syria and leave it to trees in the region to deal with eisel and other security issues so it's a bit convoluted but really war and that's the situation they don't like what's happening but certainly from his perspective u.s. forces leaving syria is a good thing for turkish ambitions in the region roland don't thank you very much the french president has criticized donald trump's decision on syria speaking in chad also praised james mattis georgia to perform in wanted to please i deeply regret the decision taken in syria and would like to pay tribute to general mattis and to the remarks which accompany his decision over the past year and a half i and the french minister of armed forces know he was a reliable representative and constantly reminded us of the importance of what being allies means impactive trumps decision as being felt on the ground in syria turkey sending military reinforcements to its border with northern syria including

one hundred vehicles and tanks mounted with weaponry and machine guns and deal agreed between ankara and washington in june has meant technician u.s. troops have been holding joint patrols in man beach west of the euphrates river techie wants the city cleared of why p.g. fight is so how to reports from the tekkie syrian border. turkish military reinforcements are being sent deep into syria to the front lines north of the city of members the message turkey is sending is that it's ready to use force if members has not handed over to what it calls its rightful owners the turkish deployment followed reports that the syrian army planned to move in there will be a vacuum once the u.s. begins with drawing its troops from areas across northeastern syria controlled by the syrian kurdish armed groups the white p.g. . people are afraid after reports of a possible military operation and other reports that the regime was to capture the city were preparing to escape if the regime enters or if there is military action.

the u.s. military in what is known as the members' military council are the forces on the ground but the turkish government and the syrian opposition say the council is a front for the white p g a group they consider terrorists and separatists who have exploited the fight against eisel to carve out a state of their own members is among predominantly arab areas under why peachey control over the i do masters has been making its position known state media has been broadcasting images from the white b.g. controlled region of what it says are protests against a possible turkish offensive the government has accused turkey of territorial ambitions turkey's main objective in syria is to prevent the establishment of a kurdish state along its borders so as not to inflame separatist sentiment among its own kurdish population it's not clear if turkey will accept y.p. g.'s rule to be replaced by that of the syrian government but if it does it will

demand guarantees that the y.t.d. is rendered ineffective. turkey's president has promised to dr eisold and the p y chief from syria his military has changed its posture strengthening turkey's hand a serious player is likely engage in backdoor negotiations to prevent what could be a new conflict. on the turkey syria border. our we're in the d r c where ballot papers ever arrive to replace the millions destroyed by a fire last week. a policeman pulls out his gun in paris during the weekends yellow vest demonstrations the number of protesters is decreasing. and in the dutch league i have split to keep up pace for the latest p.s.p. it will be here the best reaction.

has been two years since ours are journalists saying was arrested and detained in egypt he hasn't been charged with any crime as imprisonment has been repeatedly extended despite international calls for his immediate release i just cut off the last report. for two years my hoodoo 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 the detained without being formally charged he suffered a broken arm and was refused proper medical treatment egyptian prosecutors accuse the cutter based journalist the broker asking 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 in our poll to crackdown on

egyptian journalists 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 of the fattah el-sisi the committee to protect journalists say at least twenty media workers are being held in egyptian prisons. it seems detention has breached egypt's own 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 awaiting for justice alex to topless al-jazeera. respectively what hussein's daughter as she says her father's imprisonment is destroying her family. every time and go and see him his face powder them the develop spine test me to see my father like this the longer he stays i can see that

on his face my grandfather and grandmother all of them the two of them have been sick and even my grandfather has been finalized you know from the shock. it's been like eleven eleven months ago he was with my father visiting him and emotionally he was very distressed and he went back home unable to move at the same until now so it's very dissipating it's ruining our family i can't describe how hard it is for our firm actually you know the situation here in egypt is very hard so you can't figure out really what's going to make the change what's the point that you know this will all disappear and you know life will go back as it were before so yes of course all these events and you know and solidarity stands with the father you know. it feels great you know to have this board but we won't we want something to happen i'm scared that my father's going to be

forgotten two years is too much and i'm scared that the number is always only going to get higher well actually i don't know i i wish that i speak to someone and ask him why i only want to know why if he had if you had done something why don't you know anything which why don't you investigate and you know do you work i don't know i don't understand please please let my father out please bring him back to us a life has been stopping the plug doesn't move and our last two years so it's very hard please please give us our father back. a u.n. team has arrived in yemen's port city of her data to monitor the cease fire the team led by major general patrick came out we were traveling from aden the home in exile of yemen's internationally recognized government over the past week both the rebels and sounded that coalition have accused each other breaching the truce agreed at talks in sweden last month protests in sudan have continued for

a fifth day forty hospitals schools and universities to shut down across the country several cities are under emergency rule just as demand a change of government that angry over rising fuel and food costs and blame president omar bashir for economic mismanagement to morgan reports on how she don got to this point. driving his minivan is the only way. to living he says taking passengers around used to bring in enough money but with a fuel crisis in sudan that's no longer the case. we can stay from the day before till the next day waiting for fuel with the fuel shortage sometimes you have to look for fuel in the black market for a higher price and even then you can't find fuel easily unless you know someone who can direct you to find around two gallons just so you can drop people off. fuel isn't the only thing scars in sudan this is a shortage of money too over the past few months the sudanese have been forced to

line up in front of a.t.m. machines for what little cash is made available queues also appeared in front of bakeries as the shortage of hard currency mentalists wheat to make bread the proposal by the government to lift subsidies on wheat and fuel prompted protests in many parts of the country last week as a result curfews and emergency rule were imposed in at least five cities and schools and universities have been shut across the country to prevent large gatherings of people real and bread shortages may have triggered protests across the country but other factors are helping to keep them going people seem to be frustrated not just by the comic crisis but by the way the country is being run and they want to see change the. demonstrators have been met with life fire and tear gas by police causing a number of deaths and injuries but the protests continue along with the demand that president omar al bashir who has ruled for almost thirty years to resign some analysts say it's time for others to take the lead in this crisis can't be left to

the government to solve alone other political parties need to come in join hands to find a way out of the crisis the crisis is no longer an economy process it's now a political process and people are blaming the government for it. sudan appears to be at a standstill with the people on one side and the government and its policy on the other people morgan al-jazeera part. or sensible filed that report we've also heard that police have fired tear gas as hundreds of protesters gathered after a football match where he joins us now live he witnessed it what did you see. well our we've seen football stadium and they have been chanting calling obviously for a change in regime as they've been doing for the past two days but we've also seen a police riot police and army has been firing tear gas in the process to try to disperse them now since we've seen that process that have gathered once again and they've been marching and the police have responded using according to the protesters who was speaking to over the phone they say that the police are using

life balaklava munitions to try to disperse them but they said that they are going to stand their ground and kill the police won't basically back off and try to give them room to be able to move away from where they are around for both radio so it doesn't sound like this much sign of a rest subsiding. well or and the thing is people are now around the country have different demands some are demanding better economic conditions some are demanding a change in governance and it's not clear who is going to when the government says that they're going to try to ease the economic crisis that they're going to try to look for a solution but because something that some are think that the government has been which has been power for basically three thirty years they haven't produced any change they haven't produced anything that would make them believe or have faith in the government they don't want also they don't want any assurance they don't want people they don't want the officials telling them that we are going to improve the situation they want to see the social go so it's not clear yet if these protests would end any time soon with two sides different demands the government wanting

people back back off from the street to back off from the streets and stop this thing and the protesters saying no they want better economic conditions but they also want the government to go so they will keep protesting him alone thank you very much indeed for that live update there. french authorities have defended aggressive police actions during saturday's yellow vest demonstrations in paris a video of a police officer pulling out a gun on protests is near the show's uneasy aves has been widely shared online critics say it was disproportionate the police say they were acting in self defense meanwhile the president in one year i recall is warning protests as will face the most severe repercussions possible and smith reports from paris. with just a few hundred yellow vest protesters on the shelves elisei on saturday night a small number sparked a violent confrontation with police. as the policeman scrambled to save their bikes pulled a gun. the whole 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 walking and walking. did if you don't it is clear that the response including judicial would be the most severe possible no it is 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 right into the new year. 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. a space six rocket to successfully north from florida's cape canaveral is the first u.s. national security space mission for you know mosques privately and space transportation company. to clean. up is carrying a u.s. military navigation satellite was around five hundred million dollars. still to come on the news hour the bombshell salary cuts of landed mexico's president in hot water. we need to make regular notice or challenging the government's brutal crackdown through their pens and art brushes. and india and australia will square off in one of cricket's most famous events peter will have all the details in sport .

and over their zones of what they're pushing its way across here if at the moment the satellite picture is showing all that camera can its way eastwards it's giving us a fair amount of rain and where it's hitting the coldest air we are seeing a lot of that turn to snow so we'll wintry weather over the next few days then mostly in the eastern policy of europe and here the temperatures really will be struggling over the next few days samal sky will stay below freezing for the entire time as we head through monday and tuesday and then kiev will see the temperatures drop as well as we head through chews day that area of wet weather will then begin to push its way down through parts of greece and into turkey heavy downpours here strong winds as well and over the mountains in turkey we see some of that snow as well meanwhile for the west two miles for too much in the way of ice here but not that war we're looking at a top temperature in paris of around six degrees and in london around eight for the

other side of the mediterranean well here there's more in the way of sunshine how will those well say it will get to around twenty degrees for monday but we do have this area of cloud over parts of morocco that's edging its way eastwards and that could just give us a few outbreaks of rain at times for the east of there is that area of rain that's making its way into the northern parts of turkey quite a bit of clown pushing ahead of it as well so we could see some of that around the coast of libya to. after joining the greenpeace campaigning to protect the weddell sea in antarctica we're now in australia for the outcome we're the first generation to realize the gravity of this crisis. but we may be the last to be able to do something about it another special find out if the effort to create the largest sentry on earth has

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have been killed and hundreds more injured after a tsunami struck the indonesian islands of java and sumatra. the u.s. president has announced he'll be replacing his defense secretary james mattis two months earlier than expected at his resigned on thursday after disagreeing with the president's foreign policy of withdrawing troops from syria. and thousands of protesters have taken to the streets across sit down on the fifth consecutive day of protests ever rising food and fuel prices. as for the democratic republic of congo's long awaited. presidential election of arrived in the capital kinshasa up to four million papers were shadow to arrive by saturday or face those destroyed by silas lee if there isn't a capital left eight thousand voting machines damaged the presidential polls originations sunday have been pushed back by a week catherine sawyer is in the capital kinshasa and has more on the millions about the needed of the country to hold the election those four million ballot

papers meant for the thinking are in the country now which is a big relief to many people the voting machine that had been recalled from the different problem is we're told are already here technicians are reprogramming them now out of what the materials that were meant for other parts of the country are in the different regional headquarters they will be or are being transported to the various then. eventually the polling stations as well but that another big problem logistical of this is a country that has a very poor infrastructure we're talking about places that you cannot get using up here coal or even a bicycle you have to walk on with this is also the rainy season of some parts of the country as well and they are they've been a boy outbreak in the east so all these complications making it even more difficult for the electoral commission and it's also important to note that the government

has refused all international help to call help financial help from the un and other countries as well a lot of people really just watching to see how exactly this week is going to play out this is going to be a very difficult we could not had any word from the government or not had any what either from the president joseph kabila and causing a lot of concern here. one of the most powerful players calling for changes congress catholic church welcome when has more from st joseph church in the capital kinshasa. in the democratic republic of congo the catholic church has clout. nearly half of congo's eighty million people go through its church services like this one in the capital kinshasa and president joseph kabila didn't step down at the end of his second and final constitutional mandate the church stood up jonah's john bell i was one of the key coordinators of the protest for democracy which

eventually led to an election being called for sunday two years late three days ago it was postponed again until next week and. until today we are aware of strategies to not organize elections we are not surprised that we don't have elections even though there was enough time we were informed about the perspire moment of elections until the thirtieth and we think that for seven days let us not burn the whole country the priest asks people to pray for the elections to be peaceful. the last two years were not dozens were killed by police in the protest the catholic church brokered a deal for delayed election to take place when it was finally announced more were killed during the campaigns mostly at opposition rallies the government promises it's delivering democracy because. the president of the republic is the one who

has brought democracy in this country we've had difficulties organizing elections on time and the president is the one who is conscious of the fact that his two mandates are over that's why the electoral commission has all the means to organize elections. since the commission and nouns the postponement there have been police and soldiers on the street near the university activists tried to organize a march they were completely out numbered so they gave up. catholic church is powerful here they can speak up when others can't it's political works northover people are now waiting to see if next week's election really will happen a lot of people are wondering if the ruling party and the electoral commission intends to hold any election at all most people here say they want change they still don't know if they'll get it malcolm webb al-jazeera kinshasa in the democratic republic of congo hundreds of protesters have rallied in lebanon's

capital in anger at the political stalemate and worsening economy some scuffles broke out in beirut after right police tried to stop the protesters from reaching government buildings the demonstrations are calling for lower food prices and tax cuts as well as free medical care and also what the formation of a new national unity government over seven months on the last general election. tributes have been paid to the former leader of britain's liberal democrat party paddy ashdown who has died aged seventy seven following a short illness he served as a soldier before turning to politics and also worked to uncover walk crimes committed during the conflict in yugoslavia catch up as one day on reports. he was a towering for some british politics credited with making the liberal democrats britain's third biggest party shot of its 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 boy born in india and raised in northern ireland he later served in the royal marines and 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 of seventy two 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. a little piece of a

on al-jazeera mexico's new president is facing a backlash over a decision to cut the salaries and perks of the country's top earners including himself and his manner of his obrador has also lifted the country's minimum salary by sixteen percent the biggest single increase in more than twenty years john holdren has more from mexico city. it all started with this from exclaims new president. 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 in a society 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 miscues 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. 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 people change john home and out does it or mexico city for the first time ever in the u.k. government has published figures for the numbers of homeless people dying on the streets and in temporary accommodation and homeless charity crisis says the number of rough sleepers could be as high as twelve thousand

a shocking number for one of the world's leading economies and in burma reports one hundred. remembering a friend who died too young jeweler a mesure rough sleeper from hungary was found dead in this london underground station right opposite parliament bore a fellow hungary and is still traumatized and he's come down to say good night to my friends and i saw him laying on his stomach and his head was so good when i was telling my friends something not right he's not reading his old bill and then they turn him around the league defensive they are. junior was just forty three his death came in the same week as government figures reveal the total number of deaths among people sleeping rough or in temporary accommodation they estimate almost six hundred homeless people died in england and wales last year that marks a rise of twenty five percent in five years more than half of those deaths were due to drug poisoning alcohol abuse or suicide the vast majority who died in recent years were men and their average age was forty four for women it was just forty two

in this city whether you live here or you're a visitor it's virtually impossible not to notice the shocking number of rough sleepers what's not so easy to grasp is just how difficult it can be for those people to get off the street even when they're determined to do so. in the run up to the new year the charity crisis is running drop in centers for homeless people in several u.k. cities at this one they're offering not just hot meals and medical treatment but somewhere to sleep at night and advice on housing. that's become a national emergency because of a fall in social housing stock and other cuts in services over decades of failed to build the social housing that's needed so now much more no people are relying on the private rented sector which is a bad thing in itself but it's rents go up and benefits all for a reason then more and more the cost of housing isn't covered by the social security system so that's been driving home this week it's up with david's one of

those who fall in through the cracks he returned to the u.k. in november after decades abroad with most savings in the way to stay for now he spends his days on the street whatever the weather it's a visible day like today if you get it that she. charging no contradictory to. be based here for several days i don't have to worry about. striking a boat your belongings is history. this charity says the real challenge is stopping people becoming homeless in the first place but for now it's trying to attract more donations so it can provide alternatives to life on the streets with the barber al-jazeera. record crowd to pay their respects to japanese emperor akihito at his last birthday celebration in tokyo's imperial palace before his application more than seventy five thousand people turned up to march in place eighty fifth birthday on largest better time in history accurate as twenty nine year reign to

step down in april becoming the first temperature to really push a friend in need two hundred years. the political crisis in nicaragua continues to deepen and national or banning dissent has pushed critics of the government to find alternative forms of protest such as art i'm just here is my new iraq is in managua and the story. at a private studio in the nicaraguan capital political cartoonist bedell molina is sketching out an idea well the sketch is coming along it's a legal to protest against the government here but bedroom says with few civil liberties many government critics have turned to art. despite how bad the crisis has been the positive side is that it is spark creativity in people because spaces for freedom of expression have been closed off and not letting people march or anything else people are now looking for an alternative way of expressing themselves so. the violent clashes of

a few months ago on the streets of mine i want have stopped at least temporarily a photography exhibit at new guy was university of central america highlights the increasingly repressive tactics by national security forces to silence critics of the president. good deal curator of the exhibit says simply having these photographs on display creates a high risk of reprisals from the government. if india. were all definitely there e afraid this isn't easy but the university wanted to take this risk which may or may not be prudent and it could have consequences. across town local artists have put together another exhibit showcasing thirty paintings representing the thirty articles of the universal declaration of human rights artists can be allowed to be read says art gives people a way to express themselves when there is no other alternative would have been set

up by that in the words can get you thrown in prison in this country i don't think i would be arrested for a painting or maybe so but that's a reality the moment we can no longer make art what's the point of living life and if i. am a lot of it i know you mean. artists in my now was a few places are willing to host art exhibits if they're perceived as anti-government since the start of the political crisis hundreds of people in the guy will have been sent to prison many for voicing their opinions or sharing them online back in the studio is finishing his sketch depicting the guy was president then you know what they got him and his wife the vice president as two puppets scattered on his desk are the portraits he's drawn of children activists and journalists who've been killed by government forces since the start of the crisis an artistic statement in a country where words of dissent are not allowed. and does either.