good access to some mining sites is still a challenge. while the company with government support many nigerians wonder why a country which currently has a foreign reserves of forty five billion u.s. dollars cannot find a way to complete such an important project and kickstart the industrialization forces. i just couldn't idea where hundreds of people have protested in lebanon's capital in anger at the political stalemate and worsening economy there was some violence in beirut as riot police tried to stop the protesters from reaching government buildings the demonstrators are calling for lower food prices and tax cuts as well as free medical care they also want a new unity government to be formed seven months on from the general election the political crisis in nicaragua is deepening as president daniel ortega continues to crackdown on his critics and now a national law banning dissent has pushed the ones to find alternative forms of

protest like arts. meets one such artist in the capital managua who since had his studio raided by members of the national police. 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 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 at me that i was university of central america highlights the

increasingly repressive tactics by national security forces to silence critics of the president. cloudy a good deal curator of the exhibit says simply having these photographs on display creates a high risk of reprisal from the government. if you. were all definitely there e afraid this isn't easy but the university wanted to take this risk which may or may not. 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 and

it. made me want to know the meaning. 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 cat i was president then you know if they got him and his wife the vice president as to puppets scattered on his desk or 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. i just. cuba's national assembly has approved draft changes to the country's constitution a referendum will be held in february to decide on whether the new document will be passed into law it contains more continue it see then change with plans to legalize

same sex marriage put on hold after pressure from the catholic church hugo will still be ruled by the communist party but the draft constitution recognizes private property for the first time. well greece's rail industry is the smallest in europe but things are on track for a change thanks surprisingly to the country's economic crisis johnson explains. the athens commuter railway was built ahead of the two thousand and four olympics and to change the lives of outlying communities a journey into the city that used to take an hour now takes twenty minutes by train . it's very convenient time a cancer patient and had to go into hospital. but now i just take the train it's a feat hopes to repeat by the end of this year when it fully electrifies the country's

main rail line from athens to the northern port city of. that'll have travel time to three hours and twenty minutes so the train will now compete with the airplane that line will help realize another ambition this train loaded with goods made in china is headed for budapest the rail yard here in the port of paris is part of china's new silk road to europe the idea is for this port to become southeast europe's main supply line these changes are happening as a result of greece's economic crisis port operations were sold to the china ocean shipping company the government rail monopoly was broken up there are now seven competing train operators and hellenic rail was able to focus on one particular area upgrading track now the industry is trying to make up for lost time. is the smallest in the european union. one percent. and one and a half percent of transport compared to european average of eight percent that's

because after greece joined the european union in one thousand nine hundred one most infrastructure spending went to rebuilding its motorways and rail was neglected so the trains currently move only a tiny fraction of these containers inland. most leave by truck is about to change this. is the largest in southern europe and hellenic rail has just taken over its management of the. container port with the rail network and beyond cargo from asia will enter here and will be distributed across europe greece's economy will acquire a new dimension and greece will become one of the biggest freight rail hubs. of the greek market suffered during the crisis the country is now taking advantage of its geographical position to produce growth. athens.

hello again tom for the sports news with peter 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 song you mean equalized in the twenty seventh minute he's first of two on the night patino spurs then went in front in the thirty fourth minute through daly alley harry kane with

tom's third and best six the goal from christian eriksson and another bus on 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 food on the forward to to win the premier league and then. we have their chances absent on much of tonight there's still a long way i think is still a long way to say we have 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 addicts and 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 flame. and over in portugal league leaders if seaports are made to work hard for they win over rio all day 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 need 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 and the few shots 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 straight he will host a 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. your do you think of pressure it's always the hardest advice about sports or. you know like you have the boxing day it's going to be grateful to have got hold of it is that there is a set as a part of all of that. but it's not often that you'll find. these days when the travel overseas words one one in the series with two test matches to go to the boys know you know what they can do what they're capable of and the potential that lies ahead british heavyweight boxer dillion white's has kept his hopes alive of taking on world champion anthony joshua and softer white knocked out competitive riches soar on saturday the contest at london's o two arena was a rematch of why sanchez saw his 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 talking rubbish and just talking rubbish that run away from 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 flies that sit and wait two years wait to hear wait for the call up call that you know the terms ticking of a budget no problem no you know. so i need to act immediately to just keep her and keep. an ice avalanche in austria ahead disastrous consequences for a skier during a world cup event norway's yacht all magnus blamed the organizers for not properly cleaning off the track of the avalanche of ice and snow hit the competition hill before you jump he's a fit here leaving him in forty six place ending reba's 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 our buck to seal his fourth world cup. and that's all the support we have for you for now we'll have another update for you again later. thank you all thanks for watching the news hour on al-jazeera will be with you in just a moment with much more of the day's news right here on al-jazeera. thanks not to mention lines to some friends because behind the suffering a millions of taxpayers because those taxpayers never go away is a new one born every single day it is an urgent national necessity that it be officially requested the accusation of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in greece somehow i'm a sinner i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera.

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wanted to three billion pounds worth of weapons that was six billion in commission. there is no. more because there's always a. really good. in essence we in the united states have privatized public function more shadow on al-jazeera. indonesia after a tsunami triggered by a volcano killed nearly three hundred people and causes widespread devastation. hello i'm the star detail and this is al jazeera live from doha coming up out the

door by the new u.s. defense secretary james. early by president donald trump. widening protest to dock to join anti-government demonstrations in sudan now in their fifth day. and we meet the nicaraguan cartoonist who a challenging the government crackdown with their. rescue struggling to reach many areas devastated by saturday's tsunami in indonesia at least two hundred eighty one people are dead and more than a thousand injured in the country's second such disaster this year roads have been cut off by the destruction hampering recovery efforts indonesia lies on what's known as the ring of fire scientists believe this tsunami was triggered by undersea

landslides from the eruption of the. the tsunami swept along the strait and crashed twenty nieces inland wrecking homes hotels and buildings on the shores of java and sumatra islands maryon a hundred ports. the tsunami hit without warning and with such force that this is all that's left of the stage with the band seventeen had been performing. the wave struck on saturday night at the tender resort and on a holiday weekend. sweeping the stage out from beneath the band and slamming it into the crowd the lead singer was reportedly script out to see. the school being rescued. he struggled to tell his hundreds of thousands of followers on instagram of the face of his band. bonnie in our road manager ok annie and herman a new jag not been found please pray that my wife dylan will be found there. it

happened between sumatra and job or islands on indonesia's soon to straight waves hitting with such force the water traveled about twenty meters in length and and september more than two and a half thousand people died in the indonesian city of on the island of soon away sea from a tsunami caused by an earthquake but these waves appeared to be different experts believe they were caused by the end not krakatoa of all that has been erupting since june it's still to have triggered underwater landslides which displaced water to create the large waves there were no telltale trim as it came without warning you know that. i've ordered a check of all the tsunami detection equipment and the replacement of broken ones i think in the new budget year of twenty nineteen early january the replacement of broken equipment or old ones which can no longer be used. but expect say that even with high end technology and round the clock surveillance there's no guarantee

they'll be a warning of a volcanic tsunami to a certain extent you can take the volcanic activity i mean you can you can tell there's a bit of magma moving around and you can sense very very small earthquakes happening but can you predict there's going to be seen army generated by that memory that's a completely different kettle of fish if you wish much harder to try and get a sense of whether any tsunamis are going to be generated by this volcanic activity . the death toll has risen quickly emergency workers not only searching for the dead and missing but now i'm backing on the grim task of identifying bodies. survivors have crowded hospitals and emergency shelters on higher ground many with nowhere else to go and fearing further away this. debris now let is this once picturesque coastal area people a naturally drawn to the sea to create their lives and livelihoods many will now be

weighing the beauty against the three of these which is maybe on one hand al-jazeera. kathy miller is with the international federation of red cross and red crescent societies she spoke to us from polly on the indonesian island of siena westie 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 and the businesses in this area they're made of bamboo and. roofs and or are tin roofs so they're not able to withstand the force of the wave 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 who desperately need clean water after an event like this because infrastructure has been damaged

or providing tarpaulins it's the rainy season right now people have lost their their shelter they need somewhere where they can be protected from the elements so we're heading up blankets in the evening it gets quite chilly so to trying to keep people warm as best protected as possible from the elements they u.s. president has announced that he's replacing his defense secretary two months earlier than expected donald trump says deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will now take a vote on january fest. come to the end of february john hendren has 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 count 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 an elected then from american allies themselves when one of this is you 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 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 the maddest 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 richard white says the director of the census the political military analysis at the hudson institute he says shanahan's lack of experience as a defense secretary may not be such a bad thing. what we have had more turnover under president trump than previous presidents and normally i mean has a disadvantage in that you you it's a bit of turmoil for the bureaucracy and it's uncomfortable for people who have to report to change their reporting procedures to different people over different time that some advantage and you get new blood new energy new experience so i'm not necessarily sure it's a negative i mean the pentagon is a really tough place to manage and having somebody who knows the issues the managerial issues at

a high level is fine we've had secretaries before him well with that background and it depends a lot it was actually alaskan independence on who the deputy secretary is and the new joint chiefs of staff it's often the joint chiefs the chairman of joint chiefs of staff who gives the military advice more than the secretary who tend to should focus somewhat more on the managerial question when he first entered office is he didn't have much of a policy background he expensive sense of managerial experience but as he himself has said over the past year and a half years learned a lot both and secretary madison from his involvement in various issues so he's probably very up to date and skilled in business person president seems to like business people so it's possible we'll have a better personal relationship and that could make some issues smoother such as you mentioned there's a large budget and they now need to decide does a package cut back a bit or increase spending on certain areas. well takesh president russia type president on sunday says that he discussed. coordination withdrawal of u.s.

troops from syria but the u.s. is already changing the battleground reports from the turkey syria border. turkish military reinforcements are being sent deep into syria to the front lines north of the city of mumbai the message turkey is sending is that it's ready to use force if membership is 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 of 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 peachey 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. damascus 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.