this 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 boss the enter retore gritty 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 dems selves that they were not being killed by serbian. ration aggressors and he was the one who tried to do the opposite perhaps the only voice again sure is interesting so he's credited with full swing through

major political economic and as you mentioned security reforms how much opposition did he face how much of a hurdle did he have to overcome. well he did have some opposition but i have to emphasize that those further different times compared to the present moment those are the times when the international community was quite supportive of the sovereignty and integrity of bosnia and strengthening of the boss the in statehood we can see the difference when we compare the current high representative volunteered in school and for example what did in his moment obviously the international community at the time stuck to their own principles they were supportive of the international peace agreement and the constitution as a part of it so paddy ashdown did face some opposition

a minor opposition from local leaders here but he did have a strong support on the part of the international community and that has changed very much i'm afraid now we have quite the opposite situation in which there is no action on the part of the hire of the president that is because there is no support for that now there are again discussions about partition of bosnia and that quite the opposite from what is the envoys doing in his moment as a last. ditch thank you very much indeed for him during heavy ashdown now immense because new president was running for office his promise was to cut government salaries including his own and that was a surprise and surprisingly rather popular now he's in office there he's finding it rather difficult to deliver the john home and reports from mexico city. it all started with this for mexico's new president without it we can't have

a rich government and poor people that's why the government stopped salaries are going down he's practicing what he preaches slashing his own salary by more than half and forcing others in the public sector to cut those two by next year's budget lopez obrador is more in a party has majority in congress and is backing his plans deputies and senators have reduced some of their own lucrative perks you're going to get and this is already i think it's necessary that we have an equilibrium between what a public servant and working person earns many have said that it's about training and we don't argue with that but a construction worker or night guard works longer and harder. it is no cuts the president's promising raises for the lowest paid public sector workers those who earn less than a thousand dollars a month but not everyone's on board with the changes will them five thousand civil servants have launched legal appeals the supreme court's also waited in temporarily

suspending cuts for the judiciary and some other institutions but critics say the judges themselves are part of mexico's gaping wage inequality the end around seventeen times that of the average worker this measure from the president schools a lot of debate from here in congress down to the streets for a lot of people a really happy at the what they see as an entitle political class and public sector a finally going to get their salaries slashed other people say this could open the door to corruption and a brain drain to the private sector and to corruption experts say cutting the most exorbitant salaries is needed but applying the measure across the board could backfire. the consequences of cutting everyone salary is that even though it's a noble aim to slash the pay of high level bureaucrats the medium and low level ones who are specialists and technicians aren't going to have enough incentives to stay. in public office and make the changes we need there are also worries that instead of taking the hit themselves those at the top could fire employees or trim

their benefits to fit the shrinking budget it's now up to the new administration to check that good intentions to turn into power change john homan mexico city now it's time for the sports news now with peter thank you very much well madrid have set a record at the fever club world cup in the united arab emirates the spanish giants beat four one in the final it's their third straight trophy and fourth overall that's more than any other club so hill malik reports. the club world cup could prove to be the turning point in real madrid season. struggling down and for the leader they have a look themselves at all this campaign and their opponents and to find a lane nearly made them pay for some sloppy play early on was winning would make v.m. rocky's the tournament's first ever asian win is was but minutes after blown a chance to take

a step closer to history rails midfield magician luca moderates made them pay was the croatian opening the scoring and reminding everyone just why he won the ballon d'or this year. however going down didn't seem to faze alain they put the ball in rails net just a minute later was only for the offside flag to cut short their celebrations the european champions were ruthless after that marcos llorente putting them to nil up on the was and then there was a special moment for the real captain sergio ramos getting a go tomorrow what would be a twentieth title with the club was a line did manage a consolation goal in the last five minutes was but any momentary joy was short lived the emira artie's gifting royal an own goal to cap off a four one win and seal a third straight club world cup title for the spaniards c.m.'s in their movements

and i am very happy to a finish the year with another trophy this is our objective and we've got it and i'm very happy for this new title was twentieth title three consecutive times impressive and now we can enjoy what they're going to present this year ali this is great to get this marvelous success and this is what we wanted to achieve but to win three you a fair champions league consecutively and then three club world cups is a very difficult thing to repeat these players in the club have made history before as well but this time it's very hard to match these accomplishments for me personally i'm very content because this trophy means a lot to me the rally now have a first trophy under santiago solari the fans the hope it can be the spark to resurrect their falteringly campaign surveiled mallett al-jazeera. only going to solve is off to a winning start as manchester united's caretaker manager united beat carter five one away in the premier league salsa was named interim boss until the end of the

season following the sacking of josie marino on tuesday the win sees united reclaim sixth place say i said the same to these lads as you do. just work harder than them enjoy yourselves pass it forward run forward if you lose the ball i don't mind as long as you work to win it back and they did. when you got players like this with the quality of they're always going to create chances and the finishes today were quality as well elsewhere champions manchester city were stand by crystal palace it means they remain four points behind leaders lovable fourth place chancy were also upset they lost one mil to leicester arsenal go level on points with them the gunners beat burnley three one italian league leaders events have reestablished the eight point lead at the top of city are and they've set a record in the process with sixteen wins from seventeen in the league to be the rome

one no on saturday that smadi amends schooling the vital goal to secure the victory the credit has now school in these last three home games for uva the result also puts more pressure on rome as they slip down to ten. earlier second place not only did they part to keep the pressure on you they are all of the old out the only goal is they beat spouse it's a fourth win in a row for napoli next up for them is a tough test against third place into malana on wednesday in spain barcelona made sure they'll finish twenty eighteen at the top of the standings they beat cells of ego to know you know messi played a major role setting up a belly for the first and scoring the second goal in three league games boss to lead the standings by three points from atletico madrid who beat espanyol one mil. because they have been helping each other who are in there i would like to say something clever to finish on a high note but look for us coaches everything is good as long as we win and the

environment is calm as well but if we keep on winning i am happy we will have a tight schedule and we have many targets this year i would like the fans to keep supporting us and be happy as we continue to win the defending n.b.a. champions golden state warriors returned to winning ways on saturday with a victory over the dallas mavericks the mavericks made a strong start in california thanks to their teenage rookie sensation luke a don chichi school fourteen of his nineteen points in the first quarter but after missing this lay up he went flying into a young fan and is now an injury concern for the mavericks meeting with the portland trail blazers later steph curry contributed twenty two points for the worry is journalist jed go a career high twenty three and kevin durant's led the way with twenty nine of the warriors closed out a one hundred twenty one hundred sixteen when the mavericks have now lost five straight games. the western conference leading denver nuggets slip today worst defeat of the season for the l.a.

clippers nicolay york which led the nuggets with nineteen points in twenty minutes before being ejected midway through the course of the screaming at an official following a foul call travels went on to win one hundred thirty two one hundred and eleven. the top team in the east also lost on saturday the toronto raptors suffering a big loss to the philadelphia seventy six ers the milwaukee bucks fell to the miami heat who've now won the last four games. british heavyweight boxer did and why it has kept its hopes alive of taking on world champion anthony joshua that of the white knocked out competitive store on saturday the contest at london's o two arena was a rematch of white interest or is meeting in twenty six team white one better on a split decision but this time the thirty four year old delivered a knockout blow in the eleventh round joshua was ringside as a commentator and afterwards stepped up to the ring to tell white that he is third on his wish list of next opponents of the dion's a wild and tyson fury. just talking rubbish and just talking rubbish that run away

from you no woman is runaways free for months a mockery waiting for him waiting to hear what he's doing time for you no mockery need to progress you know this fight is not sit on wait two years wait to hear wait for the cause. you know time sticking and i'm about to hit my prime now you know. so i need to act i mean i need to just keep a marker and keep going in the n.h.l. patrice bergeron school twice to lead the boston bruins to a win over the nashville predators it was a spectacular return for bergeron who came back to have ice after missing sixteen games two goals six the thirty three year old to three hundred forty s. korea five two to boston the final school it's the bruins sixth win in eight games and over in san jose california. school two goals to lead the visiting l.a. kings to win over the shocks of all truth who is back in the n.h.l.

up to five years of playing in his native russia school the second in overtime lifting the kings to the three two. and that's all the sport another update coming up again later marty we look forward to it peter thank you very much indeed and that's all for this al-jazeera news hour but don't go away i'm back in just a minute with much more of the day's news including the very latest from indonesia . ok ok how. long we are everyone all together right that's all right. going places together. called the muslim which is saying has now been

held in pretrial detention for two years what is his crime. why hasn't he been tried yet why hasn't justice been applied in this case is he detained because he said charnel us as journalism become a crime have moles become a tool to silence weiss's of truth we will continue i news coverage with professionalism and impartiality our work will remain credible and accurate but journalism is not a crime incarcerating journalists is not acceptable we demand the immediate release of our colleague mahmoud to say and all journalists attained in a gyptian jails free mahmoud's and all his colleagues we stand for press freedom. thanks love to make loans to sufferings because behind the suffering

a millions of taxpayers because most taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day a nineteen it is an urgent national mississippi and we put it we officially request the accusation of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. destruction without warning a volcano triggers a tsunami in indonesia demolishing everything in its path. hello again on martinelli show about zero life from down also coming out. a fifth

day of protests across a day and again soaring costs and the political leadership. the moment to police the. yellow vests demonstrations in current state and nasty. and we look at the campaign to free our jazeera journalists must lose hussein now two years behind bars in egypt without straka. now a country that sits on what's known as the ring of fire is dealing yet again with catastrophe a tsunami has hit indonesia killing at least two hundred twenty two people and more than eight hundred others are injured and scientists say it was triggered by undersea landslides from the eruption of the volcano and that krakatoa the tsunami swept along the strait and crashed twenty meters in that and taking with it

hundreds of homes and had tells of java and so much islands. well our correspondent andrew thomas has just arrived very close to the west of the destruction he's on the island of java we'll be speaking to him shortly first this report from doth. a concert by the indonesian pop band seventeen and western java came to an abrupt end when waves from a tsunami swept away the stage musicians and fans. the water flowed up to twenty meters inland killing dozens and injuring hundreds. more interested in what's going to give them morning so the result forty three weeks ago came here ranging from you know under our meter to a meter so this could have been much worse. indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency believes the waves could have been caused by undersea landslides from the eruption of kaka toa that's

a volcanic island formed over years from the nearby carcass how a volcano search and rescue operation is now underway for survivors rescuers very close to the family kids i think it's we were able to retrieve. because this is a traumatic event especially given all of the things the indonesians suffered in the last you know four months in september more than two thousand five hundred people were killed by a quake and tsunami that hit the city of palo on the island of soloway sea which is just east of borneo. indonesia is still in the ring of fire it's it's it's there's always volcanic eruptions happening there always sometimes there are tsunamis. and it's really no more active than normal actually it's just every now and then there's a confluence of events which unfortunately results in people being kind of literally swept up in these disasters the number of casualties from this disaster

over a holiday weekend is expected to increase as rescuers reach affected areas dorsetshire pari al jazeera all right let's go live now to correspondent andrew thomas who's just arrived in java and andrew give us an idea a sense of where you are in relation to those dreadful scenes of devastation. malte not in the city of chile going which is just inland from the coastline that's been hit by this tsunami deliberately here because in the dark with the potential of another tsunami if there's another bit of all kind of corruption that causes further landslides underwater we don't want to be on that coast there is a real fear that another tsunami might hit me authorities are telling people to stay away from the city which is why i'm talking to you from here and not from there the good news if you can call it's good news in a situation like this is how close to jakarta indonesia is capital this tsunami has hit its we got here and we're about five kilometers away from the coast now in

about an hour and forty five minutes from jakarta is therefore along a very easy flowing highway a complete contrast to the situation that i saw in paul the insular way z. earlier this year where the earthquake and tsunami hit there that's a relatively isolated parts of indonesia specially from the capital jakarta and therefore it took a lot of time for people in supplies to get to that disaster zone very different here we're told that the main road through this planned big land region of java that's been hit by this is an army that hits on saturday nights we're told that that road has already been cleared over the course of saturday was full of their brief full of sand it still got lots of muck on it because can go down that they couldn't situation and so the way she took five or six days to get like that so that's the good news how close this is occurred to jakarta as capital but as you saw in the pictures from that report there it came without any warning whatsoever the crowd watching that band were taken by complete surprise and that was

a similar situation for all the other people who were hit and the timing really couldn't be more us right in the middle of a holiday weekend holiday have a christmas lots and lots of tourists in the nation tourists predominantly enjoying a night out nine thirty on the beach now what we believe is that a small boat kind of corruption happened about half an hour before the tsunami hit this volcano has been erupting. in a mostly no way that doesn't sound like a contradiction in terms since june that been small regular eruptions ever since june the one that occurred a half an hour before the tsunami hit it wasn't a particularly big one but it's thought it did something to dislodge things on the water because of displacement huge amounts of water and that's what's caused the tsunami i should add as well last night was a full moon that meant the toilets were at their highest and that could really have additives to the disaster and the amount of water that swept in lands andrew thomas live in chile gone in java thank you it's now there are more demonstrations in

today and following four days of protests that have times turned violent at least ten people have been killed and it began over the rising cost of food bread in particular and fuel and that has now grown though to demand an end to president omar al bashir is almost thirty year rule doctors are among the latest to join in saying they will go on indefinite strike well i've been speaking to our midsole a man who's a specialist in sudan at chatham house a british think tank and he says these protests are different to anything the government has faced before. there on a much bigger scale and widespread than we've seen previously in two thousand and thirteen and also last year when price hikes were announced following a new bio jet and they seem to be much more politically charged as well what we're seeing in spontaneous protests sparked by these worsening can living conditions and

people genuine hunger and then there's a strong politicized element to it with the opposition groups trying to push forward for political change so the protesters largely aren't what we're saying but what will their has been and you talked about some of the confrontation and violence is targeting of the government the n.c.p. headquarters in official buildings and places in sudan so that's an escalation we haven't seen before and use you say that has been a response a crackdown from the government which is seen people being killed and others being injured so. this is definitely much more prominent than we have seen recently in sudan and that's i think because of the worsening economic situation which is that the government has been trying to get a grip on in the last year. papers for the democratic republic of congo presidential election of arrived in the capital four million papers were due to arrive today replacing those that were destroyed by last week's.

left eight thousand voting machines. the presidential polls original for today sunday have now been delayed. catherine soy has. the reason. the country's been talking to some people here in the. saying that they don't trust the commission and they're afraid that. could be delayed again that another crisis is. tremendous pressure to deliver a. credible election. in the country people to replace. destroyed when. we also have information. of the voting machines that had been recalled.

in the capital city eight thousand. destroyed. in the capital city the replacement ones technicians are. on the clock to reprogram them putting materials for other parts of the country different regional headquarters to be to their various centers in the polling stations this is a. nightmare because the infrastructure here. in the rain some parts of the country are still unsafe. outbreak in all of these factors complicating a father this preparation for this election and people are saying even if we go to the poor on sunday. how credible will this election. i have spoken to political analysts say that it's the way it's set up the election it's set up to

a dispute an electoral dispute and if that happens the tension will be violent so a lot really is going to be determined by how credible believe this election is how the individuals that lose the election are going to act and what instructions they're going to give their supporters. it's been two years since al jazeera journalists are saying 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 let's go topless reports. for two years mcu same as 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 the detained without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse the kata 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 un has been calling for his release rights groups have reported a number on on egyptian journalist since the military deposed the first democratically elected president mohammed morsi in two thousand and thirteen the suppression has increased under former general now president. the committee to protect journalists a twenty media workers are being held in egyptian prisons. hussein's detention has breached egypt's penal code 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 to topless al-jazeera most of us will address the acting director general of the al-jazeera media network

and he says mark walters same is far from the only journalist to be suppressed by egypt's government for journalists i mean 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 abusers many people many journalists were killed in more i mean 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 this you are you are with us or you are against us and which is not the case would who see him as they said was not working on issues at all he was working and just doing his job here you know if you're out of ideas you should not be.