far they've been responding with tear gases live in munitions and there are concerns that the death toll will increase if that continues here but morgan in khartoum thank you to europe and the journalism scandal that's embarrassed the frame the german magazine dish beagle it's also caught the attention of the white house so our talk us through that story now i mean puts a lot of journalists in a tricky situation to speak to is apologizing to its readers author of relations one of its award winning journalists fabricated more than a dozen articles as one of the biggest scandals inside to hit the german media now the journalist is known as class roche's says been writing for the magazine since twenty eleven he's now resigned voluntarily even handed back for prestigious press awards and he's also been stripped of the other accolades now a colleague who helped expose him off to working with him on a mexico story is now actually speaking out. a slam yes they are she just what

we can learn from this is that journalists are people and that you can be mistaken about people but there are people out there who are charlton's there is a pressure indeed at those people to deliver good news but not of that there is an obligation to make sure that the news is to. the magazine is now running a twenty three page special on how the reporter and she managed to fake his stories fifty years and even hide it from his own colleagues not to steal says it will do everything it can it says to rebuild its readers trust bonds some say the controversy has far wider implications and even the knock on effects on other journalists especially at a time where journalism is under attack now the news magazine has an estimated six and a half million online readers and it sells about a quarter of a million copies just every week so it's quite a concern obviously for many of those readers but the u.s. ambassador to germany richard grenell he wrote a letter to the magazine saying the revelations are and i quote troubling to the u.s. embassy particularly because several of these fake stories focused on u.s.

policies and certain segments of the american people he is now demanding an end independent investigation and they invest the did later. what he saw he said as examples of anti american bias he said that the facts tell a different story below are a few examples and he's got a copy of some of the covers of their of the magazine but although that does feel. rather also rejected them as accusations of bias saying if we criticize the american president it's his notes and he american isn't but criticism of the policy of the man in the white house and the news that has left many people asking questions in fact one journalist writes fact checking clearly means something different because most of what he got away with never would have. been another one has also pays to say no sympathy sympathy for this whatsoever but i also don't understand how these supplications that through the fact checking process and this

poses as we value policy criticism we love a free press that the magazine literally fabricated stories about americans every religion is should be outraged by this so it just gives you a round of of some of the opinions that we've seen but as always we'd like to hear from you let us know what you think and the hash tag that is a.j. news good. all right thanks very much assad and now the family of the guatemalan go who died in border control custody is pleading with the u.s. to let her father stay seven year old was taken to hospital with dehydration and shock a family disputes the official story of how she died they've been muscle reports from san antonio say cortez in guatemala when claudia mckean said goodbye to her daughter jacqueline on december first she never imagined it would be the last time she'd see her alive but what started out as the dream of a better life quickly turned to tragedy and just

a week after her husband and daughter left this remote what a mile and village and headed north the united states cloudy received the news every mother dreads media i quote the moment i found out that my daughter died i felt an immense pain in my heart it was something that i never thought would happen when she heard that her father was going she decided she wanted to go to jacqueline died in a texas hospital two days after being taken into custody by u.s. border patrol domingo kyle says his seven year old granddaughter was happiest when she was at her father's side jacqueline jumped at the chance to join her father on his trip north and her family saw it as a chance to escape the poverty and lack of opportunity that plagues their community and then he at them wasn't getting the girl made the decision to go to the united states and she was excited leaping up and down she was really happy but after they left we don't know what happened it hurts it really hurts. the cornfield where

jacqueline used to play is quiet now and the shack where she lived with her parents and three siblings is locked up the memories of the little girl are too painful yet even as her family mourns others are preparing for their own american dream in communities like because it's rumored that smugglers are convincing people to bring their children on the trip north promising to the have a greater chance of getting political asylum for authorities here it's a worrying trend if her husband is deported cloudy it doesn't know how they will ever pay off their debt to the smugglers who took him in jacqueline to the border wanted me to find we don't have the means to support our children that's why my husband left i'm pleading to officials in the united states to let him stay and work so we can get ahead. for now the cow family awaits for jacqueline's body to be

returned so they can say goodbye for the last time david mercer al-jazeera san antonio as one amala. when the indian administered government in kashmir banned employees from wearing traditional dress to work people protested online but how successful have they been well sorry is back to tell us more about that very successful visit background story to it first of all because the outcry has been over this it's called the fair on and that's a traditional long kashmiri coat which is one here in this picture you can see by women but it's also worn by men as well and it tends to be a favor especially during the very bleak winter months now about ten days ago though the government sent out some memory talking telling rather its workers in the education department it was banning the for on the outrage word spread very quickly of the kashmiris in the country and also those aboard started posting photos of themselves wearing the traditional flag with

a fair on is my identity among others now former chief minister ahmed abdullah he has also described the ban as regressive and shared this photo with his father making it clear they've always won friends and will continue to do so as well and there's plenty of pictures this one is by ashanti as she encourages other users to use the hashtag say no so for a ban i'm proud to be a kashmiri sin gina is also someone who use the hashtag hands off my you can see that she's also posted a picture of her wearing one it's quite a decorative one and she said a time when choosing the most sensible piece of clothing to brave the cold became an act of protest but plenty of others as well many kashmiris are described the ban as a cultural onslaught by the indian government and this one you can see that's the text then again not the person that suites it a picture of themselves in the traditional clothes and feroz khan he added with a revoke from ban don't bend offer on and he's also in

a very wintery kashmir wearing his traditional cloak then he's the head of the national sheehan's union facts of india. now many it's not the first time in fact for the indian government to come down on the run in twenty fourteen the army told journalists not to wear it during a visit to military headquarters in senegal and its safety is the top reason this time is this is reverse the ban after a backlash from kashmiris that you've just seen then situation in indian administered in indian administered kashmir is still very tense in fact earlier on saturday a gun battle between indian troops and rebels left six suspects dead and has even reports of the triggers a new round of anti india protests and this year it's been the deadliest in and decades in the disputed himalayan region with more than five hundred deaths the area has long seen conflict between indian forces and the muslim majority of kashmiris and if this kid see here is anything to go by with his very colorful from

they go then i think it's safe to say that kashmir is traditional dress codes won't be going away anytime soon if you have any stories the locals you think you'd like to share with us you can always find me on twitter i'm at. thanks sir now you can get in touch with us we want to hear from you on these stories you can send us your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle is a.j. english rule so we're on facebook facebook talk com slash zero or send us a message on whatsapp or telegram telegram at plus nine seven four five or one trip or one four nine. i once again this is the news great and if you're watching us on facebook why we have a bonus story for you about how a legislation to combat abuse against native women is currently being blocked in congress by one representatives and then it's time for sports. and santa has the

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good because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. or the back now supporters are going to ask. said south korean president are turning to online video sites to demand her release party and high was jailed in april for twenty four years for corruption and abuse of power conservatives say they've lost their voice in politics after she was removed from office in june

reports. told you dan is team go live every weekday at six pm it may look like a television studio but this is chung's office in seoul the audience exclusively on you tube. and mike is a right leaning channel with close to three hundred twenty thousand subscribers. chong says the political scandal involving former president weakened the conservative voice in south korea's mainstream media. but she still has a lot of support and their protests against her imprisonment continue. new. people with conservative right leaning views who do not agree with president parks and pietschmann had nowhere to turn for news they're trying to fill that void and it might at the height of the turmoil surrounding park she gave child an exclusive interview which proved a turning point for him when park was removed from office he lost his job of thirty

years as a journalist at a national newspaper and was forced to look elsewhere for a platform to express his opinions he found it online. he has since become a star in the political online news arena the latest battleground for south korean politics. after the change in administration conservative political pundits were pushed out of the mainstream media then while searching for a new place became upon this new media space called you tube and made their home at a weekly conservative rally many protesters most of them in their fifty's and sixty's are eager consumers of the news. simon out of ten people over fifty own a small town in south korea and what the country boasted one of the world's fastest mobile internet connectivity there is no shortage of you tube videos to watch especially political views. i'm dumb but. i don't watch anything

else my wife watches other channels just so that she can have conversations with other people but i only get information from you tube i don't watch anything else but depending solely on one outlet for news is raising fears about the spread of misinformation. there aren't any regulations to control what gets posted on you tube so we see a lot of extreme stories being told because people are drawn to radical and provocative content. for conservative voters opposed to the democratic president. they will continue to listen to news that suits their views. al-jazeera saw. all right let's find out what people are talking about in sports thank you very much to has them all couple weeks ago on news good we brought you the story of fall of a hurry an international footballer. he has a political asylum in australia where he now plays for melbourne club sale but he's

currently facing extradition back to her and after being detained in thailand he was arrested though and arriving on holiday there with his wife three weeks ago and was denied bail at a court appearance all he has saved or had came has been gathering support on social media over the past few weeks in the last few hours lots of people have been sharing videos like this one from the melbourne dobby where fans have been displaying the save hakim a banner s. and early on some of his have said of what was in austria also got behind the campaign calling on the help of the sports international community to get back to his adopted home the football community. to ask for. international human rights to be upheld because it's not only the government of australia the government of thailand and indeed bahrain. to advocate for

hurricanes rights but more particularly the football community here within asia and internationally in chiefs training forward and that's. one of our why hurricanes because not just that his lawyer is in peril not just that we're incredibly concerned for him but it's because he's one of us. for someone like him to come to a country like. looking for a better life a bit a future and something that he loves which is play in this wonderful country. and potentially that being taken away i think is really the best thing for us now video of a high school wrestler who was forced by a referee to cut off his dread locks an order to be able to compete has been causing outrage on social media today here's the clip which has been viewed over ten million times on twitter already shows andrew drawn sanaa went to high school

in new jersey having his dreadlocks a fourth of the cut before match the state's natural hair that is non abrasive is allowed if it's content under a hair cover the johnson was only given the option of a haircut or forfeit by a referee either maloney he's now being suspended until the incident is fully investigated don'ts and went on to win but you can see he looks far from. many of your lyceum alone his actions were motivated by racism in twenty sixteen he was suspended following a fight with an official off to using a racial slur well alex medina here says that andrew's coaches should have defended him protected his dignity even if it cost them a loss the american civil liberties union in new jersey penned this street saying this is not about hair this is about race how many different ways will people try to exclude black people from public life without having to declare their bigotry.

and others of course have been critical of how original reports of the story describe andrew as an ultimate team player american journalists assorted out of pride suggested that in reality he appeared humiliated add in that his body language after his victory gave her the impression that he was traumatized while about ninety minutes at a time and to say night it will begin life on the new caretaker boss. they're up against cardiff. is known for his amicable timea but he's insisted that he will be tough and joked that he could even replicate legend day united manager alex ferguson's infamous head right treatment maybe i should get the hairdryer out of my pocket cause i've got it right here and so the you know when my hair needs lifted i use it all myself but i i'm also not afraid of.

if you like laying down the law you know with your kids when they disappoint you you you tell them off you don't give them some chocolate then it's you so you treat players similar to how you treat your kids and that's it for me back to hasn't. thanks very much sad now that's the news grid for you these are all the ways that you can get in touch with us we'll see you right here again same time tomorrow studio fourteen fifteen hundred g.m.t. .

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stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world. al-jazeera. we're going to have are shut down there is nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes the u.s. senate refuses to fund donald trump's border wall leading to the third government shutdown this year.

and on top of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. at least fifteen dead and twenty five injured in a double car bomb attack in the somali capital mogadishu. curfews a state of emergency and more school closures in sudan a protest against rising prices and corruption and a growing. i don't watch anything else my wife watches other channels just a bit shaken up conversations with other people but i only get information from you to. south koreans turn to a news source for news as you tube becomes a voice for thousands. and over the u.s. federal government has partially shut down for the third time this year after the senate failed to approve payment for donald trump's controversial wall along the

mexican border democrats are strongly opposed to the wall and say they will never pay for it based and forced congress to adjourn without a deal on spending the political stalemate now needs a quarter of the government unfunded over the christmas period it means around eight hundred thousand federal employees will have to continue working without pay or be placed on unpaid leave. well shutdown also sparked economic uncertainty street suffered one of the worst weekly falls in a decade with trade tension and interest rate rise is also being blamed the president trumped tend to social media after the shutdown became inevitable tweeting this video statement we're going to have a shutdown there's nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes call it a democrat shutdown call it whatever you want but we need their help to get this approved so democrats we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe let's get out

let's work together let's be bipartisan and let's get it done the shutdown hopefully will not last long don't hundred is falling vents in washington d.c. first on more meetings coming up to try to come up with a solution how likely are they to agree now. that's right lawmakers begin meeting in about an hour from now and they're hoping that they might be able to make some progress but there are really very few signs that you heard the president there talking to democrats but he was really speaking past them to his base of support essentially just telling people he still fighting for the wall the democrats don't want to give him those votes they relish the opportunity to block his signature campaign promise so that is where they are right now the president does not have the votes to pass this through both houses of congress and the democrats don't have the inclination to give him a win here so both sides are likely to meet everybody knows that the government is

largely in operative over the weekend got christmas eve on monday and christmas on tuesday so the impact of this really likely won't be dramatically felt for a few days and that reduces the pressure on each side to come to a conclusion the one pressure they have is that everyone wants to leave washington and the president wants to go tomorrow law go where he would otherwise spend christmas break now it is not looking like they're very close they're going to meet as i say within the hour we'll see as john you mentioned some of the impact so in the in the short term the next couple days maybe not so dramatic but after that if it does carry on what sort of areas will suffer with the government shutdown. well that economic uncertainty you were speaking about is one of the biggest impacts of the direct impact is something like one point two billion dollars a week in delays but it doesn't take very long until you get to that five billion dollars that the president was asking for but of course this really isn't about the

money the democrats will take over the house of representatives on january third they seem perfectly happy to wait it out until they have firm control because at that point donald trump will know there's no way he can get his wall past the house so right now things are not looking very good for him but the impact as you say can be pretty dramatic with the economic uncertainty john hundred thank you very much indeed. turkey has put on hold a planned cross border offensive against kurdish held territory in northeast syria it says it's awaiting the outcome of a january the eighth meeting on the u.s. decision to pull troops from the country french russian iranian israeli and kurdish eyes trained on the region that can send a vacuum created by the u.s. could question instability people on the ground there are other concerns as you

know how to report on the turkish syrian border these syrian refugees have been living in this turkish border town for three years they say they can't return home as long as their towns and villages are controlled by the syrian armed group the white while fighting eisel the wipe backed by the u.s. had taken control of predominantly arab and mixed areas across northern syria there residents say those territorial gains are about creating a kurdish state an accusation tonight. in two thousand and fifteen the white b.g. enter tel aviv under the pretext of fighting isis but they forcibly displaced the autopen looted their homes they started to impose the kurdish language and what they call democracy cloak like preventing us from practicing religion. the y.p. she could lose the autonomous enclave government in north eastern syria

a plan to pull out of american troops will leave it vulnerable the group controls an area rich in oil and agricultural land valuable economic assets for the government and to mask this which is struggling under sanctions president bashar assad has repeatedly said he wants to retake this corner of syria either by negotiation or force the y.p. gee maybe trying to cut a deal the u.s. is no longer planning a rapid pullout turkey has reportedly convince president donald trump to coordinate the withdrawal also that there will be no vacuum u.s. and turkish officials will meet in washington on january eighth it seems ankara wants the enclave to be handed over to representatives of arab majority towns that have been under the control of the white. turkey believes the y.p. she is linked to the outlawed kurdistan workers' party the p.k. k. which has been fighting for self rule in south east turkey. turkey doesn't have

that authority or ambitions in syria and they want to end the subsurface project there and it wants to end the threat along its southern border it will cooperate with the syrian opposition but who will convince the white b.g. to give up its agenda and couplings with. a military option is still on the table president tell you border guard says a new operational strategy to eliminate both the y.p. g. and i still is being worked on turkey and the u.s. may be in agreement on what happens next but there are other players in syria including russia that will also want its interests secured. a check on the turkey syria border. and he's fifteen people are being killed in two car bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu one of the explosions targeted a military checkpoint near the presidential palace a second smaller attack appeared to target civilians on their way to work under president and hopes. the first car bomb exploded at

a military checkpoint soldiers and civilians among the dead. moments later the second explosion also a car bomb bodies were scattered on the street just a few hundred meters from the somali presidential residence in mogadishu the go out one look at me i was at the scene of the attack first i saw a vehicle driving back and forth and we tried to stop people walking here and there and then within the blink of an eye the vehicle exploded causing havoc. police say government officials have been travelling in the area earlier in the day now the road is covered with charred cars and debris we know explosions today up in mogadishu somalia and the post was your suicide bomber. to get to your point about the national guard near mogadishu somalia but eventually. you should lose the station in the area and it is really going to blaze. mogadishu afton

targeted by the al qaeda linked group al-shabaab its members want to dislodge the government and impose islamic law the group maintains a foothold in some regions of somalia that was forced mogadishu in two thousand and eleven. thousands of somalis have died in this divisive long battle many of them civilians see a little piece of the young al-jazeera. sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel the city's about. and the entire white nile state are under emergency rule protesters are angry about high inflation which is running at around seventy percent economy has struggled since sudan lost most of its oil revenue or in south sudan's independence in twenty eleven ever more we'll have the latest from khartoum . it's day four of process here in sudan and today it's in the southern states of

south kordofan where people have burned down the headquarters of the national ruling party the national congress party and they made it very clear again once again that they want the government to do what they want the ruling party to go that they've had enough of the economic crisis this year earlier this year in january the dollar was thirty sudanese pounds to a dollar but today it's about sixty seventy spawn's to a dollar and for many people that makes market prices higher and affordable to them now people have come out and protested and over the past few days we've seen people in the streets being basically free of facing brutal excessive force by the by or from from the security forces people have been shot dead so far doesn't have been injured even dozens more have been arrested and rights groups such as amnesty have called out on to the to the police and to the security forces and told them not to use excessive force against the protesters surprisingly the government. it came out and said that they do not want to use excessive force and that the government the protesters have the right to air out their frustration to air out would they feel like is basically the grievances against a government is against the government but they also said this morning that they

will not tolerate people vandalizing that they're not going to hurt people burning down buildings and burn it burning down properties a state of emergency has been declared in several parts of the country and curfews has been declared in many cities and schools and universities have been shut down indefinitely nearly nationwide making it very hard for people to congregate and what the government is trying to make sure is that people do not gather together to protest but because this is day four it doesn't seem like this problem is going to go away anytime soon unless the government tries to introduce some kind of reforms that would ease the people ease them be assurance of people and make them feel like yes something is being done to so that they can be able to go on with their daily lives and afford basic commodities which at the moment many find an affordable for more still ahead around during cruising around the streets of ramallah where people are growing tired of the ineptitude of their political leaders coupled with the increasing brutality of the israeli occupation plus. the family of a seven year old girl accuse the u.s. border patrol of contributing to her death after she died.