we hope the saudi led coalition will learn a lesson after four years of war we haven't halted all retreated even if forty years pass we will never budge you're abandoning our basic principles of dignity freedom and independence. the monitoring mission comes a day after the un security council unanimously approved a resolution authorizing the deployment of observers to following negotiations in sweden the warring sides also agree to a prisoner swap of some sixteen thousand detainees. the u.n. calls yemen the world's worst humanitarian disaster the war has killed an estimated sixty thousand people as many as eighty five thousand children may have starved to death because. it's hope that by bringing stability to head to. the rest of this ravaged country by eventually follow. al-jazeera the u.s. senate has adjourned until thursday meaning there will be no immediate end to the

partial shutdown of the us government it's the third one this year and means eight hundred thousand workers won't be paid over christmas the stalemates of a demand for more than five billion dollars to fund his mexican border wall john hendren has been following events from washington d.c. . the two sides seem far apart in the government shutdown president trump met with republican leaders in the white house if he is negotiating with democrats he is not doing it at that meeting and the senate came into session and a bit of senate theater the republican leader mitch mcconnell came out in a red christmas sweater saying he hoped that they could wrap up business and everybody could go on to their christmas holiday but that does not seem likely to happen terribly soon and that is because democrats know the president does not have the votes in the u.s. senate in order to pass his five billion dollars in border wall funding that he wants for the southern border you need a supermajority in the senate in order to pass legislation like that and he simply

does not yet have the votes of the two sides remain at an impasse and chuck schumer the democratic leader told the president speaking on the floor of the senate if you want to open the government you must abandon the wall and he went on to say the wall will come not today not next week not next year so what does seem like the two sides are far apart monday and tuesday are holidays the full impact of the government shutdown probably will not be felt until wednesday and of course democrats may simply wait until january third that is when democrats take over control of the u.s. house of representatives and at that time they believe that they can definitively stop funding for the president's wall so the democrats believe time is on their side. break here not just iraq when we come back deadly unrest across the bow of a rocketing inflation the government took place several regions emergency rule. in

how an industrial city in south korea turned into tourism stay with us. hello again welcome back we're here across the levant we are looking at some cooler conditions not much in terms of rain across the region we do have some clouds slipping across parts of central turkey going into the eastern areas but we don't expect to see much in terms of rain out of those clouds over here towards the west a lot of fourteen degrees few here on sunday down towards beirut about eighteen degrees maybe some clouds in your forecast really staying the same as we go towards monday so a fairly stagnant situation across much of the area in terms of weather down towards queen city winds coming out of the northwest cooler day for you with the terms of their of about nineteen degrees well here across the gulf a little bit cooler as well temperatures into the low twenty's for many locations

over here towards riyadh it is going to be the high teens staying like that as we go towards monday really we do have some clouds over here towards medina the highest temperatures though on the map look at this we are going to expecting mecca to reach a high of about thirty three degrees going down possibly to about thirty two degrees by the time we get towards monday and then very quickly as we go down towards the southern part of africa most of the rains going to be well to the north over here towards parts of mozambique as well as madagascar but we are watching a psych loan out here in the indian ocean that's good reason heavy rains to militias not make a land fall but also some big swells there over here towards durban it is going to be a mostly cloudy day with a temperature a few of about twenty five. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe. al-jazeera infiltrates one of the continent's fastest growing far right

organizations and exposes links to members of the european parliament and marine le pen's national rally property generation eight. part two of a special two part investigation on al jazeera. america could remind of our top stories here this hour as some army struck be in the nation coast giving up the sixty thousand people in areas along the sunda straight between two of the country's biggest islands a local disaster management agency says almost six hundred people were injured when waves overturned cars and damaged buildings. the top u.s.

official in the fight against isis has quit of a president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops out of syria but mcgurk departure follows the resignation of u.s. defense secretary james mattis. and the u.s. government remains past a shutdown after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending summits about but adjourned until thursday. now it's been two years since al jazeera journalist mark what he was saying was arrested and jailed in egypt he hasn't been charged with any crime despite international calls for his immediate release as imprisonments been repeatedly extended. reports. for two years saying has been locked inside an egyptian prison his right to trial denied his legal rights reject it the al-jazeera journalist for recurring role in. two thousand and sixteen to visit his family after he landed he was questioned and detained he's been in solitary confinement ever since without being formally charged he suffered

a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse the qatar based journalism broadcasting what it describes as false news and of receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he strongly denies the allegations and so does al jazeera echoing international outrage the un has been calling for his release rights groups have reported an unparalleled crackdown on adoption journalists since the military deposed the first democratically elected president mohamed morsi in two thousand and thirteen the suppression has increased under former general now president of delta tal sisi the committee to protect journalists says at least twenty media workers are being held in egyptian prisons. hussein's detention has breached egypt's own penal code since he's been held without trial for more than eighteen months the maximum period allowed for anyone being investigated for a crime he should have either been released or taken to court neither has happened

two years in his family and others are left waiting for justice katia low personal jaan al-jazeera nicaragua's government does raided and shut down a t.v. news channel it comes a week after a similar operations nongovernmental organizations under newspaper the director of the one hundred percent news channel miguel more appeared in court charged with terrorism and inciting hatred president daniel take has been accused of silencing his critics to control anti-government protests in which more than three going to people have died since april. nine people are feared dead after a fire at a salt mine in russia fifteen hundred kilometers northeast of the capital moscow eight of the miners managed to escape but the blaze prevented rescue workers reaching those trapped inside a criminal investigation is not unknown to the cause of the fire. sudan's government says at least ten people have been killed during four days of protests against the rising cost of food and fuel

a state of emergency has been declared in some cities you know reports this is one of the main markets in the north of the sudanese capital khartoum shoppers here see all the produce for sale have one thing in common. prices are high tomatoes used to cost seven pounds and now it cost forty pounds and. everything is expensive the prices have been going up and there are so many things you can buy and then there is the bread crisis. their bread prices sparked protests around the country when the government announced its plan to raise the price of a loaf from one to the nice pound to three there were demonstrations the government reacted by announcing a state of emergency in some cities curfews in others and it tried to block social media platforms including facebook twitter and what's happened dozens of people have been arrested. the protesters are not just frustrated at the rising cost of bread in the past year inflation has risen to almost seventy percent in january the

dollar was worth thirty. now it's almost worth if this is a nice pounds which means higher market prices and people have to queue at banks to get their cash which with the inflation barely covers their knee. the government has been using live ammunition and tear gas to disperse the crowds this is they're trying to solve the economic crisis but won't tolerate protesters damaging public property but. the government did acknowledge there is a crisis we did not tonight and we are working on resolving these issues when it comes to economic crises these things are not magically resolved overnight it takes time there are more than one party involved more than just one factor or another. president omar al bashir has ruled for almost thirty years he's been reelected several times most recently in twenty fifteen when most opposition parties boycotted the vote now some opposition groups are calling for a change in the way the country's government eat. his lunch we need

a new type of for regime a new system a new leadership the issue here is not who's ruling sudan but how to govern this nation first we need a new recipe for peace we need a national transitional unity government real consultations when it comes to the constitution. to protest on a scale not seen before dear time as president sudanese people seem to have lost patience and want to see an improvement in their living conditions sooner rather than later morgan down to zero. protesters and the police of during more demonstrations in the french capital paris against president and his government fighting broke out in one area and protesters started throwing out one policeman took out a gun to disperse the crowd that had the opposite effect the officers were surrounded and forced to flee and then motorbikes the so-called yell of this protest began. in the five weeks about against new fuel tax rises which was scrapped of the widespread demonstrations of smith was with the protestors in house. this has been

an all day protest march nonstop through the street. from the town of owning right on. the day they've been followed all the way. to follow them all the way as police have tried to block various groups was loping peaceful up in a couple of small come in stations but they all of us protestors have wanted it to be peaceful and they try to make sure that everybody has stayed on the right side of the law there are about a thousand people left this time of the day number similar to last week and many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual from how to make they say they don't go far enough that too little too late and they will keep protesting right into the new year for thousands of people have been demonstrating in hungary over the past week in protest of changes to employment rights and pay the new legislation which the opposition is calling the

slave law allows companies to demand more of a time from their employees from budapest robin far as to walk reports hungry at christmas time with more than two percent average growth low taxation it's an attractive place to come and spend your money. hungry economic model depends a lot on german common effect during twenty seventeen it made up twenty nine percent of industrial output soon a billion dollar b.m.w. plants will provide thousands of jobs in the east but there's a problem a shortage of skilled workers. the government hopes its new labor law will fix that allowing over time of more than four hundred hours a year but that has angered the working hunger areas more than eighty percent according to recent polls opposed to legislation that will make them have to work more opposition groups have united in protest from the left and the right calling it a slave law thuggery government says that's not the case the hungary and regulation

is fully in line with the european regulations and has nothing to do slavery that's political cold which is being used by extreme support of the filipino and political activists on the ground the real problem is that as a matter of fact these political protests are nothing to do with the labor govt all of them are very educated and some believe the law will only worsen the problem on variance have been working much longer hours in recent years than anyone in western europe so if you just check european union statistics eastern europeans work more than western europeans in hungary and work more than people in western europe so there's already a lot of overtime in the system and secondly wages are very low so if you make people work longer hours for the same wages is just an incentive for people to move away the way that one gary in government sees it the garion economy is a victim of its own success with near full employment but it might have more to do

with the fact that hungary has a strict immigration policy and skilled gary ans seeking better opportunities abroad. young hunger ariens like peter are increasingly interested in leaving hungry and starting their careers elsewhere i might add are hungry and students and i just saw exactly the same motivation and that they just wanted something better than hunger we can offer and at the same time they just so that. that trains are not looking promising and hungry hungry is not a load countries including poland slovakia and the czech republic are struggling with their own labor shortages. the showing of low cost labor powering europe from its east is beginning to wear off robyn first the walker al-jazeera budapest. and neighboring serbia thousands of people have demonstrated against the government for a third consecutive weekend. they accuse president alexander

of becoming increasingly authoritarian last week opposition politician book festival of it was attacked with his supporters accusing the government of intimidation large crowds in gaza have attended the funerals of four palestinians killed on friday by the israeli army the men were killed during weekly protest against the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territories among the victims were sixteen year old manager of. an industrial city in south korea is now home to the world's largest outdoor mural the work covers nearly twenty four thousand square metres. reports from incheon city it's become a source of pride for the residents it dominates this part of been shown the skyline and industrial i saw turned into an eye catching thing of beauty standing nearly fifty meters tall a facelift in a city known for its industrial grime. in town

is a city of manufacturing and industry we have many aging buildings like this which poses a problem for us this is what they were grain silos but with unimaginative i it wasn't hard to see them as a row of books on the shelf so that is what they became. sixteen volumes that tell the story of a boy's journey from childhood to adult hood while depicting the complete cycle of the four seasons. is probably best known to people outside south korea as a location for the international airport that serves the capital seoul but officials here seem determined that the city should be recognized for far more than just the place you fly in and out of with hopes that some of the millions of passengers who use the nearby airports can be persuaded to stay

a while in incheon the city has big tourism aspirations. and now other industrial buildings are being looked at as potential canvases for more art. a lot of companies with similar styles of us have said they want to paint them aware that one might please the public don't put those paint brushes away just yet robert bright al-jazeera incheon city south korea christmas has come out in gaza with the lighting of the first communal treat hundreds of palestinian christians attended the ceremony after israeli authorities allowed similar festivities in the west bank and jerusalem is the first time that such a large celebration has been held. a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera a tsunami has struck the in the nation coast coming up at least sixty two people it hit areas along the sumter straight between two of the country's biggest islands

the local disaster management agency says almost six hundred people were injured when waves overturned cars and damaged buildings where john gale found is with the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies he says people had no warning. there was a you know of tectonic activity earthquake activity in the. grotto so we're going to trigger and i want to be on this image of the dancefloor although. it is expressed in the salutes character so this is a parent very very unreal because it gives them more so for weeks here's a region you know under half a meter to a meter so this could have been much worse but top u.s. official in the fight against isis has quit a president donald trump's sudden decision to pull troops out of syria brett mcgurk departure follows the resignation of u.s. defense secretary james mattis the u.s.

government remains partially shut down after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending the standoff is over funding for president from planned mexico border war the senate's not been adjourned until thursday. a u.n. teams landed in yemen to observe the departure of saudi a morality that government forces and who the fighters from have data both sides agreed to a cease fire in the port city during talks in sweden there is the main entry point for most food aid into a country that's and you're almost four years of war sunday marks two years since al jazeera journalist mamata sayings arrest in egypt is imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release he's not faced any formal charges and is in solitary confinement now protesters and police officers are faltering more demonstrations in the french capital against president micro and his government fighting broke out in one area when protesters threw in the cells one police went to got a gun to disperse the crowd but it had the opposite effect officers were surrounded

and they were forced to flee on their motorbikes. well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after people in power station that's watching i thought. on counting the cost two thousand and eighty the year the u.s. and china by trade tariffs poca gregg's it could be used to everyone and opec will review the year that was as new dynamics to shaping the global economy. counting the cost. in july twenty eighth. dramatically overturned the political status quo impact the stone and he became its prime minister which will a former cricketer turned politician be able to keep the electoral promises he made

to make. pledges to revive the economy fight injustice and most challenging you need to defeat corruption and montana has no idea what his against what his actual fighting against and what kind of resistance to come and not just from it's going to come from all quarters if inspects the identical. construct. that resistance develops. pakistani journalist. to weigh up the successes and failures of counts first one hundred days in office.

for over two decades imran khan pakistan's former cricketing hero has cultivated an image as a known crusader fighting against a corrupt dynastic elites who keep the stranglehold on this country's politics. they fly south to suddenly a subset of us are just out. to find out exactly funny under. which if a candidate uses us negative and ron hubbard about being totally anti-corruption having zero tolerance for it and how he sort of actually pointed fingers at poor people's party and and the two largest parties of pakistan as being corrupt and being just sponsible for all that is happening in this country nobody thought it's going to take off the people of pakistan are so tolerant of corruption as being

a part of the political elite that this narrative and never take off but that narrative did take off and this year after a bitterly contested general election khan and his pakistan that he can soft finally achieve the power he so desperately craved imran khan promised that the first months of his government would start an irreversible process of change of ending corruption and building a powerful economy of looking after minority communities and refocusing the country's foreign policy he pledged in other words to create a whole new pakistan. i'm a pakistani television journalist and over the last fifteen years i followed him on hans long journey from the political margins to the top job now i'm curious to see how he'll manage the realities of power when he be able to keep his promises.

watching the freshly elected prime minister amid all the pomp and circumstance and being greeted by the powerful military who have ruled pakistan for nearly forty years it was hard to escape the thought that he'd been handed a poisoned chalice. not one of his be decisive in the last seventy years since pakistan came into existence as. yet imran khan was determined to show that he could hit the ground running he is the first pakistani politician to announce one hundred day agenda for his new government. yet hundred years we will.

discover what the hundred you know when. he was a dog. hundred. party these subsidies. go up is a subset of the structure. obs. because the daughter. so how is that one hundred day plan going. to city its commercial and financial center its largest port and the gateway to the rest of the country it's a good place to assess the government's progress chances of success. supporters

would like to give them more time but the first one hundred days have been marked by rising expectations as thousands expressed their despair and prostrations the injustices they had suffered for so long hoping the new government would offer them some comfort and. they know that in a moment. i'm very. glad i'm not not very. very much and i know too much given to think i'm. from protests about police shootings and college and gun pertains to polls that something be done about four didn't build it it's this demo has it all a pot pourri of complaints and problems and demands they want iran hand to address . today we are here to show solidarity with anonymous patterns and i don't know

died on thirteenth of august in a shoot out. they were not caught and. what do you expect from the people because now they are in power the government forced off on their promise the police has promised to change the rules off automatic weapons on the street so they are there should not just talk about it and they must change it physically we have still not seen that change secondly we hope that more that there is a law that hospitals must provide emergency care so i hope that law will be implemented and implemented in that store sense that he was not. an opposition i mean i don't contemplate the limitation of the right i mean we focus on his policies no one hundred days is nearly over prime minister we expectations are still riding high. yet.

demands for justice and an end to corruption have been a recurring theme in this country for many years but although the new government has moved against its political opponents like previous administrations who have promised much it has still to challenge the powerful vested interests that truly dominate pakistan despite the need for it to do so. you need. jobs in the wake. of this beautiful residential suburb was built recently but behind the facade is a story of intimidation forced evacuations and violence. i mean. nearly two hundred villages were

forced out of their homes big business groups with links with local politicians and police but most of them off those who resisted soon. moved out and his elderly father didn't. i mean i will be honest i mean i come out and told. me this no one will budge on those we're going to me work don't share your. sorry i'm no got the bow or about a battle in the corners. but a bad car a very. valid skill but don't go to school but a bad guy i'm no longer dildo. has a meaning here that. is fighting his case through the courts but the pakistani judicial system is notoriously slow and skewed to favor the rich and powerful.

cases take months even years before a final judgment is made more to the point there's no sign yet that in my hands government is doing very much to tackle land mafias or other powerful individuals who mobile is a professor karachi university a political analyst and an expert in international relations pakistan it is i mean i hate to use this that actually is. the peoples thrive on it and i personally think time has no idea what he's against what he's actually fighting against and what kind of resistance would come and not just from the politicians go away to come from all quarters if he spits the identical of those anti-corruption construct. in fact within a few weeks of han taking office the pakistani media was reporting on the financial wrongdoing of some of his own ministers the birkie works for one of the country's

leading english language newspapers. some of their party members themselves are facing allegations have faced allegations previously as well particularly in the. previous government and. so one would have wanted them to start cleaning house first and then move on to allegations and you know what they do they come on t.v. and they talk about corruption cases and they keep talking about corruption on the opposition so maybe if they sort of went a little more had a little more introspection and started off from their own party that would make a difference also i think they will get caught up in this rhetoric eventually in any case because it's not a simple option isn't as simple to get rid off. so how exactly will the government keep its own house in order. it's

a question i took to moran is smile one of the co-founders of the p.t.i. party and now the governor of the sin the province we believe in starting accountability from ourselves the prime minister present himself first to the authorities saying we can start from me and then go down to others i'm not saying that all everyone in. this government is an angel there must be people who don't believe in marriage and or program but you know everybody is going to learn the lesson we're not going to spare anyone we're from growing we're from opposition we from any walk of life we'll treat everyone the same. do her justice just rhetoric well it remains to be seen but so far find words have yet to translate into action . eliminating corruption wasn't the only major change that iran hunt promised during the election he also pledged to turn around pakistan's ailing economy.