the 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's 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 homan mexico city homelessness in the u.k. has reached a record high with about one hundred seventy thousand families and individuals affected british government figures show nearly six hundred homeless people died over the past year and the dean barber reports from london. 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 just come down to say good night to my friends and i saw him laying on his stomach and it was when i was telling my friends something not right he's not reading this or bill for the only thing that out and then they get. july 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 was not so easy to grasp is just how difficult it can be for those people to get off the streets 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 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 phrases then more and more the cost of housing isn't covered by the social security system so that's been driving home this begins 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 no way to stay for now he spends his days on the street whatever the weather it's a miserable day like today it's to get it that she. charging local charity to. be based here for several days i don't have to what he had both. tricky a boat you belong means 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 the al-jazeera london. the political crisis in nicaragua is deepening as president daniel ortega continues to crackdown on his critics now a national law banning dissent has persnickety rugg ones to find alternative forms of protest such as arts minute all right polo meets one such artist in the capital managua who's since had his studio raided by members of the national police.

at a private studio in the nicaraguan capital political cartoonist 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. spite how bad the crisis has been the positive side is that in a spark creativity in people because spaces for freedom of expression have been closed off not letting people march or anything else people are now looking for an alternative way of expressing themselves. the violent clashes of a few months ago on the streets of mine i want have stopped at least temporarily a photography exhibit and you can i was university of central america highlights the increasingly repressive tactics by national security forces to silence critics of the president. go to deal curator of the exhibit says simply having these

photographs on display creates a high risk of reprisal from the government. if india. were all definitely there ie 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 are to scandalize yet to be read says art gives people a way to express themselves when there is no other alternative would have been set up 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 when i. am a lot of not even. artists in my now was

a few places are willing to host art exhibits if. are 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 that their guy and his wife the vice president as to 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 in artistic statement in a country where words of dissent are not allowed madrid up a low. still ahead on the news hour in a region skier blames an ice avalon's for robbing him off a world cup title peter will be here with the details coming up in a moment. new

yorkers are very receptive. because it is such an international city they are very interested in that global perspective that al-jazeera provides. a long time for the sports news here as puter. thank you very much tottenham have proved they can be english premier league title contenders they beat everton six two on sunday the hosts actually took the lead before south korea's sanju main equalized in the twenty seventh minute he's first of two on the night where it's a patino spurs then went in front in the thirty fourth minute through daly alley

harry kane with tom's third and their sixth the goal from christian eriksen and another by son put spurs confidently in third place just two points behind second place man city. no i think he's still believe that liverpool and manchester city are real contenders for the forward to win the premier league and then. we have their chances are synonymous tonight they are still a long way i think is still a long way to say we are a real contender annoyed him just to solely. i accept that i am have won again to stay in touch with dutch into d.v.c. leaders at p.s.v. eindhoven last week i x. were no winners sunday's win of two was not anywhere near as emphatic but it is unlikely any extent hugs men in their back alternative kit here will complain about a three one win away from home catch the dog descents had a chat and frankie to go on the scoreboard for the famous amsterdam club they are

two points behind piercing in the standings claim. and over in portugal league leaders if seaports are made to work hard for they win over rio of a on sunday in the premier league the visitors took the lead through carlos in the twelve minute it only lasted four minutes though as seen. and ten minutes later the turnaround was complete as miss america needs it to make it but that's how it finished we were not a help file a great call to form a real madrid man on. in spain with some ben yet scored a stoppage time strike to salvage severe a one one draw at the leganes the school i mean severe drop from second down to thirty in lego on thirty two points five adrift of leaders barcelona and three from atletico madrid have a game in hand and will be in action against vieira you know on january third. they

were very efficient in front of goal in the early minutes that's why they scored that goal also the fact that we were shown the red card at half time made it easier for them on top of that the injury we had during the game in the future odds on goal we had against this team we leave very very happy with this point it's not so much the quantity but it's the quality of this point i believe that this allows us to grow as a team and i value this point very much. the boxing day cricket test match in melbourne is one of the sport's most famous annual events this year well straightly will host india starting the day after christmas it's third the. contest in this four match series between these two rivals which is even before is that one each of the indians won the first test before the home team bounced back in the second india have never won a test series in australia while the hosts are still trying to restore the reputation of pro ball tampering scandal in south africa this year. you know the way the first two tests. were quite good in the balance i think that. you

have the reverse when it's good what happens having. their duties of pressure it's always the hardest if i say that's so. that you know what happened boxing day it's going to be grateful to have got hold of it is that as i said as a part of all of that. it's not often that you'll find these days when the trouble overseas words one one in the series with two test matches to go to the boys not you know what they can do what they're capable of and the potential that lies ahead british heavyweight boxer dillion whites has kept his hopes alive of taking on world champion anthony joshua and softer white knocked out come patrick day which is sore on saturday the contest at london's o two arena was a rematch of weiss and just always meeting in twenty six the white one that on a split decision for thurston 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's third

on his wish list of next opponents after the answer wilder and tyson fury. just shows talking rubbish and just talking rubbish sit around and wait for him you know runaways free for months a mockery waiting for him waiting to hear what he's doing that you know mockery need to progress you know this fight is not sit down wait two years wait to hear wait for the cause. you know the terms ticking and i'm about to hit my prime no you know. so i need to act immediately to just keep a marker and keep. an ice avalanche in austria ahead disastrous consequences for a skier during a world cup event norway's yard will magnus' blame the organizers for not properly cleaning off the track of an avalanche of ice and snow hit the competition hill before you jump it's a fit here leaving him in forty six place ending rebus hopes of clinching a fourth world cup when he set out of the cross-country part of the competition

allowing double olympic champion you're going to get robach to seal his fourth world cup. and that's all the sport we have for you for now we'll have another update for you again later that's it for the news hour on al-jazeera but i'm back in just a moment with much more off the day's news coming your way see you in a minute thanks for watching.

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medieval western society it was a feudal society so it took jail to keep the lot above the law and as soon as the pope ended his speech some people stood up and said god will sit down and the entrance to the city was horrific they killed people in the streets in their houses and in and the crusades an arab perspective at the sold one shop at this time on a zero. indonesia on alert after its tsunami kills more than two hundred people. you're watching al-jazeera life from a headquarters and. also ahead on his way out much earlier the u.s.

defense secretary now has just days left in the job. widening protests doctors vote to join anti-government demonstrations in sudan now in their fifth day and mexico's new president faces challenges putting his campaign promises into practice. hello rescue workers are struggling to reach many areas devastated by saturday's tsunami in indonesia at least two hundred twenty two people are dead and more than eight hundred injured in the country's second such disaster this year roads have been cut off by the destruction hampering recovery efforts and uneasy allies on what's known as the ring of fire scientists believe this tsunami was triggered by undersea landslides from the eruption of the volcano krakatoa the tsunami swept

along the sun just straits and crashed twenty meters in lund wrecking homes hotels and buildings on the shores of java. andrew thomas reports from near the disaster zone. by the indonesian pop band seventeen in western java came to an abrupt end when waves from the tsunami swept away the stage musician and finds. the will to float up to twenty meters inland killing dozens and injuring hundreds. if the morning so. we. retreat you know under. so. this could have been much worse in these years meteorology and geophysics agency believes the waves could have been caused by an undersea landslide from the eruption of crocodile that's a volcanic island formed over the years from the nearby crocodile volcano search and rescue operations are now underway for survivors who were very family.

we are people that are treated. 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 people were killed by a quake and tsunami that hit the city of poly on the island of subtle ways e which is just east of borneo indonesia 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 and the number of casualties from this disaster over a holiday weekend is expected to increase as rescuers reach affected areas and

there are already hundreds of rescue workers in that disaster zone in parts because of how close is it to jakarta indonesia its capital where all the emergency services are based the fear now is of a second tsunami if more volcanic activity causes more underwater landslides and that's why i'm here in chile going about five kilometers inland from the coast up a hill the authorities are saying that nobody should be along that coastline tonight in the dark in case another wave hits andrew thomas out as their chicken internees here. well because there was no warning of the approaching tsunami indonesia's president says he's considering installing new detection systems. that don't mean that i've ordered a check of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement a broken ones i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january older the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which can no longer be used kathy miller is with the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies

she spoke to us from paolo on the indonesian island of so low s.c. and says their teams are facing a massive support mission a lot of people have lost everything their homes have collapsed a lot of the homes and the shops of the businesses in this area they're made bamboo and that roups and or are tin roofs so they're not able to withstand the force of the way they're also built right along the shoreline so they've lost in some cases their homes their businesses that means their ability to earn a living so the red cross is going in and the things that are being provided immediately include water or we're deploying fourteen water trucks. people desperately need clean water after an event like this because infrastructure has been damaged or providing tarpaulins it's the rainy season right now if people have lost their or their shelter they need somewhere where they can be protected

from the elements so we're heading up blankets in the evening and gets quite chilly so to trying to keep people warm as best protected as possible from the elements there as president has announced that his resplendent singh his defense secretary two months earlier than expected donald trump says deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will now take over on january the first james mattis was due to work until the end of february john hendren as the details. for president donald trump james mattis couldn't leave quickly enough the defense secretary resigned thursday in protest over trump's decision to pull all two thousand u.s. troops out of syria but he wasn't due to leave till late february then came the outcry first on capitol hill we counted on him to be there and to stop this president from his worst impulse i think general mattis has put his finger on where the president has views that are very very distinct from the vast majority of

republicans and probably democrats alike that and on a like that then from american allies themselves when one of the soon please and i very deeply regret the u.s. decision on syria and i would like to pay tribute to general mattis and what he wrote in his resignation that i have witnessed over the last year and a half of how reliable general mattis has been that he has a west tries to meaning of what being allies was being allies it's fighting shoulder by shoulder it was those allies madis felt abandoned in syria saying in his resignation letter my views on treating allies with respect and also being clear right about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held in informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues trump reportedly chafing at the television coverage telegraph the move in a tweet late saturday saying when president obama ingloriously fired jim mad as i gave him a second chance allies are very important but not when they take advantage of us

ministrations highest priority then he unceremoniously gave madison early boot out the door in a tweet elevating deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan a former boeing executive to acting pentagon chief syria decision drew some support from republicans isn't working we've said supply them all with money we've given them uniforms have given them weapons they need to step up and they need to eradicate these violent people from their midst for the president's. critics inside and outside of his party the excel aerated exit of james mattis is just the latest outburst of a peevish president in a white house lurching from one crisis to the next just two days earlier white house press secretary sarah sanders said that is wasn't just walking out the door and the relationship would continue over the next couple of months and then came the resignation of brett mcgurk as the u.s. envoy overseeing the battle against isis and the man the president once affectionately called mad dog mattis was out the door john hendren al-jazeera

washington well for more on this let's cross over to rosen jordan joining us from washington d.c. so what is the reaction rosalyn to madis leaving earlier than had planned well tarin there is a real sense that the wheels have come off the trumpet ministration or more of specifically that the white house is trying to run foreign policy and military strategy itself and that it is it just doesn't care what people at the agencies in this case at the pentagon have to say about the way forward for the united states there was already a lot of consternation on capitol hill both from democrats and from republicans that jim madison even decided to walk away and leave his post in the resignation was announced on thursday this is not going over well because there is

raising a very real concern that the ministration may be taking the united states into a place where the u.s. perhaps does not want to be and that national security interests may be jeopardized as a result and what about patrick shanahan the man who going to replace jim mattis one of the views on how he will be running the department. well it was a bit of a rough haul for him to even get confirmed in the first place when he first joined the pentagon the john mccain who was at the time the chair of the senate armed services committee threaten to even put a hold on shanahan's on nomination because he was very concerned one that shanahan who had no prior government experience or any experience with foreign policy was perhaps ill equipped to have the number two spot at the pentagon and he was also very concerned that because of shanahan's long career at boeing which is by the way

the number two defense contractor here in the united states would have multiple conflicts of interest well of course mr mccain passed away earlier this year but there are many other senators who have shared concerns about mr shanahan and the big question daryn is going to be whether he can be an independent voice an advocate for the needs of the pentagon but also try to restrain some of the president's impulses impulses which notably the former department of state secretary rex tillerson noted he had to convince the president that there were things he wanted to do that frankly were illegal compact rick shanahan to stand up to the president that is something people want to see very very quickly all right charles in jordan thank you well the turkish president spoke with president trump on sunday trump says that to discuss they slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of

u.s. troops from syria but the u.s. move is already changing the battlegrounds zana how to reports from the turkey syria border. turkish military reinforcements are being sent deep into syria to the front lines north of the city of memphis the message turkey is sending is that it's ready to use force if men business. 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 and what is known as the members military council are.