the chairman of joint chiefs of staff who gives the military advice more than the secretary who tend to focus more on the managerial question when he first entered office says he didn't have much of a policy background he inexpensive a sense of managerial experience but as he himself has said over the past year and a half years learned a lot both from secretary madison and from his involvement in various issues so he's probably very up to date and skilled in being a business person president from seem 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 do they perhaps cut back a bit or increase spending on certain areas and meanwhile trump says he's 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 and president

about iran is threatening to strike the y p g kurdish group and donald trump's just tweeted about that withdrawal saying president one of turkey has very strongly informed me that he will eradicate what is left of isis in syria and he is a man who can do it plus turkey is right next door out troops are coming home to reuters journalists back in court and me to appeal against a jail time handed down in september while in and given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act they'd been investigating the killing of ten richenda muslims in rakhine state their lawyers say the pair was set up their convictions have been condemned and their trial regarded as a sham. sudanese police have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters blocked a road in the capital khartoum the protesters gathered in the center of the city for a soccer match they chanted freedom songs calling on president omar al bashir to step

down several cities are under emergency rule as protesters demand a change in government the protests are now into their fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country and doctors have now gone on a definite strike heaping more pressure on the government here morgan reports from . driving his minivan is the only way. to living he says taking passengers around used to bring in enough money but with the fuel crisis in sudan that's no longer the case. we can stay from the day before work 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 by 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. this crisis can't be left to the government 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 onto their own part on whether is up next but still ahead on al-jazeera homelessness at record levels in britain that six hundred people dying on the streets in the past year. there's plenty of quiet weather across the middle east at the moment we're seeing a little bit of cloud a drift its way down across parts of turkey and that will. continue its journey eastwards as we head through the next twenty four hours will say so some raid out of add in some snow as well but is the next system we've really got to watch because that one is of

a slightly more aggressive say for the northern policy of turkey and to cruise through into greece very very wet and windy during the day on tuesday with some heavy downpours and a fair amount of snow around as well the towards the south and here in doha it's become breezy i'm cool with a maximum temperature of around twenty two degrees on monday and it looks like there won't be a great deal of change as we head into cheese day either for the south in so long that it is a little bit milder here on my some in temperature will be getting to around twenty seven for the southern parts of africa more wet weather here and the rain is looking particularly heavy from angola all the way across into madagascan this system is set to stick around as we head through monday and into choose day to the south of all of that there's a good deal of dry weather but still the risk of one of the two thunderstorms pop sparking off during the day thanks to the heat pretty hot of it around thirty two degrees deborah may see one or two showers as well twenty nine hour maximum is cooler in cape town with a temperature of twenty two. young

african footballers are travelling to thailand in hopes of becoming professional players but they risk discrimination and exploitation. when east investigates thailand's football factory on al-jazeera and. the democratic republic of congo is finally heading to the polls after a two year delay do we announce the winner of this already controversial presidential election join us for special coverage of the aussies election on al-jazeera.

welcome back. a reminder about top stories this hour indonesia's president has been visiting the survivors of saturday's toonami disaster. promise to update tsunami detection systems to two hundred eighty one people were killed in. the u.s. president has announced his deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will take over from james not. resigned in protest over donald trump's sudden decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. protests in sudan have entered a fifth day forcing schools and universities to shut down across the country the protests were triggered by bread and fuel price rises doctors have also gone on indefinite strike keeping more pressure on the government. millions of people across the democratic republic of congo should have been voting on sunday to elect a new leader the pole to replace president has been pushed 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 catherine so is in the capital kinshasa with more on the logistics needed to hold the election. four million people are meant for the our country now which is a big relief to many people the voting machine that had been. holed up in. a technician programming them now working material meant for. the country are in the. regional headquarters they will be your robin or to the various. banks to the politicians as well but that another. country that. has very poor infrastructure we're talking about places that you cannot get using up here or even

a bicycle you have to walk and this is also the rainy season of some 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 just 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 actually 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 it's causing a lot of concern here apostle u.s. government shutdown is likely to stretch into the new year the democrats refuse to back funding a billion dollars the president trumps border war with mexico that political stalemate means numerous government departments no longer have any sunday around eight hundred thousand federal workers have been left unpaid over the christmas

holiday senate approval is needed to any deal to break the deadlock but it's been adjourned until thursday homelessness in the u.k. has reached a record high with about one hundred seventy thousand families and individuals affected versus government figures show nearly six hundred homeless people died over the past year the 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 it's come down to say goodnight 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 will do for the only thing that on the league defensive. judo 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 have died in recent years were men and their average age was forty for the 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 some way 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 this 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 no 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 a good thing she. charging local charity to. be based here for several days i don't have to worry about. striking a boat if the law means it 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. mexico's new president is facing a backlash for delivering on

a campaign promise some work as everyone still legal challenge after all this manual lopez obrador cuts gallop government salaries including his own town hall the reports from mexico city has been it all started with this from excuse new president you know without it we can't have a rich government and poor people that's why the government stopped salaries are going down. he's practicing what he preaches slashing his own salary by more than half and forcing others in the public sector to cut those two by next year's budget lopez obrador is more in a party has majority in congress and is backing his plans deputies and senators have reduced some of their own lucrative perks you're going to get is necessary but i think it's necessary that we have an equilibrium between what a public servant and working person earns many have said that it's about training and we don't argue with that but a construction worker or night guard works longer and harder. it is no cuts the

president's promising raises for the lowest paid public sector workers those who earn less than a thousand dollars a month but not everyone's on board with the changes will them five thousand civil servants have launched legal appeals the supreme court's also waited in temporarily suspending cuts for the judiciary and some other institutions but critics say the judges themselves are part of mexico's gaping wage inequality the end around seventeen times that of the average worker this measure from the president schools a lot of debate from here in congress down to the streets for a lot of people a really happy at the what they see as an entitle political class and public sector a finally going to get their salaries slashed other people say this could open the door to corruption and a brain drain to the private sector. anti 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. hall the political crisis the nicaragua is deepening as president daniel ortega continues to crackdown on his critics now a national law banning dissent has pushed nicaraguans to find alternative forms of protest such as money or appollo inmates one such artist from the capital has 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 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 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. 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'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 when i can't pay you. are a lot of oh 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 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. i missed the attainder hall and these are the top stories indonesia's president has been visiting the survivors of saturday's tsunami disaster joko widodo has promised to update tsunami detection systems after two hundred eighty one people were killed

and more than a thousand were injured in indonesia a second such disaster this year. 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 u.s. president has announced that deputy defense secretary patrick shanahan will take over from james masses on january first donald trump announced the change in a tweet pushing matters from office two months earlier than planned but has resigned on thursday over trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria meanwhile trump says he's discussed the slow and highly coordinated withdrawal of u.s. troops from syria with his turkish counterpart said that russia has vowed to eradicate what's left of iceland syria has begun sending its army to the syrian border to reuters journalists are back in court in myanmar to appeal against

a jail term handed down in september. were given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act they've been investigating the killing of ten range of muslims in rakhine state their lawyers say the pair was set up their convictions have been globally condemned and their trial regarded as a sham sudanese police a five tear gas to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters who 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 who should have been voting on sunday to elect a new leader the pole to replace president joseph kabila has been pushed off for a week blamed on a fire that destroyed voting machines and ballot papers there have been protests over the latest in a with the election already two years behind schedule that is all the headlines the

news continues here on al-jazeera the one o one east thailand's football factory you can find much more about how the top story and the stories on our website. we wanted forty three billion pounds worth of weaponry that was six billion pounds income if. there is no and then more because there's always a small kabul people for really really good business. in essence we in the united states have privatized the old public function more shadow on al-jazeera. young west african football there is are leaving their homes and loved ones behind and heading to iowa where. they arrive with nothing but their talent

and a dream to make it as a professional player. but the competition to get on the field is intense and discrimination and exploitation is all too common. i'm steve on this opposite of what i when used we meet aspiring african footballers as we try to make it in time lines big league. lamenting closure of the room which would feel cool and off on to move. up as a fish at the other the battle for them along with their own zone with the bottom unit of the bottle appraiser thing in five days and then you know what within us what would it go for a place to make you. say

it is a muffin love us and it was and i got yes i think it's all or not oh you know i'm not there is that us off the counter they had one. job as best you nobody. in this job uncle fred if i'm going to. see you now put in the show up and. get him out of the alley easy your way to much and coming to you made me feel they've got to get on the club. was using the fencing as it was about to take the technical news of the vehicle new to evade the fed me in the bias and.

tessa roof first arrived in buying call one month ago here he shares a room with fellow army to football is. there any doubt if you do want to. get in office now then why are you for. such a nice because i'm a fair positive way as often and i did it in a much as your employer doesn't offer you a jump an idea i'm going to use and then when i say they did shift it pushes. because it's in their condo in new york their own decision and if. someone hires residents. after myself and through to them at this process and tasa route took out a fifteen hundred euro loan for this trip and entered the country on a tourist visa. he has two months left to get signed by a club. tessa

roux is one of several hundred foreign armatures trying their luck in thailand the country is on the cusp of becoming a major footballing nation in ten years it has created a homegrown footballing enterprise comprised of four professional divisions supported by around one hundred clubs. the salaries can be as high as ten thousand euros a month. the youth has turned from boxing to embrace the beautiful game of every inspiring success stories there are plenty left behind. just north of the capital one team is fighting for survival. the lucky son. the lucky son isa's children is named as

a tribute to the country's poorest region. after being relegated to the fourth division between is now trained by foreign coach. bozeman shareef good. has spoken thai is perfect albeit with a give me an accent. jerry is next professional himself now turned asian football pioneer is i don't buy it you get long. island and you know i'm going. i mean. you know. if. i left is the more. you gain the less. earning six hundred fifty euros a month push shareef

a long way behind manchester united's manager. but he does lay claim to the title of tomlin's first professional coach of african descent along like they don't sit there but if. you. could the time london my good is going to do goofy mooney's ome i'm no good at that but. go memoirs and speaking. with us you know man i say do these go see this actually i'm going to go. see me long and then let them go. i know it's. a long. leg you know as i see happening lookee son have the smallest budget in the fourth division around one hundred fifty thousand euros this pace is sonorous of twenty five players

a mix of thai and international talent as well as the coach and his star limone along. tall. i know. him i found full enough and he. does go up in front of them on this and if. it's only keep it may keep under one. currently holding fifth place in the championship the team could still win promotion to the next division am i not coming out of p.t. the team steward propose a meal for the end of each training session. and. it's a welcome recreational break for the two zero zero zero zero. zero

zero after the. i don't know if you are wrong. and i mean did you know that why would. anybody in your article know. if you don't know even if you know you're worth it if they're under. the by. if they did more than one and more than that with no matter. how. thailand has a southeast asia's second biggest economic power and its business class have ploughed investment into football. the national league is already listed at sixty million euros on the stock exchange. forty four year old.

is a successful market speculators and has amassed considerable personal wealth. and you get a. retreat if you do that you can highlight you. know you kind of people if it. sits on the boards of several companies is also from the time to invest in a football club as the owner of the lucky sign they. are. well you have a. whole. to be done tom de lay who needs other than paul good day there were clearly of the good it would. get arrogant. since it's relegation to the fourth

division the lookee san has lost all of its sponsors leaving conan to finance the club alone. god knows when i'm on the phantom team the. team. hall of the team lead which i you will not be able man highline well and then stops on and if a tie if a nickel bowman in latin bought into town in that's on line they've been a lot longer than. that on high seed on to go up in some of the mc behind the no one. despite these financial issues still managed to find the money to buy some form of stars of the first division a guinea and striker under defender from sierra leone. he also sends coach sharif to scout for fresh talent in the stadiums of bangkok. eat. and.

drink make. later that night in rum command an homage to tournament is underway shareef m.p.t. are on the lookout for a diamond in the rough. something of. on display is a mixture of both toy and foreign players. while its. players from the ivory coast cameroon and guinea are in abundance in order to avoid oh no no no. i'm good from tunisia. but. coach sharif is known to most of the african players here to.

be clogged and it's. a lonely. war. you need to deal with it and. he says there. is. symbolism. of competition amongst the african players as tough with those in the terraces weren't able to earn a place in the tournament like peter kenyon in a dire situation. having arrived in thailand on a tourist visa he was exploited by his club manages the one crying gorge conducted nearly as if i have it drug industry or the whole of the world it cooling her mood will be two o'clock in store again to do our much work there but i didn't leave for the five for as as long.