of the support mechanism we created together because i happen to live in creeks somehow imus and i'm a bad person. that's machine on al-jazeera. to wrenshaw rain happens a search for survivors in indonesia and the number of dead from saturday's tsunami climbs to four hundred twenty nine. hello welcome to al-jazeera live from doha i'm also coming up increasing here is he in sudan's capital as demonstrators prepared to march on the president to demand an

end to his illness thirty year old. gunman and a suicide bomber attacked libya's foreign ministry at least four people including the attackers a killed in the capital tripoli. and escaping venezuela in search of food in colombia but an increasing number of indigenous people struggling to find the next meal. to ensure rain into these areas hampering the search for survivors a saturday's tsunami the number killed in western java has now risen to four hundred twenty nine and one hundred fifty four people still missing at sea experts share more tsunamis if the and that krakatoa volcano erupts again as andrew thomas reports from. the scenes in product line on the media

indonesians have seen lots of bass this year the drudgery of a cleanup following a disaster this is what remains of the hotel workers me at the end all day and we're greeting guests when the tsunami hits on saturday boat was swept inland by the water and were injured as they were tumbled it was terrifying but not completely unexpected. i saw what happened and i knew i just knew it would happen here i just didn't know when. alou is the city on indonesia's fourth largest audience struck by another tsunami and earthquake in september more than two thousand people don't like that and two major earthquakes killed more than five hundred people in the eastern island of lombok a few months ago so just and volcanologists say the amounts of tectonic activity in indonesia in twenty eighteen hasn't been particularly unusual what is on usual is

that the areas destroyed were heavily populated increasing the number of victims that's meant a very busy year for emergency services and aid organizations that help survivors pretty decisively december and beyond our planning yeah so that say we as the red cross are getting the rest of it is in to assist us and they also collect money over and and under not enough to fight this and not thaw and they're not in the north. hundred lan is now in the first stage of a disaster recovery process that is more advanced in other parts of indonesia it's almost as if this right which is we make constant since the tsunami hits if mocking people up on the ground i think try to clear up and dry out bad lives but it will clear and like it will improve that's little comfort right now but the narrative in indonesia is a familiar one under thomas al jazeera tanika sudan's government has stepped up

security in the capital khartoum as it prepares for more protests a coalition of professional groups has called on people to join a rally to demand a change in leadership president omar al bashir promised to implement what he calls real reforms to improve living standards across the country a bit more than has the latest from khartoum. people seem to be mobilizing but other side is also mobilizing specifically the police we've been out in the streets about thirty minutes ago and everywhere you go around khartoum you would find a group of policemen carrying their batons ready for the protesters in case they come out in the streets as they have promised carrying their memos demanding the president to resign now let's remember they are going to march from a certain square not far from the presidential palace and then they would head on to the presidential palace to deliver a memo demanding president omar al bashir to resign they will not find him there he's one of the he's in one of the states in the central east of the country just zero where he's going to or he's planning to open a project so they will not find him but they have been protesting over the past

seven days it started out as an economic protest over a shortage of fuel of a shortage of bread and over the rising cost of food commodities but it quickly escalated into a protest where people have been demanding the government to go and they've been demanding a new government the government is saying that they are not trying to attack the protestors they're not trying to respond to the protesters what they're trying to do is to make sure that these protesters do not harm public properties let's remember that the headquarters of the national congress party the ruling party around various states have been burned to the ground which is why they are curfews and states of emergency in various parts of the country which is why universities and high schools and the educational institute really has not been functioning because the government said that they don't want people gathering around to protest government and the suicide bomber in libya have attacked the foreign ministry headquarters in tripoli initial reports spoke of one of the attackers blowing himself up inside the compound the attackers killed at least two people would up to walk with as well from tripoli. official sources at the ministry of foreign affairs

say that two gunmen started shooting at the security forces securing the gate of the foreign ministry one started shooting at the security forces to distract the attention and the other managed to get inside the first one who was exchanging fire with the security forces was killed and another security individual was killed too the other attacker managed to get inside the building and blew himself up which killed one employee the foreign ministry and the fire was set in the in the building now security apparatus of the difference force managed to take control of the building and to evacuated the whole building also it's also securing the other governmental or neighboring governmental facilities now the special deterrence force says that the attackers may belong to

a terrorist group because this attack is similar to two terrorist attacks that targeted government facilities in the past the national election commission in may and the state oil for the national oil corporation in september turkey's foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to take back weapons given to kurdish fighters in northern syria turkish and u.s. troops began joint patrols last month in the area around the city of man beach in northern syria that was part of the agreement known as the man did road map for the withdrawal of the kurdish group the y.p. g. the government labels the y p g a terrorist group because of their links to kurdish groups seeking autonomy within turkey the why fiji has helped u.s. forces in their fight against isis then a harder has been following developments from gaza and have on the turkish side of

the border with sarah. we're getting more details really from turkish officials on what seems to have been agreed with the united states over the planned u.s. troop pullout from north east syria a u.s. military delegation will be an anchor this week to for further discussions and u.s. president donald trump making it clear this is not going to be a rapid pullout it will be slow and highly coordinated with turkey so these two nato allies are going to be working together the turkish foreign minister saying that the united states promised that it's going to take back the weapons that it provided to the syrian kurdish armed group why p.g. providing weapons to that group really has been a source of tension between the two countries turkey's foreign minister also saying that the united states promised to implement this so-called member road map that road map calls for the white p.g.d. to leave the city repeated delays for the implementation of that road map really caused tensions between the united states and turkey so what is emerging is

a more clearer picture it seems turkey wants the united states to hand over areas in northeast syria it would draw from to at least turkey's allies in syria because it believes the y. p.g. has taken control of arab lands exploited really the fight against eisold and taken a lot of land that is not rightfully theirs after announcing the withdrawal of u.s. troops from northern syria president trump says saudi arabia will help restore citizen have been destroyed by war the us president tweeted saudi arabia has now agreed to spend the necessary money needed to help rebuild syria instead of the united states see isn't it nice when immensely wealthy countries help rebuild their neighbors rather than a great country the us that's five thousand miles away thanks to saudi a reverend. president trump's tweet prompted more questions than

answers he didn't specify how much money saudi arabia would offer to rebuild syria when it would be given how it would be spent or most importantly who would receive the money well that's the big question is where exactly will this money go and i think that that obviously depends a lot on where saudi arabia wants it to go we can probably assume it's not going to go to the russians it's not going to go to the turks for where they're spending a lot on humanitarian aid for refugees and it's going to go somewhere else and it may not go to the assad regime either and in october the saudi government delivered one hundred million dollars to the u.s. for syrian reconstruction but troops tweek seem to imply more money would now be forthcoming trump has frequently complained about u.s. expenditures abroad and berated allies like the nato countries in south korea for not spending enough on defense alternately he boasts about striking deals to save

the u.s. money five hundred thirty three million dollars monday's friendly tweet thanking the saudis is symptomatic of trump's enthusiastic attitude toward the kingdom he shrugged off the conclusions of his own intelligence agencies that saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon most likely ordered the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. trump said saudi arms purchases and its strategic partnership with the us outweighed international condemnation of the killing and they see saudi arabia as a strategic partner in the region and trumpet certainly gone out maybe kind of on on the fence to defend that strategic partners ship and now he's saying look we are still committed to you now you've got to step up and do what needs to be done one thing is certain after seven years of a devastating civil war that is still underway an estimated half a million people killed and about five million syrians forced to flee their country

syrians badly need vast amounts of aid whether they will get it and from whom remain unanswered questions robert oulds al jazeera washington. in china at least five people have been killed when a bus rounded to pedestrians in the southeastern city of long gun the bus was reportedly hijacked by a man armed with a knife he was arrested at the scene more than twenty people were injured police are investigating the suspects maintenance. lots more to come here out there including bases in the democratic republic of congo get ready for an election that's been delayed time and again. cataloguing the checkered past of an entire continent our new museum in senegal wants to right the wrong to slavery.

hello again i do want to start this hour up here towards north asia we are seeing some very cold conditions across much of mongolia if you look at the satellite image all that white that you see there is not clouds it's actually the satellite picking of the very cold temperatures on land and a little bit higher on wednesday reaching a high of minus twenty six overnight lows anywhere between minus thirty to minus thirty five there when still fairly calm across much of that area for japan though we are going to see some rain showers here on wednesday by the time we get to thursday we do expect to see the temperatures dropping and more snow particularly the higher elevations and die a temperature few of only five so we could see some rain and snow in your forecast tokyo item to a few of about twelve degrees well across china knowledge into much in terms of rain over the next few days things are looking quite nice across much of the region for hong kong we do expect to see winds coming out of the north east twenty six degrees for you there shanghai though you will see

a rain shower or two in your forecast but by the time we get towards thursday the rain is out of the picture but the temperatures are also coming down to about seven degrees there over here towards taipei it is going to be a most cloudy day for you at twenty degrees and then very quickly over here across the philippines we are watching a tropical system out here in the pacific and that is going to bring some very heavy rain across much of the philippines midweek. a policy imposed decades ago woman part but she would still look to be goods and boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences for creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree distro zation our money to get other people to be the services out there examines the politics of population control.

time visit take a look at the headlines here at al-jazeera to reza rein in and in these areas hampering the search for survivors of saturday's tsunami the number of dead in less than java has now climbed to four hundred twenty nine with one hundred fifty four people still missing experts fear more tsunamis a possible if the and that volcano erupts again. sudan's government has stepped up security in the capital khartoum ahead of more expected protests many people are demanding a change in leadership president. valid to improve living standards across the

country. in libya. killed in an attack by government and. they targeted the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital tripoli. japan's main stock market has fallen five percent as investors reacted to wall street. shareholders are worried by donald trump's criticism of the federal reserve along with the u.s. government shutdown and trade tensions with china but the president isn't taking any of the blame. from new york. the closing bell couldn't ring fast enough on monday market selloff continued with the dow losing more than six hundred points and nearly three percent the worst christmas eve drop ever by far it continues to decline that's been going on for more than a month. until monday the worst drop on the day before christmas was one thousand nine hundred eighty five when it dropped half a percentage point markets hate uncertainty but now when wall street looks to

washington there getting that plus unpredictability here is what has the markets worried a partial government shutdown that some are predicting could last into two thousand one thousand frets of increased terrorist back and forth between china and the u.s. trump has been looking to put the blame on the falling markets on the federal reserve and its chairman jerome powell who trump has threatened to replace even though he himself up pointed him and doesn't have the authority to fire him to unilaterally or at threats leading wall street on edge i'm a little worried quite honestly i am behind here because of the valuation i think we're getting pretty t.v. although i feel no bottom in the market and i do think that the fed has made them contentious and serious. blunders and i feel like mr powell is going to get fired amidst the downturn monday trump showed no signs of backing down tweeting

in part the only problem our economy has is the fed they don't have a feel for the market they don't understand unnecessary trade wars or strong dollars or even democrat shutdowns over borders just recently powell tried to put a good face on the market volatility this is the best year since the financial crisis you have growth well above trend monday's sell off was also a fallout from treasury secretary steve minutia phone calls over the weekend to executives of america's top banks which was meant to assure them that the federal government was on solid footing but the unusual call only spooked the markets even more leaving many to wonder if there was something fundamentally wrong with the economy they weren't sharing the only good news on wall street perhaps. this is that the market slide will stop at least on tuesday because that's when the stock exchange is closed for the christmas holiday but when it reopens again on wednesday

all bets are off likely more worries of what's to come next gabriel is on the al-jazeera new york. voters in the democratic republic of congo head to the polls in five days time to choose the next leader but many people another talk confident this election will be free and fair off the so many delays over the past few years catherine story reports from the capital kinshasa. electoral commission technicians in kinshasa a dealing with a crisis they have to make sure thousands of electronic voting machines are called from other regions and four million new ballot papers will walk on voting day material to replace those that are said to have been destroyed bad fire in a warehouse crippling dipali in the city and leading to a postponement of the election a lot. of you have four million voters here that we needed some spares ballots so we ordered for five million people we know organizing them disobey district and

working hard to make sure. of the. same you official say out of will to materials already in regional headquarters across the country this analyst believes getting them to polling stations during the rainy season in a country with bad infrastructure poor security in parts as well as an outbreak in the east will not be. in terms of just six nobody is able to give. on the ten. credibility of the process is very very low robot trains. that are to be deployed to the province's he's already visited many parts of the country as it electoral process to this point has been a sham i don't. been

unable to publish their. stations. so we might have stationed. there machine meant for those used to manipulate the outcome these are difficult and uncertain times. people here in the capital. say they're afraid. and. we don't trust the process but we must go vote one week is nothing but on election day we will take responsibility we either have a good election they resign or we force them to leave. the only thing we expect president kabila so we find another solution and i think the electoral commission is just a puppet of the president and he is the real problem the commission is under pressure to. credit election with just a few days to go. iraqi

christians are celebrating christmas. that. safely returned to their home although many of their homes have been destroyed the christian community in the country for those who remain the largest christmas tree . erected in the city. from baghdad. this is a much more hopeful iraqi christians have seen in a very long time. in. across christmas. and there is a very. things. that there are much more. just give you some facts and figures the last census that was undertaken was in one thousand and seven and there were about one point five million persons living in

the country and officially in two thousand and eighteen the nearest figure that we can get is about two hundred fifty thousand persons left they fled after the us led invasion and occupation of iraq in two thousand and three and then when their homes were destroyed by eisel in mosul and on the outskirts of baghdad in two thousand and thirteen two thousand and fourteen now the iraqi government wants those christians to come back indeed what they've done is they've made christmas day and national holiday across iraq for all iraqis to take place and you only have to go to a lot of the hotels here the public spaces here and the big christmas trees and of the decorations like the ones you see behind me up in the hotel so there's a real sense that christians are much safer than they ever have been and the iraqi government would like them to come back to a safe and secure iraq five people have died in a helicopter crash in mexico one of them. along so it was

a state governor she became the first female governor of the central state of poor . just about ten days ago her husband the two pilots under the system also died it's not clear as yet what caused the crash shortly after takeoff. planes are setting fire to homes in mexico the blaze destroyed around one hundred homes they were in the who are. people the case still result scrambled to save their belongings before the fire took hold everyone made it out alive. the lack of food and other essentials in venezuela has full hundreds of thousands to look for their next meal in neighboring colombia they include a growing number of indigenous people but these people are complaining of unless someone. reports from the border city of cook.

the standard bellies in distant gaze of children are telltale medical signs of hunger they're all members of the indigenous yuko tribe who left in a sweat in search of food they now call home a makeshift camp just over the border in colombia. there was a huge crisis in venezuela no medicine no food for our children we had no options but to leave the chief the uneasier left his land in the mountainous year after the baby car area have been hoping to find relief instead he says his tribe must face the rest menton discrimination. in recent months some of the you have clashed with colombian police attempting to block their entry. we now resort to illegally crossing the river dividing the two countries. the lanes of the u.k. are divided by the border and their legal status has never been formalized

traditionally they've been free to move across at will but that's more difficult now back in two thousand and nine colombia's constitutional court ordered states to protect then tretton by colombia's internal conflict but the ones who have a rival here fleeing the crisis often don't have the documents to prove their ethnic identity. some of those who have made it across subsist on recycling cans to help feed their families. there is live on the streets of the border city of begging or braiding baskets in half. of the jesuit refugee service says of the millions who have left venezuela it's the indigenous people who are worst off. someone and we are in a crisis and we need the government to provide timely responses three ukba kids died from malnutrition there are special needs these communities have that must be

recognised to provide protection whether they are colombians or not. on the outskirts of members of another tribe they are working to extend their shack twenty one new arrivals are sleeping in this small room. and i want to stay here i don't want to go back to venezuela and the same is true for my children and the rest of the tribe but we can all live here we need land housing health services the crisis in venezuela as many layers and well colombia has worked hard to help the fleeing menace where the indigenous communities feel their plight has so far been neglected . and. tracing millions of years of african history it's also provoking calls for the return of africa. so by slave traders. from the capital. it is under

this tree that the story begins three million years ago in africa with the beginning of the human species it's a tale of a long journey from which most never returned part of the slave trade there was sorrow and destruction along the way but also color courage the spiritual and humor leaving those that want to learn more in our religion it's so overwhelming i don't really understand it some of it some milieu some of it's not but it definitely grabs you by the gut. the museum of black civilization has been fifty two years in the making it's the brainchild of single or senegalese first president nicknamed the poet president because he spent a third of the national budget on arts and culture it's a legacy president microcell is carrying on. keeping our culture is what saved african people from attempts made up making them

soulless people without a history and if culture does link people together it also stimulates progress work on the museum only began in two thousand and fifteen after a thirty four million dollars donation from china the exterior was inspired by the medieval city of great zimbabwe now a world heritage site while the inside is modeled on a senegalese hut fourteen thousand square meters in size when this museum the call from african countries to get their artifacts back in no longer be ignored because this space is a celebration of bracket artistic expression and so whether storing or not much of it comes from outside the continent. well. the museum's director shows us the eighteenth century swore develop. it was stolen from senegal and is in possession of the french who have now lent it to the museum the thoughtfulness and

the fun of the people when they stole our belongings they weren't art they were just objects of daily life but then colonizers to find these objects african art the aim of this museum is to show that african art is in fact much bigger than that our focus is not just on the past but also on the future and the voice of the diaspora. a large part of the museum is dedicated to contemporary art with many pieces from the caribbean the diversity of the collection that's been assembled so far is unique for many africans who come to visit it is a much more than a museum it's a mirror to see themselves in a new light because hawk al-jazeera the car. trying to take a look at the top stories here torrential rain in indian these areas hampering the search for survivors a saturday tsunami the number killed in less than java has now climbed to four

hundred twenty nine one hundred fifty four people are still missing experts fear more tsunamis a possible if the volcano erupts again. so dan's government has stepped up security in the capital khartoum as it prepares for more protests a coalition of professional groups has called on people to join a rally to demand a change in leadership president omar al bashir had promised to implement what he calls real reforms to improve living standards across the country more than has the latest from car to. people seem to be mobilizing but others locals mobilizing specifically the police we've been out in the street about thirty minutes ago and everywhere you go around khartoum you would find a group of policemen carrying their batons ready for the protesters in case they come out of the streets as they have promised carrying their memos demanding the president to resign now let's remember they are going to march from a certain square not far from the presidential palace and then they would head on to the presidential powers to deliver a memo demanding president omar al bashir to resign government and

a suicide bomber in libya have attacked the foreign ministry headquarters in the capital tripoli initial reports spoke of one of the attackers blowing himself up inside the compound the attackers killed at least two people so he is foreign minister says the u.s. has agreed to take back weapons given to kurdish rebels in northern syria turkish and u.s. troops began joint patrols last month in and around the city of man big that was part of that agreement known as the man road map for the withdrawal of the kurdish wire p.g. rebel group who helped the u.s. fight. in china at least five people have been killed when a bus was rammed into pedestrians in the southeastern city over here on the bus was reportedly hijacked by a man armed with a knife he was arrested at the scene well than twenty people were injured police are investigating the suspects motive all right that's it for me for today inside

story is next. it's two years overdue and now delayed for another week will voters ever get to choose a new president in democratic republic of congo there are fears of violence there's no election what are the options for the congolese this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. there's no.