are the forces on the ground but the turkish government and the syrian opposition say the council is a front for the y 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 i don't mask this 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 its will demand guarantees that the y.p. g.e. is rendered ineffective. turkey's president has promised to dr eisold and that the

white b.g. from syria his military has changed its posture strengthening turkey's hand a serious player is likely engaging back door negotiations to prevent what could be a new conflict that occurred on the turkey syria border. sudanese police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters it blocked a road in the capital khartoum the protesters gathered in the center of the city after a soccer match they chanted freedom songs calling on president bashir to step down several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change of government the protests into their fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country and doctors have now gone on indefinite strike heaping more pressure on the government here reports from car to . drive in 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 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 human 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 passing 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. this crisis can't be left to the government to solve alone other political parties need to come in there 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 on. whether an expert still ahead on al-jazeera sunday was supposed to be election day in the democratic republic of congo that wasn't will tell you why and mexico's new president faces challenges putting his

campaign promises into practice. hello there are so. give us a north america it's pretty wet at the moment you can see the system is piling in from the pacific giving us some heavy downpours and a fair amount of snow as well as a system works its way eastwards it will break up a little bit so the wintry weather that we see will be quite as heavy but we're looking at some more pulses of heavy rain right around the coast there for monday by choose day that also will be edging eastward so a few more outbreaks of rain at times san francisco who have a role this will be day meanwhile for the east will see a fair amount of clarity galloping its way across the plains will see some snow and some rain on that but they scare as it should be fine and dry i just feel that warm new york getting to a top temperature of around five after the central americas we've got this little

training front here and that's going to stick around over the next few days along that area of town and there will be a few outbreaks of rain some of which will be quite heavy into the south it's going to stay warm and humid with a fair few showers but to the northeast where the cooler air is and here it should be a little bit clearer i mean for the south still in for some of us in brazil is looking pretty wet over the next few days the showers generally a stretching from the northeast i'm encouraging all way back around through bolivia and then down through paraguayan and tools a civil parts of brazil more showers here over the next few days it's dry air i'm warm in buenos aires. development. progress for. the end of a way of life. a clash between corporate interests and a people who must prepare for the long fight to protect their heritage. the

march to progress in the philippines part of that you find a series on al-jazeera. welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour rescue workers are struggling to reach many areas devastated by saturday's tsunami in indonesia at least two hundred eighty one people dead and more than a thousand injured in the country second such disaster this year. the u.s. president has announced his new defense secretary patrick shanahan will take over from james not just on january first but has resigned on thursday in protest over

donald trump's sudden decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. protests in syria donavan to the fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country the protests were triggered by bread and fuel price rises and doctors have gone on indefinite strike keeping more pressure on the government. millions of people across the democratic republic of congo should have been voting sunday to elect a new poll to replace president has been for a week then down a fire that destroyed voting machines and ballot papers there have been protests over the latest with the election already two years behind schedule. in the capital with more on the just six needed to holds the election those four million ballot papers meant for the are in the country now which is a big relief to many people the voting machines that had been recalled from the

different province is 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 police stations as well but that's another big problem logistical if this is a country that has very poor infrastructure we are talking about places that you cannot get. here who are all or even a bicycle you have to walk this is also the rainy season of parts of the country still and 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 u.n. and other countries as well so

a lot of people really just watching to see how with 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 word either from the president joseph kabila and causing a lot of concern here well one of the most powerful players calling is the. in the democratic republic of congo the catholic church has clout. nearly half of congress eighty million people go through its church services like this one in the capital kinshasa when president joseph kabila didn't step down at the end of his second and final constitutional mandate the church stood up. 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 some 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 protests 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 its 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 noun's the postponement there have been pleas and soldiers on the streets near the university activists tried to organize a march they were completely out numbered so they gave up. one of those cons is political works and. people are now way through to see the next week's election really will happen a lot of people are wondering if the ruling party and the electoral commission intend to hold any election. most people here say they want change they still don't know if they'll get its. web al-jazeera concern in the democratic republic of congo. hundreds of people have protested in lebanon's capital and anger at the political stalemate and western 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 apostle u.s. government shutdown is likely to stretch into the new year after democrats refused to back funding of over five billion dollars the president trumps border war with mexico the political stalemates means numerous government departments no longer have any funding around eight hundred thousand federal workers have been left unpaid over the christmas holiday senate approval is needed for any deal to break the deadlock that's been adjourned. mexico's new president is facing a backlash for delivering on a campaign promise some workers have launched a legal challenge after. cut government salaries including his own john heilemann reports from mexico city. it all started with this from x.

cruz new president without it we can't have a rich government and poor people that's why the government stop 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 could have given is that it 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 are really happy at what they see as an entitle political class and public sector of 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 were 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 home and. city the body of a seven year old girl who died while in u.s. border patrol custody has arrived back in guatemala jacqueline calls body is expected to arrive in her home village early on monday has father says jacqueline was sick when they were taken into custody by the u.s. border patrol. the political crisis in nicaragua is deepening as president continues to crackdown on his critics now a national law banning dissent has pushed nicaraguans to find alternative forms of protest such as odd man or apollo inmates one such artist from the capital managua who has 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 says with few civil liberties many government critics have turned to art. how bad the crisis has been the positive side is that it has sparked 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 won't 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. 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 are to scandalize yet to be read says art gives people a way to express themselves when there's 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 in it for you. are a lot of you 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 cat i was president then you know what they got 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 an artistic statement in a country where words of dissent are not allowed madrid up a low. the top stories rescue workers are 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 there was no

warning of the approaching tsunami and indonesia's president says he's considering installing new detection systems. to check the 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 could no longer be used in the us president has announced that deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will take over from james masters on january first donald trump announced the change in a tweet pushing mantis from office two months earlier than planned matt has resigned on thursday over trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria meanwhile trump says he has discussed the slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria with his turkish counterpart. agreed to prevent a power vacuum in northern syria after u.s. troops leave and has begun sending its army to the syrian border. sudanese police

of fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters had blocked a road in the capital khartoum the protesters gathered in the center of the city after a soccer match several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change of government. millions of people across the democratic republic of congo should have been voting this sunday to elect a new leader the poll to replace president joseph kabila has been put off for a week blamed on a fire that destroyed voting machines and ballot papers there have been protests over the latest delay with the election already two years behind schedule a partial u.s. government shutdown is likely to stretch into the new year after democrats refused to back funding of over five billion dollars for president trump's border war with mexico the political stalemate means numerous government departments no longer have any funding around eight hundred thousand federal workers have been left unpaid

over the christmas holiday those are the headlines join me here for more news after viewfinder do stay with us. on counting the cost two thousand and eight see the year the u.s. and china by trade tariffs gregg's it could be used to everyone and opec will review the year that was as new dynamics to shaping the global economy. counting the cost of. the. through the men's of no clue filmmakers around the globe.

the big . bone to pick. from a shark are people. in the lantern. are here now although i am only in.

the because. thank you. thank.

you to our bank of america. wrapping up our lives there and then i'm not about how i was thanks. ali i thought about found. you. you.

oh. better do. that and what better page. maybe. that's. should not under nine hundred. the new young. and do an album about. me any.

money on the market. will mean you'll find me no no one of the how the man. behind. the new me but. in my hundred gentlemanly guru challenge a couple who hired and i had a crush on that not among the behind. me a former i'm going from memory the full. and the much they knew a fruitful room and the gum bottle out from. them on the monkey.

function under playing in the. cotton out on the night out i'm dumb one. i hit it calmly harder and harder. to move the ball in the. war and now to simply. lie down mr ananda on the more. modern among comes down. blah. blah and now the. minute you clowns have musharaff. i'm fine i'm fine. a gang.

good is a land of unspoiled virgin beauty and full to the roar of pacific equal so who are a package of development that would initially cover twelve thousand nine hundred twenty three had. all the sun in the. discuss a good one so a twenty five metre deep natural harbor which can accommodate large ships capable of being a pork for trance shipment while the international airport would draw the rest of asia. your point here and that's about the. moment that i live in new york

but i will. read a book you know better than an equal bunch of them in your book now read raw you are in for one set at me with the legal rights. it would preserve the base of preserving we had. some of us will come here and it will generate eating might be nice and we're investing is good so i'm going to when i'm in pain but i think i want to be either media or i'm going by what i said would you be so buying i'm not in a month i mean i don't know when i'm going to something she doesn't want to but you know. i don't know one of the assistant the me who's you know now says that we are it will be important i mean that we're not in the past not. not now you know what needs to go so i give it to me you consist of the me. will you send me to be honest i did you call me dad got to have a unique thing. for me to find a girl. people.

thought i should out of. a united sometimes i love i'm from portugal plan no no no i shan't come up. number one i mean what i don't know about more about fashion. but we're now in a pretty short. when the finale for. me sad. if we can get the thought that you are not

didn't do you most. a lot of. good will know i'm going to trust. marina sherman did no one around the way. shall i do in my. room on being deep to my looking. at oaklawn look when do you. knock a cute couple before you put the moonshine i had a cold. for you you know i did and you know you got that. greatly. being up to to do that looking up the money percent. but it to. do not go whining and. nodding to it didn't run along. a good one. i've come.

to you to question you. at a cocktail hour you will be full bore you too. are you i'm not a missionary i've been out on the line i think grantham is about porsche and i will go into medicine or house. by you in the whole globe i'm not sure chandra. here we've had nearly ready to implode. but you will need a bubble. indeed. i do. feel i mean in the letters that when i. often do no longer get our. facts

. about. russia more will be going on with it going on. and they shouldn't or iraq and i love. i don't. i don't. bother so not go. there. do. you. think.