as an eagle flies overhead surveying the scene below for more than three decades i don't just forty one plans that include steel electricity cement and footless appliance i've been idle despite the soviet era mattress or lety being ninety five percent complete but change appears to be finally on the way we've tried to put the governance structure of the structure in place a compact on my efficient structure to enable us carry out our responsibilities and what we're sure we're doing is to ensure that there is a periodic driver on a monthly basis the parliament has pushed legislation through to fund its completion this government is one this is a mission and the right tool ensure that. walks before the end of this administration it's estimated that six hundred to seven hundred million dollars would be enough to complete the project but parliament has approved one billion dollars that has also triggered

a sudden interest from investors whether the funds come from the side of government or lot there are a special interest for so many companies and ten ukraine russia. are some of the european countries the plan steam powered electricity generators will soon contribute seventy megawatts to the nation's grid it will become one of africa's biggest deal plans producing up to ten million tons of steel each year while this massive plant lay dormant i south korean company with a similar sized plant built a year later by the same soviet union engineers has grown to become one of the four largest producers in the world with revenues of about fifty billion dollars a year but after more than three decades corrupt government officials and their lobbyist mature but they are still company never took off. the machine tools section is

a busiest here engineers are designing and producing machine spares but customer demand especially from government on factories is for externally though most facilities including the conveyor belt need an overhaul of the rail system including the locomotives and trucks are still waiting to be used although the drudge report two hundred kilometers of rail link two hundred kilometers of internal roads and rail networks have been completed access to some iron ore mining sites is still a challenge while the company with still more 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 process comedy drees al-jazeera i just couldn't nigeria. we got a lot more to come here it is there including i have the latest from bethlehem as

christians get ready to celebrate christmas plus. making music together the venezuelans who arrived in argentina with little except their instruments. hello there is a very quiet weather wise across the northern parts of asia at the moment is also a role that chilly for many of us as well with pyongyang only getting to around five of course in tokyo will be getting to eight the temperatures will be rising there as we head into wednesday so tokyo should get up to around twelve degrees instead for the west there it's definitely staying cool for xenu and but so with a maximum of minus twenty six but night we're dropping down to around minus thirty five it really is very cold here for the southeastern parts of china plenty of fine

dry weather to be found on choose day but on wednesday the clouds will be building so for many of us three who bay through and he and out towards shanghai the cloud will be thick enough to give a few outbreaks of rain and some of them could turn out to be rather heavy should be dry towards the south or hong kong getting to around twenty five for time rondo a few more showers here particularly if you're in the north all the east a bit further towards the south and the showers here over the south china sea it just tracking the way towards viet nam at the moment and vietnam looking pretty wet for choose day and wednesday and on wednesday we've also got to watch this system here that seems to be developing to the east of the philippines it will take a while before it tracks its way towards the philippines but it does look like eventually it will make landfall here and give us some rather severe weather.

hoping for better living standards and security the people of bangladesh will cast their vote in the general election with special coverage from across the country we'll assess what direction the nation could take. bangladesh elections on al-jazeera. let's have a look at the top stories here of al-jazeera a cause in pakistan a sentence former prime minister nawaz sharif to seven years in prison sharif along with his daughter and son in law was jailed earlier this year on corruption charges

relating to the purchase of luxury properties in london. at least two hundred eighty one people have died after saturday's tsunami swept along the strait and crashed twenty meters in and without warning rescue teams are working around the clock in search of survivors president joko widodo has promised to upgrade tsunami detection systems. trade unions in sudan are calling for a general strike aimed at paralyzing the government this comes after police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital hard to on saturday night. now the u.s. treasury treasury has taken extraordinary steps to ease investors' nerves following a week of heavy losses in the financial markets seaven minnich in held one on one phone calls with the heads of the six largest u.s. banks and he convened the president's working group on financial markets is known as the plunge protection team and it was first created following the market crash

of one nine hundred eighty seven the group was reconvened in two thousand and nine when the sub prime mortgage crisis hit the. well to come to me let's go live now to a correspondence you have a times use in washington d.c. it sounds very much as though these are extraordinary times yet again for this focus group to have been reconvened and in fact steve knew she making these phone calls to the heads of banks or that meeting is expected later on today monday in the u.s. christmas eve that involves steve neutron the secretary of the treasury the federal reserve chair the chair of the f.c.c. the chair of the commodity futures exchange commission it's it's almost comical there because if this is meant to reassure markets it appears to have had the opposite effect although having said that the early trading before the market opens is up by about point four two percent the futures are up a little bit but certainly the consensus in social media and in the media generally was this call to the heads of the six biggest banks from

a mexican beach steve newton was actually in cabo san lucas on his all of it but he makes this call on a sunday then releases a statement saying everything is fine as actually worried people even more because if people were worried about the stock market so that happened up to that point worried about fundamental problems in the banking system but that's what this school was about on sunday and see which and released a statement saying don't worry we talked to the c.e.o.'s of the six largest banks they said they had ample liquidity available they have not experienced any clearance or margin issues and that markets continue to function properly but all have been worried about equity problems liquidity problems in the banking system now the word well maybe there is a banking crisis rather than a stock market crisis so this actually hasn't helped at all. if it was it was meant to calm people down it's actually now got people wondering whether there's a larger problem in the banking system and it's not just about the stock market so that right something like that but it's i mean what we what we do know is that the markets don't like uncertainty and there has been a fairly heavy plunge on the markets across the board hasn't there do we have an

idea as to what is the what's giving them the gist is what's giving investors the gist is. what were the steps a host of factors from the global economic slowdown or fears of a global economic slowdown a further economic slowdown but then we also have the donald trump trade war with china we have the government shutdown now in the u.s. which is likely to extend into the new year and we have all the rumors that donald trump wants to fire the federal reserve chief drome power in the minutes and tweeted again over the weekend about that which kind of added to people's worries as well because he's least he's just well that trumps doesn't think he has the right the legal right to fire the federal reserve chief that's over necessarily been tested before but he did certainly confirm that donald trump is having conversations about firing the federal reserve chief so that's actually added a little bit to worries as well because you never know even though minutes and says look i've we were to have talked him out of it it's donald trump you never know so these are all these all of the various factors involved here and then on top of it

now all fears of a banking crisis which actually no one really did have before as a result of stephen newton's statement so you've got plenty of concern plenty of potential for concern for the markets and it's only half a day of trading today on christmas eve but it will be interesting to see what happens but you know what the futures are up so you have a time the live in washington thank you. the head of a u.n. mission tiles with monitoring the fragile cease fire in yemen has arrived in the crucial point port city of her day there retired dutch general patrick come at met government representatives in the southern city of aden before talks with his leaders in the capital sanaa they were over the weekend but the ceasefire in her data so far is holding since it came into effect last to say there has been sporadic fighting between the sides yemen's warring parties had agreed to a truce in the strategic pull out during peace since we earlier this month mohammed

our days our correspondent he's been covering this conflict in yemen extensively. basically the would act as the eyes and ears of the united nations and the rest of the international community because international pressure is what is needed most to make not only this is for succeed but also the per. commit corral that come off with the drop in troops from the city of course today there is a key plank in the conflict in yemen the most important issue with it is because most of the aid and commercial goods of passing through the ports. it's vital for the survival of millions of yemen is and if this is fire and the troop withdraw from the city succeeds then that can be extended to places that is for example where there's been years of siege on it and other places where fighting

still rages on palestinians and pilgrims from around the world will be celebrating christmas in bethlehem preparations are well underway in the center square manger square where the patriarch of jerusalem has just arrived about four hundred christians from gaza were given permits to attend the celebrations but nearly half of all requests are rejected by israel our correspondent stephanie decker has the latest from bethlehem. manger square is starting to put up with policy pressure to come out also from israel from gaza those who are given hartnett's their tourists here there was a pilgrimage to come from across the world to be here to celebrate the birth of jesus christ of course christians believe that he's born inside the church of the nativity but. indicate. that church. at scouts now writing these are coming from different areas different towns and

villages. now this northern anticipation of the arrival of the archbishop. who will be making its way from the truth. here to batman having also first remember this is. right now the patient is the only take care that it's wrong and main gate to the right now the archbishop to make that judgment that it was a carriage it's one of the senate races at all so it's a economic it's a better time for serious visitors it's hard work which is something that policy is to tell you yes but. mr building it is a real best of care people are getting ready to celebrate the birth of jesus christ over two thousand years ago. south korea's government is hitting german carmaker b.m.w. with a ten million dollar fine and there's finally a criminal complaint against the company b.m.w.

is accused of deliberately covering up technical problems that led to several engine b.m.w. recall of more than a house hundred seventy thousand models and issued an apology earlier this year south korea's charles what ministry though says they didn't act fast enough b.m.w. denies the defects and said it's recalled because in a timely manner. two reuters journalists are back in court in miramar to appeal against a jail term handed down in september while loan and child so were given seven years behind bars for breaking the official secrets act they've been investigating the killing of ten ranger muslims in iraq try and state their lawyers say the pair were set up their convictions have been globally condemned with their trial regarded as a sham. a partial u.s. 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

it means numerous government departments no longer have any funding centers approval is needed for any deal to break the deadlock but it's been adjourned until thursday. the body of a seven year old girl who die you died while seen u.s. border patrol custody as arrived back in guatemala jacqueline charles body is to be handed over to her family in her home village her father says jacqueline was sick when they were taken into custody by the u.s. border patrol earlier this month. more than two million venezuelans escaping economic crisis have resettled in countries across south america in argentina for example some are resorting to music to cope with the difficulties of being away from home today as a bird has met some of them in one insider's. tradition an argentine tango music with of innocent men twist. the news came to win

a scientist who escaped the crisis in venezuela now a member of this band it makes her feel just a bit closer to home everyone said i'm out of my left because when my baby was born i was afraid he could die because we couldn't find medicine that's why we came here now playing here helps to stay united and we will all take care of each other as a family. this is the latin box machine the band members met him when a site is by chance in venezuela they were part of a program known as the system it was set up. in the one nine hundred seventy s. and used to music to attract thousands of innocent children away from a life in crime and poverty you know can i don't say i'm not for it that the message of this bad is that in spite of the difficulty and the suffering of all the problems we face we never have to stop fighting for what we love and we are all musicians at heart. it is food many of those in the band

got their start in argentina playing in they want to cite us metro systems six months ago sis had arrived in the capital he still plays in the metro to help make ends meet. and it was part of my destiny we all left for different reasons but finding ourselves as part of the miracle in the bonds no there's also people from other countries we all learned to see things differently since we left our whole. musicians who came to argentina from venezuela arrived here with little except their instruments the sound they make has made it possible for them to start a new life millions of venice wayland's are fleeing the direct anomic situation in their countries and coming to argentina brazil parole and quite a lot of the members of the band say that they're working with the united nations refugee agency. to shed light on the problems faced by those who are forced to leave their countries behind. argentina has an open arms policy towards migrants

but the situation is not the same elsewhere is that the time has come once again for latin america and the americans of the continent to continue an ornery in the tradition of sawyer are three of brother and sister hood in the sense that we would have stem protection to all those who need it either if they come from venezuela nicaragua or the countries or the north of central america. music is a universal language and those venezuelans who make it happen to way to sustain themselves in argentina but they say they dream of the day they can again play their music back home. is having to see that when a scientist. or a terrorist to take a look at the top stories here a court in pakistan has sentence former prime minister now or sharif to seven years

in prison sharif along with his daughter and son in law were jailed earlier this year on corruption charges relating to the purchase of luxury properties in london . at least two hundred eighty one people have died after saturday's tsunami swept along the sound strait and crashed twenty metres inland without warning rescue teams are working around the clock to search for survivors president djoko widow has promised to upgrade tsunami detection systems turkey says it's working with several countries to take an investigation into the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi to the united nations the announcement came from the forum in a certain news conference cheeriness he's also demanded riyadh share its findings on the case with the international community was killed inside the saudi culture that in istanbul only three months ago. trade unions in sudan are calling for a general strike aimed at paralyzing the government this comes after police fired

tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in the capital hard to move on saturday nights the protests were triggered by a shortage of fuel and bread. the body of a seven year old girl who died whilst in u.s. border patrol custody has arrived back in guatemala jacqueline call's body is to be handed over to have family in her home village her father says gently lisick when they were taken into custody by the u.s. border patrol earlier this month. the pentagon has given the green light signing off on the withdrawal of u.s. military forces from northern syria it comes after turkey's president better one spoke with president trump mr trump says president had one informed him he will eradicate whatever is left of isis in syria palestinians and pilgrims from around the world are celebrating christmas in that they have preparations are underway in manger square where the patriarch of jerusalem has arrived about four hundred

christians from girls who were given permits to attend the celebrations inside stories next. headlines for weeks. on. who killed. the prime suspect. story.

to the program. shocked the world and drew international outrage demanded answers from the saudi kingdom with turkey leading the calls. eighteen saudi suspects extradited to istanbul to stand trial and says he's determined to find out who gave the order to kill believing it came from the highest levels of the saudi government. as time goes by the office the case might be. the fallout from casualties made has been felt in different parts of the world saudi arabia has revamped its intelligence services and fired two senior officials with al asiri and south africa tunney who are accused of being behind the fifteen man hit squad sent to istanbul

both were close to mohammed bin some none of the u.s. senate last week blamed the crown prince for the murder off the cia reportedly concluded he ordered that the united states which has provided military support for the coalition fighting the war in yemen has the kingdom to end hostilities them and earlier this month a ceasefire was agreed between the yemeni government and who think rebels in the port of her data thank you with end the discussion and joining us here on inside story to do so from anchorage we have no can buy a bureau chief for the daily sabah in london sami handy as to in chief of international interest and from miami via skype robert gucci associate professor at lancaster university a very warm welcome to all of you and now let's start with you how's the quest for justice over the murder of jamal khashoggi lost it's been mental. actually i don't

see any indicator to make this conclaves in. terms of losing memory momentum for and the perspective of from the perspective of turkish government so let's look at the prison that runs latest words in the center fourteen during the oil sea meeting so prisoner and on was so decisive on the trial and the dollar evidences and the whole process will be clear as much as two months ago when the actually the murder what took place in istanbul so prison and on again said that in on the line that the whole evidence is and the whole stabs throughout the murder will be rebuild step by step by the turkish government so turkish government and turkey doesn't have any hesitation to bring up the bill evidences or request the insisting that request and the men demand from the saudi government to

shed light on the case but as you say that was december fourteenth that was ten days ago we've had very little since then of course events carry on and overtake events such as the. weather we next going to hear from turkey on this. so as you mentioned doing ten days. been a lot of things actually turkey has been going trip about the syria about the other national security interests about the why p.g. and syrian border but again i would like to point out that turkey doesn't doesn't seem at least as we have observed me as a journalist doesn't seem that turkey will step back in any action to put pressure on saudi government internally and internationally i have to underline that internationally because the investigation still underway and ongoing the leading

but lead led by a stumble prosecutor the chief or secures office so again sulfide we have seen request of extradition from the saudi government of fifteen suspects of the murder and again the president add on's wordings on that v. no we know that all relevant to do this murder. will be revealed and we know they are the closest aides to m.p.'s so from that point from that's facts that turkey doesn't seem much to step back or losing him a man of him to put more pressure on saudi government but the international backing needed on the ground now ok m.b.'s of course been sound on the crown prince of saudi arabia will certainly get back in just a moment to what turkey does next right now they will but i want to get an idea of to the extent you feel the issue has slipped off the agenda of world leaders well i

read through. president of the united states perspective as being a world leader is it took forever to get any traction you know donald trump talked about the situation the whole garon almost that the coverage is. it wasn't good enough and that the saudi officials should be ashamed that they were able to hide any involvement better than they did these other movements by the united states. withdrawing you know support for the yemen war that's been going that were going on for years and just now they're interested in having a discussion about u.s. involvement in it than saying to do with the r.c.l. so saudi arabia you know connecting this back to this journalist murder you know it's becoming a distraction point donald trump doesn't want this to go any further we don't know

what information is going to come out about what the president knew about this when he knew about it so so from united states perspective there isn't going to be a lot of interest and help in the international community understand what truly happened the prince could walk up to donald trump into the cia and say yeah i did it myself and i don't know that they would believe him i don't i don't know they want to believe what's happened and so for the international the international community is on their own on this one ok and that's i mean do you think it's good that we have more information for the state that is to be revealed will it be with failed so is this more of a case of of being case closed. i think we have to look at the bigger picture here from the perspective that when the turkey was pursuing the shoulder case and putting out these leaks there was a clear intention from turkey to try to come out of isolation to try to convince the u.s. to come onboard to try to convince the u.s.

to abandon one hundred been selma and i think the release of the pastor in the early days was a sign of goodwill a sign of a gesture but it seems trump disliked the idea that the turkish president of iran was a strong arming him essentially trying to force donald trump to choose between turkey and between saudi arabia trying to force donald trump to abandon one hundred been so many let's remember donald trump in the early days he was saying look guys why my going to give a hundred and ten billion one hundred eighty billion however much it is of contracts for somebody who wasn't even a u.s. citizen so i think with the gusher the shoji case i think it was from the polygamist this was always going to come of the political perspective not necessarily the legal the reason why i say this is because from a legal perspective turkey has to prove that mohammed bin cement gave the order directly over according to the leaks there are a lot of implications definitely that perhaps give more than a reasonable beyond reasonable doubt that mohammed bin solomon knew about it but nothing yet to say that he gave the actual order and that's what's needed in order to prove that mohamed bin cement was involved moreover there is

a very interesting twist in the coverage of the shoji case that actually took place a couple of days ago there is a very interesting article in the washington post that discusses how shocked activities within his last days notably that he was trying to secure funding from the saudis from the qatar foundation trying to set up a think tank trying to find some door back to the government in the sense that we needed this is what we think the saudis we need this think tank in order to try to disassociate saudi arabia from accusations of terrorism this is a very interesting article to be published at this moment in time because although it doesn't feel like trying to put a stain on the show does memory it's certainly very interesting in that it changes the perspective that has been made the shoghi as an angel as a defender of of freedom of speech and reform in saudi arabia to somebody who. there's still within that framework of operating within that particular world and i think this article is very interesting because it shows a shift in the public attitude towards the case let's remember the only reason it was on the table for so long is because of the turkey leaks because turkey was so

insistent on going after one hundred percent but when you look at the bigger picture no one would be so many got his public hi-fi from vladimir putin when he went to the g. twenty in turkey has come out of isolation trump is now was drawing from syria and turkey now has the green light to go after the wipe e.g. in northern syria and there is a definite warming of relations between us and washington and again convince trump where. his suit is superceded john bolton's advice trunk took evidence advice over john bolton's advice with regards to syria in terms of turkey politically it's out of isolation it's got what it wants in syria mohammed bin so learned his reforms have been damaged and again status has gone up in the arab and muslim world my hope is so low a bit wounded but at the end of the day the reason is this did what i say is this politically the justice is more likely to come politically but not legally legally is much more difficult to prove and i don't know how much turkey has if what it has the definitive proof that muhammad is some an order that ordered the killing plenty

of questions being raised there no lessons first pick up on sammy's last point is there any more do you think does the government believe that's going to come out that is to be revealed that will create a direct link between the crown prince because of his murder yes i believe so in terms of that so far we have seen. we actually we received. from the speaking and speech of the pres now gone and foreign minister. that. turkey has more to prove that m.b.'s is playing a major role actually give the or gave the order of killing so we can we can take that. from the. speech in meeting so as long as harkin knows that the closest aides including qahtani wasn't taking place directly in this into this murder so turkey doesn't go further actually at this point at

this time to directly figuring out the. prince mohammed bin so mun so turkey doesn't want to pretend to be just politicly just playing a political ruined but you know why why we're holding that information if they do have that direct link and they've been very open about releasing other information in a drip drip method through to local media why they were holding the crucial link so probably turkey. expects more actually more backing from the other countries such as the united states from. european union or international. institutions such as united nations again since the beginning turkey's repeatedly saying that this trial needs to be held in an international court international institutions so.