yes you talk about funding and we know the government i rejected all international help of financial help logistical help from the un and other countries do you think this is part of the problem i think this is not good management decision it has been a political decision so i think it's true it's part of the situation and it could be one of the reason why we're not ready today because they are saying look just because the in the poor part of the game. it's good again you mention about logistics and the president of spain has been talking about the logistical problems that they're facing and we know that this is a country with very bad infrastructure just think of. what you could take to get this forty materials to where they're supposed to be if nobody can answer this question because there is no transparency at all which the situation we are in today what the challenge and our far we are from the reality so that's exactly why everyone is that a doubt about are we going to reach sunday next week with

a good result or not and even if we get to sunday and ben lexcen it held a house how sure are you that this election is going to be free fair and credible or do you think nobody is sure of the quality of these elections but it's danced and everyone is getting angry and the politicians are upset and frustrations very so there is a. risk of concern contestation of the of the results you are a strategist an economist strategist just tell us if you are in the place of the president of the electoral commission what would you have done differently what strategy would you take i would have absolutely committed to core business of the senate which is organizing the election and everything clytie to. operations i would have subcontract them and rational and what options right now do you think that commission has going for it i don't think they have any option than trying to

do what they're trying to do now is to try to push as much as they can and to come out with a result yes or not we doing it in the right way on sunday and i'm afraid there might be another delay and do you think you know what you know what they're talking about a crisis that the lady think this is all deliberate or there are generally problems there are generally in technical and logistical problems lack of transparency has killed all the confidence between the players and today the only person who can answer this question is mr nungesser thank you very much that was. an economic a strategist and he really does share the views of many other people that we've been talking to here in the capital city. catherine so i. thank you. we've got a lot more to come in this al-jazeera news hour including a look at efforts to free announces there are journalists held for two years without charge in egypt. no solution yet to the standoff that shut down parts of

the u.s. government. and real madrid to win a record fourth club world cup we'll have the best of the action coming up later this fall it. has been two years since al jazeera journalist marco to say it was arrested in egypt he hasn't been charged with any crime but his imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release alex go topless reports. for two years mcu same has been locked inside an egyptian prison his right to trial denied his legal rights rejected the al jazeera journalist flew to cairo in two thousand and sixteen to visit his family after he landed he was questioned to detained without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse

the cutter based journalist of broadcasting what it describes as false news and receiving foreign funds to defame state institutions he strongly denies the allegations and so does al-jazeera echoing international outrage the u.n. has been calling for his release rights groups have reported a number of down on egyptian journalists since the military to pose the first democratically elected president mohammed morsi in two thousand and thirteen the suppression has increased under former general now president of the federal sisi the committee to protect journalists say at least twenty media workers are being held in egyptian prisons. hussein's detention has breached egypt's own penal code and since he's being held without trial for more than eighteen months the maximum period allowed for anyone being investigated for a crime he should have been released or taken to court neither has happened and two years in his family and others are waiting for justice. alex the topless al-jazeera

we hear on set with me is most of his acting director general of the al jazeera media network and it's two years now that saint is not being with his family has not been given any of his rights has it what is al-jazeera media network doing to try to secure his release now it is in a million network is doing everything that it could because what her saying is imprisoned and justly and for no reason except that he's a journalist so when you have an oppressive regime that doesn't like media freedom that doesn't like journalists and specially they don't tackle does either because it has all this got oppressed and then it's not an easy thing to deal with because the law is not respected and does not enforce that act actually is violated in every step from the beginning it has been a violation of the egyptian law itself of human rights law of international law

everything mohamad hersey home by anything we have been trying to do everything we can as they said we have a lawyer that has been defending him trying to do something but they don't listen to him that much because they he's in jail and he is repeatedly this is the it was the seventh time i believe last time of renewing his forty five days of jail with no specific does and with no. presenting him to court and we also have a good a good relation with the international relations with the media freedom fighters who have been in support of moderate hussein and had been asking for his release and colluding some of the united nations. human rights agencies yeah indeed what do we know about his condition and we understand that he's being held in solitary confinement for instance what about his or his overall condition physical or mental

. what i meant one here they took him the first time the first a big abuse of his rights was to put him on the egyptian t.v. to acknowledge things that didn't happen but force him to do so to distort his image and his reputation in egypt by accusing him of being. supporting terrorism but traitor for the country is said to run and he's a very nationalistic a very upstanding man is a professional he's a journalist he is not a criminal then one day put him in jail they put him in confinement solitary confinement for months and then of course they prevented his family from seeing him or him from seeing the family at the beginning it was difficult even for the lawyers to meet him and his situation was a very busy mall then later on yeah i mean they they stopped the solitary confinement but when he broke his arm they deprived him from having

a real treatment putting him in a good hospital so he's actually broken arm and got very bad and he is still you know deprived of his freedom and doesn't know what's going to happen to him that's all because he's a journalist and he's a good journalist and so it sounds very much as a egypt is a place that they know journalists should should go to and no al jazeera journalists in particular should visit well. mahmoud hussein. went to egypt to visit his family north not on assignment and absolutely not i mean he actually says he left egypt the first time after the coup he never worked on egypt he was working in the newsroom on all the things he was not doing dealing with egypt even talking about him as being a part of certain protections it's completely false he was never with it that's one thing second for journalists i mean that mahmoud hussein is and is not the only one

who is in jail i mean there are so many data journalists in egypt there are so many abuses many people many journalists were killed as you know in me since two thousand and thirteen i mean many of them. and directly is not free in egypt now there is no tolerance to any kind of position. and that is what has been going on for a long time in addition to that quite often there is no tolerance to neutrality you have to support the government otherwise you are considered the new enemy it's the slogan of george bush the old george bush you know when he said it's you or you are with us or you are against us and which is not the case i would hussein as they said was not working on egyptian issues at all he was working just doing his job here. if you are from a to z. or yes you should not be going to egypt till things are better and they hope that happens soon however i would like to take it as what unity to call on the egyptian

authorities to release mahmoud hussain with no conditions today he completed two years in prison and rosalee without doing in the crime rate is not a crime. thank you very much carol for. now the u.s. government remains closed down after politicians failed to break an impasse on budget spending the standoff is eva funding for president trump's planned mexican foldable and the senate's now the next and until thursday let's go live now to john hendren our correspondent who's that in washington so this is only really is that because of a five billion dollars tag that the president wants to add on to the budget which the democrats are saying no way to. it is indeed president made a promise during his campaign repeatedly that he would build a border wall along the southern border of the united states he also made a promise that mexico would pay for it now he has abandoned that portion of the

pledge and he's asking the u.s. congress to pay for it and democrats in congress are saying no that was not part of the deal so now it's looking more and more like this is a standoff that will last several days and won't be resolved shortly congress met on saturday and then adjourned through thursday so the senate leader mitch mcconnell said he is going to allow the democrats to negotiate with the white house and he and the house leader paul ryan are standing by more or less like mannequins because it is president trump who is ultimately driving this is the senate had passed a measure that included some money for border security although not five minute billion dollars for the border wall president trump fielded a flurry of criticism from conservative activists and he backed off and then insisted that the wall must be included despite the fact that he didn't have the votes in the united states senate so right now there's

a standoff the democrats know they're going to take over the house of representatives on january third. so they are inclined to wait as a matter of fact that's what the incoming democratic house speaker said she said we have certainty we will end this the first week in january and the democratic leader in the senate chuck schumer said both sides are very far apart right right meanwhile while there is this back and forth between the president and congress it's around eight hundred thousand people i believe who are likely to be directly affected by this what exactly does a government shutdown mean for them. well across the nation you have people working in national parks working at passport offices working in the social security administration. that means three hundred and eighty thousand of those people will be on furlough another four hundred thousand people who have jobs that are deemed essential such as border control they will be forced to work without pay and the

congress generally passes an act to pay them retroactively but meanwhile they are not collecting paychecks so those people are killing lee aware of what's going on here and they are upset they'll put pressure on congress meanwhile americans are going to national parks that are not staffed or closed if you've got a passport it could become a problem if you want that to be renewed so after a while if the wheels of government do start to ground to a halt this involves nine out of fifteen cabinet level agencies here in the u.s. government democrats think that they can wait this out for a couple of weeks and then take over it is a time when the government isn't particularly active monday and tuesday or the christmas eve and christmas holidays so really when congress comes back into effect on thursday it's bad is when business would have an opportunity to start again but it does look like the two sides are so far apart that it could be a while before the machinery of government gets back into operation and i john

thanks for that john hendren live in washington ron it is time for the weather now his staff and martin it's all looking very soggy every year at let's take a look at the satellite picture you can see this whole blanket of cloud had that's part of them from the atlantic but it's way across the british isles bad down through many parts of europe as well and you can see that we're seeing a fair amount of rain on that as that works its way towards the east what is doing is hitting the very cold air that's in place here and so we're going to see more events ten wintery so knots of rain and then that gradually worse its way eastwards and we see that increasingly tend to snow as it sinks this way southwards behind it . it'll turn even cooler say for some more so our maximum on monday would just be two degrees and for moscow minus six that's our maximum so we're staying well well oh freezing throughout the day and it looks like we'll stay well below freezing for a good few days as well now this system is still going to be giving us some heavy rain as it works its way into the southeastern parts of europe and actually for

some of us here it's pretty nasty as we head through into cheese they said that where weather works its way across parts of greece and into turkey there as we head into chews day heavy heavy rain here we're looking at strong winds as well and over the mountains we're likely to see a fair amount of snow too so really quite miserable here on tuesday behind it it will become a brighter but it's not going to be warm bucharest as a maximum just three degrees further west it is malta here but still and six there in paris martine surf thank you very much now the latest yellow vests antigovernment protests have been generally peaceful in frances's of course with around forty thousand people turning out across the country but that's well down on the hundreds of thousands of people who took part when the demonstrations pete over the past six weeks but as bernard smith reports from paris there have been pockets of violence. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the shores elisei on saturday night a small number sparked

a violent confrontation with police. as the policemen scramble to save their bikes pulled a gun. incident lasted about three minutes but is an indication of how quickly a quiet protest can turn ugly. the yellow vest protesters described as act six began peacefully on saturday and became a nonstop march through the streets of paris the aim is always to reach the elisei palace on the front door of president emanuel macro but with police blocking roads leading to his official residence the yellow vests just kept going. king and walking. dead if you don't is clear as a response including judicial would be the most severe possible notice calm and harmony that must prevail. many people here that we've spoken to not at all interested in the concessions present manual drawn up to make they say they don't go far enough but too little too late and they will keep protesting rising to the

new. for six weeks yellow vest protesters have been demanding relief from high taxes and more help for france's poorest the numbers of fallen from around three hundred thousand nationwide in the first week to about forty thousand this weekend . but it's with al-jazeera paris. still to come here on the al-jazeera news hour why turkish troops are on the move as u.s. forces withdraw from syria. mexico's new president faces challenges putting policy into practice. and a record run the seas event has tightened their grip on the lead in this in the piece or will have the details and. development. progress for. the end of a way of life for others. a clash between corporate

interests and the people who must prepare for a long fight to protect their heritage. the march to progress in the philippines part of the e.u. find an asia series on al-jazeera. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story as well we cover this region better than anyone else working for it as you know it's very challenging but in the particular 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 mandate is to deliver in-depth journalism we don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe.

time for us to take a look at the top stories here in the hour jazeera news are a tsunami has hit indonesia at least twenty two hundred twenty two people have died more than seven hundred others are injured waves of up to a nice or high struck areas along the street between two of the country's biggest islands. four million ballot papers for the democratic republic of congo's long awaited presidential election of arrived in the capital they are replacing values lost in the fire last week that plays in kinshasa also left eight thousand voting machines badly damaged. al-jazeera staff has stalled in solidarity with journalists must be to say he was arrested in egypt exactly two years ago he hasn't

been charged with any crime but his imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release. of the turkish army is sending soldiers to the syrian border the move comes just days after u.s. president donald trump announced he was with during american troops the turkish president. has threatened to strike wide. in northern syria that's the kurdish group that has gained significant control in the area after being backed by the u.s. in the fight against ties. but after a deal between ankara and washington that was in june turkish and u.s. troops have been holding joint patrols in man beach which is west of the euphrates river turkey wants that city cleared of y p g fighters then a hoarder has more now from the turkish town of car commis is on the border with syria. the turkish military reinforcing its positions along the border and deep

inside syria sending reinforcements thirty kilometers south from where we are to the northern front lines of the city of member the turkish army released not releasing any statement explaining the movement of troops but the timing as reports emerge that the syrian army is planning to move into remember and also reports of a possible deal between the syrian army and the syrian kurdish armed group the y p g to hand over members to the syrian government so turkey really sending a message it is ready to use force if necessary if the city is not handed over to its rightful owners turkey has long said and long believed along with the syrian opposition that the syrian armed group the y.p. the kurdish group they have been taking over predominantly arab lands while fighting i still to create their own state so turkey believes members should be

handed over to to to arabs really and this members finding it selves finding itself at the crosshairs at a time when the united states says it's putting to pull out its troops from the northeast of the country effectively leaving a vacuum so this whole area is up for grabs so the turkish military posturing at the end of the day yes the syrian government has the right to regain control of its territory but turkey also argues that what guarantees will it have if the syrian government takes over these areas who will neutralize what they see as a threat emerging from emanating from the white peachey a group it considers a terrorist organization a u.n. teens arrived in yemen's rebel held capital sana they've traveled there from the southern port city of age and where they met government representatives from sanaa is expected they'll go to head data to monitor the withdrawal of the warring sides forces they promised. to leave the port city during talks. need barker

reports. arriving in aden the head of a united nations monitoring mission patrick is a retired dutch general with experience of some of the world's worst conflicts the t r c sri lanka and cambodia other members of the un team touched down in yemen's capital sanaa the group will be heading to the strategic port city of the day where they're tasked with monitoring a fragile cease fire and overseeing the vital reopening of the port a gateway for food and aid supplies into a country where millions of people are in desperate need of both. the general for sure has an expertise in this domain and we know that he will meet with the other side very soon after that god willing the mission of the observers and head data will start. in her day her life is returning to the city streets the ceasefire between saudi u.a.e. backed government forces and hutu rebels is seen as the first significant

breakthrough in peace efforts since the war started in twenty fourteen and. we look forward to the ceasefire we hope it's going to be observed not only here but nationwide. and. 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 or abandon 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 data 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. it's hoped the by bringing stability to her date or. the rest of this ravaged country by eventually follow leave barca out zero. now let's go back to our top story of course that is the tsunami having hit indonesia and now as we've already mentioned it lies on the ring of fire that's a belt of fierce seismic activity in the pacific meaning that quakes in volcanoes are very very frequent indeed tsunamis on the other hand are relatively rare and hard to detect this one was triggered by a volcanic eruption that set off an underwater landslide which in turn caused the waves the proximity of the volcano to the coast gave the authorities little time to send out warnings all right we can speak now to our correspondent andrew thomas he's just arrived there. he's in

chile chillan gone city on the island of java is on his way to exactly the point where the tsunami actually hit and you tell us what you know you've only just arrived in country i know but tell us what you've managed to find out. you know. we're just about five kilometers away from the coast and we're talking to you from here because we don't want to be on that coast because there is a very real fear there could be a further landslide caused by that still erupting volcano and cause a second title wife and of course we don't want to be talking to you if that were to hit so that's why we've come up the hill about five kilometers back from the coast and i haven't been to the coast yet we're as you say on our way we will head there later but as we've seen in the social media videos and in the latest update we've had from indonesia's disaster mitigation agency the death toll now is two hundred twenty two people many of them in a district very close to where i am now called panda glahn on the island of java

now where this and that krakatau volcanic island is right in the middle of the some of the strike is between in the nation's biggest and most populated island is job of the most populated island and some archer and it calls this wave this erupting volcano under the forced law the down that forced water into both jaba and into somalia jobbers more populated island and this weekend a holiday weekend because of christmas there were lots and lots of people along that coast of java and some of the social media video that we've seen of a band playing for example in a wave sweeping through all those people watching that band with that band was playing nine thirty on a saturday night because there were so many people around because they're there for the public holiday so it really was terrible timing fewer people live on the southern part of the march us of the death toll there is less so far and is

expected to stay low as well but unfortunately that two hundred twenty two death toll as it stands at the moment is only likely to go up the rest still lots of people missing and of course the authorities in java sadly rather familiar with these kinds of natural disasters that happen quite regularly you were there not long ago. yourself and. so how do they seem to be caving and they are they managing well. the good news if there is good news in the situation is how close this tsunami has hit to jakarta indonesia its capital where all the emergency services the basic weather is very regular personnel who can sweep in and try and clear up and unlike the way the where i was a few months ago in parlor where that quake and tsunami hit that was a relatively remote spot for indonesia a long way from the capital and a lot of the problems there was due to the fact that it will fall on time for emergency people and emergency supplies to reach them very very different here we

came to where i am now from the center of jakarta so i came from the airport took about an hour and a half long a very easy freeway and we saw lots of i'm going to is going in the other direction presumably taking victims of the tsunami to the capital to hospitals that there are also lots of other emergency vehicles going the same way as we were and there is no traffic it's all again completely different to the situation in palos what we're told is the main roads right through the disaster zone where the tsunamis hit is right on the coast so it's got swept up by the tsunami an awful lot of debris clotted that road with told already in the course of sunday that road has been largely cleared and vehicles can now pawson still lots of debris around and it's not a clear road by any stretch of sand on it that's muck on it but vehicles can get down completely different situations appollo it took five or six days for an equivalent road to get clear so it shows what the proximity to the council has meant for this

disaster is not to say in any way that this is good news but it's good news that it's happened as close to the capital as it has and you thomas live in chile gone thank you. that a former british politician paddy ashdown who was a leading figure in the bosnian peace process has died from cancer at the age of seventy seven the former soldier also went to uncover atrocities committed during the war in the former yugoslavia garcia lopez had again reports. he was a towering force and british politics credited with making the liberal democrats britain's third biggest party java's the ashdown a conviction politician he devoted himself tirelessly to centrist politics for more than a decade and was admired across the political spectrum for his powerful oratory is it not now perfectly clear that what the government has to offer the country is not a continuation of the cure it's more of a poison born in india and raised in northern ireland he later served in the royal

marines a special services his influence went beyond britain becoming the un's high representative for bosnia and herzegovina in two thousand and two where he investigated war crimes including the massacre of more than eight thousand men and boys in the town a separate needs are during the conflict in yugoslavia he was a forceful advocate for international intervention he would later give evidence at the trial of the former serbian leader slobodan milosevic he retired from politics in two thousand and one but remained a prominent voice campaigning vigorously against bracks it it's not my job to be popular he once said i'm goal driven my job is to get results. llopis of the yuan al-jazeera. all right let's speak to. who is an assistant professor of politics and international sorry ever school of science and technology

he's joining us now from sarajevo now the ashdown was widely known for his venom and vigor for the energy that he brought to everything that he did and how did that translate into his mission when he was high representative to bosnia herzegovina just after the end of the war or he will certainly be remembered as a prominent figure probably the most famous among the high representatives one who was really using his authority and his so-called born powers to impose decisions and remove leaders which are opposed to the implementation of the dayton peace agreement and in. this context i would say that he will always be remembered as a friend of bosnia but i would rather say that he was a friend of the truth i would emphasize that his energy was even

more visible during the war when he was defending the case of boston territorial integrity and sovereignty when bosnia was attacked by serbia and croatia and he was probably the only voice in british politics who was trying to prove that there was a military aggression going on whereas most of the british diplomats perhaps even the entire ministry of foreign affairs foreign office in britain tried to. actually denied that there was an aggression that there was a civil war in bosnia many of the british officers on the grounds were trying to prove that were practically bumping them selves that they were not being killed by serbian. gratian aggressors and he was the one who tried to do the opposite perhaps the only voice.